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As digital sovereignty becomes a strategic requirement, organizations are rethinking how they deploy critical infrastructure and AI capabilities under tighter regulatory expectations and higher risk conditions. Microsoft’s approach to sovereignty is grounded in enabling enterprises, public sectors and regulated industries to participate in the digital economy securely, independently and on their own terms. The Microsoft Sovereign Cloud brings together productivity, security and cloud workloads to span both...

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Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, and members of his executive team shared the following communications with employees today. SATYA NADELLA MESSAGE Gaming has been part of Microsoft from the start. Flight Simulator shipped before Windows, and you can practically ray‑trace a line from DirectX in the ’90s to the accelerated‑compute era we’re in today. As...

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In 2020, Microsoft announced a moonshot commitment to become carbon negative by 2030 — accelerating work across our company to advance the partnerships and technologies needed to advance sustainability for our businesses, our customers and the world. A key milestone on this journey was our aim to match 100% of our annual global electricity consumption...

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Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, posted the below message to employees on Viva Engage this morning. I am excited to share a couple updates in two of our core priorities: security and quality. Hayete Gallot is rejoining Microsoft as Executive Vice President, Security, reporting to me. I’ve also asked Charlie Bell to take on a...

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At Microsoft Ignite in November, we introduced Frontier Transformation — a holistic reimagining of business aligning AI with human ambition to help organizations achieve their highest aspirations and growth potential. While AI Transformation centered on efficiency and productivity, Frontier Transformation challenges us to do more for humanity by democratizing intelligence to unlock creativity and innovation for...

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Today, we’re proud to introduce Maia 200, a breakthrough inference accelerator engineered to dramatically improve the economics of AI token generation. Maia 200 is an AI inference powerhouse: an accelerator built on TSMC’s 3nm process with native FP8/FP4 tensor cores, a redesigned memory system with 216GB HBM3e at 7 TB/s and 272MB of on-chip SRAM, plus...

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The work we do, and the way we do it, is always changing. Each of us has a memory of how we once did a task regularly, the tools we used and how both the task and the tools have since changed so much they are nearly unrecognizable. Because we are living and working in...

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Today, Microsoft is announcing the acquisition of Osmos, an agentic AI data engineering platform designed to help simplify complex and time-consuming data workflows. Microsoft + Osmos: Extending Microsoft Fabric with agentic AI for data engineering Organizations today face a common challenge: data is everywhere, but making it actionable is often manual, slow and expensive. Many...

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By now, most people would agree that AI is in the process of fundamentally changing how we work and solve problems. But this technology is still too often thought of as an addition to the work we do, rather than a fundamental part of it. AI is not something that you can just plop on...

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Anthropic to scale Claude on Azure Anthropic to adopt NVIDIA architecture NVIDIA and Microsoft to invest in Anthropic Today Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announced new strategic partnerships. Anthropic is scaling its rapidly-growing Claude AI model on Microsoft Azure, powered by NVIDIA, which will broaden access to Claude and provide Azure enterprise customers with expanded model choice and new capabilities. Anthropic...

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