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Microsoft will make Khan Academy’s Khanmigo AI tool free to U.S. teachers in cloud shift

GeekWire

Microsoft Photo / Scott Eklund) Online education platform Khan Academy is shifting a portion of its cloud workload to Microsoft Azure under a partnership announced Tuesday morning. Khan Academy is a longtime Google Cloud customer , based in the search giant’s hometown of Mountain View, Calif.

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Cloud wars: Former Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell reportedly joins rival Microsoft

GeekWire

Longtime Amazon Web Services leader Charlie Bell has reportedly taken a job at Microsoft. Bell, a member of Amazon’s senior leadership team and a longtime linchpin of the company’s cloud business, left the Seattle company this month after more than 23 years. We’ve reached out to Microsoft and Bell for comment.

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Capital spending soars in the cloud as Microsoft, Google, and others bet big on AI demand

GeekWire

These servers inside a Microsoft data center in Quincy, Wash., were the first to be powered by the company’s Azure Cobalt 100 CPU, as part of a broader cloud infrastructure buildout. Microsoft’s capital expenditures rose 79% to a record $14 billion in the March quarter. Facebook parent Meta reported $6.7

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Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google Cloud

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Chris Vonderhaar, former Amazon Web Services data center leader, will serve as Google Cloud’s vice president of demand and supply management. LinkedIn Photo) Chris Vonderhaar, a longtime Amazon Web Services executive who left the company this spring, has joined AWS rival Google Cloud.

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Regulators sound out users on cloud services competition concerns

Network World

Research by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has uncovered concerns that cloud users’ established commitments with hyperscalers may limit their future cloud computing options. The study focused on perceptions of their infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings.

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Microsoft in talks over cloud licensing complaint in the EU

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft is in talks with Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) to settle the trade body’s complaint about its cloud software licensing practices in the European Union (EU). The European cloud firms had called this a restrictive cloud licensing policy.

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Where Amazon Web Services is still hiring after cutting hundreds of jobs this week

GeekWire

Amazon’s cloud unit cut hundreds of jobs this week. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services announced hundreds of job cuts this week, in areas including training, sales, and physical stores technology, but noted that it’s still hiring in core areas of its business, with thousands of jobs currently posted.