Alphabet Inc.‘s GOOGL GOOG Google division will heavily discount cloud computing services for the U.S. government as the Trump administration pressures technology giants to slash prices on lucrative federal contracts worth more than $20 billion annually.

The bezel is ultra thin to maximize the workable space despite the compact form factor—best of both worlds. The touchscreen allows you to use the laptop like a tablet if your would prefer. It has a refresh rate of 120 Hz with exceptional contrast at 600 nits of brightness.

Microsoft Elevate, which the company describes as a successor and expansion of the longtime Microsoft Philanthropies team, will devote resources to helping more than 20 million people earn AI credentials.

Cindy Rose, Microsoft's chief operating officer for global enterprise sales, is leaving the tech behemoth to become CEO

Microsoft said it would provide cash, artificial intelligence tools and computing services to schools, colleges and nonprofit groups.

Amazon and Microsoft, two of the leaders in the evolving cloud-services space, are offering customers a number of wares that -- at least on the surface -- sound similar. But in the area of caching ...

Amazon just told its workers that AI is coming for their jobs. Microsoft says we’re trapped in an “infinite workday.” We can’t tell the difference between humans and bots anymore, and Alexa is happy to laugh about it with us.

Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, while Amazon and Google have each committed billions of dollars to Anthropic, another leading A.I. start-up.

However, he believes Amazon’s use of genAI in the cloud is better for business than Microsoft’s tack. Generalized search isn’t the point of business cloud use of genAI, he says.