Following Microsoft's Q1 2026 financials, which reported yet another quarterly decline for the Xbox division and most importantly registered CEO Satya Nadella's mandate that Xbox return to growth in the next fiscal year, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has once again posted a memo. This time, she didn't make it public, but it leaked anyway via The Verge. It features four main tenets: We largely already knew about items one, two, and four; the biggest surprise is arguably the third one. It sounds like Xbox wants to try and take on Roblox with Minecraft, though that'll be far from easy; today's […]

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Companies without their own models — or without a layer of AI infrastructure known as AI gateways to separate their prompts from the model itself — will be in trouble, Nadella says.

Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI’s response so far has been carefully hedged, and the timing couldn’t be worse with the company reportedly eyeing an IPO […]

Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley — that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting like Trojan horses.

The week that ends tomorrow easily ranks at the very top when it comes to the sheer amount of public statements made by Xbox and Microsoft executives in the span of a few days. Through a series of interviews, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Ball outlined a bold plan to rescue the division from its low margins (and the potential spin-off, joint venture, or sale by the parent company). Yesterday, in a video interview with Hard Fork, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella claimed no one could accuse the company of not having invested in Xbox throughout the […]

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Microsoft has announced that its Fairwater facility, the world's most powerful AI datacenter powered by NVIDIA Blackwell, is going live ahead of schedule. Featuring Hundreds of Thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, Microsoft's Advanced "Fairwater" AI Datacenter is going live ahead of Schedule In a post on X, Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that their Fairwater AI Datacenter is going live ahead of schedule. This is major news since the Wisconsin-based facility is poised to become the world's most powerful AI datacenter. The datacenter was announced back in September 2025, and will be utilizing 100,000s of NVIDIA GB200 GPUs based on […]

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