An upcoming book uncovers shocking details about the Microsoft founder’s secret affairs and troubled marriage. It claims Gates was notorious for his flirtations with young interns, leading to strict rules banning them from being alone with him. His infidelities and a controversial connection to Jeffrey Epstein reportedly drove his wife,
Microsoft’s push into AI, particularly with ChatGPT, is causing a massive spike in energy use and carbon emissions. Training advanced AI models like GPT-4 has consumed an enormous amount of electricity, equivalent to the yearly needs of over 1,000 U.S. households. As Microsoft’s data centers power up to support these
Delta Air Lines faced a colossal $500 million hit due to a major IT outage earlier this month that stranded thousands of passengers. The outage, caused by a flawed software update from CrowdStrike, led to the cancellation of over 4,000 flights and massive daily costs for compensation and hotels. The
According to data from companies like Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft, the largest cloud players, Microsoft and Amazon, have hundreds of data centers to meet growing commercial needs. The Big Tech firms are frequently pitted against one another in a variety of ways, including revenue, market capitalization, and the newest addition—generative
Elon Musk hits OpenAI with a breach of contract lawsuit, claiming it engages in unfair business tactics and breaches fiduciary duties. In a lawsuit that was submitted on Thursday night to the San Francisco Superior Court, Elon Musk alleges that OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT, and its CEO, Sam
According to a Monday filing by OpenAI in Manhattan federal court, Microsoft and OpenAI allege that the NY Times hacked ChatGPT to replicate its content. In an attempt to discredit the New York Times, OpenAI has requested a federal judge to throw out some of the newspaper’s copyright lawsuits against
A BlackRock recruiter named Serge Varlay said that some of the companies that BlackRock controls are “From Merck to Microsoft.” A week after an employee of the world’s largest asset management company, BlackRock, described how the company attempts to stay out of the media spotlight while buying politicians and profiting
According to a June 4 blog post on Medium, Amazon locked a Microsoft engineer, Brandon Jackson, out of his smart home devices over false racism claims. Amazon locked a Microsoft engineer out of his smart home devices for nearly a week after a delivery driver accused him of uttering a racial slur.
A complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington has led to Microsoft being fined $20 million for violating child privacy laws. The Justice Department, together with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), announced today that the United States has resolved a case against Microsoft Corp.
