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>You'll be able to run this Linux distro on both Azure and your desktop using Windows Subsystem for Linux.

>During testimony in the ongoing Elon Musk vs. OpenAI case, Microsoft executive Michael Wetter revealed that the company has spent more than $100 billion on its partnership with OpenAI to date, including direct investments, Azure infrastructure, and hosting costs for AI models like ChatGPT. The spending has surged since Microsoft’s initial $1 billion investment in 2019, with the company later committing around $13 billion more to OpenAI.

>Meta has signed a multibillion-dollar, multi-year deal with Amazon Web Services to deploy tens of millions of Graviton5 processor cores for artificial intelligence workloads, the companies announced on Thursday. The chips are not AI accelerators. They are general-purpose ARM-based CPUs, 192 Neoverse V3 cores per chip, manufactured on a 3-nanometre process, running in AWS data centres across the United States. Meta is not buying them. It is renting the compute capacity. The deal is significant not because of what the chips do, which is handle the CPU-intensive inference and orchestration tasks behind agentic AI, but because of who is selling them. Amazon is a direct competitor to Meta in advertising, in commerce, and increasingly in AI. Meta is paying Amazon billions for infrastructure because the demand for compute to run AI agents has outstripped what any single company can build alone, even one spending $115 billion to $135 billion on capital expenditure this year.