Microsoft is taking its foot off the AI accelerator. What does that mean?

In the high-stakes race to dominate AI infrastructure, a tech giant has subtly shifted gears. Since ChatGPT burst on the scene in late 2022, there's been a mad dash to build as many AI data centers as possible. Big Tech is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on land, construction, and computing gear to support new generative AI workloads.Microsoft has been at the forefront of this, mostly through its partnership with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. For two years, there's been almost zero doubt in the ...