Chevron spokesperson Paula Beasley told WIRED in an email that all tax incentives under consideration for the Energy Forge project "apply solely to the power generation facility" to "support new energy infrastructure, and do not extend to any future data center facilities that may be served." Beasley also said that there is currently "no definitive agreement" with Microsoft for this power plant.
Eligible US employees whose combined years of service and age total 70 or more will receive a voluntary retirement package that includes five years of healthcare coverage, a lump sum cash severance payment, and six months of vesting for unvested stock options.
Microsoft's preference was the Tab key. IBM strongly opposed the decision. Chen didn't elaborate on IBM's preference, only that the Tab key wasn't the way Big Blue wanted to go.
Microsoft has reached back further than ever by releasing the earliest DOS source code discovered to date, which includes sources to the 86-DOS 1.00 kernel and several development snapshots of the PC-DOS 1.00 kernel.
M365 Copilot now has 20 million paid enterprise Copilot seats, with companies like Bayer, Johnson & Johnson, and Roche adopting over 90,000 seats each. A recent deal with Accenture includes over 740,000 seats, marking our largest Copilot win to date.
The new features include citation share, which indicates the share of total citations for a grounding query, grounding query intent with 15 predefined intents, semantic topic labels, and GEO-focused recommendations.