Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella had the quote of the week in response to a question from CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin about Elon Musk questioning the ability of the new Stargate Project's financial backers to invest up to $500 billion in AI infrastructure.

While Google and Microsoft go head-to-head over Chrome versus Edge and Google Search versus Bing, the much bigger spat is over AI. Google has now taken Gemini to its next level, causing consternation across some users at the difficulties in disabling the features on platforms such as Gmail.

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we delve into the Stargate Project announcement by OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank, in conjunction with President Trump, and assess the implications for OpenAI's relationship with Microsoft.

Starting next month, if you don't want the browser to remember your Microsoft login credentials, you'll have to manually log out or open the page in private browsing mode. Here's why.

Microsoft has already scheduled a “major” Surface for Business event next week. There, we’re anticipating variants of the current Surface Laptop 7 and Surface Pro 11 CoPilot Plus PCs that have Intel’s Lunar Lake chips inside and are aimed at business customers.

Chris Young, Microsoft's head of of business development and its venture unit, M12, resigned from his role on Wednesday, the company said.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is about to have another big AI-driven year as the enterprise behemoth aims to spend a colossal $80 billion on AI-related efforts for fiscal year 2025, a big chunk of which will go toward building out AI data centers.

The new agreement “includes changes to the exclusivity on new capacity, moving to a model where Microsoft has a right of first refusal (ROFR),” Microsoft says. “To further support OpenAI, Microsoft has approved OpenAI’s ability to build additional capacity, primarily for research and training of models.”

Bill Gurley, Benchmark general partner, joins 'Closing Bell' to discuss Stargate's impact on AI infrastructure, Elon musk and more.

Microsoft is known for making poor rebranding decisions, and its recent move is no exception. As Windows Report recently reported, Microsoft has rebranded “Microsoft 365 Office” as “Microsoft 365 Copilot,