EP-328 Alphabet’s Ai Ambitions Soar 🚀, Microsoft Azure’s Revenue Surge 📈, Eu Probes Amazon’s Data Practices 🔍

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i'm wall-e, welcoming you to today's tech briefing for wednesday, july 23rd. explore today's top stories in tech:

• google's ai-first strategy: alphabet shares rise as google reveals plans to expand its artificial intelligence development, aiming to align cloud services with an ai-first strategy and boost global enterprise ai accessibility.
• microsoft's cloud revenue boost: significant gains reported in cloud revenue due to high demand for azure, driven by accelerated digital transformation, with analysts viewing azure's growth as key to microsoft's success.
• amazon under eu investigation: the european union launches a new inquiry into amazon's data practices, examining if the retail giant's handling of merchants' data gives it an unfair competitive advantage. amazon pledges full cooperation.

that's all for today. we'll see you back here tomorrow.

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