On October 17th, a sudden news emerged in China: Microsoft Azure OpenAI will stop its services for individual developers. Many developers also posted online that they received emails from the official stating the “service termination”. Azure… Article Source https://pandaily.com/azure-openai-will-stop-providing-services-to-individual-developers-in-mainland-china/
The restriction on individual users was made “due to local regulatory requirements”, which means “only enterprise customers are eligible to subscribe to Azure OpenAI Service”, according to an email Microsoft sent to its cloud users that… Article Source https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3283259/microsoft-closes-azure-subscription-individuals-access-openai-mainland-china
Nvidia Corp. and its founder Jensen Huang are facing backlash from Chinese citizens and a mainland media outlet after Huang referred to Taiwan as a “country” during a visit to the island. This led to calls for a boycott of the company. Huang, who was born in Taiwan but moved to the United States as … Read more