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  "id": 2199837,
  "title": "Meta has quietly become one of Microsoft's largest AI customers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/meta-has-quietly-become-one-of-microsofts-largest-ai-customers",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-20T17:55:35.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Standard IN",
    "slug": "business-standard-in",
    "url": "https://www.business-standard.com/companies/news/meta-has-quietly-become-one-of-microsoft-s-largest-ai-customers-126082001594_1.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A major prong of Microsoft's AI strategy is offering models from a variety of providers through a marketplace called Foundry, which had 100,000 customers as of July.",
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        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Source: Meta is spending hundreds of millions per year on Azure to consume trillions of AI tokens weekly, becoming one of Microsoft's largest AI customers (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/source-meta-is-spending-hundreds-of-millions-per-year-on-azure-to",
        "published": "2026-08-20T11:40:01.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "BusinessDay Nigeria",
        "title": "Meta becomes one of Microsoft’s largest AI customers",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/meta-becomes-one-of-microsofts-largest-ai-customers",
        "published": "2026-08-20T20:32:09.000Z"
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