Hello and welcome to 2-Minute Tech Briefing from Computerworld. I'm your host Arnold Davick, reporting from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Here are the top IT news stories you need to know for Tuesday, December 2nd. Let's dive in! First up from NetworkWorld.
Microsoft is facing new pressure in its AI infrastructure push.
This comes after losing two senior leaders responsible for data center and energy strategy, Nidhi Chappelle, head of AI infrastructure, and Sean James, Senior Director of Energy and data center research, both announced their departures, while Chappelle has not announced her next move.
James is heading to Nvidia, intensifying competitive heat in the GPU arms race. Their exits come as Microsoft grapples with power constraints grid interconnection delays and the challenge of sourcing enough accelerators to meet skyrocketing demand. And from InfoWorld, Google has rolled out major updates to its Gemini API.
The changes are designed to support the newly released Gemini 3 model. The improvements include simpler controls for managing the model's thinking. A new parameter called thinking level lets developers choose how deeply Gemini reasons before responding.
It can be set to high for complex analysis or low for faster, lower cost tasks. The updates aim to strengthen Gemini 3's reasoning, autonomous coding and agentic intelligence capabilities. And finally, from CSO online, open AI is acknowledging a data breach.
This after attackers compromised its
Microsoft AI cybersecurity rating report: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/microsoft-ai
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