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Here's your afternoon, TNB Tech Minute for Thursday, September 25th.

I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

Microsoft has disabled some services for Israel's Defense Ministry,

after the company found evidence that the ministry used its Azure Cloud Services to surveil

Gaza citizens.

That's according to a person familiar with the matter.

The company probe began last

month after a report by The Guardian and is ongoing. The issue has been the source of protests at the

company. Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a blog post today that the company values privacy

protection. A spokeswoman for the Israeli Ministry of Defense declined to comment. The prime

minister's office and the Israeli military didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

Amazon has reached a two and a half billion dollar settlement with the Federal Trade Commission

over allegations that the e-commerce giant misled prime users. This comes just days into a civil trial looking into

whether the company duped customers into signing up for its prime service and created a confusing

process to cancel. Amazon will pay a $1 billion civil penalty, the largest in FTC history. It'll also

create a $1.5 billion fund to pay back consumers, according to court

documents. On top of that, Amazon will be required on its prime interface to include a simple way to

cancel. And CoreWeave says it's expanding its previous agreement with OpenAI to supply data center

capacity by up to $6.5 billion. That brings the total

value of the contract to $22.4 billion. OpenAI recently expanded its partnerships with other

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