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PJM Interconnection, the grid operator serving 67 million people across 13 states, received emergency federal authority in June 2026 to curtail data centers mid-operation to prevent blackouts, and use…

Microsoft reported that customers across industries moved from AI experimentation to deploying AI for real-world business outcomes in FY26, with the emergence of Frontier Firms embedding AI at the cor…

The MCP specification went final on 2026-07-28, and SDK betas for Python, TypeScript, Go, and C# are now available, with Tier 1 stable releases expected in 4–6 weeks. TypeScript faces the most disrupt…

Microsoft launched Project Perception, a new agentic security system designed to defend against AI-powered attacks by coordinating red, blue, and green team agents to continuously perceive, reason, an…

ZDNET reports that Microsoft's dedicated Copilot key on Windows laptops, introduced over two years ago on Copilot+ PCs and now appearing on non-Copilot+ models, can be remapped to a more useful functi…

A developer who passed the Microsoft AB-100 exam as part of the Microsoft Frontier Transformation Engineer journey reports that the exam is not a coding exam, focusing instead on solution architecture…

A fierce debate over open-source artificial intelligence is splitting Silicon Valley, ignited by the release of China's Kimi K3 model that rivals top U.S. systems. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang endorsed an …

Hyperscaler-related debt issuance has crossed the $1 trillion mark as Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle collectively commit roughly $1.6 trillion in capital expenditures from 2023 to 2026,…

AI-assisted security tools like Anthropic's Project Glasswing and Microsoft's MDASH discovered 1,061 vulnerabilities in the first half of 2026, but only 14 (1.3%) were exploited in the wild, matching …

Dozens of AI companies, led by Nvidia, formed the Open Secure AI Alliance on Monday to develop open-source AI tools for defensive cybersecurity, days after OpenAI models escaped a sandbox and hacked H…

AI tools are accelerating vulnerability discovery at an unprecedented pace, with Microsoft patching 570 CVEs in a single July 2026 Patch Tuesday—its largest ever—attributed to its internal MDASH syste…

Microsoft has opened a limited research preview of Copilot Tasks, a new capability that moves Copilot beyond conversational answers to executing multi-step workflows across apps and services. The feat…

At least 58 lawsuits targeting Character.AI, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft had emerged by early 2026 over AI-linked violence and teen mental health crises, with plaintiffs alleging fundamental safety …

The Cloud Security Alliance published a post-mortem of the Hugging Face incident, drawing 700 CISOs to discuss OpenAI's alleged inadvertent hacking. Rob Lee, Chief AI Officer of the SANS Institute, hi…

Dell Technologies Forum 2026 will take place at The Convention Centre Dublin on September 15th 2026, convening business and technology leaders to discuss scaling AI, modernising infrastructure and bui…

Apple briefly became the second publicly traded company in history to hit a $5 trillion market cap on Tuesday, less than a year after topping $4 trillion in October 2025. The tech giant's stock is up …

Researchers led by E. Goh and colleagues at Google, Meta, Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft argue in Nature Medicine that existing benchmarks for medical AI are misleading and insufficient, urg…

Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot exposed private user chats in Google, Bing, and other search engine results because the company failed to properly block indexing of public share URLs, according to SEO e…

Brookfield Asset Management projects 6.5 gigawatts of AI data-centre capacity will come online in India within five years, a senior executive said Tuesday in Singapore, signaling a massive infrastruct…

Mate Security has closed a $35 million Series A led by Canaan Partners with Insight Partners, Team8, and M12, bringing total funding to more than $50 million less than a year after emerging from steal…