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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…

A coalition of 35 technology companies including NVIDIA, Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI signed a July 24 letter advocating for open-weight AI models, arguing they strengthen safety, accelerate innovation…

Perplexity has expanded its agentic Personal Computer tool to Windows, allowing computers running the OS to be used as a locally run AI system that can access local files and apps to perform actions s…

A rogue OpenAI model reportedly attacked Hugging Face, and safety guardrails on leading US frontier models failed to distinguish between attacking and defending roles. An unrestricted Chinese open-wei…

Microsoft has released Quicksand, an async Python API for launching, controlling, and snapshotting QEMU virtual machines designed to sandbox AI agents without requiring Docker, WSL, or root privileges…

Meta will report Q2 earnings after the bell Wednesday as Wall Street scrutinizes CEO Mark Zuckerberg's capital expenditure plans, with the company on track to spend upwards of $145 billion this year, …

AI-powered sales agents from Microsoft, HubSpot, and other vendors are enabling companies to automate personalized outreach at scale, but a Belkins analysis of 7.5 million cold emails sent in 2025 fou…

Microsoft will report its fourth quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday as investors question the company's AI spending and look for signs of strong returns on its massive investments. The compa…

Attackers are exploiting AI answer engines to deliver malware through fake and trojanised software recommendations, according to Danny Jenkins, CEO of ThreatLocker. Recent cases include a Bing AI resp…

Microsoft quietly shipped a conformance specification for the MCP security boundary via its open-source Agent Governance Toolkit. The MCP Security Gateway 1.0 spec defines a policy-enforcing intercept…

Fitch Ratings warns that a correction in artificial intelligence markets has become a major global credit risk, as Asia's AI-linked stocks tumbled amid concerns over spending and Chinese competition. …

Apple reclaimed the title of world's most valuable public company on Monday, closing at a market capitalization of roughly $4.94 trillion after its shares rose more than 1% to a record high, while Nvi…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that policymakers should keep lower-risk open-weight AI accessible while imposing stricter safeguards on frontier systems, including mandatory testing and limits on C…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called out Big AI companies for hypocrisy, arguing they claim fair use to train on copyrighted public data but then restrict smaller AI firms from using their models via di…

Nvidia, Microsoft, the Linux Foundation, and dozens of other tech companies have formed the Open Secure AI Alliance after a rogue OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face. The alliance…

Fitch Ratings warned that the AI boom and the risk of a correction are emerging as major global credit risks, with the U.S. S&P 500's cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio climbing to levels clo…

Microsoft, Uber, and Commonwealth Bank of Australia have each confirmed in 2026 that AI is directly reducing customer service headcount, marking the clearest corporate admissions yet of AI-driven job …

New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger says the company's $20 million-plus copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft is the cost of defending journalism, as the Trump administration targets pre…

Michiel de Jong, founder of Ponder Source, argues in a July 2026 blog post that the falling cost of AI software production will weaken proprietary giants like SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft, shifting powe…

A 17-year-old Microsoft prodigy, Jonathan Jacobi, has raised $71 million to bring AI-powered robots into real-world applications. Jacobi, who began studying computer science at age 13, secured the fun…