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A University of Washington study published on July 16, 2026, as arXiv:2607.14611 found that AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI can correctly refuse malicious instructions but still store them in pers…

Nvidia has posted a 15,333% total return over the past decade, the highest in the S&P 500, driven by its dominance in AI infrastructure with GPUs for training and inference. In 2025 alone, Nvidia acco…

AI companies have signed enough nuclear power purchase agreements to supply the equivalent of 7 million homes, driving uranium stocks higher. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta have each inked deals …

US tech giants including Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta are projected to spend $600 billion to $725 billion on AI capital expenditures by 2026, up from $150 billion in 2023, but investors are g…

Microsoft, Meta, Google and Amazon are betting billions on nuclear power to fuel AI data centers, reviving an industry stalled for 40 years, according to Forbes Senior Contributor Ken Silverstein.…

BlueQubit and research partners received $1.5 million in U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission grants on July 22 for projects applying AI and high-performance simulation to quantum error correctio…

Britain's National Cyber Security Centre expects AI to increase the frequency and intensity of cyber threats by improving existing attack methods, with Google and Microsoft documenting threat actors u…

Union contracts are emerging as the strongest guardrails against workplace AI, with nearly 90% of the U.S. workforce lacking union representation and about 130 million workers without leverage as comp…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted in a March 2026 Wired interview that the company fell behind Anthropic's Claude Code in the AI coding tools race, with Claude Code generating nearly $2.5 billion in annu…

Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index of 20,000 workers across ten countries found that only 16 percent have developed the judgment to move between directing AI and doing work themselves, a group the comp…

Codeberg e.V., a German nonprofit open-source hosting platform, voted to ban projects related to cryptocurrency and large language models (LLMs), including those created or maintained with heavy LLM u…

The U.S. government is weighing whether AI distillation — a standard technique for training one model using another's outputs — constitutes model theft when done without authorization, as a House bill…

An industry campaign against broad restrictions on downloadable AI models has doubled to 50 signatories, adding Google and OpenAI to a coalition hosted by Nvidia that includes Microsoft, Meta, IBM, AM…

The U.S. Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, a major initiative integrating AI, quantum computing, and high-performance supercomputing into scientific research, was presented to the U.S. ATLAS Ins…

A deepening divide in Silicon Valley over restricting Chinese AI has pitted companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, which argue for tight control of AI models, against Microsoft, Nvidia, and others that …

Microsoft's stock has fallen more than 24% from 12 months ago as investors grow skeptical of the company's multibillion-dollar AI bet, with Copilot lagging behind rivals like ChatGPT and Claude and th…

A developer created actlint, a tool that checks whether MCP servers' safety labels match their actual capabilities. Scanning 541 tools across 31 popular servers—including official ones from Stripe, Gi…

Microsoft has opened public previews of MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, expanding its in-house AI model family with one option tuned for maximum visual fidelity and another designed for high-…

Microsoft released two new in-house AI models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, its highest-fidelity image generator, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speech model for high-volume enterpri…

Gartner expects DRAM prices to increase 130% year-on-year by the end of 2026, driven by AI demand, forcing consumer hardware makers like Microsoft and Apple to ship lower-tier devices with less RAM. T…