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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang are urging the White House not to ban open-weight AI models from Chinese companies, following a Trump official's accusation that Moonshot AI's K…

Microsoft, along with Meta, Nvidia, and more than 20 other companies, is pushing for open-weight AI models in an open letter, a move that reduces its dependence on expensive OpenAI and Anthropic model…

OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the AI industry will remain in a compute shortage no matter what, forcing hard decisions on which models to train and products to scale. Brockman spoke during a rou…

Microsoft is replacing OpenAI's image-generating models with its own MAI technology in PowerPoint and Bing, citing 85% lower costs, and will phase out SMS-based logins for its Entra ID service by Febr…

Microsoft said on July 23 that Bing Image Creator is now fully powered by its MAI-Image-2.5 model, while PowerPoint and OneDrive also use the model for image editing, reporting up to 84% lower GPU cos…

AI companies including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and Nvidia signed an open letter urging U.S. policymakers not to impose broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington weighs a…

Twenty major US companies, including NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, and IBM, signed a joint letter defending open-weight AI models as essential to American leadership, but Anthropic and OpenAI—the two leadi…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang used his first post on X to endorse an industry push for open-weight AI models, joining Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and other leaders in arguing that broader access to model we…

Microsoft and more than two dozen tech companies, including Meta, Palantir, and NVIDIA, published an open letter Friday urging policymakers to support open-source AI systems, arguing that an open ecos…

Microsoft has released a beta version of Exam AI-500, the certification for Microsoft Certified: Multi-Agent AI Solutions Expert. The exam tests system design across multiple agents, orchestration, go…

Nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Y Combinator and Proton, warned the Trump administration on July 22 that banning Chinese open-weight models like Moonshot AI and Alibaba's Qwen would cau…

Microsoft AI launched two in-house models, MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, into public preview, signaling reduced reliance on OpenAI. The company reported GPU cost cuts up to 89% by running i…

Open-weight models, which release trained parameters for public use, prevent a monopoly on AI intelligence by lowering barriers to entry for developers, according to a joint letter from major tech com…

TEKenable, a provider of AI, data and cloud solutions, has launched a new partnership programme that will create at least 30 jobs over the next 12 months, bringing its total headcount from 200 to more…

Microsoft announced that passkeys will become the default authentication method in Microsoft Entra ID, transitioning from SMS and voice authentication beginning September 1, 2026, to combat AI-driven …

Google announced on July 30 its intent to join the European Union's General Purpose AI Code of Practice, a voluntary framework under the AI Act, alongside OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Anthropic, Mistral…

AMD CEO Lisa Su said demand for AI compute is at a premium and hyperscalers are seeing returns on their AI investments, justifying increased capital expenditure. AMD unveiled its next-generation Insti…

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Mistral, and other tech giants signed an open letter urging US policymakers not to crack down on open-weight AI models, defending the technology as critical for innovation and…

Open-weight models are essential to a healthy AI ecosystem, according to a coalition including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who argues they shift AI from consumption to capability and enable organizat…

Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta warned against 'premature restrictions' on open-weight AI models in a letter to the U.S. government, arguing that overly strict regulations could harm innovation and cede l…