Microsoft is a global technology corporation that has made major AI investments through a multi-billion dollar partnership with OpenAI. It integrates AI across Bing, Azure, GitHub Copilot, and Microsoft 365.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang made his first post on X by sharing a letter co-signed by NVIDIA and more than 20 organizations, including Meta, Microsoft, and IBM, arguing that open-weight AI models should b…
AMD debuted new GPUs, CPUs, and processors for physical AI and robotics this week, challenging Nvidia's dominance in AI infrastructure. U.S. lawmakers proposed a 'kill switch' for rogue AI after OpenA…
Microsoft argues that open-weight AI models are essential for American AI leadership, comparing the current moment to the early open-source software movement. The company states that open weights expa…
Nvidia joined Microsoft, Meta, IBM, Mozilla and 20 other signatories in a July 24 letter urging U.S. policymakers to preserve access to open-weight AI models and avoid premature restrictions. The coal…
Codeberg e.V., a German nonprofit open-source software hosting platform, voted to ban projects related to large language models (LLMs) and cryptocurrency from its git hosting service, effective after …
President Donald Trump on July 23 expanded the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, a voluntary scheme asking AI data centre builders such as Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI to fund t…
Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months on Claude Code, a case study in how ungoverned token consumption leads to budget runaway. The phenomenon, called "shadow tokens," is also d…
More than 200 entities, including major utility companies, data center developers and 23 Republican governors, have signed President Trump's non-binding Ratepayer Protection Pledge to shield consumers…
U.S. stocks fell to multi-week lows on Thursday, led by the tech-heavy Nasdaq, due to jitters about the durability of the AI capex spree, as Alphabet reported negative free cash flow for the first tim…
DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng told investors that continuous learning is the missing piece on the road to AGI, arguing that today's frozen models cannot learn over time. Tolaria, an open-source knowledge b…
Microsoft's Azure West US region suffered a five-hour outage on July 23 after a maintenance request bug bypassed all safety checks, contradicting the company's recent marketing of its AIOps system 'Br…
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) unveiled its Helios AI rack-scale system at the Advancing AI conference in San Francisco, directly challenging Nvidia's dominance in AI data center infrastructure. CEO Lis…
Microsoft settled the agent framework debate by introducing the unified Agent Framework, moving Semantic Kernel and AutoGen into maintenance mode, and reaching version 1.0 general availability in Apri…
Meta has left RE100, ending a membership that began in 2016, as the company finances gigawatts of new natural gas generation for its AI data centers. Meta confirmed the departure to TechCrunch on July…
At Build 2026 on June 2, Microsoft launched seven proprietary MAI models including its first in-house reasoning system MAI-Thinking-1, cutting inference costs by up to 89% versus OpenAI equivalents an…
Bing holds 4.68% of global search and 8.73% in the US as of June 2026, but Microsoft retired every Bing Search API in August 2025, leaving no official way to pull Bing positions programmatically. This…
AI data-center debt has surpassed $500 billion, with $200 billion in private credit funds and $334 billion in 2026 issuance alone, but the risk resembles the 2001 telecom overbuild rather than the 200…
A new paper from researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Microsoft introduces an execution-free agentic program repair system for enterprise-scale development, achieving a 40% higher fix …
Elon Musk said his effort to slow AI concentration by co-founding OpenAI backfired, accelerating AI development instead. Speaking to The Economist's editor in chief, the xAI founder said OpenAI and it…
A study of Microsoft's Aurora weather forecasting foundation model fine-tuned for atmospheric chemistry finds that while it captures a first-order ozone response to reactive nitrogen, it does not enfo…