Microsoft

Microsoft released Fara1.5-27B, a vision-only browser agent fine-tuned from Alibaba's Qwen3.5-27B, signaling that US cloud players find Chinese base models strong for specialized research. AMD is inve…

Denis Machuel, CEO of the world's largest staffing company Adecco Group, said artificial intelligence is changing jobs rather than destroying them, citing OECD data showing employment rates near recor…

Tech sector layoffs in 2026 are driven by AI and automation, economic uncertainty, inflation, and a chip shortage, with companies cutting jobs even amid strong financial performance. According to Layo…

AMD announced a $5 billion investment in Anthropic, while Microsoft released Fara1.5-27B, a vision-only browser agent fine-tuned from Alibaba's Qwen3.5-27B model. The US government formally accused Mo…

Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed a record 570 vulnerabilities, driven by MDASH (Multi-Model Agentic Scanning Harness), an internal AI vulnerability scanner that entered public preview. MDASH …

Microsoft 365 Director Jeremy Chapman told Windows admins that security patches must be applied within three days, arguing that AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery and exploitation. Independent…

ServiceNow Ventures has taken a roughly 5% stake in BusinessNext, an Indian AI banking software company, for $40 million, valuing the Noida-based firm at $700 million. The deal, announced July 22, int…

Alphabet's heavy AI investments have raised concerns about its market cap ranking, with prediction markets showing decreased confidence that it will become the second-largest company by July 31. Reute…

Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index found that employees often adopt AI faster than their organizations can adapt, creating a 'shadow AI' problem that is becoming enterprise security's biggest blind spo…

Nokia reported second-quarter revenue of €4.815 billion on July 23, up 8% year-over-year, with comparable operating margin rising to 9.0%, driven by AI and cloud data center demand that more than doub…

A developer built The AI Crash Test, a browser-based tool for adversarial LLM testing that uses deterministic predicate grading instead of an LLM judge. The tool allows users to audit results via the …

AI will not trigger a collapse in employment, staffing company Adecco Group said in a study released Thursday, citing record employment rates and near-historic low unemployment among OECD countries th…

South Africa's data center boom, driven by tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon, is straining the country's electricity and water resources, with the sector expected to double to $5 billion by 2031. …

Alphabet’s Google Cloud unit holds a $514 billion backlog of contracted work not yet recognized as revenue, up from $460 billion in the previous quarter, driven by surging demand for AI-powered cloud …

Microsoft has released the Agent Framework Harness, a stable, batteries-included runtime for building agents in Python and .NET that provides loop, planning, memory, context management, approvals, and…

Google's free cash flow turned negative for the first time as a public company, hitting -$5.9 billion in Q2 2026 due to record AI spending, with parent Alphabet CFO Anat Ashkenazi warning that free ca…

Alphabet reported an 82% year-over-year surge in Google Cloud revenue to $24.8 billion in Q2 2026, surpassing analyst expectations of 64% growth, but the company's total revenue of $119.8 billion and …

WebMCP, a W3C Community Group draft co-edited by Google and Microsoft engineers, has near-zero deployment on real websites and no mainstream AI agents consuming its tools as of July 2026, despite a li…

Microsoft's AutoGen multi-agent framework has a hidden token tax that causes costs to scale quadratically with the number of turns, not linearly. An audit reveals that each agent's default unbounded m…

At Advancing AI 2026, AMD, AT&T, and Microsoft announced OTel 2.0, an open-source model trained specifically for telecoms, with AT&T processing more than 1 trillion tokens through managed compute in M…