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Monday.com is laying off 620 employees, or 20% of its global workforce, as the NASDAQ-listed work management platform pivots toward an AI-driven operating system. The company said the cuts are necessa…

The Arm MCP Server has surpassed 10,000 Docker downloads in under a year, reflecting growing developer adoption of agentic AI workflows that integrate Arm tools into AI assistants like Amazon Kiro, Cl…

Microsoft researchers have launched the Community Library Creator, a platform that enables communities to build their own image datasets to shape how they are represented in AI-generated pictures. The…

JetBrains released Rider 2026.2, which opens the IDE's intelligence to AI coding agents through a new set of agent skills covering testing, profiling, refactoring, and Microsoft .NET workflows, and ad…

XAI launched a Grok add-in for Microsoft Excel, available on the Microsoft Marketplace, that promises to search the web, update spreadsheets, and build financial models via a sidebar. The add-in is fr…

The Department of Energy selected its inaugural cohort of 278 projects for the Genesis Mission, an effort to accelerate U.S. scientific research using artificial intelligence. The projects, chosen fro…

Over 828,622 tech workers have lost their jobs since 2022, with senior engineers at companies like Meta, Google, and Microsoft being replaced by AI tools they helped build, according to Layoffs.fyi es…

OpenAI is accelerating its Stargate AI infrastructure initiative, targeting $500 billion in investment over four years, with a $16 billion campus groundbreaking in Saline Township, Michigan in June 20…

OpenAI and Anthropic set records for federal lobbying in the second quarter of 2026, spending a combined $3.17 million, up 23% from the first quarter, according to CNBC. Anthropic spent $1.97 million,…

Microsoft has merged its AutoGen multi-agent framework into Semantic Kernel to create the Microsoft Agent Framework, released in October 2025. AutoGen is now in maintenance mode, receiving only securi…

Nearly 200 US utilities and data center developers signed the Trump administration's Ratepayer Protection Pledge on July 22, committing that AI infrastructure buildouts won't push higher costs onto re…

The US Department of Energy has committed over $5 billion to the Genesis Mission, an initiative pairing national labs with NVIDIA, OpenAI, Microsoft, IBM, AMD, AWS, Google, Oracle, and Scale AI to dou…

Microsoft is committing $60 million to the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, a public-private initiative launched by President Trump on November 24, 2025, to build an AI Discovery Platform that …

The Trump administration is signaling it could ban cutting-edge Chinese AI models, a move that critics say mirrors the corrupt, xenophobic protectionism behind the TikTok ban and aims to lock in domin…

Manulife and Microsoft renewed and expanded their partnership under a five-year agreement announced July 22, with Manulife adopting Microsoft 365 E7 Frontier Suite, deploying Agent 365 as an enterpris…

Alphabet's earnings report later today will test whether investors stick with the Magnificent Seven or buy the sell-off in semiconductor stocks, as the performance gap between the two groups has widen…

Microsoft announced a $60 million investment in the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission to accelerate AI for science, including $40 million in Azure compute and AI credits and $20 million in soluti…

Alphabet reports Q2 2026 results today, with Wall Street expecting $117 billion in revenue and $2.87 EPS, but the key question is whether its $180 billion to $190 billion AI buildout is generating ret…

Microsoft will invest $60 million in the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, allocating $40 million for Azure cloud and AI computing credits over three years to support large-scale AI and scientif…

Global capital expenditure on data center infrastructure is projected to hit $3 trillion by 2028, with hyperscalers including Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Alibaba, Oracle, IBM, and Tencent plannin…