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.
More than 800,000 tech workers have been laid off since 2022, according to Layoffs.fyi, as companies including Meta, Microsoft, Oracle and Amazon push into AI and cut jobs, leaving some former employe…
Microsoft forked its Windows Terminal into a separate Intelligent Terminal to keep AI experiments out of the stable command-line experience, shipping bug-fix-only releases for the mainline while the f…
China's open-weight AI models Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8 are closing the gap with frontier American labs, threatening to undercut the business case for billion-dollar closed models, according to guests on T…
LoRA fine-tuning allows enterprises to customize AI models on proprietary data at a fraction of the cost of full retraining, reducing trainable parameters by up to 10,000x. The technique, introduced b…
China's open-weight AI models triggered the worst week for US chip stocks since April, with the Nasdaq 100 falling 4.1% and the semiconductor index dropping 10% as investors questioned the return on $…
Anthropic published a landmark technical guide detailing how it uses Claude Code — specifically Claude Fable 5 and Claude Opus 4.8 — to execute large-scale code migrations that previously cost $3–4 mi…
A new U.S. map of copyright lawsuits against AI companies shows a total of 128 cases, with 13 new suits added since mid-June. The map includes cases such as Apress Media v. WeLib, Hirschberger v. Nara…
Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion pelted a Microsoft data center construction project in Amsterdam with water balloons filled with a mixture of hydrogen peroxide, acetic acid, salt, and acry…
The Linux Foundation announced the intent to launch the Tokenomics Foundation, a new open-source initiative to establish standards and benchmarks for AI infrastructure cost management. The foundation …
Apple briefly overtook Nvidia on July 17, 2026, becoming the world's most valuable company for the first time in more than a year, with Nvidia at about $4.908 trillion and Apple at about $4.902 trilli…
A Microsoft Research study of tens of thousands of engineers found that AI coding agents increased merged pull request throughput by 24% over a 16-week period, but the company cancelled most of its Cl…
Lawyers who fail to use artificial intelligence (AI) could face negligence claims, according to a new legal statement from the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce (UKJT). The statement warns that professionals …
GitHub Copilot Vision is generally available as of July 1, 2026, allowing all Copilot subscribers, including free-tier users, to attach images, screenshots, UI mockups, and PDFs into the chat panel fo…
Nylas introduced Agent Accounts, which give AI support bots their own first-class email identity with a real inbox, classification model, and server-side routing. The accounts are standard Nylas grant…
South Korea's Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix announced plans to invest roughly $518 billion (800 trillion won) in semiconductor infrastructure, building four new chip fabrication plants and doubling…
Google turned free cash flow negative in 2026 as capex surged 107.4% year-over-year to $35.7 billion in Q1, far outpacing operating cash flow growth of 26.7%, according to lead tech analyst Beth Kindi…
VS Code 1.129, released July 15 by Microsoft, introduces the Agent Host, which moves AI coding agents into a dedicated background process, preventing agent failures from freezing the editor and enabli…
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon predicts global AI spending will reach $1 trillion by 2027, driven by hyperscalers like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta ramping up capital expenditures on data cente…
A developer named Maneshwar explains how PDFs consume excessive tokens in LLM chats due to formatting noise, and recommends Microsoft's free open-source tool MarkItDown to convert PDFs to lightweight …
Anthropic raised $580M in a Series B in late 2022 with no product, using a 10-slide deck that led with safety and the team, and a waitlist of 2,500 companies. The company now has $47B in annualized re…