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Anthropic has started localizing Claude pricing in India, its biggest market outside the U.S., listing Claude Pro at ₹2,000 ($21) per month when billed annually, compared with $17 in the U.S. The move…

Alphabet Inc. announced a $40 billion stock-sale program as part of a larger $84.75 billion equity capital raise to fund AI infrastructure projects, including data centers and custom TPU chips, markin…

Software engineering job applicants are increasingly using AI assistants like Final Round AI, Interview Coder, and ParakeetAI to generate responses during remote technical interviews, while employers …

Nvidia, Micron, Broadcom, and Applied Materials are expected to generate a record $430 billion in combined free cash flow over the next 12 months, more than triple the amount two years ago, driven by …

Microsoft VP of Products for Core AI Marco Casalaina said the company is moving beyond the chatbot era as over 80,000 enterprises now build on Microsoft Foundry, with Microsoft 365 Copilot serving mor…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella criticized AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic for exploiting public data under fair use while restricting others from using their models, calling it a 'reverse information p…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella criticized OpenAI and Anthropic for what he called a 'reverse information paradox,' accusing them of training on public data under fair use while banning distillation of th…

Big Tech cut more than 80,000 jobs in Q1 2026, the highest quarterly total in three years, as 86 tech firms laid off workers. Experts accuse CEOs of using AI as a scapegoat for routine cost-cutting, w…

Outlines, an open-source library, introduces deterministic certainty into large language model output generation to produce reliable structured outputs such as JSON objects and classification results.…

Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Alibaba Cloud, Microsoft, Oracle, and Huawei Cloud were named Leaders in Gartner's first-ever Magic Quadrant for cloud AI infrastructure, with Google Cloud ranking h…

Frontier AI labs including Microsoft and Anthropic are lobbying for safety regulations that would make local, open-weight AI prohibitively expensive to run, effectively eliminating the right to exerci…

Meta pulled Instagram's AI-curated feed and auto-caption features on July 13 after user backlash, with internal data showing engagement 42% below human-curated alternatives and caption suggestion acce…

Meta committed an additional $40 billion to its Hyperion campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana, bringing total investment to $50 billion for a 5GW compute facility. Louisiana's aggregate AI infrastruct…

Apple shares have rallied 15 percent since June 25, adding nearly $600 billion in value and returning the stock to record territory, as traders sour on AI spending and view Apple's decision to avoid t…

Back-to-school tech costs more this year due to a memory chip shortage driven by AI, with prices for new and refurbished devices rising. CNET found that 48% of US adults have considered secondhand dev…

Overture Maps Foundation has reached 50 members, nearly doubling its 2024 count, as organizations turn to open spatial data to ground AI systems in the real world. The foundation's Global Entity Refer…

Goldman Sachs warns the US will bear the brunt of AI-induced inflation, estimating that artificial intelligence is boosting core PCE inflation by around 20 basis points annually, with the impact expec…

Massive investment in AI data centers, expected to top $700 billion this year, is driving up prices for memory chips, consumer electronics, and electricity, posing a new inflation threat. Economists a…

Bitcoin ETFs lost $4.67 billion in the second quarter as investors shifted capital into AI and semiconductor stocks, according to Business Insider and MarketWatch. BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust fe…

Raxio Group, the pan-African colocation operator, has raised its total funding pool to $380 million from shareholders Meridiam and Roha Group and is entering Tanzania with a planned Tier III carrier-n…