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OpenAI found roughly 30% of SWE-Bench Pro tasks broken, while Cognition announced SWE-1.7 rivaling GPT-5.5, shifting competition from model performance to benchmark control. A new runtime security lay…

Apache Polaris, co-created by Snowflake and Dremio, graduated to a Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation in February 2026 after eighteen months of incubation. The project now runs monthl…

Bank of America reiterated its Buy rating on Nvidia stock with a $350 price target, calling it a compelling buying opportunity at a seven-year low valuation. Analyst Vivek Arya argued that the market …

The Aspire team at Microsoft automated cross-repo documentation using GitHub Agentic Workflows, merging 82 feature-docs pull requests at a median of 44.8 hours after the product pull request, each rev…

Mutual funds are increasingly channeling private debt from AI data centers, with outstanding loans surpassing $200 billion and an additional $800 billion expected over two years. Companies like Meta, …

Tech workers at major AI and cloud companies are organizing against military and surveillance contracts, with campaigns like No Azure for Apartheid at Microsoft challenging defense-linked work. The ad…

NextEra Energy's $67 billion acquisition of Dominion Energy, the largest power deal to date, highlights surging electricity demand from AI data centers in Virginia. The deal underscores a shift toward…

Thomas Dohmke, former CEO of GitHub, launched Entire, a new Git hosting network designed to handle the infrastructure demands of AI coding agents. Entire allows developers to mirror GitHub repos, redu…

Amazon sold $25 billion in bonds on July 7, offering extra yield to attract buyers, but demand was the weakest for any hyperscaler since Meta's 2025 bond sale. The deal signals investor pushback again…

Bank of America has extended a $520 million loan to OpenAI to support infrastructure expansion as the AI company prepares for a potential IPO, with market speculation pointing to a 2027 public debut. …

Microsoft has open-sourced Flint, a visualization intermediate language and MCP server that helps AI agents generate charts by translating high-level semantic specifications into production-ready char…

Microsoft has released TypeScript 7.0 stable, featuring a native Go compiler (Project Corsa) that delivers up to 10x faster type-checking, as benchmarked on the VS Code codebase. The upgrade enforces …

Microsoft is shifting to its own MAI models in Word and Excel to cut generative AI costs, replacing some reliance on OpenAI and Anthropic. The company unveiled seven new MAI models at its Build confer…

The Paris Peace Forum, a French nonprofit, launched the Integrated Network for Trusted AI in Cyberspace (INTAiC) to assess AI-related cyber threats to global internet infrastructure. The initiative wi…

At ISTELive 2026 in Orlando, educators explored moving AI from experimentation to practical classroom use, with Microsoft announcing new tools like Teach, Assignments with AI guidelines, and the Study…

Qualcomm CIO Attila Tinic is betting on AI to support the chipmaker's diversification beyond smartphones, centralizing data and AI teams and deploying AI tools across the company. The strategy include…

Microsoft released Flint, an open-source visualization intermediate language designed to help AI agents generate high-quality data visualizations reliably. Flint uses a semantic-type based specificati…

GitHub announced a free virtual training event, "Let's Learn GitHub Copilot App," scheduled for July 16, to teach developers and technical professionals how to use the new agent-driven development des…

AI-generated images continue to spread as authentic news, causing real-world consequences like a 0.3% S&P 500 drop from a fake Pentagon explosion. Many AI generators embed metadata such as C2PA manife…

Kazakhstan has joined the UN's AI for Good Global Commission as a founding member, with Deputy Prime Minister Zhaslan Madiyev representing the country. The commission, established by the International…