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Microsoft launched Microsoft Frontier Company, a $2.5 billion initiative with over 6,000 engineers and consultants, to help enterprises deploy AI across multiple models. The organization uses forward-…

Intel, TSMC, SK Hynix, Samsung, Micron, Marvell, Lightmatter, and Microsoft disclosed advanced packaging technologies at ECTC 2026, including Intel's EMIB-T with 36/35 µm bump pitch and plans for 25 µ…

Former Microsoft developer Dave Plummer created TinyRetroPad, a 2.5KB Notepad clone written in Assembly that mimics classic Notepad functionality without any AI features. The text editor is 100 times …

OpenAI proposed giving the U.S. government a 5% stake in AI labs, including itself and Anthropic, to create a sovereign wealth fund worth an estimated $600 billion. The plan faces significant hurdles,…

Microsoft launched a new operating business called Microsoft Frontier Company on Thursday, backed by a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 experts, to deliver enterprise AI deployments. The venture, whi…

Microsoft announced Web IQ, a suite of grounding APIs for AI agents, and expanded AI citation reporting in Bing Webmaster Tools, separating AI citations from traditional search rankings. The company s…

Microsoft 365 Copilot, launched in November 2023, has evolved from a simple chatbot into a suite of autonomous agents integrated into Office apps, reaching 20 million paid users by April 2026. However…

India, through a hackathon backed by Bhashini, Current AI, and Kalpa Impact, is challenging Silicon Valley's centralized AI model by inviting startups to build affordable, offline, multilingual AI dev…

Indian entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia is investing $30 million of his own money to launch Neo, an enterprise work platform designed from scratch for the AI era. Neo combines project management, document…

Hyperscalers like Meta and Oracle are investing heavily in AI data center infrastructure while acknowledging significant financial risks. Oracle's SEC filing warns of potential cost overruns and delay…

Microsoft announced new controls in Teams to block non-Microsoft AI notetaker bots from meetings, even when organizers allow participants to bypass the lobby. Analysts warn the move doesn't address ri…

Sam Altman spent a year pitching the White House on a 5% stake in OpenAI, and the offer now includes rival AI developers, signaling a shift where the US government moves from monitoring frontier AI to…

Anthropic redeployed Claude Fable 5 on July 1 after US export controls were lifted, restoring global access to the model. The company also introduced a new safety classifier to block a safeguard bypas…

The Department of Defense's GenAI.mil platform has reached nearly 1.7 million users and over 100,000 custom agents, with plans to add new models and deploy at higher classification levels. Pentagon ch…

Microsoft researchers developed SkillOpt, a method that treats AI agent skill files as trainable parameters outside frozen target models, enabling controlled optimization through bounded text edits an…

Microsoft will end support for .NET 8 and .NET 9 on November 10, 2026, urging users to upgrade to .NET 10, an LTS release supported through November 2028. After that date, no security updates or techn…

Meta is developing a commercial AI cloud business to sell excess AI computing capacity and offer API-based access to its AI models, diversifying revenue beyond digital advertising. The initiative, und…

Shopify has joined the PyTorch Foundation as a Platinum member, committing to invest in the open-source AI ecosystem and contribute engineering expertise to shape PyTorch for commerce and agentic AI. …

The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, opening July 4 in Medora, North Dakota, uses AI to let visitors chat with a lifelike avatar of the 26th president and search through hundreds of thousands …

Google's 2025 Environmental Report reveals data center electricity demand surged 27% in 2024, doubling over four years, and total emissions hit 11.5 million metric tons of CO₂e, up 48% since 2019, dri…