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Microsoft is reportedly planning another round of layoffs affecting less than 2.5% of its workforce, just months after cutting thousands of jobs, as the company prioritizes AI development. The cuts ar…

Forrester ranked EDB, Oracle, Microsoft, and MongoDB as leaders in multi-model databases, evaluating 14 suppliers for the Forrester Wave: Multi-model Data Platforms, Q2 2026 report. The research highl…

Microsoft's Foundry Agent Service reaches general availability in July 2026, offering hosted AI agents with per-session VM-isolated sandboxes and scale-to-zero pricing. The service supports multiple a…

Cloudflare will block mixed-use AI crawlers from accessing ad-supported websites by default starting September 15, 2026, aiming to give publishers more control over AI data usage. The company also reb…

Apple confirmed a $1 billion/year deal to use Google Gemini as the foundation of Siri across 2 billion devices, replacing OpenAI's ChatGPT. The partnership ended due to OpenAI's latency issues, poor s…

Meta is developing a cloud infrastructure business called Meta Compute to rent out unused AI computing power, potentially competing with AWS, CoreWeave, and Lambda. The initiative, still in early stag…

Arm-based innovations in June 2026 include Microsoft Azure Cobalt 200 VMs for cloud-native AI, a generative AI solution for low-light image enhancement, Unreal Engine MegaLights and Nanite optimizatio…

Cloudflare announced it will block mixed-use web crawlers from accessing ad-supported customer websites by default starting September 15, 2026, to give publishers more control over AI content harvesti…

A United Nations report titled 'Governing AI for Humanity' highlights both the transformative potential and significant risks of artificial intelligence, calling for a global governance framework. The…

Fabrice Canel, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Bing, retired on July 1 after nearly 30 years at the company, citing the Voluntary Retirement Program. Canel led Bing's web crawling and indexing …

Big Tech's first half saw hardware stocks surge while software stocks struggled, with Micron rising 308%, Intel 280%, and AMD 173%, as Meta fell 15% and Microsoft 23%. Wall Street remains bullish on A…

Microsoft is preparing to cut thousands of jobs starting the week of July 6, 2026, affecting its sales, consulting, and Xbox gaming divisions, with five Xbox studios at risk of closure or sale. The la…

Google's AI expansion drove record increases in electricity (37%), water usage (34%), and greenhouse gas emissions (18%) last year, straining its clean energy pledges. The tech giant's sustainability …

Microsoft plans significant job cuts affecting thousands of employees as it shifts focus to increase investments in artificial intelligence. The layoffs, impacting sales, consulting, and Xbox division…

National Grid Partners invested $100 million in AI startups focused on energy infrastructure to support Microsoft's data center expansion, as Microsoft's AI data center electricity demand in North Ame…

Taiwanese investors are taking on heavy debt to amplify stock market gains amid an AI-fueled rally, while margin debt levels reach risky heights. The trend is driven by FOMO and leveraged bets on comp…

Oracle spent $55.7 billion building AI data centers this fiscal year, with plans to spend even more by 2027, but the widening gap between capital expenditures and cash flow has become Wall Street's cl…

Anthropic's AI system Mythos, previously banned by the US government over national security risks, is returning with restrictions. The US lifted the export ban after Anthropic worked with the Commerce…

AI strategist Sol Rashidi fired half of her AI agents after spending more time supervising them than doing useful work, a phenomenon called 'botsitting' that a Glean report says costs white-collar wor…

AI providers face mounting operational pressures as infrastructure costs soar, with OpenAI expecting $600 billion in compute spending by 2030 and major tech firms potentially spending $630 billion on …