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Former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and former Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb are co-founding a bipartisan nonprofit, RAISE US, with over $500 million to address potential job losses from AI. The group…

Auctor, an AI-native system for software implementations, emerged from stealth in April 2026 with a $20 million Series A led by Sequoia Capital. The New York-based startup, founded in 2025, unifies th…

The Linux Foundation announced on June 3, 2026, its intent to launch the Tokenomics Foundation, dedicated to open standards for AI cost management, with support from Google, Microsoft, Oracle, JPMorga…

NEA partner Lila Tretikov says AI companies are prioritizing immediate chip delivery over quality due to severe supply constraints, with GPU and memory prices more than doubling since February 2025. T…

The New York Times has amended its copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, dropping one claim against OpenAI and modifying another against Microsoft. The case, which alleges unaut…

Microsoft introduced new Copilot features in Excel for finance professionals, including skills for repeatable workflows, financial connectors for trusted data, and improved traceability. The tools wer…

A bipartisan coalition of tech companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, launched a $500 million initiative called Raise Us to help American workers adapt to AI. Led by fo…

The Linux Foundation, Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Red Hat, and others launched Akrites, a project to defend critical open-source software from AI-discovered vulnerabilities. Akrites …

The Linux Foundation launched Akrites, a new initiative to coordinate vulnerability disclosure and remediation for critical open source software as AI accelerates vulnerability discovery. Founding mem…

Apple raised prices on Macs, iPads, and HomePods by 15-25% due to soaring AI-driven memory and storage costs, but spared the iPhone from increases. The move follows warnings from CEO Tim Cook about un…

Microsoft quietly extended its free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for consumers by an additional year, now covering security updates until October 12, 2027. The change was made wi…

The collective market value of the Magnificent Seven tech giants has shrunk by nearly $3 trillion over the past month, with the CNBC Magnificent Seven index down over 11% and continuing to fall. Micro…

Microsoft is introducing skills to Copilot for Excel, enabling teams to scale expertise across workbooks through structured markdown workflows and deterministic financial connectors. This shift from i…

Hydro Ottawa is facing unprecedented power connection requests totaling 1,075 megawatts from 34 large-load projects, with data centres accounting for 60% of that demand, CEO Bryce Conrad told city cou…

Microsoft's Business Central 2026 Wave 1 release deploys four AI agents for finance—Payables, Sales Order, Expense, and Agent Designer—operating with human oversight in SaaS-hosted deployments only, r…

Apple shares fell nearly 6% on Thursday, wiping out about $250 billion in market value, after the company raised prices on iPads and Macs by up to $200, citing skyrocketing memory costs driven by AI d…

Microsoft is transforming its software development lifecycle into an agentic platform where AI agents collaborate across planning, coding, security, and operations. The company reports that 62% of its…

Global AI revenue outside China reached $25 billion in Q1 2026, exceeding $21 billion in depreciation costs for the second consecutive quarter, according to Exponential View. The findings suggest AI i…

Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.127 on June 24, 2026, featuring new agent customization views for configuring built-in and extension tools, support for user-allowed permissions in the integrat…

Apple raised prices on 14 products, including Macs, iPads, Apple TV, HomePod, and Vision Pro, citing a memory chip shortage driven by AI data center demand from companies like OpenAI and Nvidia. The i…