Microsoft is a global technology corporation that has made major AI investments through a multi-billion dollar partnership with OpenAI. It integrates AI across Bing, Azure, GitHub Copilot, and Microsoft 365.
Exponential View estimates generative AI demand-side revenue at $110 billion over the past 12 months, with a recent monthly run rate above $175 billion, based on a deduplicated model that counts end-c…
African Union ministers met in Tangier, Morocco, in April to discuss AI as governments across the continent race to develop strategies and attract investment, but concerns grow over foreign control of…
Microsoft shares fell more than 24% year-to-date as of late June 2026, the worst start since the dot-com bust, driven by investor concerns over a $190 billion capital expenditure plan for AI infrastru…
Microsoft found that AI coding agents ignore documentation tips because they form plans before reading. To redirect agents, developers must explicitly state that the agent's current plan will fail, no…
Retriever, a browser-agent startup, cut the cost of automated web workflows by over 100x by swapping its planning model from a frontier API to DeepSeek V4 Flash, an openly licensed Chinese model. A mu…
CodeRabbit CEO Brandon Gubitosa argues that the industry's focus on AI code generation speed has created a dangerous review bottleneck, with AI now writing up to 30% of code at Microsoft and Google. T…
Clay, an AI-powered prospecting tool, delivered strong results in a live test, correctly identifying CEOs for ten companies and finding valid work emails for nine of ten leads. However, its high cost …
OpenTelemetry, an open-source framework for standardized telemetry collection, and Microsoft's Application Insights, an Azure-focused application performance management tool, offer distinct approaches…
DeepSeek Flash, an open-source model, has inverted the economics of AI agent products by offering superior performance at a fraction of the cost, reducing API prices by over 100x compared to competito…
Enterprise AI agents are proliferating rapidly, but managing them has become a critical challenge. Major vendors like Microsoft, Google, ServiceNow, and LangChain are introducing control planes—unifie…
Microsoft announced its third Xbox price hike since May 2025, raising prices by $100 to $150 due to a global memory shortage that has more than doubled component costs. The increases affect Xbox Serie…
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…