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.
Amazon shut down its internal AI leaderboard after it drove more AI-powered tasks but fewer useful results, with the SVP instructing staff not to use AI just for the sake of it. Uber blew past its 202…
The US government is urging Meta to submit its AI models for evaluation, making it the only major AI developer that hasn't voluntarily shared its models for review amid growing safety and security con…
Cybersecurity firm Huntress reports a 1,380% surge in AI-powered device code phishing attacks targeting Microsoft 365 accounts, driven by a criminal phishing-as-a-service platform called EvilTokens th…
Meta and Microsoft have added roughly $50 billion each in new data center lease commitments in a single quarter, pushing total future lease obligations past $700 billion across major cloud providers. …
Meta and Microsoft have each committed approximately $50 billion in new data center leases, pushing total infrastructure obligations across major cloud providers past $700 billion and approaching $850…
Microsoft has reduced its datacenter water use effectiveness by nearly 90% since the early 2000s, achieving a WUE of 0.27 L/kWh in 2025. The company replenished more water than it withdrew in FY25, re…
Legal firms, accounting services, and medical offices continue to use Microsoft Windows and Outlook for sensitive communications, raising concerns about privacy compliance and data security. Critics a…
SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are preparing IPOs that could each value the companies at over $1 trillion, creating three new trillion-dollar AI competitors for Microsoft. The IPOs threaten Microsoft's…
ByteDance is in preliminary talks with banks to secure a record $20bn offshore loan, its largest ever, to fund AI infrastructure build-out including chips and data centers. The three-year facility, ex…
Microsoft's security team detected over 50 poisoning attempts from 31 companies across 14 industries in a 60-day window, targeting AI assistants including ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, Google Ge…
Database vendors like Pinecone are pitching their products as a way to reduce AI costs by minimizing token usage and handling agent workloads, as organizations face rising expenses from usage-based bi…
Microsoft has identified over 50 AI recommendation poisoning attempts in 60 days, where hidden instructions in links and documents manipulate AI assistants to recommend specific vendors. The attacks t…
PipeVoice, a free and open-source push-to-talk voice typing tool for Windows, launches as a local alternative to Wispr Flow. It offers 100% offline dictation using local Whisper and Ollama, types into…
Microsoft released the Agent Framework, enabling developers to build custom agent harnesses with minimal code. The framework bundles function invocation, history persistence, planning, and web search …
Meta has not yet agreed to voluntarily submit its AI models for government safety review under President Trump's June 2 executive order, while Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, and Microsoft have signed…
Microsoft released an open-source dependency manager for AI agents called Agent Package Manager (APM), which allows developers to declare agentic dependencies in a manifest file and reproduce them acr…
OpenRouter launched a Unified Image API providing standardized access to over 30 image generation models from providers including Google, OpenAI, and Black Forest Labs. The API includes a model discov…
In 2026, the security industry released numerous agentic security tools, including OWASP's 400+ Agent Threat Rules, Microsoft's RAMPART red-teaming framework, and OpenAI's Lockdown Mode. However, inci…
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman called Elon Musk's xAI a 'complete train wreck' and said SpaceX is 'not an AI company' in a podcast interview, while also criticizing the U.S. government's handling of…
Microsoft's Visual Studio Code now supports using locally hosted LLMs for chat, tools, and MCP servers via a new 'air-gapped' mode, enabling offline AI workflows without GitHub sign-in. Users can inte…