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A Microsoft researcher built a neural network using goats, bridges, and ice ramps in Age of Empires II to critique AI research methods. His analysis of 315 papers found over half already assume langua…

Anthropic became the first AI startup to join the Frontier carbon removal coalition, contributing to a new $915 million funding tranche that brings total pledges to $1.8 billion. The move marks Anthro…

Senior Trump administration officials discussed structuring government equity stakes in AI companies, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent favoring using equity to seed Trump Accounts and Commerce Se…

AI researcher Gary Marcus warns that a weak OpenAI IPO could trigger a cascade of financial problems for Nvidia, Oracle, and CoreWeave, as their valuations depend on OpenAI's massive chip and data cen…

Y Combinator and Microsoft are expanding their partnership to give YC founders building on Azure access to Microsoft Foundry and high-performance AI infrastructure, including GPU resources, startup cr…

Microsoft released Visual Studio Code version 1.125 on June 10, 2026, introducing a folder picker for Agent Host sessions in multi-root windows and a new `/chronicle` command set for session history i…

NordVPN announced record security scores, including a 99.8% detection rate against high-threat malware and a 96% anti-phishing detection rate with zero false positives, earning the highest AAA rating …

Microsoft and OpenAI amended their partnership on April 27, 2026, making Microsoft's license to OpenAI IP non-exclusive while keeping Microsoft as OpenAI's primary cloud partner with first availabilit…

GitHub launched agent finder for Copilot, enabling AI to autonomously discover and rank relevant resources like MCP servers and agents based on plain-language task descriptions. The feature implements…

Microsoft patched a critical vulnerability in its Copilot Enterprise chatbot that allowed hackers to steal two-factor authentication codes and access sensitive organizational data through a single cli…

Microsoft, in collaboration with Cisco, Databricks, GitHub, GoDaddy, Google, Hugging Face, Nvidia, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Snowflake, introduced the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification,…

Snowflake announced support for the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Specification, an open protocol developed with Microsoft and GoDaddy that standardizes how AI agents and tools are cataloged and di…

The European Commission announced the European Technological Sovereignty Package, a plan to reduce the EU's reliance on foreign tech in semiconductors, AI, cloud, and open source. The package includes…

OpenAI is preparing a dedicated subscription plan for scientific institutions, likely called "ChatGPT for Science," to serve universities, national labs, and corporate R&D groups. The plan builds on e…

A developer built a Chrome extension that uses Claude AI to detect phishing messages. The extension sends suspicious messages to a Cloudflare Worker, which proxies requests to the Anthropic API using …

A new Pew Research Center study finds that 67% of Americans have little to no confidence in the U.S. government's ability to regulate AI, while 59% doubt U.S. companies can develop it responsibly. Rou…

Yait_aichain, an open-source AI pipeline framework, introduces a modular tool system for search, document conversion, and embeddings. The framework keeps its core dependency surface small, shipping on…

AT&T has begun limiting some employees' access to GitHub Copilot, and Meta is reining in staff spending on Anthropic and other AI tools, marking a shift from 'tokenmaxxing' to 'tokenminimizing' as ent…

Microsoft is considering integrating a self-hosted, fine-tuned version of China's DeepSeek V4 open-source model into its Copilot Cowork assistant to reduce costs, as agentic AI usage drives up compute…

Token prices for large language models dropped roughly 80% between 2025 and 2026, but engineering teams are seeing AI bills explode due to the Jevons paradox—cheaper tokens drive much higher usage, es…