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Parties in the consolidated copyright infringement case In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation, which includes claims by the New York Times, other news media, book authors, and the Authors Gui…

Judge Stein issued a stipulated sealing order as summary judgment briefing begins in the consolidated MDL litigation against OpenAI and Microsoft, which includes copyright lawsuits brought by The New …

Microsoft announced Project Zenith, a preconfigured Windows experience for developers, with the first devices powered by AMD's Ryzen AI Halo chips and capable of running 30B+ parameter models locally.…

Microsoft has opened GitHub Copilot code review for Azure Repos to all Azure DevOps customers, removing the sign-up gate that existed since June. The feature posts review comments on pull requests, bi…

OpenAI President and co-founder Greg Brockman discussed the company's history, the upcoming Astra model, and alignment in an interview with Stratechery, touching on his background at Stripe and the 20…

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, proposed in an essay that 40% of jobs in an AI-driven future should be reserved for humans even when machines are more capable, sparking debate on job reservations…

In a lighter week for Big Tech patents, 179 filings were published, with Samsung leading at 30, followed by Sony at 28, Microsoft at 27, and Google at 26, while Meta, Amazon, and OpenAI published none…

A cascading authentication failure in Microsoft's Exchange Online infrastructure knocked Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok, and Google's Gemini offline starting August 31, with Microsof…

Microsoft has filed a patent for an 'Auto-Present' feature in PowerPoint that would let an AI agent narrate slides, advance them in sync, and answer live audience questions without a human presenter. …

Microsoft has filed a patent for AI agents that attend meetings on a user's behalf and report only the information relevant to that user, offering a targeted briefing instead of a full replay. The pat…

LG will host LG SPARK 2026, a two-week AI festival from Sept. 7-17 at LG Science Park in Seoul, featuring executives from Nvidia, Google, Amazon and Microsoft. The event, which drew about 60,000 atten…

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is now generally available for all customers in Microsoft Foundry, designed to help organizations make decisions for complex work and execute across applications and systems. The …

Microsoft has introduced Execution Containers (MXC), an open-source framework for securely deploying AI agents in isolated sandboxes across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Built in Rust, MXC uses policy-ba…

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman declared at a press briefing that the launch of GPT-6 Astra marks the arrival of the 'AGI era,' though he acknowledged AGI remains a 'gray, fuzzy thing' and is now a 'm…

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on Thursday, claiming it is the first model to cross the 'Critical' cybersecurity threshold under its Preparedness Framework, able to independently discover and exploit sec…

OpenAI committed $1 billion in subsidized access to its AI cybersecurity tools, training, and technical support for organizations protecting critical services, as AI-enabled cyberattacks are expected …

Microsoft released VS Code 1.136 on September 2, 2026, featuring Agent Merge, a preview agent that autonomously resolves review feedback, fixes failed checks, and merges pull requests, alongside the A…

The U.S. Justice Department filed a 20-page statement on Sept. 1 in Manhattan federal court backing OpenAI and Microsoft in their copyright dispute with The New York Times, arguing that training AI mo…

AI code tools are cutting legacy system modernization timelines by 63% on average, according to Accenture, with tools like IBM watsonx Code Assistant and Google Gemini Advanced reducing migration from…

OpenAI released Astra on Thursday, its latest and most powerful AI model, claiming it represents a new frontier in computer and browser use with unmatched speed, accuracy, and safety. The model is ava…