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COOCON joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a Silver Member on June 1, planning to participate in working groups on AI agent payments and data businesses built on the Model Context Protocol. AAI…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared insights on artificial intelligence, the future of work, and the company's strategic direction during a Hard Fork Live conversation. The discussion also featured Fig…

AI spending is projected to reach nearly $2.6 trillion in 2026, a 47% increase from the prior year, as enterprises face mounting cost pressures from heavy AI usage. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has cal…

Microsoft has released SkillOpt, an open-source framework that automatically optimizes AI agent skills by treating instruction documents as trainable objects that evolve based on performance feedback.…

Five major technology companies — Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle — have issued a record $159 billion in corporate bonds in the first five months of 2026, already surpassing their full-ye…

Microsoft is restricting employee access to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 after Anthropic introduced mandatory data retention rules tied to its safety classifiers, according to The Verge. Fable 5 is abse…

GitHub experienced nine incidents causing degraded performance across its services in May 2026, including a major disruption on May 4 that lasted over an hour and affected pull requests, issues, actio…

Argentine President Javier Milei and Deregulation Minister Federico Sturzenegger proposed creating a new "non-human corporation" legal category to attract AI firms to Argentina, alongside a commitment…

GSA Deputy Administrator Michael Lynch said 70% of the agency's workforce now regularly uses AI, unlocking about 400,000 hours of automation and another 500,000 hours from employee-led optimizations. …

Microsoft President Brad Smith acknowledged that Gen Z's backlash against AI at multiple U.S. college commencements this spring represents a "powerful wake-up call" for the tech industry. Smith valida…

Meta and Google are investing $250 million and $50 million, respectively, in training programs for construction workers, electricians, and other tradespeople to build data centers essential for AI inf…

Amazon's data centers consumed 2.5 billion gallons of water last year, according to the company's first-ever absolute water usage disclosure, while claiming superior efficiency over Microsoft, Google,…

Microsoft has blocked its own employees from using Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, the AI company's newest model, while its legal team reviews data retention policies that could keep sensitive corporate p…

Microsoft and Databricks will co-host the Data + AI Summit 2026 from June 15-18 in San Francisco and virtually, showcasing how organizations can unify data, analytics, and AI on a secure, scalable fou…

GitHub collaborated with Microsoft Security & AI's Agents Offense team to reduce false positives in secret scanning by adding contextual reasoning to the verification process. The approach extracts hi…

Apple focused on practical AI features at WWDC 2026 rather than hyping "agentic" AI, a buzzword dominating competitor keynotes from Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA. The company briefly mentioned agentic…

RISC-V International announced at the RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 in Bologna that its open-standard instruction set architecture has matured beyond microcontrollers and now targets data centers, edge AI…

Microsoft has open-sourced ASSERT, an AI evaluation framework that converts natural-language requirements into executable tests for enterprise agents, as organizations struggle to validate agent behav…

Microsoft has expanded the global rollout of Mico, its smiley-faced AI companion for Copilot, to 40 countries including the UK, Canada, and much of Europe. The feature, which launched as a U.S. exclus…

Eight days after the Miasma worm injected a 4.3 MB credential stealer into public GitHub repositories, 123 repositories across 56 accounts still carry the live dropper on 665 branches, according to a …