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Anthropic, valued at $965 billion, has confidentially filed for an IPO, targeting a valuation of $1 trillion or higher. Amazon and Google, two of the AI lab's largest early investors, stand to reap ma…

Nvidia unveiled the RTX Spark superchip on June 1 at Computex in Taipei, packing 1 petaflop of AI compute into a slim laptop form factor. The Arm-based chip, combining up to 20 CPU cores with Blackwel…

Microsoft launched Microsoft 365 Premium, a $200-per-year subscription that bundles AI features from the discontinued Copilot Pro with Microsoft 365 Family. The new plan costs 54% more than the standa…

The European Commission proposed a tech sovereignty package Wednesday that restricts US cloud providers from processing sensitive government data and launches Chips Act 2.0 to build advanced semicondu…

Microsoft banned internal use of Claude Code across its Experiences and Devices division with a June 30 deadline, citing cost control after Uber burned through its entire $3.4 billion AI budget in fou…

Microsoft announced Azure Linux 4.0, its first general-purpose Linux server distribution, at Build 2026, alongside Azure Container Linux and a developer-focused Windows 11 with integrated Windows Subs…

Former Microsoft Asia Pacific president Ahmed Mazhari launched agentic AI startup kAIgentic with a $10 million strategic investment from SMBC Group, which will also serve as the company's first custom…

AI industry leaders including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman signed an open letter urging US lawmakers to mandate screening of synthetic DNA and RNA or…

Nvidia announced its new RTX Spark chip at Computex, a high-performance ARM-based processor for thin-and-light laptops and small desktops designed to compete directly with Apple's MacBook Pro lineup. …

AI infrastructure is expanding beyond traditional tech hubs as rising compute costs, power constraints, and geopolitical barriers force innovation in regions where scarcity is a design constraint. In …

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discussed the company's competitive positioning, its partnership with OpenAI, and AI infrastructure investments in a new interview. Nadella addressed Microsoft's business m…

Microsoft unveiled Rayfin, a new open-source SDK and CLI at Build 2026, designed to let developers and coding agents define full application backends in code and deploy them directly to Microsoft Fabr…

GitHub Copilot switched to usage-based billing, increasing costs for users. Local LLMs offer a cost-effective alternative, with tools like Ollama and LM Studio enabling agentic coding without cloud de…

Apple has removed the Russian corporate messaging app "Max," developed by VK, from the App Store, leaving it unavailable for download or updates on new iPhones in Russia. Existing users can still acce…

Microsoft launched Scout, an always-on AI personal assistant built on OpenClaw that integrates with Microsoft 365 apps including Outlook, OneDrive, and Teams. Scout can monitor traffic and calendars, …

The Microsoft Agent Framework has added skills support in beta, built around progressive disclosure that allows agents to load domain expertise on demand rather than including all capabilities in the …

Phylax, a new OS-level security tool, prevents AI coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor from reading, writing, or deleting private files by enforcing Windows kernel-level access controls. The tool…

Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon signed Executive Order 2026-03 on June 3, directing state agencies to deliver policy recommendations within 60 days for responsible data center development. The order aims…

GitHub Copilot switched to metered token-based billing on June 1, 2026, prompting a wave of developers to threaten leaving the platform. The change, which could cost individual users hundreds of euros…

Reve and Ideogram both launched new image-generation models on June 2, 2026, with each company emphasizing advances in layout control through improved labeling and code. Ideogram 4.0 is now ranked as …