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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…

Microsoft released MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech-recognition model it claims is faster, more accurate, and cheaper than offerings from OpenAI, Google, or ElevenLabs, priced at 10 cents per hour of audio,…

Microsoft will turn off text predictions by default in Word and Outlook, according to The Register. The feature, which guesses what users intend to type, will be disabled by default across Word for Wi…

Nvidia said Lenovo and Acer will launch the first Windows PCs powered by its RTX Spark chip in October, as the company pushes to bring AI capabilities directly to laptops and desktops. The RTX Spark c…

Microsoft is backing the Water Cost Accountability Act, which would prevent data centers from passing water usage costs to consumers, as the company seeks to address community concerns about AI infras…

Microsoft has appointed Francisco J. M. Rey as vice president of global network infrastructure at Azure Networking, a new role in which he will work alongside Vice President for Azure Global Networkin…

Microsoft has added MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech-to-text model, to its Microsoft Foundry model catalog in public preview, announced at Build 2026. The model is part of a broader update that includes oth…

A major outage hit multiple AI services on Thursday, with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and Grok all experiencing stability issues as of publishing. DownDetector reported users began facing proble…

At IFA 2026, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and partners announced faster local AI inference and new tools for running agents locally on NVIDIA hardware, including up to 1.9x faster inference via llama.cpp and vL…

OpenClaw has released a new installer for macOS that provides a native app UI for onboarding, alongside frictionless local model setup for Windows PCs with NVIDIA RTX GPUs, aiming to reduce setup time…

Canva users have created 4.5 billion presentations and 1.4 billion documents, with nearly 3,000 presentations and 1,000 documents created every minute, according to the Australian design startup. The …

Nvidia unveiled RTX Spark at IFA 2026, a new hardware and software package for Windows PCs that brings 1 Petaflop RTX Blackwell GPU, up to 128GB unified memory, and a 20-core Grace CPU, enabling local…

Nvidia's Arm-based RTX Spark N1X chip will launch in October in two configurations for laptops and mini PCs, with the top-tier variant featuring a 6144-core Blackwell RTX GPU, 20-core Grace CPU, and 2…

On September 3, ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok experienced a simultaneous outage, with Downdetector logging over 20,000 reports for OpenAI's services and thousands more for Anthropic and xAI, while Microso…

Gartner's Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) approach is gaining traction as traditional vulnerability management fails under a record flood of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), w…

Google DeepMind and Google Research released WeatherNext 3, an AI weather forecasting model that outperforms leading AI and traditional models on the Operational WeatherBench benchmark, with 5km resol…

A developer mapped Microsoft's AI stack across six layers, from models and infrastructure to data, agentic platform, Copilot distribution, and a vertical governance layer, and compared it against Micr…

Nvidia has transferred its Open Secure AI Alliance to the Linux Foundation, just over a month after launching the initiative to address security challenges in open source AI software. The alliance, wh…