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India is partnering with the United Arab Emirates to deploy an AI supercomputer on its own soil, challenging the dominance of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google in cloud-based AI computing. The deal, signe…

Builder.ai, a Microsoft-backed no-code unicorn, collapsed in May 2025 after creditor Viola Credit seized $37 million, leaving it with $5 million against $115 million in cloud debts owed to Amazon and …

NVIDIA today at COMPUTEX in Taipei unveiled the RTX Spark, a new class of Windows PCs with 1 petaflop of AI compute and 128GB of unified memory, purpose-built to run personal AI agents locally and sec…

NVIDIA today announced new software, open source models and partnerships with leading software platform providers to build autonomous AI agents for industries and enterprises. Cadence, Dassault Systèm…

A developer benchmarked five open-source PII detection tools across four datasets in English and Dutch, finding that comparing tools is difficult due to differing label schemes and entity coverage. Th…

Microsoft's Agent Governance Toolkit has been implemented in a Colab-ready workflow that prevents AI agents from directly executing tools, instead routing every action through a governance layer that …

A leaked 2022 email from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reveals he pushed to own the silicon, infrastructure, and foundational model IP, warning the company was a "very thin layer on top of NVIDIA" and w…

Microsoft's `markitdown` project is gaining traction as a solution for converting PDFs, Word files, slide decks, spreadsheets, and HTML into Markdown, which is emerging as a practical interface layer …

Microsoft is expected to unveil a unified Copilot Super App at Build 2026, according to exclusive new screenshots. The app will include a coding tab integrated with GitHub Copilot, a Cowork tab, and S…

Microsoft retired the Bing Search API on August 11, 2025, leaving thousands of teams without an official endpoint for organic search results. A developer built an Apify Actor that scrapes Bing's publi…

Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith announced in December 2025 a C$19 billion investment in Canada, calling it the company's largest-ever commitment and "the most robust digital sovereignty …

Microsoft Research published two concurrent papers in May 2026—SkillLens and a companion work—revealing that agent skills can degrade task performance, with negative transfer occurring in 25% of cases…

Twenty Snap alumni launched Ghost Angels, an angel fund investing in AI startups building the next generation of social media and consumer tools. The fund has backed at least five companies and plans …

GitHub Copilot's switch to token-based billing on June 1 causes developer costs to spike from $29 to $750 per month, signaling the end of AI subscription subsidies. Mistral AI launches Vibe, a full-st…

Microsoft will preview three new AI models at its Build conference on June 2 in San Francisco, including MAI-Transcribe-1.5, MAI-Image-2.5, and MAI-Voice-2, none of which are publicly available yet. T…

Apple spent $14 billion on capital expenditures in 2026, just 2% of the $670 billion committed by Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft for AI infrastructure, signaling a fundamental disagreement with S…

Microsoft will switch GitHub Copilot from a flat subscription fee to a token-based billing system starting June 1, a change that could dramatically increase costs for individual developers and small c…

Microsoft and Nvidia are collaborating on a new line of Windows PCs that will run local AI agents instead of the Copilot assistant, according to reports. The first devices, including models from Dell …

Nvidia and Microsoft will launch the first Windows PCs powered by Nvidia chips next week, marking the GPU maker's entry into the PC processor market. The Arm-based processors, designed to run AI workl…

A company that cannot be named spent $500 million in a single month on Anthropic's Claude API due to a missing spending limit, while Uber exhausted its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April and Micros…