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Microsoft’s 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat have been recertified under ISO/IEC 42001:2023 for the second consecutive year, with an independent auditor reporting zero non-conformities and zero improvemen…

A ZDNET reporter switched from Microsoft Copilot to Anthropic's Claude AI for use in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, citing Claude's ability to work across multiple applications simultaneously. The repor…

Researchers at HKUDS Lab released CLI-Anything, a system that generates command-line interfaces for any software, enabling AI agents to control GUI-only applications like Blender, GIMP, and LibreOffic…

Coding agents achieved product-market fit in April 2026, as evidenced by Anthropic approaching its first profitable quarter and OpenAI locking all enterprise customers into full API pricing. The shift…

Microsoft launched Windows 365 for Agents, a Cloud PC platform that runs autonomous AI agents inside enterprise-managed Windows environments, on January 22, 2026. The platform allows organizations to …

NextEra Energy announced a $66.8 billion all-stock acquisition of Dominion Energy on May 18, 2026, creating a combined utility with 110 gigawatts of generation capacity and 10 million customers. The m…

Five of the largest hyperscalers funding the AI build-out—Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, Oracle, and OpenAI—plus Nvidia are all led by female CFOs steering the trillion-dollar infrastructure expansion. Mi…

Microsoft launched Windows 365 for Agents, a cloud PC platform that runs AI agents in secure, enterprise-controlled environments. The platform, now in public preview, lets organizations use natural la…

Microsoft announced Azure Linux 4.0, its first general-purpose server Linux distribution, and Azure Container Linux at Open Source Summit North America 2026 in Minneapolis. The Fedora-based Azure Linu…

Microsoft's U.S. AI Diffusion Report, released Tuesday, found that Texas ranks fourth nationally in AI adoption at 35.4%, surpassing California at 34.1% and New York at 32.9%. The data also revealed a…

Microsoft released an open-source Agent Governance Toolkit (AGT) to enforce policy-based controls on AI agents, addressing surging API usage and availability issues caused by automated agent queries. …

Microsoft is testing a docked Copilot sidebar in Windows 11 that can pin the AI assistant to the left or right screen edge and automatically resize other open apps to make room. The feature, rolling o…

NVIDIA Vice President Bryan Catanzaro stated in April 2026 that AI compute costs now exceed employee payroll costs, a warning most enterprises ignored while focusing on "tokenmaxxing." Microsoft cance…

Major technology firms including Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle have publicly linked layoffs to AI adoption, eliminating tens of thousands of roles, with Meta cutting about 8,000 positions in an AI-focu…

Hedge funds have coined the term "AI capex fatigue" to describe growing investor skepticism about the massive capital spending by Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Oracle and other hyperscalers on AI…

On May 7, security researcher Hyunwoo Kim disclosed Dirty Frag, two Linux kernel vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-43284 and CVE-2026-43500) that grant unprivileged users deterministic root access on most Lin…

Taiwanese technology companies have completed a record $14.5 billion in debt deals to fund artificial intelligence infrastructure expansion, with convertible bond sales alone reaching $4.4 billion in …

Credit default swap volumes on major U.S. tech firms hit record highs in December 2025, with exposure surging 90% since September as investors hedge against $121 billion in new AI-related debt. Oracle…

Microsoft released Agent Governance Toolkit (AGT), a Python library that enforces policies, identity controls, sandboxing, and SRE practices for autonomous AI agents. The toolkit intercepts every tool…

Micron Technology surpassed $1 trillion in market capitalization on May 26, closing at approximately $895.88 per share after a roughly 19% single-day surge — the company's best performance since 2011.…