Microsoft is a global technology corporation that has made major AI investments through a multi-billion dollar partnership with OpenAI. It integrates AI across Bing, Azure, GitHub Copilot, and Microsoft 365.
PipeVoice, a free and open-source push-to-talk voice typing tool for Windows, launches as a local alternative to Wispr Flow. It offers 100% offline dictation using local Whisper and Ollama, types into…
Microsoft released the Agent Framework, enabling developers to build custom agent harnesses with minimal code. The framework bundles function invocation, history persistence, planning, and web search …
Meta has not yet agreed to voluntarily submit its AI models for government safety review under President Trump's June 2 executive order, while Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, and Microsoft have signed…
Microsoft released an open-source dependency manager for AI agents called Agent Package Manager (APM), which allows developers to declare agentic dependencies in a manifest file and reproduce them acr…
OpenRouter launched a Unified Image API providing standardized access to over 30 image generation models from providers including Google, OpenAI, and Black Forest Labs. The API includes a model discov…
In 2026, the security industry released numerous agentic security tools, including OWASP's 400+ Agent Threat Rules, Microsoft's RAMPART red-teaming framework, and OpenAI's Lockdown Mode. However, inci…
Microsoft's Visual Studio Code now supports using locally hosted LLMs for chat, tools, and MCP servers via a new 'air-gapped' mode, enabling offline AI workflows without GitHub sign-in. Users can inte…
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman called Elon Musk's xAI a 'complete train wreck' and said SpaceX is 'not an AI company' in a podcast interview, while also criticizing the U.S. government's handling of…
The European Commission has selected Italian startup Domyn to lead the Frontier AI Grand Challenge, a project to build a 400-billion-parameter language model aimed at achieving European technological …
The Trump administration is pressing Meta to submit its most capable AI models for federal security review, making Meta the only major US developer that has not agreed to do so. The voluntary reviews,…
A developer built the same two-agent pipeline in LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGen, comparing their performance. Microsoft has discontinued support for AutoGen, which had 56,000 GitHub stars.…
The Trump administration is pressing Meta to voluntarily submit its AI models for government review before release, according to Reuters. Meta is the only major U.S. AI developer that has not yet agre…
City law firm Shoosmiths launched a generative AI tool built with Microsoft to assist junior lawyers in reviewing contracts. The tool, known as Project Apollo, is trained on insights from Shoosmiths l…
Techdirt contributor Timothy Geigner published a June 23, 2026 opinion piece accusing Kotaku of dogmatic AI coverage, citing articles by Zack Zwiezen and Rebekah Valentine that pre-judge AI use in gam…
Alphabet, Google's parent company, will replace Verizon in the Dow Jones Industrial Average effective June 29, 2026. S&P Global announced the change to increase the index's exposure to AI, advertising…
Nvidia became the world's largest publicly traded company with a market capitalization of approximately $4.845 trillion in June 2026, driven by its dominance in AI infrastructure. The milestone has in…
New Zealand organizations are shifting from basic cloud migrations to AI-driven strategies, with public cloud spend projected to nearly double to NZ$9.6 billion by 2028. Experts warn that undiscipline…
The Trump administration is pressing Meta to voluntarily submit its AI models for government security reviews, making it the only major US AI company without such an agreement. The push follows an exe…
Alphabet will replace Verizon in the Dow Jones Industrial Average effective June 29, 2026, as the blue-chip index continues its shift toward big tech and AI. The swap, announced by S&P Dow Jones Indic…
Five U.S. firms—Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle—are projected to invest $800 billion in AI in 2026, up from $400 billion in 2025, according to a Washington Times opinion column. The colu…