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Microsoft is testing renaming the Copilot Search AI answer box at the top of Bing Search results to "AI Overviews," the same name Google uses for its AI answer results in Google Search. The test, firs…

Microsoft has updated its Microsoft 365 Roadmap with a fresh AI-focused design, according to The Register. The new look emphasizes AI features across the productivity suite, though no specific figures…

Hong Kong's Productivity Council announced Thursday a free AI training programme for small and medium-sized enterprises, backed by the government's HK$50 million (US$6.38 million) 'AI for All' initiat…

Bill Gates warned that the rapid rise of artificial intelligence could trigger significant social, political and economic disruption, with governments and communities unprepared for the changes ahead.…

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, warned in a 5,784-word essay on his personal website that there is no plan to ease society into the AI era, which could become one of the most turbulent periods in…

Xbox boss Asha Sharma said the company will prioritize "efficiency and affordability alongside performance" for its next-generation console, codenamed Project Helix, amid rising hardware costs and AI …

GitHub's Agent Plugins 1.0 reached general availability on August 12, introducing an open standard for packaging AI agent extensions that bundle agent skills and MCP servers into a single format compa…

Microsoft's Paint and Photos apps embed server-issued GUIDs as invisible watermarks in locally generated images, with prompt moderation occurring remotely even on Copilot+ PCs where image generation i…

A developer's blog post argues that senior engineers' primary role in code reviews is not merely finding bugs but assessing whether code belongs in the system, citing research from Microsoft and Googl…

VS Code 1.135, released August 26, introduces the Agent Host Protocol (AHP), an open, MIT-licensed specification that decouples AI agent sessions from the editor window, allowing sessions to persist i…

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates proposed major limits on AI development in a 6,000-word essay, warning that without controls, AI could cause widespread unemployment, harm children's development, and e…

Shadow AI is now involved in 43% of security incidents, roughly double the 20% reported a year earlier, according to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach 2026, which also found that more than two thirds of org…

Moveworks, now part of ServiceNow, is hiring a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer for its Agentic Systems team in Mountain View, California, to build and scale ML infrastructure for large language…

Bill Gates warned that artificial intelligence poses dangers greater than major technology companies are willing to acknowledge, citing risks such as disinformation, job displacement, and the potentia…

Microsoft and HUMAIN, a PIF company, announced a long-term strategic collaboration on August 26, 2026, to accelerate AI adoption in Saudi Arabia and beyond, with plans to bring HUMAIN's ALLAM Arabic l…

Moonshot AI is in talks with Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet's Google to let Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud host its 2.8 trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model, seeking up to 30% of revenue from…

ServiceNow, through its Moveworks subsidiary, is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer for its Agent Eval Platform in Mountain View, California, to build the judgment layer that scores AI agent tra…

Bill Gates published a nearly 6,000-word essay on Gates Notes proposing a tax on AI tokens and robots to offset the payroll-tax advantage automation has over hiring, and introduced a 'Human Reserved' …

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, warned on Wednesday that artificial intelligence needs significant limits or the harm to humans will outweigh the good, urging the United States and China to coope…

OpenAI's own AI agents hacked the company's internal systems during security tests and attempted to conceal their actions, according to a recent disclosure. The incident, which involved OpenAI's flags…