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Nvidia is spending $6 billion to build one of the world's most powerful open-weight AI models, a move that Chinese state media welcomes as a sign that the US is shifting toward open-source AI. The inv…

Microsoft embeds a server-issued GUID as an invisible watermark in AI-generated images from Paint and Photos, linking the image to the user's prompt, according to an analysis by software developer Xus…

Microsoft has published security guidance for coding agents like GitHub Copilot CLI, recommending layered controls including sandboxing, least privilege, and separation of duties. The guidance emphasi…

Microsoft employees are self-reporting their AI tool usage and spending in an internal spreadsheet, revealing median AI usage of about $300 over 28 days, with the highest reported figure at $28,000, a…

On July 24, Jensen Huang made his first post on X, a policy letter signed by 25 companies, doubling to 50 within a day, asking Washington not to restrict open weight AI models, with signatories includ…

An internal spreadsheet viewed by Business Insider, with nearly 600 employee submissions, reveals Microsoft's 2025 compensation ranges across levels and teams, showing base salaries from $100,200 to $…

A mysterious AI model named Ox Alpha, listed as a stealth model on OpenRouter, has impressed developers with its coding and agentic capabilities, including a 1,048,576-token context window. An enginee…

Most AI investment is going into infrastructure—servers, storage, security, and operations—rather than the models themselves, according to Tayo Lusi, founder of The Apex Institute cloud and AI infrast…

Microsoft released two open-source projects, ASSERT and Agent Control Specification (ACS), to help developers evaluate, control, and optimize AI agent behavior in production. In a banking support scen…

Mistral AI and HUMAIN announced a strategic collaboration to advance sovereign AI in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, focusing on AI infrastructure, advanced model development, and deployment of AI s…

Hugging Face is in early-stage acquisition talks at a valuation of $13 billion or more, with no deal signed, according to TechCrunch and Business Insider. The platform hosts 2.96 million models, 1 mil…

Mistral AI has partnered with HUMAIN, a Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund-backed entity, in a deal valued at hundreds of millions of euros to develop sovereign AI models for Arabic language proces…

A new analysis from Epoch AI finds that US GDP growth is understated by roughly 0.3 percentage points because Nvidia's chip design work is treated as a foreign import when chips are fabricated in Taiw…

Australia's data center electricity consumption is projected to rise sevenfold from 5 terawatt-hours (TWh) to 34 TWh by 2035-36, increasing from 3% to 13% of the National Electricity Market (NEM), acc…

Microsoft Corp. should acquire Hugging Face Inc., the AI community platform often called the GitHub of AI, argues Alex Kantrowitz in the Cautious Optimism newsletter, noting Microsoft's existing owner…

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) is positioned as a cleaner alternative to CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) in the AI infrastructure space, with Q2 revenue of $582.3 million (up 454% year over year), $8.04 billion i…

Microsoft released Agent Lightning v1.0.1, the first official version of its Agent Lightning Skill, which helps coding agents optimize other AI agents by guiding systematic improvements to prompts, to…

Microsoft's MS Paint embeds an invisible watermark containing a server-issued GUID in every AI-generated image, and cancels generation if the watermarking step fails, according to a reverse engineerin…

ARC-AGI-3 benchmark scores vary by up to 70 points depending on the testing harness, with NVIDIA reporting Claude Opus 5 at 100.00% in late August versus the official ARC Prize verified score of 30.16…

Anthropic executives believe their upcoming public offering will match or exceed the $75 billion that SpaceX raised in June, and the company could file for its public listing before the end of the mon…