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.
Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle have issued about $220 billion of bonds in 2026 through Aug. 10, according to BNP Paribas data cited by Reuters, as they finance an artificial-intelligence…
Anthropic plans to let enterprise customers store required safety-monitoring data in their own cloud environments, easing a June 9, 2026 policy that removed zero-data-retention access for its Claude F…
Latent Space reports that the AI industry is increasingly replacing human-made components of the machine intelligence pipeline with model-made ones, a trend it calls 'human simulation' that is 10% wor…
A stealth AI model named Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter and OpenCode, offered free for a week with 100 trillion daily tokens, and users report it matches or beats GPT 5.6 Sol and Fable 5 on benchmark…
Google's A2A protocol formally joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) on August 20, 2026, placing it alongside Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) under a single governance umbrella backed by ma…
Linear announced last week that it is building coding agents, joining OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Lovable, and Retool in converging on software agents that can take a goal, use tools, …
Canonical's Vice President of Engineering Jon Seager clarified that Ubuntu's growth rate on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is higher than its growth rate on native desktop installs, but only in ter…
Microsoft has received the first production Vera Rubin systems from Nvidia, CEO Satya Nadella confirmed on August 21, 2026, making Microsoft one of the earliest adopters of Nvidia's next-generation AI…
A new open-source field guide catalogues 47 San Francisco tech slang terms, including 'Claude-pilled,' 'Corgi girls,' and 'Directionally very bad,' with origins traced and submissions open. The guide,…
Apple Inc. is cutting jobs across teams working on Siri, the Vision Pro headset, and its Intelligent Systems Experience group as part of an AI-focused restructuring, according to a report. The layoffs…
Nvidia published research on Friday showing that a custom harness with a supervisor component enabled Claude Opus 5 to achieve a 100% score on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, compared to 30% without the harn…
A developer recounts how their team consolidated four databases—Mongo, Redis, Elasticsearch, and a vector database—into a single Postgres instance, citing reduced costs, lower operational overhead, an…
OpenAI announced Zero Data Retention (ZDR) for its frontier API models on August 19, promising that prompts and responses are deleted after processing with no employee review or training use. The comp…
Enterprises are shifting from committing to a single frontier AI model to a multi-model strategy that routes queries by complexity to optimize cost, according to an analysis in Fast Company. The artic…
Nearly 200 activists from the Make America Healthy Again movement sent a letter to President Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on August 21, urging the administration to abandon coal in…
Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, a $35 million fund for open-source cyber defense, with up to $100 million in model usage credits and $4 million in direct donations. The initiative includes AWS, …
Microsoft has launched MAI-Image-2.6, its latest first-party image-generation model, which now ranks No. 2 on Arena's text-to-image leaderboard and No. 3 for image editing. The model is available in M…
Microsoft Corp. and NVIDIA Corp. reported the two most consequential AI earnings of the year, with Microsoft's Azure surpassing $100 billion in annual revenue and Microsoft 365 Copilot exceeding 30 mi…
Microsoft has expanded its MAI Playground, a limited-preview environment for testing its MAI family of models, now including image generation, voice, transcription, and reasoning capabilities. The mov…
Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya said on August 20 that for the Global 2000, earnings growth has "literally zero" to do with AI, six days before NVIDIA reports fiscal Q3 earnings on August 26…