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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…

The AI infrastructure boom is increasingly being financed through debt rather than operating cash flows, according to analysts at JPMorgan, the Bank for International Settlements, and FactSet. JPMorga…

Wolfe Research projects Nebius Group (NASDAQ: NBIS) can reach more than $41 billion in annual recurring revenue (ARR) by 2030, nearly 10 times the $4.26 billion ARR modeled for Q3 2026, driven by cont…

Six companies — Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel, and Google — shipped Agent Plugins 1.0 to general availability on August 12, introducing a universal plugin format for AI agents that allows …

Google's $10 million purchase of Spirit Airlines' internal data, including 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, faces opposition from the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, …

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) trades near $317 as of August 20, 2026, with 24/7 Wall St. setting a price target of $363.69, implying 14.86% upside and a BUY recommendation with 90% confidence. Fiscal Q3 2…

Google Cloud launched a new AI agent in BigQuery on April 22, 2025, that lets data teams build and manage data pipelines using natural language, targeting the 60-80% of time spent on data preparation.…

Nationwide Building Society has warned that the financial returns from workplace AI remain difficult to quantify, even as it rolls out Microsoft 365 Copilot to around 16,000 staff. Paul Ballard, Natio…

Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, AWS, Cloudflare, and Bloomberg are donating open protocols (MCP, A2A, AGENTS.md) and backing neutral foundations under the Linux Foundation, betting that the next…

Hyperscalers are projected to nearly double AI capital expenditures to between $660 billion and $690 billion by 2026, up from roughly $380 billion in 2025, according to a report from DesignRush. Micro…

IREN (NASDAQ:IREN) shares jumped 6% to $45.26 after Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) formally accepted Horizon 1, the first of four data centers at IREN's Childress, Texas campus, but gave up gains to trade un…

Microsoft's Azure SRE Agent, after a year in production, has been rebuilt to move safety controls outside the agent's execution environment rather than restricting the agent itself, after incidents wh…

A new list ranks the most influential thought leaders in agentic engineering, AI, and vibecoding, with Anthropic's Claude Code, Microsoft's MarkItDown, and OpenAI's Codex CLI among the top tools. The …

Microsoft Corp. spent $115.948 billion on capital expenditures in fiscal 2026, a 79.62% jump from $64.551 billion a year earlier, while net income rose 31.34% to $133.749 billion and free cash flow fe…

Billionaire venture investor Chamath Palihapitiya said on Aug. 20 that earnings growth at the world's largest companies has "literally zero" to do with AI, a claim that clashes with Nvidia's 945% five…

Oracle Corp. (NYSE:ORCL) trades at $142.07, 42% below the Wall Street consensus target of $246.43, after a 39.6% decline over the trailing year driven by negative free cash flow of $23.686 billion and…

NVIDIA reported Q1 FY27 revenue of $82 billion, up 85% year-over-year, with data center revenue at $75 billion, and guided Q2 revenue to $91 billion, while Micron Technology reported fiscal Q3 revenue…

Cloudflare reported that since the beginning of 2026, its AI code reviewer has identified almost 230,000 deviations from engineering standards, with nearly 16,000 resulting in approval being withheld.…

Bloomberg reports that artificial intelligence is delivering the largest capital expenditure-driven boost to GDP in history, with investments from Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon projected to re…