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A United Nations report titled 'Governing AI for Humanity' highlights both the transformative potential and significant risks of artificial intelligence, calling for a global governance framework. The…

Fabrice Canel, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Bing, retired on July 1 after nearly 30 years at the company, citing the Voluntary Retirement Program. Canel led Bing's web crawling and indexing …

Big Tech's first half saw hardware stocks surge while software stocks struggled, with Micron rising 308%, Intel 280%, and AMD 173%, as Meta fell 15% and Microsoft 23%. Wall Street remains bullish on A…

Microsoft is preparing to cut thousands of jobs starting the week of July 6, 2026, affecting its sales, consulting, and Xbox gaming divisions, with five Xbox studios at risk of closure or sale. The la…

Google's AI expansion drove record increases in electricity (37%), water usage (34%), and greenhouse gas emissions (18%) last year, straining its clean energy pledges. The tech giant's sustainability …

Microsoft plans significant job cuts affecting thousands of employees as it shifts focus to increase investments in artificial intelligence. The layoffs, impacting sales, consulting, and Xbox division…

National Grid Partners invested $100 million in AI startups focused on energy infrastructure to support Microsoft's data center expansion, as Microsoft's AI data center electricity demand in North Ame…

Taiwanese investors are taking on heavy debt to amplify stock market gains amid an AI-fueled rally, while margin debt levels reach risky heights. The trend is driven by FOMO and leveraged bets on comp…

Oracle spent $55.7 billion building AI data centers this fiscal year, with plans to spend even more by 2027, but the widening gap between capital expenditures and cash flow has become Wall Street's cl…

Anthropic's AI system Mythos, previously banned by the US government over national security risks, is returning with restrictions. The US lifted the export ban after Anthropic worked with the Commerce…

AI strategist Sol Rashidi fired half of her AI agents after spending more time supervising them than doing useful work, a phenomenon called 'botsitting' that a Glean report says costs white-collar wor…

AI providers face mounting operational pressures as infrastructure costs soar, with OpenAI expecting $600 billion in compute spending by 2030 and major tech firms potentially spending $630 billion on …

Alphabet Inc. gained $2 trillion in market value, reaching approximately $4.29 trillion and remaining the world's second most valuable company. The surge comes amid investor scrutiny and a recent $80 …

Goldman Sachs strategists have turned bullish on European equities, citing surging hyperscaler capital expenditure that they now estimate at $754 billion for 2026. The bank argues that European indust…

SAS Institute, the analytics pioneer founded 50 years ago, is cautiously adopting AI by focusing on business value rather than hype, with CEO Jim Goodnight expressing skepticism about costly AI applic…

Google announced its Googlebook initiative, a new class of premium laptops built around Gemini, Android, and Chrome, set to launch later this year with models from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo. Th…

The Linux Foundation launched Akrites, a coalition including Anthropic, AWS, IBM, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, and others, to defend open-source software from AI-driven vulnerability discovery. The grou…

Crude oil prices fell over 4% to three-month lows after the US-Iran ceasefire extension, with Brent crude at $84.21 and WTI at $81.38 per barrel. The drop boosted European equities, which gained 13% i…

Abu Dhabi's MGX has raised approximately $49 billion for one of the largest AI investment funds ever, targeting AI infrastructure including semiconductors and data centers. The fund, backed by soverei…

A developer built PhishVision, a free REST API that uses AI vision to detect phishing sites and prompt injection attacks by analyzing webpage content visually, not just URLs. The API extracts hidden t…