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Anthropic's Claude Code, a terminal-based agentic coding harness that understands whole codebases and handles git workflows, tops a new index of the best vibe coding tools. The index, which is ranked …

GitHub, a Microsoft subsidiary, faced its worst outage in years on the same day rival Cursor, backed by SpaceX, launched Origin, intensifying the race to dominate the AI developer stack. Cursor's Orig…

Google is offering every eligible college student in India a free one-year subscription to its premium AI plan, worth Rs 4,788 per student at the current Rs 399 monthly price, bundling 4x higher usage…

Google has launched its Gemini Student Hub in Pakistan, introducing AI study tools for coursework, exam prep, research, and career planning, with study notebooks rolling out globally. The free tier of…

Varonis Threat Labs disclosed CoSnitch, a chain of three flaws in Microsoft Copilot Personal tracked as CVE-2026-24301 and rated 8.8 on the CVSS 3.1 scale, which allowed one click on a link to run att…

The General Services Administration's revised proposed acquisition rule for artificial intelligence has drawn over 75 comments from industry stakeholders, including Palantir, Nvidia, and Microsoft, wh…

CoreWeave reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $2.58 billion, up 112% year over year, and guided third-quarter revenue to $3.45 billion–$3.6 billion, with full-year revenue of $12.4 billion–$13.2 b…

The AI Workforce Consortium, founded by Cisco with Accenture, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and others, released a report finding that cybersecurity job postings requiring AI skills have doubled year-over-y…

Morgan Stanley warned in an Aug. 17 research report that community resistance to data centers has become a material development risk, stating 'Capital alone no longer clears a site' and arguing politi…

A Connecticut man suing a bariatric surgery group hid a prompt injection in a July 2026 court filing, instructing AI models to agree with his case, and was sanctioned by the court. The tactic mirrors …

Meta has become one of Microsoft's largest AI customers, spending billions on Azure cloud services for AI research, even as the two compete in AI infrastructure. Microsoft reported a 70% increase in q…

Microsoft's Azure OpenAI service is on track to hit a $10 billion annual run rate, with ByteDance, Adobe, and Perplexity among its major customers. ByteDance once spent nearly $20 million per month, a…

Since the AI boom began in 2023, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta have invested $1.1 trillion in AI infrastructure, with plans for another $745 billion this year, signaling a shift from asset-lig…

Microsoft is hiring a principal legal engineer to build AI agents and train attorneys in its Customer & Partner Solutions group, offering a base salary of $147,000 to $278,900. The role requires a law…

On August 10, Mark Zuckerberg published a letter titled "The Future for Everyone," advocating for wider distribution of AI access, but six global AI observers interviewed by Rest of World challenged h…

Microsoft released Aspire 13.5, an update to its cloud-native development tool, featuring a refreshed dashboard and homepage, new Interaction Service capabilities including file imports and progress d…

Frontier AI model lifespans have collapsed to about a year, with Claude Opus 4.1 retired exactly 12 months after its August 5, 2025 release and Gemini 1.5 Pro 002 retired exactly 12 months after its S…

Singapore Computer Society (SCS) president Lim Bee Kwan announced a new cross-industry AI skills pathway at the Tech³ Forum 2026 on Thursday (Aug 20), designed to align learning pathways, industry-rec…

Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta are on track to collectively spend roughly $735 billion on AI data center infrastructure in 2026, according to Goldman Sachs estimates, with global AI infrastruct…

Stripe, the payment processor that recently acquired AI marketplace OpenRouter, told shareholders in a letter obtained by Axios that the singularity began on January 1, 2026, and the company has been …