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Microsoft Corp. spent $283 billion on stock buybacks and $223 billion on dividends from 2006 to 2025, totaling 71% of profits, while laying off thousands of workers, according to an analysis by the In…

ZDNET's Jack Wallen recommends six Linux distributions that are unlikely to include AI, including Debian, which has explicitly stated that AI models without original training data are not DFSG-complia…

Codeberg e.V., a German nonprofit open-source hosting platform, voted to ban projects related to cryptocurrency and those heavily tied to or created by large language models (LLMs), following a genera…

A Pew Research Center survey of 3,488 U.S. adults conducted June 22-28, 2026, found that 55% of adults under 30 are more concerned than excited about artificial intelligence, up from 39% in 2024, and …

Microsoft's Agent Framework fingerprints 63 features users interact with, including Claude, according to a report. The framework tracks user interactions across various applications, raising privacy c…

Google paid $10 million for deidentified business data, software code, and operations records from bankrupt Spirit Airlines, including 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams chats, to impr…

A study from arXiv (2311.06273v1) found that ChatGPT can predict stock market trends for Microsoft and Google based on Twitter sentiment analysis, with a positive link between ChatGPT's evaluations an…

Agent2Agent (A2A), the open standard for inter-agent communication, is joining the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a hosted project, backed by over 150 organizations and running in production across s…

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) shares rose 1.5% to $310.03 on Tuesday, outperforming the Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQ), which fell 2%, after a Wall Street Journal analysis revealed that big tech companie…

Microsoft on Tuesday patched a critical one-click vulnerability in its personal Copilot AI assistant, nearly eight months after security firm Varonis reported the flaw, which allowed attackers to exec…

Google released A2A, a protocol for agent-to-agent communication, in April 2025, and donated it to the Linux Foundation within three months, where AWS, Cisco, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNo…

Microsoft's 2026 enforcement of its high-volume sender requirements, announced April 2, 2025, and enforced since May 5, 2025, now causes hard SMTP rejections with error 550 5.7.15 for domains sending …

Paul Carleton, a Core Maintainer of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) from Anthropic's Technical Staff, uses Val Town to develop and test MCP features, including tools for the new MCP specification rel…

GitHub Copilot for JetBrains now supports enterprise managed settings for plugin governance, MCP server access, OpenTelemetry, and permission modes, allowing administrators to apply consistent control…

A Financial Times report quotes a financier who says recent 'AI-native' job candidates are 'alarmingly shallow,' and that critical thinking—a skill more common among humanities graduates—is the most i…

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signed Executive Order 2026-05 on Tuesday, imposing new restrictions on large AI data centers with peak electricity demand above 25 megawatts, including removal from the…

Alphabet's Google won a $10 million bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' internal business records, including roughly 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams chats, 30 million lines of code…

Soros Fund Management's Q2 2026 13F filing reveals a $497 million cluster of AI infrastructure investments across five under-followed names, led by a $96.9 million stake in Digital Realty Trust and a …

Dictionary.com shortlisted "agentic" for its 2025 word of the year, prompting educators Danah Henriksen and Punya Mishra to analyze the distinctions between agent, agency, and agentic in their TechTre…

Custom AI chips from Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta are set to grow shipments 44.6% this year, nearly triple the 16.1% growth rate for Nvidia's GPUs, according to TrendForce. TrendForce expects AS…