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LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is stepping down from Microsoft's board of directors after nearly a decade to focus on Manus, his AI-powered drug discovery startup. The company, which has raised over…

Equixly engineers report that GPU scarcity is a structural problem driven by hyperscaler stockpiling and rising energy costs, not a temporary supply-chain issue. The company argues that standard load-…

Five workers from diverse backgrounds — including a former attorney, a structural engineer, and a data professional — successfully pivoted into artificial intelligence roles at companies like Microsof…

A developer built Basilisk, an open-source Python language server and type checker written in Rust that enforces strict type annotations by default. The tool was created after the developer found Pyla…

AI coding agents are now using developer tools like SDKs, CLIs, and APIs, but they interact with them differently than human developers, often without the tool creator's visibility into how the agent …

PC makers including HP and Lenovo, alongside Microsoft, are partnering with Nvidia to challenge Apple's dominance in the laptop market. The collaboration aims to close the gap with Apple's MacBook by …

NVIDIA and Microsoft introduced the NVIDIA RTX Spark superchip at GTC Taipei on May 31, 2026, powering a new class of Windows laptops and compact desktops designed for on-device AI agents. The platfor…

A new tool called Local MCP (LMCP) gives AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor direct access to desktop apps including Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Teams, Outlook, and Excel — all running locall…

Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager overseeing €2.4 trillion, predicts Asia’s AI-driven stock rally will continue, citing strong earnings and reasonable valuations in South Korean and Taiwanese tec…

The security podcast "The Department of Know" released an episode covering an audit of the National Vulnerability Database, reports of data leakage from Meta's AI systems, and Microsoft's progress tow…

Enterprise tech giants Microsoft and Snowflake debuted tools in San Francisco last week designed to simplify enterprise AI adoption by addressing trust and convenience barriers. Snowflake introduced t…

U.S. stocks plunged Friday, with the Nasdaq suffering its worst selloff since April 2025 after a strong jobs report fueled fears the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates, compounding existing worr…

Microsoft's internal strategy documents reveal the company plans to make users "addicted" to its new AI personal assistant, Scout, before expanding its capabilities. The documents outline a three-phas…

Microsoft released the Surface Laptop 7 with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite processor, offering up to 20 hours of battery life and a 45-TOPS AI chip starting at $999. The Windows-on-Arm device outperfo…

GitHub has launched a public preview of enterprise-managed plugins for VS Code, allowing administrators to configure and distribute plugins to users across their enterprise. The feature, supported in …

Microsoft's Imagine Cup 2026 and Red Bull Basement competitions concluded in San Francisco, with the CopyFlag team winning the Imagine Cup World Champion title for an AI-powered design protection plat…

Daniel Sparks of The Motley Fool recommended Meta Platforms, Microsoft, and Broadcom as three AI stocks to buy and hold for the next decade, citing their ability to fund sustained AI infrastructure in…

Broadcom reported fiscal Q2 revenue of $22.2 billion, up 48% year over year, and AI semiconductor revenue of $10.8 billion, up 143%, triggering a share decline of up to 14% on valuation and customer c…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the company is treating AI agents like human employees by giving them identities, permissions, and audit capabilities to manage their work. Nadella told Reid Hoffman o…

Reid Hoffman informed Microsoft's board on Tuesday that he will not seek reelection and will leave at the company's annual meeting at the end of 2026, ending a decade-long tenure. Hoffman, who co-foun…