Microsoft is a global technology corporation that has made major AI investments through a multi-billion dollar partnership with OpenAI. It integrates AI across Bing, Azure, GitHub Copilot, and Microsoft 365.
A daily AI news digest published on Aug 18 lists 30 stories, including Microsoft facing a hardware wall, Google paying $10 million for Spirit Airlines data, Stripe acquiring OpenRouter for $7 billion,…
SpaceXAI introduced Grok Bot, an always-on AI-agent service designed to operate as an autonomous teammate with its own cloud environment, capable of logging into applications and performing multi-step…
Microsoft began merging its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps into a single unified experience on August 18, automatically redirecting web and mobile users to copilot.cloud.microsoft, and permanent…
Microsoft has shut at least 15 branch offices and joint ventures in China over the past five years, according to corporate filings, and five company sources described a strategy of retreat, with one e…
A Financial Times analysis of the 60 largest US data centers under construction by Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft estimates they will produce 101.5 million tons of carbon dioxide annually once fu…
Satya Nadella and other Microsoft officers face a new copyright shareholder derivative lawsuit, Vladimir Gusinsky Revocable Trust v. Nadella, filed by the same law firm Cotchette, Pitre & McCarthy LLP…
Microsoft's Visual Studio Code documentation now includes a link to Microsoft Copilot, the company's AI-powered coding assistant, in its 'See also' section as of August 17, 2026. The update adds a dir…
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), citing infrastruct…
Mintlify, a San Francisco-based documentation platform serving 100 million developers annually for 20,000+ companies including Anthropic, Microsoft, PayPal, Spotify, Coinbase, and X, is hiring an Appl…
A peer-reviewed study in npj Climate Action finds that AI-driven productivity gains in fossil fuel production will likely offset emissions reductions from AI-enhanced renewables, increasing carbon pol…
Microsoft's VS Code 1.133, released August 12, introduces the Agent Host Protocol (AHP), an open specification that runs AI agent sessions in a standalone process, persists them across window closures…
US investment-grade bond sales hit a third consecutive monthly record in July 2026, driven by a surge in AI infrastructure borrowing, with total issuance reaching $1,681 billion through July, a 26.9% …
Cursor, the AI coding tool owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX after its $60 billion acquisition of Anysphere, launched Origin on Monday, a code hosting platform that competes directly with Microsoft's GitHub…
IREN has delivered its first 50-megawatt AI cloud facility, Horizon 1, in Childress, Texas, to Microsoft under a $9.7 billion, five-year contract, with Microsoft formally accepting the deployment. The…
A bond sale linked to Microsoft's data center ambitions is on track to reach roughly $4 billion, up from an initial $3.9 billion target, amid strong investor demand for AI infrastructure debt. The dea…
Turing, a San Francisco-based research accelerator for frontier AI labs, is hiring an AI Engagement Lead in New York, New York, offering a salary of $240k–260k per year. The role involves leading GenA…
Treating large language models like search engines is the fastest way to get subpar results, according to a new guide that outlines a 5-step prompt engineering framework. The framework—Task, Context, …
OpenAI restricted creation of custom GPTs to Business, Enterprise, and Education workspaces as of August 16, 2026, locking personal accounts on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro tiers out of building or publish…
Stripe unveiled 288 new products at Stripe Sessions 2026, including Link wallets for AI agents and stablecoin-powered streaming payments, positioning AI agents as economic participants rather than cos…
Canonical's Vice President of Engineering Jon Seager said Ubuntu's user base inside Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is growing faster than native Ubuntu desktop installs and expects WSL to pull ahea…