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Best Buy's 60th Anniversary Microsoft flash sale is now live, offering discounts on Copilot+ PCs, gaming laptops, and everyday laptops starting at $123. The sale includes Windows machines from Lenovo,…

Ottawa-based product designer Marcos Rezende launched NearLens, a free iOS app that uses Bluetooth signals to detect nearby camera-equipped smart glasses such as Ray-Ban Meta, addressing privacy conce…

A Databricks and Economist survey found that 40% of respondents believe their organization's AI governance program is insufficient, and Microsoft's Data Security Index reports only 47% of organization…

Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle have issued roughly $194 billion in bonds by early July 2026, surpassing their $108 billion total for all of 2025, squeezing the same capital pool that fu…

AI will persist and fundamentally reshape work and society despite widespread criticism, according to a Register column. Forrester predicts AI will eliminate 10.4 million U.S. jobs by 2030, and a Pew …

Microsoft's monthly Windows security fixes surged from 60-90 last year to a record 600+ in July 2026, with Oracle and Linux following suit, driven by AI's dual role in both accelerating bug discovery …

More than half of U.S. employees now use artificial intelligence at work, with 51% using it for writing and editing, according to Gallup, and AI agents are increasingly communicating on behalf of huma…

LeadDev's AI Impact Report 2026 found that 57% of respondents say tokenmaxxing is ineffective at gauging real value, and only 19% rate it as effective, as Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber have walked…

Big investors are shifting focus from whether Big Tech's AI spending will pay off to which companies will deliver long-term returns, as results from Microsoft and Amazon reassure markets of robust AI …

Agent Plugins 1.0, a packaging standard for AI agent plugins agreed upon by Amazon, Cursor, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel, was released on August 6 and became generally available across GitHub…

Asset managers are shifting focus to long-term returns from Big Tech AI spending, betting that hyperscalers will grow profits faster than they spend, with the biggest tech companies on track to add ro…

Google Research found that frontier AI models, including Gemini-3-Pro and GPT-5, encode 95-98% of brand facts in their neural weights but fail to recall 26-34% of them, indicating the bottleneck is re…

Microsoft's Copilot strategy is facing adoption challenges due to fragmented launches, pricing changes, and technical pivots, according to a developer's analysis. The developer contrasts Microsoft's a…

Chinese hedge funds Wealspring Asset and Shanghai Banxia Investment Management Center are rotating out of Nvidia and US hyperscalers Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta, calling the AI trade a 'supe…

Big Tech's artificial-intelligence capital expenditures are roughly $3 trillion higher than reported when including indirect costs such as cloud-computing infrastructure, energy, and acquisitions, acc…

Microsoft has roughly 2.2 million AI chips installed in its global datacentres, far below the 1.8 million chips it reportedly targeted for the end of 2024 and less than half of what some experts expec…

Linux 7.2 has been released, introducing Cache Aware Scheduling after more than a year of work, along with AMD Zen 6 prep, HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link support, and initial support for 2023 MacBooks. The …

A Guardian investigation found that Microsoft's AI infrastructure claims exceed its actual deployed chip count, with thousands of advanced AI chips sitting in inventory because data center constructio…

A Guardian investigation has found an apparent discrepancy between Microsoft's public statements about its AI capacity and the number of advanced AI chips it has in operation, suggesting the company m…

Microsoft is merging its consumer Copilot app and Microsoft 365 Copilot into a single Microsoft Copilot experience, with mobile and web rollout starting in August and Windows and Mac users expected to…