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Axios reports that Mayo Clinic President and CEO Dr. Gianrico Farrugia is racing to show the federal government and other hospitals how to replicate the Mayo Clinic's model, which leverages AI and 500…

State legislators across the U.S. are enacting or considering laws to force data center operators to share the financial burden of their energy consumption, with Virginia's Data Center Electricity Con…

A new controlled study from the LittleLearner project, led by researchers including Ryan Cotterell of ETH Zürich and Wieland Brendel of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, found that pos…

Microsoft Vice President for Southern Europe Charles Calestroupat said skills, not technology, will determine which countries lead the region's AI future, citing Greece's potential as an innovation hu…

Malaysia has approved roughly RM184.7 billion ($42 billion) in data center investments since 2021, making it a key AI infrastructure hub, with Johor leading Southeast Asia in data center growth. Googl…

Agent Plugins 1.0, a shared packaging format for AI agent skills and MCP servers, launched on August 6, 2026, backed by Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel, and Google, with support from ChatGPT…

Chris Bergeron launched username.md, a $9 service that provides users with a decentralized identifier (DID) as a canonical web address for AI agents, aiming to give individuals control over their digi…

Microsoft will merge its consumer Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot into a single app, retiring Podcasts, Deep Research, and Group Chat on August 18. The Verge reports the consolidation aims to simpli…

Retail investors accumulated $27 billion in net purchases of Nvidia stock over the past year, the most among the Magnificent 7, according to Vanda Research. Nvidia's weight in typical retail portfolio…

Codeberg e.V., a German nonprofit that hosts open-source software, voted to ban projects related to cryptocurrency and those heavily tied to large language models (LLMs), including projects created or…

Lettria, a knowledge graph vendor and AWS Partner, benchmarked graph-structured RAG against vector-only retrieval across four domain corpora and reported correctness improving from roughly 50% to abov…

Hyperscalers such as Microsoft and Amazon are becoming nuclear counterparties, signing deals to revive dormant reactors or fund new small modular reactors, because LLM agents and GPU clusters require …

A new analysis argues that AI spending only makes sense if customers buy roughly $1.2 trillion of tokens a year, rising to $2.5 trillion by 2031, and concludes the buyer is payroll, with no return on …

A Microsoft MVP based in Japan has redesigned his AI agent workflow to reduce human entry points to just two tools: Todoist for tasks and Discord for conversation. By fixing the human footprint first,…

NVIDIA has moved its 800-VDC power architecture from concept to production, with the first MGX-compatible 800-VDC power rack scheduled for Q3 2026, delivering high-voltage DC to AI compute racks while…

Elon Musk admitted on July 9 that he was 'clearly wrong' about Anthropic, calling the AI company the 'obvious leader in AI' and praising its Mythos and Fable models, a reversal that validates Amazon's…

Microsoft's Visual Studio 2026 18.9, released August 11, adds Copilot thinking effort controls and Ollama local model support, addressing credit spend from usage-based billing. Thinking effort lets us…

OpenAI's audited financials, reported by the Financial Times, show 2025 spending of roughly $34 billion against $13 billion in revenue, with a net loss of $38.5 billion including a one-time restructur…

Nvidia has reduced its planned financial guarantee for an OpenAI data center from $250 billion to under $120 billion, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing people familiar with the matter. …

Microsoft pushed MAI-Code-1.1-Flash into GitHub Copilot on August 11, 2026, with a 73% price cut, native vision support, and benchmark gains, and will retire MAI-Code-1-Flash from all Copilot surfaces…