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Microsoft Corp. says a regression in Outlook Classic for Windows builds 20026.20182 and later can remove Copilot Chat and other Copilot entry points for users with either Copilot Chat Basic or paid Mi…

GitHub added xAI's Grok 4.6 to GitHub Copilot on August 14, making the two-day-old reasoning model available across GitHub's editors, command-line tools, and cloud coding agent for Copilot Pro, Pro+, …

Tim Cook, Apple Inc.'s chief executive officer, was sued in a copyright shareholder derivative lawsuit before his retirement at the end of August, marking the fifth such suit in the United States. The…

Microsoft announced it will merge its consumer Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps into a single unified app, retiring three features—Podcasts, Deep Research, and Group Chat—on Aug. 18. The new app…

OpenAI launched Computer History for ChatGPT on macOS this week, a feature that logs users' interactions with websites and applications to build personalized context, available to Pro, Business, and E…

OpenAI is rolling out a new ChatGPT feature called 'Computer History' that records user activity across websites and apps to create memories and a timeline the chatbot can recall, available for Mac us…

Soros Fund Management increased its Nvidia stake by approximately 407,530 shares in Q1 2026, bringing total holdings to about 1.07 million shares, a 61.2% jump from the prior quarter. The position now…

Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok said the AI ecosystem could support more than $2 trillion in debt, but investment-grade bond markets may absorb less than $1 trillion through 2030 due to concentrat…

Google is activating Gemini AI features in its Classroom app for students starting August 10, 2026, on web and August 17, 2026, on mobile, offering tools for math help, writing feedback, quiz generati…

Anthropic announced plans to watermark text generated by its Claude models in compliance with Article 50 of the EU AI Act, drawing immediate criticism from writers and developers. The company's help p…

Microsoft has demoted its animated AI assistant Mico from the Copilot app, less than a year after its introduction, according to an FAQ about retiring Copilot features. The company is removing Mico fr…

A new paper in NPJ Climate Action finds that AI's enabled emissions from fossil fuel companies are three to 13 times greater than data center emissions, with authors Will and Holly Alpine of the Alpin…

CoreWeave, a former bitcoin miner turned neocloud, reported Q2 2026 revenue of $2.58 billion, up 2.1X year-over-year, with a net loss of $626 million and $6.41 billion in cash, while amassing a $104.2…

The Ultimate AI Learning Bundle, priced at $24.99 (regularly $145), offers lifetime access to five courses covering ChatGPT, AI agents, and Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals certification preparation, a…

Tim O'Reilly, publisher and internet pioneer, argues that big AI labs are misreading what people want by focusing on frontier models, and he advocates for open-source AI that gives users control over …

Bank of America's Global Research team projects the total data center systems market will reach $2.2 trillion by 2030, driven by AI infrastructure, with AI data center systems alone accounting for $1.…

Hyperscalers Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Oracle are set to spend between $660 billion and $690 billion on AI-related capital expenditures in 2026, with cumulative outlays crossing $1 trilli…

Hyperscalers including Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are betting on natural gas to power AI data centers, but energy research firm Noreva forecasts that natural gas prices could triple in some U…

Microsoft will merge its consumer and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps into a unified interface starting Aug. 18, part of a broader push toward a Copilot 'super app' that consolidates features like Copilot …

Microsoft has removed Mico, the anthropomorphic assistant introduced less than a year ago as the face of Copilot Voice, and will repurpose the character for Learn Live, a voice-based study mode. The c…