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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…

Universities face imminent rationing of internal access to large language models as AI labs subsidize inference costs that are unsustainable, according to an analysis by Mills and Whittle. The U.S. Ge…

The MSI Claw 8 EX AI Plus, priced at $1,800, is the most powerful and battery-efficient Windows handheld yet, with reliable sleep/wake functionality, but The Verge's Sean Hollister says graphical issu…

Code Metal, a Boston-based software unicorn valued at $1.25 billion, has landed an $80 million Pentagon contract to modernize and AI-enable WarMatrix, the Department of War's wargaming simulation envi…

OpenAI reports that one billion people use ChatGPT monthly, and capital investment in AI has topped $1 trillion since early 2023, yet the author argues the AI boom may not be a bubble. The piece cites…

At least 43 companies, including Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services, have publicly supported Governor Greg Abbott's audit of data centers seeking grid connections, despite the audit's sp…

In interviews with Business Insider, 10 tech workers from companies including Amazon, Google, and Meta shared their biggest career regrets, ranging from not embracing machine learning early to staying…

Amazon has acquired a massive off-grid power plant in Texas that could emit up to 33 million tons of greenhouse gases annually, making it one of the largest sources of emissions in the US. The plant u…

A University of Toronto study of all 409 systems in Canada's federal AI register found that 86% of registered systems were intended for internal operations, with 44% in development and 39% in producti…

Microsoft and LinkedIn's analysis of the future of work and AI reveals that leaders are prioritizing soft skills like emotional intelligence over technical expertise, as AI automates execution. The da…

Cisco Systems Inc. reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $17.3 billion, up 18% year-over-year, and net profit of $3.9 billion, up 51%, driven by AI-related sales to hyperscalers, which are expecte…

Oracle shares surged more than 5% to $153.28 on Wednesday after the company announced a multiyear partnership with Quantinuum to deploy its Helios quantum computer in an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure da…

Microsoft is expanding its Low Latency Profile (LLP) feature to all Windows 11 apps with the August Patch Tuesday update KB5121003, after previously limiting it to the Start menu and native interface.…

AI News Digest for August 14 covers 30 stories, including Anthropic's potential $6 billion acquisition of Decart AI and a possible $2 trillion IPO by October, Apple building a custom LLM for China usi…

Microsoft's August 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed 421 CVEs, including two critical vulnerabilities affecting Visual Studio Code: CVE-2026-70336 enables remote code execution in VS Code, and CVE-2026-70335 a…

AI workloads are reshaping the DRAM market, with High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) becoming essential for training models like GPT-5. Memory manufacturers such as Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron are shifting …

At Black Hat USA 2026, Microsoft's David Weston argued that AI is making vulnerability discovery and exploit development cheaper and faster, urging the industry to adopt memory-safe languages like Rus…

Taiwan's largest DRAM maker Nanya Technology plans to quadruple its 2027 capital expenditure to over NT$200 billion ($6.2 billion) from its 2026 budget of more than NT$50 billion, betting on AI-driven…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman envisions AI as a metered utility, and a growing number of tech firms, including Anthropic and Microsoft's GitHub, are shifting from flat subscription fees to usage-based pricing…

A developer's analysis of GitHub's top security and gateway repositories outlines a layered defense architecture for building AI agents resistant to prompt injection, tool-use exploitation, and supply…