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Apple Inc. is in talks with multiple publishers to pay them for access to their content to keep its Siri AI assistant updated on current news, according to The Wall Street Journal. Unlike typical AI c…

Nebius Group N.V. announced an agreement with Vantage Data Centers to deploy NVIDIA-powered AI infrastructure at the Newport facility in Wales, part of a £1.7 billion ($2.26 billion) commitment to est…

Microsoft has quietly closed at least 15 offices and joint ventures in China over the past five years, according to a Reuters report, including its localized LinkedIn, retail stores, an IoT & AI Insid…

Cory Doctorow, tech journalist and author of 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI,' proposed that Canada repeal its 2012 anti-circumvention law Bill C-11 to allow jailbreaking American techno…

Microsoft has formally accepted Horizon 1, the first phase of IREN Limited's AI cloud deployment under a five-year contract worth approximately $9.7 billion, with IREN on track to deliver 50 MW of IT …

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence organization behind ChatGPT, has introduced a higher-priced 'Premium' tier for its ChatGPT Business offering, allowing enterprises to assign higher-capacity access …

Microsoft has shut at least 15 branch offices and joint ventures in China over the past five years and considered exiting the market in 2023, but decided to stay due to profitable business with Chines…

Nebius raised its year-end 2026 contracted-power target to 5GW, up from more than 4GW, and plans to deploy more than 1GW of new AI capacity per year starting in 2027, according to its second-quarter s…

Norway's $2.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund posted a record 1.75 trillion Norwegian crowns ($184.3 billion) profit in the first half of 2026, driven by strong equity markets, particularly Asian techn…

Tech companies including Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are expected to spend roughly $700 billion this year on AI data centers, but the U.S. faces a shortage of skilled trades workers, needing…

Microsoft senior security manager David Weston told Black Hat USA that AI tools are accelerating vulnerability discovery and exploit development, making traditional reactive patching obsolete. Microso…

India's Ministry of Power now projects AI data centers will add 26.3 gigawatts of power demand by fiscal year 2032, nearly double its March estimate of 13.56 GW, raising concerns about grid reliabilit…

Microsoft's Fabric IQ workload introduces Ontology, a feature in public preview that gives data a shared business meaning by defining concepts and relationships independent of physical data storage. T…

Dutch cloud company Nebius will open the Baltics' first AI factory in Tallinn, Estonia, with a 22-megawatt capacity, making it the largest in the region. The first phase is expected to begin operating…

Tech bubbles have recurred for nearly two centuries, from railway mania to the dot-com era, and the current AI boom shows similar traits. A handful of companies like Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, Amazon,…

Nvidia is the only entity in the AI supply chain making guaranteed massive profits, while AI labs face a profitability gap due to exponential compute costs, data exhaustion, and monetization lag, acco…

Anthropic will embed invisible watermarks in all Claude output worldwide starting August 2, 2026, under EU AI Act Article 50 transparency obligations, with non-compliance risking fines up to €15 milli…

The European Union's AI Act transparency rules became enforceable on August 2, with regulators beginning active enforcement on August 12 and 13, requiring all chatbots, deepfakes, and AI-generated con…

Colliers' August 12 analysis links Morgan Stanley's May forecast of about $800 billion in 2026 AI-infrastructure investment by large U.S. technology companies to rising demand for data-center land, po…

Apple is in talks with publishers to secure multiyear deals worth up to nine figures that would give Siri AI improved access to current events and information, according to a report in The Wall Street…