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OpenAI has filed confidential paperwork for an IPO and plans a separate employee share sale at the same $852 billion valuation it set in March, according to The Information, rather than a completed $7…

An 82-year-old Kentucky farmer, Ida Huddleston, and her family rejected a $26 million offer from an unnamed tech company to buy 534 acres of their 1,200-acre farm in Mason County for a data center pro…

An engineer built JSTJO, an AI interface that displays a visible water counter that depletes with each query, to make the hidden environmental cost of AI tangible. The project highlights that a single…

Microsoft Corp. reduced its calendar year 2026 capital expenditure forecast by roughly $15 billion to approximately $175 billion due to an accounting change that extends the estimated useful life of d…

Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter AI model designed to run locally on a Mac or PC, available now on Hugging Face. The model focuses on agentic AI, capable of coding, tool use, mul…

Microsoft and GitHub released the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java, version 1.0.7-preview.1, a framework-agnostic client library that lets enterprise Java developers drive AI from idiomatic Java code using…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay on August 10, 2026, titled 'The Future is for Everyone,' advocating for open-source AI models to democratize technology, but Reuters Breakingviews…

BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners and the AI Infrastructure Partnership signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with North America's Building Trades Unions on August 10, 2026, to con…

Wall Street's expected 2026 capital spending by major cloud providers has surged 71% to $789 billion, up from $460 billion six months ago, driven by AI infrastructure demand. Goldman Sachs estimates h…

Microsoft Corp. plans to unveil its Maia 300 AI accelerator this fall and is negotiating with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. for capacity to produce more than 300,000 chips in 2027, a sharp in…

Microsoft has ordered over 300,000 of its Maia 300 AI chips from TSMC for 2027, according to The Information, as the company revises its AI chip roadmap amid delays. The latest-generation chip, intern…

Corporate earnings surged in the second quarter, driven by AI investments, with Broadcom, Alphabet, and Microsoft reporting significant revenue boosts from AI infrastructure and enterprise solutions, …

Google's privately owned Nuvem submarine cable, stretching 7,000 kilometers from South Carolina to Portugal, will carry 384 terabits per second when it becomes operational in the second half of 2026, …

Microsoft's Windows 11 Pro license, normally priced at $199, is available for $11.23 through StackSocial with code Aug25, offering features such as BitLocker, Hyper-V, and Copilot integration. The dis…

Microsoft published a guide on August 10, 2026, showing that anyone can build AI agents using plain language in Microsoft 365 Copilot, without coding. The tutorial, authored by Samantha Kubota, arrive…

JPMorgan lifted its 2026 S&P 500 price target to 8,000 from 7,800, citing expectations that AI monetization will accelerate faster than spending. The bank's strategists, led by Dubravko Lakos-Bujas, p…

Apollo Global and Blackstone are partnering with Nvidia on a $500 billion financing package to accelerate AI infrastructure development, the Financial Times reported on August 10, 2026. The deal, amon…

OpenAI launched a $125-per-user-per-month Premium seat tier for ChatGPT Business on August 10, 2026, offering 5x more usage than Standard seats and removing the five-hour usage limit. Standard seats r…

Nvidia has partnered with major Wall Street firms on a $500 billion AI financing deal, according to the Financial Times, to bolster AI infrastructure including data-center buildouts and chip supply ag…

Microsoft's HorizonDB, a cloud-native PostgreSQL alternative unveiled at Ignite in November 2025, remains in public preview with no general availability date, prompting analysts to advise enterprises …