Microsoft is a global technology corporation that has made major AI investments through a multi-billion dollar partnership with OpenAI. It integrates AI across Bing, Azure, GitHub Copilot, and Microsoft 365.
J.P. Morgan raised its 2026 year-end S&P 500 target to 8,000 from 7,800, citing robust corporate earnings and evidence that AI investments are driving revenue growth at Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. …
OpenAI has acquired AI presentation startup NextSlide, its 17th acquisition in three years, with the deal completed earlier in 2026 and disclosed on August 8. The entire NextSlide team joins ChatGPT's…
Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok warned that AI industry profits are currently funded by investors rather than earned from customers, with the most profitable segment—silicon and equipment—earning …
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported July sales rose about 45% year over year, its strongest monthly growth in a year, signaling that AI infrastructure spending is translating into real rev…
OpenAI's S-1 filing, heading to SEC EDGAR this month, targets a September Nasdaq listing at a $1 trillion-plus valuation, revealing $25 billion in annualized revenue, a $14 billion annual operating lo…
A Forbes report by Bernard Marr highlights eight companies, including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, that are achieving measurable returns on AI investment, while most firms struggle to convert AI spe…
On August 6, OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, Cursor, and Vercel shipped Agent Plugins 1.0.0, an open standard for packaging AI agent extensions that work across ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Kiro, VS Co…
A developer's hands-on testing of MCP servers for Claude Code and Cursor in 2026 found that most fail to meet criteria of working with the July 28 spec update, which made the protocol stateless and no…
TIME magazine is reportedly serving ads that only AI bots can see, a practice that creates two versions of web pages—one for humans and one for AI crawlers. The trend, highlighted alongside Microsoft'…
OpenAI has announced a $1.5 billion data centre campus in Effingham County, Georgia, to house compute infrastructure for training and serving AI models. The project is part of a broader trend of major…
Microsoft's open-source MarkItDown Python library, with over 165k GitHub stars and 12 million monthly downloads, converts web pages, PDFs, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and other formats into Ma…
Microsoft's .NET Aspire 9.2 now integrates with Azure Container Apps via the 'azd up' command, enabling developers to deploy distributed applications, including AI agents, from a single AppHost file. …
Microsoft raised Xbox Series X prices to $799.99 in the United States, up from $649.99, effective August 1, citing memory and storage costs that have more than doubled and are expected to double again…
Microsoft confirmed to Windows Latest that it accidentally installed its AI-powered OneDrive Photos app on Windows 11 PCs more broadly than intended, affecting enterprise machines where the app does n…
A university project called AstroFlow demonstrates that augmented reality can be built with minimal infrastructure using the WebXR Device API, collapsing distribution to a browser link and avoiding ap…
Oleh Polishchuk, a senior subject matter expert in AI training and evaluation, has issued a manifesto criticizing the AI industry's focus on scaling parameters and massive infrastructure spending, whi…
GitHub Copilot, Microsoft's AI-powered coding assistant, is used by over 77,000 organizations and 20 million users, with a new study analyzing its production-scale usage. The research, conducted by Gi…
Zencoder, an agentic AI coding platform built by For Good AI Inc. and led by founder and CEO Andrew Filev, plans, writes, tests, and reviews code across IDEs, CLI, and web using multiple LLMs includin…
Codeberg e.V., a German nonprofit open-source hosting platform, voted to ban projects related to cryptocurrency and those heavily tied to large language models (LLMs), including projects created or ma…
Tech layoffs hit record highs in June 2026, with 63,000 workers losing jobs, pushing the information sector's layoff rate to 2.3%, more than double since November 2025 and surpassing the 2008 financia…