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Amazon is building a 7.65-gigawatt gas power plant in Pecos County, Texas, to power an AI data center, which would emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, making it the largest pollution sour…

Microsoft announced the general availability of its India South Central cloud region in Hyderabad, Telangana, making it the company's fourth cloud region in India and giving it the country's largest h…

Dogfooding, the practice of using one's own products internally to improve them, is often conflated with performative loyalty and has a limited usefulness for product teams, according to the Nielsen N…

Microsoft's Engineering Thrive initiative, led by Corporate Vice President Tim Bozarth, finds that AI is shifting engineering bottlenecks from code creation to planning and validation, with verificati…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, investor Marc Andreessen, and policymakers argue that generative AI will democratize education by providing every student a personalized tutor, but historian and former te…

Microsoft's Windows boss Pavan Davuluri issued a progress report on the company's commitment to improve Windows quality, acknowledging that the company had been ignoring customer feedback for years. T…

The Semantic Web's failure was not due to flawed ontologies but because maintaining them required human effort that couldn't keep pace with business changes, according to a former Microsoft employee w…

Microsoft has deprecated Teams Live Events, moving the feature to its retirement list, with the company directing users to transition to the newer Teams Town Hall product. The change affects organizat…

A new LeadDev survey finds that 81% of engineering teams give AI-coding agents write access to code repositories, while only 7% keep them read-only, and nearly a quarter reuse human credentials for ag…

Gary Gensler, former SEC and CFTC chair and now MIT professor, warns that the AI investment boom is the defining financial risk of the moment, with $750 billion in annual AI capital expenditure agains…

Microsoft released a dedicated AI Gateway tier of Azure API Management in public preview, organizing control around models, MCP servers, and tools rather than APIs, with support for OpenAI, Anthropic,…

Microsoft has open sourced code-testing-generator, a polyglot unit-test agent in the MIT-licensed dotnet/skills repository that reads a repository to detect language, test framework, conventions, and …

OpenTeams, co-founded by NumPy and SciPy creator Peter Wang, endorsed an open letter from NVIDIA, Meta, and Microsoft arguing that organizations must own their AI rather than rent it from proprietary …

Rubrik Inc.'s Zero Labs threat research team discovered an AI sandbox escape in Microsoft Copilot that could allow attackers to gain command and control of hundreds or thousands of users' files, Share…

The Trump White House is keeping its new AI oversight framework secret, with no public release planned, according to three sources familiar with the discussions. The framework, which invites AI develo…

Microsoft announced the general availability of Fireworks AI on Microsoft Foundry, enabling startups to serve high-performance, low-latency open model inference directly in Azure without building thei…

Anaconda Inc. announced that its main-x channel is now generally available and production-ready, extending the main channel with over 10,000 additional packages, now including CVE data and SBOMs. The …

Microsoft is ending the blank-check era of AI coding assistance, shifting from encouraging broad use of its tools to demanding measurable productivity gains from engineers. The company's new approach …

Figma's latest earnings show the company continues to thrive, reinforcing that SaaS remains viable in the AI era, while Amplitude also reported strong quarterly results. Meta introduced a new coding-f…

Meta Platforms Inc. released Muse Code, an AI coding agent with two price tiers, offering a 75x discount on cached input tokens and a 10x discount on output tokens (20 cents per million) to users who …