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.
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 …
A new Proton study found that 74% of European business leaders fear a US 'kill switch' cutting off their technology access, and EU lawmakers are echoing the concern. The US government can restrict or …
Red Hat launched asago, an open source project under the Apache 2.0 license, to automate translating AI governance policies into operational controls, generating safety tests and recommending guardrai…
Cloudflare announced its vision for an open Agentic Internet, proposing standards such as Web Bot Auth, PACT, x402, and MCP to enable agents to read, discover, call, and pay for web content. The compa…
Microsoft employee and PPC expert Navah Hopkins advises advertisers to restructure search campaigns around informed buyers and AI-driven intent rather than tightly controlled keyword paths, emphasizin…
Cloudflare released Cloudflare OS, an open-source platform for agents, apps, and work, during its Agent Week, to securely support internal AI adoption. The company reported that a sales team member re…
Microsoft unveiled Web IQ at Build 2026, an agent-focused web search tool built on the Bing search index that provides up-to-date grounding data for LLM-based applications, reducing hallucination risk…
Six months after creating an AI agent to automate his own job, Platformer journalist Zoë Schiffer built a new agent, Claudeasey Newton, based on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, to imitate her boss Casey N…
Agent Plugins 1.0.0, an open, vendor-neutral standard for plugins that extend AI agents, is now publicly available. The format, initiated by Vercel and refined with AWS, Anysphere, GitHub, Microsoft, …
Big Tech's AI revenue surged in Q2 2026, with Azure accelerating to 43% growth, Google Cloud to 82% YoY, and AWS also accelerating, but capital expenditures continue to outpace cash generation, leavin…
An active malware campaign used typosquatted skills, trojanized packages, and remote loaders to target users of AI tools Paperclip and Browser Use, according to security firm MBG Security. The campaig…
Microsoft's Agent Host Protocol, an open-source MIT-licensed specification at version 0.7 with a reference implementation in VS Code, defines how AI agents request human approval for tool calls, but i…
Microsoft's 2020 pledge to be carbon negative by 2030 is slipping out of reach, according to its 2025 Environmental Sustainability Report, with AI energy use a key factor. AI-specific servers consumed…
Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley reports that the AI boom is driving up the cost of consumer electronics, and price hikes could be here to stay. The report highlights that companies like App…
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping aside from day-to-day leadership to become chair of DeepMind and chief scientist at Alphabet, with Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over as senior vice president report…
Microsoft is directing its developers to default to OpenAI's top model as part of an efficiency push, leveraging its intellectual property rights with OpenAI. The directive, reported by CNBC, aims to …
Microsoft is limiting AI token usage by its employees, with each department allocated a pool of tokens, as the company seeks to control rising AI costs. Executive Vice President Jay Parikh communicate…
Microsoft Corp. disclosed that OpenAI accounts for approximately 70% of its AI sales, with OpenAI's revenue reaching about $24.1 billion on an annualized basis in fiscal 2026. The partnership, restruc…
Hitachi, which employs nearly 290,000 globally, has not deployed a single enterprise-wide AI tool, instead adopting a three-bucket strategy covering productivity tools like Microsoft Copilot and Googl…
Microsoft has expanded its Zero Trust for AI strategy with new tools and guidance to secure AI agents and DevSecOps, including an AI-focused Zero Trust Assessment and a new DevSecOps pillar in the Zer…