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Artificial intelligence has entered a 'nasty' phase where economic realities constrain ambitions, with Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta collectively expected to spend nearly US$700 billion on capi…

The convergence of Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Microsoft's Language Server Protocol (LSP) is enabling secure, context-aware AI agents that can navigate codebases with precision, while…

Amazon raised its full-year 2026 capital expenditure forecast to approximately $220 billion, up $20 billion from prior guidance of $200 billion, citing elevated memory chip costs. AWS revenue surged 3…

Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft expect to record between $720 billion and $745 billion of capital expenditures in 2026, based on their latest guidance, combining Amazon's approximately $220 billi…

The European Union opened a competition on July 30 to establish up to seven privately operated AI gigafactories, offering up to €10 billion in combined EU and national support and seeking at least €20…

Microsoft's VS Code 1.131, released on July 29, introduces subagent visibility in the Agents window, built-in offline dictation powered by Microsoft's Nemotron model, and Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) sup…

A global sell-off in AI-linked shares, triggered by the Shanghai debut of Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT and reports that China developed its own deep-ultraviolet lithography tools, sent the Kospi down…

The US government is facilitating $26 billion in African data center deals through public-private partnerships, including a $1 billion Microsoft and G42 geothermal-powered AI data center in Kenya and …

Palantir Technologies Inc. is set to report earnings on August 3, with the market focused on whether its growth justifies one of software's richest valuations, after the company posted a 85% year-over…

Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said on CNBC on July 27 that demand for Nvidia's AI chips is outpacing supply by 12 to 1, a figure he has since raised to 15 to 1. The shortage is driven by a bottleneck in TS…

Nvidia, the leading supplier of AI GPUs, faces demand that outpaces supply by a 12-to-1 ratio, according to analyst Dan Ives, boosting its revenue prospects. The company reported $82 billion in Q1 rev…

Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University and former member of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, told Business Insider that AI will not cause massive job…

DeckSpace launched Claude Accounts, a paid utility for macOS and Windows that lets users run multiple isolated copies of the official Claude desktop app, one per account, eliminating the need to log i…

India's Union Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced that the Semicon India programme has attracted 12 semiconductor units with nearly $20 billion in investments, three of which are al…

An engineer argues that security concerns about agentic DevOps are not new, but rather pre-existing identity and access management failures that agents are now exercising at speed. Citing Microsoft's …

AMD's Instinct MI355X GPUs now run Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model at 952 tokens per second per node, undercutting Nvidia's B300 on cost per token despite Nvidia's 1.65x raw through…

Microsoft shepherded an open letter dated July 24th, signed by 235 AI-adjacent companies including NVIDIA, Amazon, Y Combinator, The Linux Foundation, and OpenAI, arguing against U.S. government restr…

Meta Platforms Inc.'s AI strategy is yielding measurable business results, with advertising revenue growing double-digits in recent quarters and Llama model downloads reaching tens of millions on Hugg…

CleanSlate 1.0.2, an open-source coding agent that runs in the IDE, CLI, and SDK, has been released by TheWariend. The agent supports multiple AI providers and includes 59 tools, with builds signed an…

Three AI model releases in late July 2025 — Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, and Microsoft's MAI models — signal that the competitive axis has shifted from capability to cost, with fr…