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Philadelphia police are monitoring social media posts critical of artificial intelligence data centers, according to a confidential law enforcement bulletin obtained by The Intercept. The December 2024 report from the De…
Microsoft launched its Build 2026 conference with a keynote focused on AI, unveiling new Surface hardware, an always-on assistant called Scout, and seven new in-house AI models. The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, equipped wi…
The European Union’s €20 billion plan to build five AI gigafactories is faltering due to repeated delays and funding gaps, with the bidding process pushed to July and only two of the five centres eligible for subsidies b…
Mercor CEO Brendan Foody said his startup now spends more on AI tokens for internal agents than on employee salaries, marking a shift in corporate spending priorities. The $10 billion company, which helps train AI models…
Microsoft launched Command Line, a new blog focused on how the company builds and operates AI systems, coinciding with Build 2026 in San Francisco. The blog introduces 10 new rules for software development in the agentic…
Microsoft has built an optimization loop for AI agents that automates the process of fixing quality failures without causing regressions, addressing a key operational challenge teams face when running multiple production…
Microsoft introduced Web IQ, a new grounding system for AI agents, at its Build conference, claiming sub-165ms P95 latency and industry-leading quality for connecting AI models to fresh, authoritative information. The sy…
NVIDIA and Microsoft announced an expanded partnership at Microsoft Build to deliver a unified stack for agentic AI deployment across Windows devices, Azure cloud, and local systems. The collaboration includes new hardwa…
Microsoft and NVIDIA announced new tools at NVIDIA GTC Taipei and Microsoft Build 2026 to enable developers to build personal AI agents on Windows PCs, including turnkey agent sandboxing via Microsoft eXecution Container…
Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Cobalt 200, its second-generation custom Arm silicon for cloud-native and agentic AI workloads, at Build 2026. Ubuntu and Ubuntu Pro are available on Cobalt 200 from the start of …
Perplexity AI announced a platform at Computex that dynamically routes AI inference between PCs and cloud servers in real time, acting as an "air-traffic controller" for AI tasks. The chip-agnostic system targets the cos…
The rapid expansion of AI is exposing gaps in traditional quality frameworks like ISO 9001 for data center infrastructure, according to a recent TIA and Google webinar. Industry leaders are developing DCE 9000, a dedicat…
Microsoft unveiled Project Solara at Build 2026, a chip-to-cloud platform and operating system for devices that run AI agents instead of traditional apps. The company is piloting two concept devices—a wearable badge and …
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella defended the company's AI data center expansion plans during a keynote address Tuesday, addressing community backlash over rising power costs, environmental concerns, and job displacement fear…
Americans are increasingly opposing AI data center construction in their communities, with 71% of respondents in a Gallup poll rejecting such facilities and communities blocking or delaying $64 billion worth of projects …
Mayo Clinic and Microsoft announced a strategic collaboration to develop a frontier AI model for healthcare, combining Mayo Clinic’s clinical expertise and de-identified patient data with Microsoft’s AI and cloud capabil…
Snowflake unveiled Horizon Context, a new set of semantic and metadata-management capabilities now in preview, at its annual Snowflake Summit conference on Tuesday. The offering, part of the Horizon Catalog governance su…
Perplexity announced a new hybrid AI feature for its Perplexity Computer platform that will automatically split tasks between local on-device models and cloud-based frontier models. The system will handle sensitive data …
AMD's MI300X accelerator, with 192GB of HBM3 memory and roughly half the list price of NVIDIA's H100, remains underutilized due to software incompatibilities. As of early May 2026, running vLLM with DeepSeek-V4-Flash on …
Microsoft announced Project Solara, a platform for AI agents, at Build 2026, demonstrating it on a smart display and a smart key badge reference device. The platform, built on a fork of Android, is designed to replace tr…