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Microsoft Copilot and Azure services suffered widespread service degradation on May 29, 2026, with Microsoft logging the incident and warning of increased latency and intermittent connectivity. Hundreds of users reported…
The China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, a state-backed entity known as the "Big Fund," is in talks to lead Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's first external funding round at an approximate $45 billion valuation…
The U.S. Capitol Police Intelligence Services Bureau issued an intelligence note in April warning that public opposition to AI data centers could threaten lawmakers, while simultaneously admitting it is investigating zer…
A developer building WebKernelAI found that traditional website malware scanners fail to detect SEO spam because attackers hide malicious content behind user-agent detection, referrer checks, and conditional JavaScript. …
A developer reduced an AI writing tool's API costs from $487 to $52 per month—an 89% savings—by implementing task-specific minimal prompts, embedding similarity caching, and intelligent model routing. The optimization re…
Sam Partee, Head of Engineering at Arcade.dev, told the MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 that building tools around specific tasks rather than API capabilities dramatically improves agent selection accuracy and reduces …
Databricks will present its work on Spark Declarative Pipelines at SIGMOD 2026, where the paper has received an honorable mention award. The company's Enzyme system introduces innovations in incrementally maintaining mat…
Slalom Consulting advises federal agencies to reconsider Snowflake as a cloud data platform, citing the Trump administration's cost-cutting priorities and new acquisition rules that favor commercial solutions over govern…
Data centers powering the AI boom have become the most polarizing buildings in America, with 70% of people opposing construction in their community and at least 20 proposed projects canceled due to local backlash in earl…
An autonomous AI agent named Anicca, running on a Mac Mini, recovered from seven concurrent cron job failures in 12 minutes by following a specific inspection order rather than immediately re-running the jobs. Five of th…
The open-source AI inference engine llama.cpp has launched an official website at llama.app, providing users with a streamlined installation process via a single curl command. The platform enables local AI model executio…
A developer released a tool that prevents parallel AI coding sessions from overwriting each other's handoff files. The solution uses a PreToolUse hook that enforces ownership markers on handoff files, blocking writes fro…
An unidentified company accidentally spent $500 million on Anthropic's Claude AI in a single month after failing to set usage limits on employee licenses. The massive overspend highlights the growing financial risks ente…
President Donald Trump purchased between $1 million and $5 million in Dell stock on Feb. 10, then publicly urged consumers to buy Dell products on Feb. 19 and again at a White House event in May. Dell subsequently report…
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed an executive order Friday establishing statewide guidelines for large data centers, addressing water use, air quality, energy generation, wildlife protection and transparency. The order follo…
New peer-reviewed research from North Carolina State University and Carnegie Mellon projects that AI and data center growth could drive up U.S. electricity costs by 57% in some regions and 6% to 29% nationally by 2030. D…
Broadcom and fiber optic leader Ciena reported strong earnings, driving a surge in AI-related stock gains. The companies' financial results exceeded analyst expectations, reinforcing investor confidence in the AI infrast…
Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are competing to raise $36 billion to acquire chips from Google for use by Anthropic, the AI startup backed by Google. The deal would provide Anthropic with critical computing powe…
A Zoho Corporation executive reported that artificial intelligence boosts productivity by 25%, while emphasizing that humans remain essential to operations. The executive also suggested that rising infrastructure and com…
Microsoft released Data Formulator 0.7, an open-source AI system designed to simplify enterprise data analytics by combining data connectivity, agent-guided exploration, and visualization refinement in a shared workspace…