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Microsoft is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Through Azure cloud, the Copilot AI family, and partnerships with frontier model labs, Microsoft is one of the world's largest providers of enterprise AI infrastruc...
Microsoft Rebuilds Copilot Around Persistent Agents With Home, Code And Autopilot — Sep 27, 2026 — Microsoft is rebuilding Copilot around three persistent agent experiences — Home, Code and Autopilot — backed by a new Copilot Managed Runtime, a Copi...Discovered Materials Raises $9M Seed To Aim AI Agent Swarms At Cooler AI Chips — Sep 26, 2026 — YC-backed Discovered Materials pulled in $9M led by Lightspeed India to run swarms of AI research agents 24/7 in search of cooler substrate materials...Microsoft Pledges $10B For Gulf AI And Cloud Buildout Through 2030 — Sep 25, 2026 — Microsoft is committing more than $10 billion by 2030 across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait to expand cloud regions, subsea links and AI infr...Tesla Opens Sparks Semi Factory, Names PepsiCo, DHL, Einride Customers — Sep 24, 2026 — Tesla launched its dedicated Sparks, Nevada Semi factory with 11 customer-branded trucks, naming PepsiCo, DHL, Einride, IMC Logistics and a 2,500-unit...Sanders And Casar Propose Permanent Superintelligence Ban, Cabinet-Level AI Agency — Sep 24, 2026 — Sanders and Casar's twin bills would ban superintelligence, pause massive training runs and create a cabinet-level Department of AI.Verizon Puts $70M Behind AI Skills For America With Six Big-Tech Curricula — Sep 24, 2026 — Verizon's $70M AI Skills for America aggregates IBM, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI and Coursera coursework with Goodwill, LISC and NACCE coachi...Microsoft Opens Maryland Quantum Center, Hands DARPA Live Majorana 2 Access — Sep 24, 2026 — The 15,000-square-foot College Park facility gives DARPA researchers direct on-site control of Microsoft's topological quantum processor for the first...Microsoft Open-Sources TauGrid, A Kubernetes Stack For GPU AI Workloads — Sep 21, 2026 — Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service team has open-sourced TauGrid — an MIT-licensed, cloud-native stack that folds Kueue, KubeRay and GPU health moni...Amazon Locks In Up To $8B Generac Backup Power Deal, Takes Warrant Stake — Sep 19, 2026 — Amazon has signed a multi-year deal worth up to $8 billion for Generac backup power generators to firm up its AI data center fleet, taking warrants on...Mantic Raises $25M Seed To Scale Superhuman AI Forecasting — Sep 19, 2026 — London-based Mantic banks a $25M seed led by Radical Ventures with M12, Balderton and Thinking Machines Lab to scale a judgmental forecasting AI that...Perplexity Portable Computer Lands on Windows PCs With NVIDIA RTX — Sep 16, 2026 — Perplexity's agentic "Portable Computer" is now available on Windows PCs powered by NVIDIA RTX and RTX PRO GPUs, running a locally optimised Qwen 3.8...Salesforce Unveils Trusted Enterprise AI Harness for Multi-Agent Workplace — Sep 11, 2026 — Salesforce has previewed a Trusted Enterprise AI Harness with six trusted capabilities and a new AI Control Plane, positioning itself as the governanc...Microsoft Plans 38 Gigawatts of Data Centers by 2032 in Massive AI Buildout — Sep 11, 2026 — Microsoft is preparing to more than triple its data-center footprint to 38 gigawatts by 2032, up from about 12 GW today, blending owned Fairwater camp...Microsoft And HUMAIN Expand Alliance At LEAP 2026 With AI Bundle And PC — Sep 6, 2026 — The deal packages HUMAIN's Arabic-first agent with Microsoft 365 Copilot and launches a co-branded HUMAIN AI PC targeting one million MEA enterprise u...Gimlet Labs Raises $300M At $3B Valuation To Scale Multi-Silicon AI Inference — Sep 4, 2026 — Andreessen-backed Gimlet Labs raised $300 million at a $3 billion valuation just six months after its $80M Series A, with new backers Arm and Microsof...OpenEvidence Rolls Out New Family Of Clinical AI Models For 915,000 Clinicians — Sep 4, 2026 — OpenEvidence launched a new family of medical AI models on September 3, aimed at building specialty-model medical super-intelligence for 915,000-plus...OpenAI, Anthropic, Google And 100+ Firms Sign Rogue-AI Cyber Defence Pact — Sep 1, 2026 — More than 100 tech, cyber and finance firms — led by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike and Okta — signed an open letter on August 27 u...Google's A2A Protocol Joins Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation — Aug 30, 2026 — Google's Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol has formally joined the Linux Foundation-hosted Agentic AI Foundation, sitting alongside Anthropic's Model Context...OpenAI, Anthropic Lead 100+ Companies In Warning On AI Cyberattacks — Aug 29, 2026 — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and more than 100 other companies have signed a joint open letter urging a collective public-private response to...NVIDIA Weighs Fresh Perplexity Investment at $30B+ Valuation — Aug 29, 2026 — The Information reports NVIDIA is discussing a new equity check into Perplexity AI at a valuation topping $30 billion, more than 50% above the answer...