Microsoft Build 2026: The 7 biggest announcements
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Microsoft Build 2026: The 7 biggest announcements

Microsoft held its Build 2026 conference with CEO Satya Nadella announcing multiple AI-related products, including a...

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Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in 4 months
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Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in 4 months

Uber has implemented spending caps on employee AI tool usage after the company exhausted its AI budget in just four...

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New Microsoft tool lets devs spin up AI behavior tests using text descriptions
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New Microsoft tool lets devs spin up AI behavior tests using text descriptions

Microsoft released Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing, an open source framework that...

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OpenAI vs. Anthropic vs. Google: But the Model Isn't the Point
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OpenAI vs. Anthropic vs. Google: But the Model Isn't the Point

Enterprise customers are prioritizing practical AI solutions and business outcomes over specific AI model providers or...

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OpenAI expands Codex with role-specific plugins to build a general-purpose app for non-developers
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OpenAI expands Codex with role-specific plugins to build a general-purpose app for non-developers

OpenAI is expanding its Codex tool with role-specific plugins for data analysis, sales, and investment banking to serve...

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Trump signs executive order to review AI models before they’re released
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Trump signs executive order to review AI models before they’re released

President Trump signed an executive order establishing a voluntary framework requiring AI companies to submit frontier...

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Martin Scorsese becomes the latest — and most unlikely — Hollywood voice for AI
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Martin Scorsese becomes the latest — and most unlikely — Hollywood voice for AI

Martin Scorsese has adopted AI technology for storyboarding purposes, marking an unexpected embrace of the technology...

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Microsoft’s first advanced reasoning AI is here
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Microsoft’s first advanced reasoning AI is here

Microsoft announced MAI-Thinking-1, its new flagship in-house AI model trained from scratch on clean data without...

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Anthropic IPO filing marks AI maturing into enterprise utility
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Anthropic IPO filing marks AI maturing into enterprise utility

Anthropic's IPO filing signals that generative AI is transitioning from a research-focused venture phase into a mature...

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Microsoft launches Scout, an OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant
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Microsoft launches Scout, an OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant

Microsoft has launched Scout, a new AI assistant designed to integrate OpenClaw-inspired capabilities into the...

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Microsoft offers devs a better way to control AI agent behavior
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Microsoft offers devs a better way to control AI agent behavior

Microsoft has introduced a specification that allows developer, compliance, and security teams to define policies for...

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Meet Microsoft Scout, Your AI Coworker That Never Logs Off
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Meet Microsoft Scout, Your AI Coworker That Never Logs Off

Microsoft has introduced Scout, an AI agent that integrates into Teams to automate routine office tasks. The agent...

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Google rolls out fake call detection to protect against AI deepfake impersonation scams
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Google rolls out fake call detection to protect against AI deepfake impersonation scams

Google is deploying fake call detection technology to combat AI-powered deepfake scams where fraudsters spoof trusted...

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Microsoft Scout is a new AI personal assistant built on OpenClaw
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Microsoft Scout is a new AI personal assistant built on OpenClaw

Microsoft has launched Scout, a new AI personal assistant built on OpenClaw that integrates with Microsoft 365 apps...

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Google’s Phone app will tell you if a scammer is impersonating one of your contacts
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Google’s Phone app will tell you if a scammer is impersonating one of your contacts

Google is launching a new feature in its Phone app that detects and flags calls from scammers impersonating your...

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TinyFish Launches BigSet: An Open-Source Multi-Agent System That Builds Structured Live Datasets from Plain-English Descriptions
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TinyFish Launches BigSet: An Open-Source Multi-Agent System That Builds Structured Live Datasets from Plain-English Descriptions

TinyFish has launched BigSet, an open-source multi-agent system that converts plain-English dataset descriptions into...

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Amazon faces class action lawsuit over Ring facial recognition feature
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Amazon faces class action lawsuit over Ring facial recognition feature

Amazon faces a class action lawsuit over its Ring Familiar Faces feature, which allegedly stores images of passersby...

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Microsoft’s Project Solara is an OS for AI agent gadgets
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Microsoft’s Project Solara is an OS for AI agent gadgets

Microsoft announced Project Solara, a new operating system built on Android designed specifically for AI agent-powered...

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Microsoft created the mini Surface dev box that Qualcomm couldn’t
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Microsoft created the mini Surface dev box that Qualcomm couldn’t

Microsoft announced the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a miniature PC powered by Nvidia's Arm-based RTX Spark chips...

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