OpenAI is boosting its stock-based pay to over $4.4B to fend off Meta's aggressive talent raids, revealing the steep financial cost of the AI talent war.

Alibaba has released WebSailor, a new open-source AI web agent designed for complex reasoning, claiming state-of-the-art performance that closes the gap on proprietary models.

Apple has formally appealed the EU's €500M fine over App Store anti-steering rules, escalating its legal battle against the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

AI cloud provider CoreWeave acquires crypto-miner Core Scientific in a $9B all-stock deal, securing over 2.3 GW of power for its AI data center expansion.

Microsoft has added preview support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to its Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, aiming for universal AI agent interoperability amid rising security concerns.

Huawei's AI lab denies claims from research group HonestAGI that its Pangu model is a copy of Alibaba's Qwen, based on a novel 'fingerprint' analysis.

Microsoft and Nvidia race to $4T, but Microsoft's AI strategy faces huge risks from its OpenAI feud, chip delays, and rising cloud competition. A deep dive.

Microsoft has open-sourced its popular GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code, a key step towards a transparent, community-driven AI editor.

Researchers from prominent universities worldwide are hiding secret commands in their academic papers to trick AI-powered review systems into giving positive feedback. An investigation first reported by Nikkei found at least 17 papers on the arXiv preprint server using...

Microsoft is discontinuing its Publisher desktop publishing software in 2026. We explore the best replacement options, from professional tools like InDesign to free alternatives like Canva.

German firm TNG has released DeepSeek-TNG R1T2 Chimera, an open-source variant twice as fast as its parent model thanks to a new 'Assembly-of-Experts' merge technique.

The Fairphone 6 has earned a perfect 10/10 repairability score from iFixit. It's now in the US via Murena, but only works on T-Mobile's network.

An Xbox manager has ignited a firestorm of criticism after advising recently laid-off Microsoft employees to seek emotional and career support from AI chatbots. Matt Turnbull, an Executive Producer at Xbox, made the suggestion in a now-deleted LinkedIn post,...

A new study from resarchers of Amazon, Stanford, MIT, and others reveals major flaws in AI agent benchmarks, finding they can misestimate performance by up to 100%.

A judge forces OpenAI to retain all ChatGPT user logs for the NYT lawsuit, overriding user deletions and sparking a major privacy debate over AI data.

A coalition of independent publishers has filed an EU antitrust complaint against Google, alleging its AI Overviews feature abuses market dominance and harms media.

The European Commission has rejected a call from over 45 tech companies to delay the EU AI Act, confirming the original timeline for the landmark regulation.

An engineer's scheme to work four remote jobs at once has exposed the 'overemployed' subculture, raising critical questions about tech work ethics and trust.