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Nscale plans $3 billion IPO valuing company at $35 billion
British AI‑infrastructure startup Nscale filed to list on the NYSE, seeking to raise $3 billion and target a $35 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg and the Financial Times. The filing shows the firm has secured…
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Oppenheimer and Stifel raise Microsoft price targets to $570 and $575 citing Azure and Copilot growth
Oppenheimer and Stifel both raised their price targets for Microsoft stock, with Oppenheimer increasing its target to $570 from $515 and Stifel raising its target to $575 from $530. Both firms cited sustained…
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Microsoft adds AI video upscaling to Clipchamp on Windows 11
Microsoft introduced Video Super Resolution, an AI‑powered upscaling feature for the Clipchamp Windows app on September 21, 2026. The tool converts low‑resolution clips to 1080p or 4K by processing them locally on the…
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Microsoft exec calls AI the largest theft of labor, lawsuit documents reveal
Mother Jones cites internal Microsoft and OpenAI documents uncovered in a lawsuit that allege AI companies have built their products by scraping and repurposing creators’ work without consent. Microsoft’s director of…
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AWS chief claims 7x partner revenue multiplier in AI era
Matt Wood, AWS’s chief AI and technology officer, argues that Amazon Web Services offers the strongest value proposition for channel partners in the AI era compared to Microsoft and Google. In an interview with CRN,…
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OpenAI makes ChatGPT for Word generally available and expands plugin accounts
On September 17 OpenAI announced that ChatGPT for Word is generally available. The feature lives in the Microsoft Word sidebar and lets users draft text, summarize documents, rewrite sections and adjust headings and…
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Microsoft dismantles AI-powered phishing service EvilTokens linked to 12,000 compromised inboxes
Microsoft, with partners including Health-ISAC, SpyCloud, Cloudflare, Coinbase, OpenAI, Railway, The Shadowserver Foundation, and TRM Labs, dismantled the EvilTokens phishing-as-a-service platform that compromised over…
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Amazon, Microsoft, Figma and others offer AI discounts to retain customers
The Information reported that Amazon, Microsoft, Figma, Workday, Adobe and HubSpot are rolling out discounts on their AI products in an effort to keep enterprise customers from shifting to Anthropic or OpenAI. The…
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Bill Gates says comparing AI to past tech revolutions can be misleading
Bill Gates told CBS Mornings that President Donald Trump's dismissal of AI danger reflects a broader societal failure to grasp how quickly AI could transform jobs, security and daily life. He said many people react to…
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Microsoft announces AI in education policy with contract protection guidelines
On September 16, Microsoft released a policy that puts learner thinking and teacher judgment at the core of AI use in schools while adding safety and privacy clauses that districts can embed in contracts. The policy…
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Google finds AI malware that rewrites code to evade detection
Google's Threat Intelligence Group identified experimental malware called PROMPTFLUX, which uses Gemini to rewrite its own code hourly to avoid signature-based detection. Although PROMPTFLUX was still in development…
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GitLab adds Microsoft Foundry support to Duo self-hosted AI
GitLab announced an expansion of its Duo Self-Hosted offering to work with models deployed through Microsoft Foundry. The integration supports model families from OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama and Mistral,…
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commits $400 million to AI tools for low‑income schools
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $400 million education pledge on September 14, part of a broader $1 billion two‑year commitment to expand equitable AI access across healthcare, agriculture and digital…
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Secure Horizons' ex-Microsoft security chief warns apathy could derail insurance AI
Former Microsoft security advisor Sarah Armstrong‑Smith, now executive director at Secure Horizons, opened the Dive In Festival 2026 warning that rapid AI adoption in insurance could be undermined by employee…
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GotoAI releases Kari desktop AI agent for Claude and ChatGPT subscriptions
GotoAI Inc. announced the official release of Kari, a desktop AI agent that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. The tool lets users sign in with their existing Anthropic Claude Pro/Max plans or OpenAI ChatGPT…
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Microsoft’s Azure revenue jumps 43% in Q4, Copilot hits 30M users
Microsoft reported Azure’s revenue grew 43% year-over-year in its fiscal fourth quarter, ending June 30, surpassing $100 billion annually. The Intelligent Cloud division—home to Azure—earned $15.95 billion in operating…
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OpenAI matches Anthropic's embedded evaluator pledge; both cite OAI-HF incident
On September 12, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" committing his company to give third-party evaluators permanent, employee-level access to systems, workspaces, and…
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Aliando highlights global growth and Microsoft partnership after 2025 merger
Aliando, a global Microsoft partner formed in July 2025 through the merger of Henson Group and myCloudDoor, says it now serves customers in more than 32 countries. The company offers end‑to‑end solutions across Cloud &…
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Local opposition blocked $68 billion in U.S. data center projects in Q2 2026, report says
Local opposition delayed or blocked about $68 billion worth of data‑center projects between April and June 2026, according to a Bloomberg report that cites research from Data Center Watch. The group notes that 30 state…
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Ireland climbs to third globally and first in Europe for AI adoption
Microsoft’s Global AI Diffusion Report shows Ireland’s AI user share rose to 49.9% in the second quarter, up from 48.4% in the first quarter, moving the country to third place worldwide and first in Europe. The UAE…
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Google Lighthouse 13.5 adds audit for AI agent resource discovery
Google’s Lighthouse 13.5 release adds an experimental audit for Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), a proposed specification that tells AI agents how to locate an organization’s tools and services. The audit checks a…
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Opinion: M5 Ultra Mac Studio enables fast local AI agents, reviewer says
The reviewer tested Apple’s M5 Ultra Mac Studio with 256 GB of unified RAM, comparing it to the previous M3 Ultra (512 GB) and a desktop PC built around an RTX 5090 GPU. Using local models such as Qwen3.8‑Flash‑Next,…
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Krishna C. Mukherjee reflects on early AI assistants and lessons for today’s copilots
Krishna C. Mukherjee, who joined Microsoft in 1988, helped create the proofing tools, AutoCorrect, AutoFormat, and the Office Assistant that later became known as “Clippy.” In his new book The Microsoft AI Insider’s…
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BigID launches AgentIQ agentic interface for data security
BigID announced AgentIQ, an agentic automation interface that lets customers run data security and compliance programs from a prompt or an AI agent. The interface can be used inside BigID or directly from Claude,…
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Microsoft reports $24.1 billion in revenue from OpenAI in fiscal 2026
Microsoft disclosed in its fiscal 2026 annual report that it booked $24.1 billion of revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, with OpenAI owing Microsoft $6.0 billion as of June 30, 2026. This represented…
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Unsealed filing quotes Microsoft, OpenAI executives calling AI training 'theft' and 'substitutive' for news
A 92-page plaintiffs' brief unsealed Thursday in the consolidated OpenAI copyright litigation before Judge Sidney H. Stein quotes internal Microsoft and OpenAI communications acknowledging that their AI products…
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Redburn lifts Microsoft price target to $440 from $400
Redburn raised its price target on Microsoft Corp to $440, up from $400, while maintaining a Neutral rating, citing higher valuation multiples after a broader SaaS re‑rating. The firm said the update follows…
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Microsoft and Amazon face heightened model‑risk scrutiny after Hugging Face incident
Microsoft reported fiscal Q4 2026 revenue of $90.01 billion, with Azure revenue growing 43% and full‑year Azure surpassing $100 billion. Microsoft 365 Copilot reached 30 million paid seats and commercial RPO rose to…
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Opinion: origins of ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude names explained
The author of the Showa AI‑70 weekly challenge record examined why three AI products—ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude—carry the names they do. OpenAI’s ChatGPT combines the word “Chat” with the acronym GPT (Generative…
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Daiki uses Claude Code to build Word templates via AI mapping
Daiki, a developer with 20 years of PowerPoint experience but limited Word knowledge, used Claude Code to create a Word template (DOTX) in September 2026. Unlike his previous approach with PowerPoint, where he provided…
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Microsoft draft code of conduct says AI must not resist being stopped
Microsoft's AI division released the first draft of its "AI Code of Conduct" on September 14, seeking feedback on the document. The guidelines establish the premise that "Humans are more important than AI" and…
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Anthropic confirms Claude text watermarking after EU AI Act requirement
On August 11, 2026 Anthropic announced that Claude models launched on or after August 2, 2026 will embed machine‑readable watermarks at the token level. The change is mandatory, reflecting Article 50 of the EU AI Act,…
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OpenAI and Microsoft allegedly knew AI training used copyrighted books
Newly unsealed court filings in the Authors Guild lawsuit reveal internal comments suggesting OpenAI and Microsoft were aware that their models were trained on copyrighted material. An August 2019 OpenAI note bluntly…
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Google to invest at least €13 billion in Finnish AI data centers and nuclear power
Reuters reported on September 9, 2026 that Alphabet’s Google will spend at least €13 billion (about $15.1 billion) on AI infrastructure in Finland during 2027‑2028. The plan covers three new data‑center sites and…
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Microsoft launches fourth India cloud region in Hyderabad with zero-water cooling
Microsoft has launched its fourth cloud region in India, located in Hyderabad, as announced by Microsoft India President Puneet Chandok at the AI Infrastructure Summit. The India South Central region features three…
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GraphRAG guide outlines six architectural patterns for enterprise retrieval
The article explains how Retrieval‑Augmented Generation can be enhanced by integrating Knowledge Graphs, a shift called GraphRAG. It first outlines the four core pipeline components—LLM‑driven information extraction,…
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Congressional Black Caucus backs AI regulation bill, says 60 of 62 members support
At the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference, Vice Chair Rep. Troy Carter said at least 60 of the 62 caucus members would vote for a bill that would create guardrails and human‑safety guidelines for…
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Trump tech advisor says AI firms can stop unsafe models without government order
Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, told Fox News Sunday that AI companies can simply halt development of models they deem unsafe, without waiting for government…
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Opinion: AI slowdown calls may be justified while bubble collapse could loom
The Guardian AI column argues that concerns over uncontrolled AI are eclipsed by the risk of a financial collapse in the sector. It notes that the hyperscalers building the datacentres – Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta…
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Meta’s AI agent Muse gains traction as Wall Street bets on new revenue stream
Meta launched its AI agent Muse on September 8, 2026, with a free tier and paid subscriptions at $20 and $100 per month. The app has seen strong early adoption, with 2.8 million downloads in the first 12 days according…
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Microsoft and University of Illinois launch StudentSim to train AI tutors
A joint effort by Microsoft and the University of Illinois introduced StudentSim, a system that creates digital replicas of individual learners from very limited data. The replicas mimic each student’s answers and…
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Microsoft AI chief says China isn’t excuse to forego regulation
Microsoft’s artificial‑intelligence head Mustafa Suleyman told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS that concerns over China’s AI progress should not be used to avoid putting safety guardrails on the technology. He said the…
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Microsoft ports Copilot runtime to Rust using AI agents at $120K cost
Microsoft rewrote the Copilot runtime, which powers GitHub Copilot across VS Code, Office apps and other services, from TypeScript to Rust using AI agents. The migration consumed about $120,000 in AI token usage and…
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Analysts say global stocks could crash amid AI bubble and Middle East conflict
Investors are uneasy as the US Treasury 10‑year yield rose above 5%, a level some view as a possible market‑meltdown trigger. The S&P 500 sits about 3% below its all‑time high and the CAPE ratio for the index has…
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Redditor creates free Veloop Chrome extension using Claude Code
A Reddit user known as “MoistTonight3997” released a free Chrome extension called Veloop that lets users appear attentive on video calls without staying in front of the camera. The tool records a short clip of the user…
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Opinion: Stock compensation keeps Big‑Tech staff despite Layoffs and AI boom
Big‑tech firms have relied on stock compensation to retain talent, but recent layoffs and the AI boom are reshaping that incentive. Since the end of 2022, shares of Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft have at…
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Opinion: big tech AI spending concentrates growth‑ETF holdings
The piece argues that a growth ETF’s headline number of holdings can mask heavy concentration in a handful of AI‑focused tech giants. It points out that the Schwab U.S. Large‑Cap Growth ETF (SCHG) holds 197 stocks, yet…
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Opinion: using ChatGPT for invoice tallies often yields close but inaccurate results
A business owner tried feeding monthly invoice tallies into ChatGPT and got numbers that were close but did not match the expected totals. The mismatch stemmed from missing explicit conditions in the prompt – the AI…
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Microsoft launches AI Max for Search pilot on Bing and Copilot
Microsoft opened its AI ad‑optimization feature, AI Max for Search, to advertisers in May 2026. The pilot runs on Bing, Copilot Search and Copilot Answers and can reach 1.2 billion users each month across the Microsoft…
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Microsoft Learn adds a 32-minute course on forecasting AI agent ROI
Microsoft Learn has introduced a training module titled "Forecast the return on investment (ROI) of AI agents" to help teams evaluate the financial impact of deploying automated agents. The module covers frameworks…
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Microsoft offers Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $29.97 through Sept 20
Microsoft is discounting Visual Studio Professional 2026 to $29.97, down from its regular $499.99 price, with the offer running until September 20. The 64‑bit IDE supports large solutions, .NET and C++ development, and…
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to attend White House dinner for Xi Jinping
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will attend a White House state dinner honoring Chinese President Xi Jinping on September 24, 2026. The event marks Xi's first state visit to the White House since 2015. Other tech…
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Opinion: AI agents boost solo hackathon productivity, author prefers GPT-6 Astra
The author spent a week at a Microsoft‑hosted hackathon, working alone on a home‑appliance control app that talks to the Nature Remo Cloud API. Using the GitHub Copilot CLI, the author kept the AI assistant in the…
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Vals raises $40 million series a to expand AI benchmarking
Vals, a startup founded in 2024 to improve AI model evaluation, says current benchmarks are outdated and often serve more as PR tools than real performance measures. Co‑founder Rayan Krishnan, 25, describes the…
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Opinion: AI-driven vulnerability discovery surges as tools expose thousands of flaws
AI‑enhanced bug hunting is already reshaping cybersecurity, according to researchers. Microsoft reported issuing patches for 974 CVEs in September, a record for a single month. Oracle shipped 1,448 patches in July, up…
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urges wider AI access across India
Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chairman and chief executive, called on technology leaders to make artificial intelligence available to farmers, businesses and communities throughout India. Speaking at the Ideas4India forum…
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OpenAI releases official ChatGPT add-in for Microsoft Word, available on free plan
OpenAI launched an official ChatGPT add‑in for Microsoft Word on September 17, 2026, extending the existing Excel and PowerPoint integrations. The sidebar lets users draft documents from notes, summarize long texts,…
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Opinion: Microsoft Copilot can help reclaim an hour a day with three simple tasks
The author argues that small, repetitive tasks can be handed to Microsoft 365 Copilot to free roughly one hour each day. By using Copilot in Outlook to turn long email threads into concise "next steps" summaries, in…
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Chrome extension Exactly Matchy helps marketers verify page retrieval in AI search
The guide explains how SEOs can test whether a web page is retrievable by AI‑powered search tools such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. By copying a 20‑30 word passage that uniquely identifies the page and prompting the…
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Injective partners with Microsoft for onchain agentic commerce event on Oct 6
Injective is teaming with Microsoft for an on‑chain agentic commerce event in Singapore on Oct 6, a day before Token2049. The gathering will demonstrate Injective’s suite that lets autonomous AI agents trade, transact…
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