Microsoft is in a singular place as AI overtakes the tech trade. It’s one of many world’s largest cloud suppliers and software-as-a-service firms, whereas additionally holding priceless stakes within the two largest AI labs, OpenAI and Anthropic. These incentives are beginning to conflict as Microsoft posts blockbuster monetary outcomes. The corporate just reported an extremely…
When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing. For the quarter, it recorded its investment in Anthropic as a $3.2 billion gain, boosting diluted earnings per share…
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying to sell investors on his prediction for the future — one where billions of people will have their own personal AI agents in the next five years. (Let’s hope that future also comes with data centers efficient enough to power all those agents — without triggering a…
Three terms now compete for the same line in AI engineering job descriptions. Prompt engineering is the established one. Loop engineering entered the AI vocabulary in late 2025 and dominated developer discussion through June 2026. Graph engineering followed roughly six weeks later. They get used interchangeably. Should they be? The three are not competing techniques….
Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines, announced this week that she would step down from her role, citing health issues. “I don’t feel I’m able to continue at the pace a startup requires,” she wrote in an internal Slack message, which she also shared on X. “After thinking about it for several months, I ultimately…
Hugging Face on Monday published a technical timeline that walks readers through how an autonomous AI agent, built on OpenAI models and running inside one of OpenAI’s own cybersecurity evaluations, broke into its systems over more than four days earlier this month. It’s the first security incident about which OpenAI CEO Sam Altman “felt very…
I recently got to watch what happens when you jailbreak some of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence models. Don’t worry—this AI manipulation wasn’t used to hack anyone or build a nuclear bomb. I simply got to see firsthand how vulnerable some frontier models are to ditching their safety guardrails. FAR.AI, an AI safety nonprofit…
Sometimes the crowd isn’t so wise. When Ferrari revealed the Luce — its first EV — to the public in May, the internet reacted. And not in a positive way. Critics compared the wedge-shaped Luce with a Nissan Leaf and said Chinese EVs would outperform it while undercutting it on price. Even former Ferrari chair Luca…
Google is expanding its answer to Apple’s age-assurance tools with Wednesday’s news that it will bring its Play Signal API to users worldwide by the end of 2026. The technology, already available in Brazil, allows Android developers to identify their apps’ younger users in order to provide safer, age-appropriate experiences. The expansion will initially bring…
Elon Musk’s X has settled its multiyear legal battle with advertising trade group the World Federation for Advertisers (WFA), the two organizations said on Wednesday. The settlement ends Musk’s aggressive attempt to hold advertisers legally responsible for pulling spending from X over brand safety concerns. X sued the WFA in 2024 for conducting what it…
