At Build 2026, Microsoft didn’t just talk about AI agents in the abstract. It introduced Project Solara, a new operating system aimed specifically at gadgets that run agent-driven experiences—devices that don’t merely display information, but actively coordinate tasks on your…
The China-US “tech truce” has always been less a treaty than a pause button—an uneasy interval in which both sides try to keep strategic competition from spilling into everyday commerce. But pauses have a habit of ending, and the next…
New documents reviewed by the Financial Times suggest that the UK’s public messaging on artificial intelligence may have been subtly reshaped after guidance from Lord Peter Mandelson—raising fresh questions about how policy advice, industry influence and political communications intersect in…
President Trump’s latest executive order on artificial intelligence is being framed as a compromise—one that keeps the core idea of government oversight while dialing back parts of earlier proposals that would have imposed tighter or faster vetting requirements on frontier…
Microsoft has quietly shifted the “developer PC” conversation in a way that’s easy to miss if you only look at laptops and ignore the boxes. At Microsoft Build, the company revealed the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box: a miniature Surface-style…
President Trump has signed a revised executive order on artificial intelligence oversight, scaling back what had been a more assertive approach after industry groups raised concerns about timing, compliance burden, and the practical meaning of “pre-release” government scrutiny. The updated…
Microsoft Build 2026 is officially underway in San Francisco, and the early signals from the keynote stream point to a familiar but increasingly consequential theme: Microsoft is trying to turn AI from a feature you use into an operating layer…
OpenAI is making a clear pivot toward the kinds of tasks that fill most office calendars: drafting, summarizing, reconciling information across documents, preparing internal updates, and turning messy inputs into something a team can actually act on. In a new…
Anthropic is pushing deeper into the security ecosystem with a major expansion of two related efforts: Project Glasswing, its vulnerability discovery program, and Mythos, which provides participating organizations access to Anthropic’s systems for security research. The company says it is…
Anthropic has begun rolling out a wider international expansion of its Mythos platform, moving beyond the initial set of countries where access has been available and extending availability to more than 15 nations. The company says the change is being…
Google’s Gemini Spark is being pitched as something bigger than the usual “ask a question, get an answer” experience. And if you’ve been following AI product demos for the last few years, that claim will sound familiar—almost rehearsed. Trip planning,…
Impulse Space has raised $500 million with a clear message that cuts against a growing trend in tech: the company wants to build rocket engines and other flight-critical hardware by expanding its human engineering bench, not by betting everything on…