Microsoft has introduced a new specification aimed at one of the most persistent problems in deploying AI agents in real organizations: how do you control what an agent does, who gets to decide, and how do you keep those decisions…
Microsoft has a new bet on the future of work, and it’s not framed as another “AI feature” tucked inside an existing app. With Microsoft Scout, the company is positioning an always-on personal assistant for business users that can integrate…
Google is quietly but decisively tightening the safety net around one of the most personal parts of modern life: the phone call. In an update aimed squarely at AI impersonation scams, Google’s Phone app will now be able to flag…
Amazon is facing a new wave of scrutiny over how it uses facial recognition technology in consumer security products, after a class action lawsuit filed in Seattle accused the company of storing images of passersby without their consent through its…
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…