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−0.31%Jul 28, 2026, 13:15 UTC
Microsoft announced the External Red Team Alliance (EXTRA), a program funding 18 university labs on six continents and building a distributed network of independent specialists to conduct AI safety testing.
Source:Jul 28, 2026, 03:25 UTC
Deel has launched its global payroll and team management services on Microsoft Marketplace, enabling customers to discover and deploy Deel's solutions and integrate them with Microsoft Azure and other Microsoft products.
Source:Jul 28, 2026, 00:30 UTC
Databricks appoints Corrie Briscoe as Vice President of Partnerships and Alliances for Asia Pacific and Japan.
Source:Jul 27, 2026, 11:00 UTC
Photosynth and Kumahira begin collaboration to develop integration between 'Akerun Digital ID' and 'Security System GG-2', targeting launch in 2026 for government and educational institutions.
Jul 26, 2026, 15:15 UTC
Gigasoft released ProEssentials v11, a native WinUI charting library with Direct3D swap-chain rendering, native ARM64 support, and .NET 10 compatibility.
Source:Jul 25, 2026, 14:00 UTC
LG agreed to disable McAfee advertisements displayed by its Monitor App Installer after Microsoft contacted the company about the issue.
Source:Jul 24, 2026, 23:13 UTC
Meta has withdrawn from the RE100 renewable energy initiative, a voluntary commitment to source 100% renewable electricity, as it increasingly relies on natural gas for its AI data centers.
Jul 24, 2026, 23:00 UTC
The White House is expected to formalize a voluntary pre-release review framework for frontier AI models by August 1, 2026, following President Trump's June 2 executive order.
Source:Jul 24, 2026, 11:14 UTC
Microsoft began testing ad-supported Xbox Cloud Gaming for Xbox Insiders on July 23.
Jul 24, 2026, 05:45 UTC
AMD unveiled the next-generation open-source telecom large language model OTel 2.0 at its Advancing AI 2026 conference, with AT&T and Microsoft as partners.
Source:Jul 24, 2026, 01:06 UTC
OpenAI restructured into OpenAI Group PBC, a for-profit public benefit corporation, on October 28, 2025.
Source:Jul 23, 2026, 20:00 UTC
Microsoft stopped using the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate map to filter nonprofits in its employee gift-matching program on Benevity, following a shareholder proposal from Inspire Investing.
Source:Jul 23, 2026, 15:15 UTC
GitHub announces overhaul of its bug bounty program, cutting public submission rewards and introducing an invite-only tier with higher payouts, effective July 27.
Source:Jul 23, 2026, 13:00 UTC
A bipartisan bill called the AI Kill Switch Act is introduced in the US House of Representatives, giving the Department of Homeland Security power to order large AI companies to throttle or shut down their models under specific conditions.
Jul 23, 2026, 13:00 UTC
The White House announced that nearly 200 additional entities, including utilities, colocation companies, electric cooperatives, public power providers, and seven state governors, have signed President Trump's Ratepayer Protection Pledge, expanding its coverage to about 80% of US power delivery.
Jul 23, 2026, 12:45 UTC
Knox Systems announced a collaboration with Microsoft to help commercial software companies deploy secure solutions on Microsoft Azure Government Cloud for U.S. Government customers.
Jul 23, 2026, 08:46 UTC
Efekta Education appointed Matt Fisher as Chief Technology Officer.
Source:Jul 22, 2026, 15:22 UTC
Microsoft commits $60 million in Azure compute credits and establishes a new internal program office called SPARK to coordinate its work with the U.S. Department of Energy's 17 national laboratories under the 'Genesis Mission' for AI-for-science.
Source:Jul 22, 2026, 14:22 UTC
Oklo and X-Energy have joined a Trump administration-led program to accelerate the development of AI data center power plants.
Jul 22, 2026, 12:00 UTC
Wiley joined the U.S. Department of Energy's Genesis Mission Consortium as a member.
Source:Jul 22, 2026, 02:00 UTC
Macquarie Government launched a new Microsoft Azure cloud, security, and AI services practice for Australian federal and state government agencies.
Jun 28, 2026, 19:55 UTC
The Nasdaq Composite Index fell 4.6% in the week ending 27 June 2026, its worst weekly decline since March 2026, driven by the reported delay of OpenAI's IPO and concerns about AI spending.
Source:Jun 23, 2026, 23:59 UTC
The Trump administration is pressuring Meta to submit its AI models for voluntary federal safety evaluations at the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, making Meta the sole major U.S. holdout after other companies agreed.