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+0.84%Oct 2, 2026, 01:31 UTC
Microsoft Corp. expanded its MAI artificial intelligence model family with its first streaming transcription model and two text-to-speech models for developers building voice agents.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 22:00 UTC
Anthropic committed to at least $518 billion in computing infrastructure spending over the next decade, including roughly $161.2 billion in non-cancelable equipment lease obligations related to Broadcom, $111.1 billion to Google through 2033, $110 billion to Amazon through 2036, $31.4 billion to Microsoft through 2033, and up to $84.5 billion for Nvidia-powered capacity associated with SpaceX.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 20:00 UTC
Microsoft and Google joined the Apache Ossie project, an open specification for exchanging semantic models across data, analytics, and AI platforms, with Microsoft developing a two-way converter between Power BI semantic models and Ossie.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 17:15 UTC
Microsoft added several titles, including Gears of War: E-Day, to its Xbox Game Pass subscription service in October 2026.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 17:13 UTC
Cohere released Embed 5, a new embedding model family with Pro and Fast tiers, generally available on the Cohere API and Model Vault, Microsoft Foundry, and Amazon SageMaker.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 16:12 UTC
Microsoft launched Mai-Transcribe-2-Streaming.
Oct 1, 2026, 15:15 UTC
Helion Energy removed its website prediction that its first commercial fusion power plant Orion would produce electricity by 2028, now saying the plant will only "begin initial operations in 2028."
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 14:30 UTC
Microsoft announced in June 2026 that it would extend its technological support to Ukraine through the end of 2027, with total aid since 2022 surpassing $700 million.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 14:30 UTC
Microsoft research reported that voice phishing attacks via Teams jumped 502% year-on-year and that more than 46 million business contact impersonation attacks were detected in the past 12 months.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 13:45 UTC
A Microsoft-backed data center in Vineland, New Jersey was fined $1 million for running dozens of gas-powered generators without proper permits and ordered to obtain them within 45 days or shut down.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 13:07 UTC
SpaceX's AI unit held talks with Microsoft in the summer of 2026 about leasing out computing capacity.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 12:59 UTC
Microsoft began disabling Exchange Web Services in Exchange Online, ahead of its permanent retirement on April 1, 2027.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 12:15 UTC
Activision launches Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 on October 23, 2026, for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, PlayStation 5, PC storefronts and Nintendo Switch 2, with digital pre-order campaign early access opening October 16.
Oct 1, 2026, 11:30 UTC
Anthropic announced the general availability of Claude for Government, a FedRAMP High-authorized version of Claude for government agencies, and made Claude for Microsoft 365 available in early access.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 09:30 UTC
Tulane University hosted its Future of Energy Forum on campus from Sept. 28-30, 2026, focusing on energy demand from AI data centers, LNG, nuclear innovation and regulatory streamlining.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 09:15 UTC
Data#3 guided to first-half fiscal 2027 net profit before tax of more than A$46.9 million, up over 40% year on year, and gross profit above A$165.5 million, up more than 15%.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 09:15 UTC
Nile Petroleum Corporation (Nilepet) launched a digital transformation initiative to connect its operations across South Sudan with enterprise networking, IP-based CCTV and access control, and a modernized ICT data center with Microsoft 365 migration.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 03:30 UTC
The Australian Taxation Office published its 2024-25 corporate transparency database showing that Microsoft's datacentre business, Singtel's Optus, JBS Global Meat Holdings, Fonterra, Sony Australia and Kogan paid zero income tax on billion-dollar Australian revenues.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 02:15 UTC
Logitech launched the Zone Vibe Pro and Zone Vibe Pro for Business headsets, aimed at hybrid workers, priced from AUD $469.95 to AUD $489.95 in Australia.
Sep 30, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Microsoft is ending support for its Publisher application in October, with Microsoft 365 subscribers losing access on Oct. 1 and non-subscription users losing support on Oct. 13.
Source:Sep 30, 2026, 18:29 UTC
A 16-year-old security researcher named Faav discovered an authentication flaw in Microsoft's Titan analytics service that let him gain administrator access and run unauthorized SQL queries against databases with an estimated 17.3 trillion rows; Microsoft has since locked down the API and paid a $5,000 bug bounty.
Source:Sep 29, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Anthropic disclosed plans to spend at least $518 billion over a decade on AI infrastructure with six partners, including at least $111.1 billion with Google, $110 billion with Amazon and $31.4 billion with Microsoft.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 16:45 UTC
At Tokyo Game Show 2026, Xbox showcased trailers and release dates for upcoming games including Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, Persona 4 Revival, Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember, and several new titles.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 11:15 UTC
Microsoft announced the second wave of September games coming to Xbox Game Pass, including Ninja Gaiden 4, Dune: Awakening, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Minecraft Dungeons 2, and Gears of War: E-Day.
Source:Sep 14, 2026, 08:00 UTC
The Australian Taxation Office issued a new ruling treating certain cross-border software payments within corporate groups as royalties subject to Australian royalty withholding tax.
Sep 9, 2026, 12:03 UTC
Microsoft announced the retirement of Project Online and the removal of Publisher from Microsoft 365, with Project Online retiring on September 30, 2026, and Publisher removal from Microsoft 365 on October 1, 2026.
Sep 3, 2026, 14:00 UTC
Microsoft AI released MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech-recognition model supporting 60 languages, priced at 10 cents per hour of audio, a 72% reduction from the previous model's price.
Source:Aug 27, 2026, 20:05 UTC
Cohere released Parse (parse-v5.0), a 2.3B-parameter vision language model that converts enterprise documents into Markdown, generally available via its API and cloud platforms.