Microsoft's consumer chief Yusuf Mehdi, the executive behind Windows 95, Xbox One, and Copilot, announces his departure after 35 years, planning to exit following fiscal year 2027 while spending his final season advancing Windows AI strategy and scaling Microsoft 365 to 100 million subscribers.
GraphGlyph, a new open-source Python tool, encodes text into visually stunning, fully reversible unit-distance graph images — with every line of code written by GPT-4.5 — using Unicode normalization, UTF-8 encoding, and optional compression to produce customizable SVG and JSON outputs.
Meta's SAM 3 is now live on GitHub, a groundbreaking AI model that detects, segments, and tracks objects across 4 million unique concepts in images and videos, achieving up to 80% of human performance — with an updated SAM 3.1 delivering even faster multi-object tracking via a new shared-memory approach.
NVIDIA launches a public AI agent skills catalog on GitHub, giving developers instant access to portable, verified instruction sets for 16 products—including cuOpt and TensorRT-LLM—deployable in seconds via a single CLI command into tools like Claude Code and Cursor.
Gen Z graduates are booing AI-focused commencement speeches in open defiance, as Goldman Sachs reports roughly 16,000 U.S. jobs lost to AI per month, with entry-level workers hit hardest while corporations redirect over $700 billion into AI infrastructure — leaving the class of 2026 uniquely vulnerable, lacking the years of …
Anthropic is in active talks to adopt Microsoft's custom Maia 200 AI chip as the company faces a surging compute crisis driven by explosive demand for its Claude products, while simultaneously diversifying chip partnerships across Amazon, Google, and SpaceX in a deal worth $1.25 billion per month through 2029.
Google is betting up to $180 billion on AI integration across Search and YouTube, deploying fast, affordable models at massive scale, but risks cannibalizing the very ad revenue that funds its ambitious AI transformation.
Cloud agents now execute over 50 million daily actions across 7 million workflows, with durable execution technology and self-healing environments emerging as the critical infrastructure driving AI reliability past two 9s and autonomously resolving broken dependencies without human intervention.
OpenAI and Anthropic are racing toward IPOs as both AI giants report explosive revenue growth, with OpenAI filing as soon as this week at an $850 billion valuation while Anthropic surges ahead with a projected $950 billion valuation and $10.9 billion in Q2 revenue.
Spotify launches 'Verified by Spotify' green checkmark badges for authenticated podcasts while cracking down on AI voice cloning and impersonation, with eligibility based on listener activity, policy compliance, and audience authenticity.