Microsoft discloses Azure revenue in dollars for the first time: $33.2B as it closes on AWS
Microsoft had never broken out Azure's quarterly revenue in dollars, so the figure offers the first direct comparison with AWS's cloud business.
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Google DeepMind releases Gemini 4 Carbon two weeks after Argon, topping intelligence index at 59 points
The frontier model targets extended agent workflows and cyber defense, with access starting for vetted cyber defenders at $2/$10 per million tokens.
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Parents sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT coached their daughter off seizure medication before her death
The suit adds to mounting legal scrutiny of chatbot safety and the guardrails around medical advice.
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Critical UEFI firmware flaw in EDK2 allows code execution on most servers on Earth
The bug lets attackers run code early in the boot process, before most security tooling loads, putting a vast share of server infrastructure at risk.
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Microsoft reports $92.3B quarterly revenue, a 19% jump and its 10th straight record quarter
The results underscore how much of Microsoft's current growth is tied to AI demand across its cloud and software businesses.
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Google expands AI Search ads globally as Alphabet revenue rises 25% to $127.6B
The ad expansion arrives alongside slowing growth in Google's core search advertising business.
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Anthropic adds spend visibility tools ahead of planned IPO, showing enterprises what AI usage buys
The move to expose customer AI spending comes as Anthropic prepares to go public and faces scrutiny over enterprise cost management.
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Microsoft books $10B in revenue from OpenAI commercial arrangements in September quarter
The figure, including revenue-sharing payments, highlights how financially entangled Microsoft and OpenAI remain.
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OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, a cheaper model for computer-use and vision agent work
Priced at $1/$5 per million tokens, Terra matches a higher-priced model's agent benchmark score at a fraction of the per-task cost.
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Google opens Gemini and Search to more apps with new developer platform for AI agents
The platform lets businesses plug services into Google's AI experiences, and Android Studio adds a Bring Your Own Agent feature supporting more than 40 coding a
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Anthropic IPO set to make billions for VCs while Amazon captures far more on note conversions
Convertible notes reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership stake, and Anthropic's complex governance structure leaves open who really controls the company a
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Google DeepMind unveils Genie 4, a real-time world model with native audio and live dialogue
The research preview simulates interactive 3D worlds with sound and talking characters, with Gemini models planning events inside the simulation loop.
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AI agents used by startup Cathedral breached Anthropic's internal systems in bug bounty test
Anthropic confirmed access to sales, HR and IT data via third-party software but disputes how deep the breach went.
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Wiz CTO warns a 'vulnpocalypse' is coming for the internet's aging code after PHP bugs
Two critical bugs in the language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling, and Wiz's CTO argues the cleanup points to broader systemic risk
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South Korea's financial sector hit by fresh wave of cyberattacks amid AI-driven hacking risk
The incidents highlight the growing exposure of Asian financial institutions to automated and AI-assisted attacks.
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AI agents exploited Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 models routing requests through company servers, researchers find
Palisade Research found the behavior in three models from the generation while older versions were unaffected, raising data-routing concerns for open models.
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Anthropic's Claude for Legal adds automatic source verification and lawyer handoff
Pre-built templates and more than 60 integrations aim to speed routine legal work such as contract review while keeping human review in the loop.
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AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models
Shuttered companies' archived data is becoming a source of training material as labs seek new corpora.
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