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Italy is investigating Microsoft 365 price hikes, saying Microsoft failed to inform users that AI tools like Copilot were built into the service (Giulia Segreti/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 26, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Upstart Podcast: May Habib, from the writer: Creating AI tools for ‘normal people’ at companies that labs…

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Despite the ‘DeepMind mafia’ drawing billions into London AI startups, none of Demis Hassabis’ former lieutenants are building a UK border AI model (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 26, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Upstart Podcast: May Habib, from the writer: Creating AI tools for ‘normal people’ at companies that labs…

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OpenAI says 97.9% of its employees now use Codex, up from around 40% in August 2025; Codex usage by non-developers increased 137-fold for individual users (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 26, 2026

Thomas Claburn / The register: OpenAI says 97.9% of its employees now use Codex, up from around 40% in August…

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How the development of AI in the United States is driving up prices for electricity, software and more; in survey, 81% of economists say it will increase inflation over the next year (Justin Lahart/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 26, 2026

Justin Lahart / Wall Street Journal: How the development of AI in the United States is driving up prices for…

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Apple says it removed VK apps from the App Store to comply with sanctions; VK says they were expelled without warning and were never subject to U.S. sanctions (Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 25, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Upstart Podcast: May Habib, from the writer: Creating AI tools for ‘normal people’ in companies that labs…

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Microsoft is quietly extending the Extended Security Updates program for Windows 10 users by another year, allowing eligible users to get updates until October 12, 2027 (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 25, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Upstart Podcast: May Habib, from the writer: Creating AI tools for ‘normal people’ in companies that labs…

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Anthropic hires Steve Jarrett, director of AI at French telecommunications group Orange, to help it “better understand and adapt” its products to Europe and Africa (Gianluca Lo Nostro/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 25, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Upstart Podcast: May Habib, from the writer: Creating AI tools for ‘normal people’ in companies that labs…

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Google expands scope of its months-old AI Coding Response Team to ‘intermediate training’ to better compete with Anthropic, after key executives leave (Erin Woo/The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 25, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Upstart Podcast: May Habib, from the writer: Creating AI tools for ‘normal people’ in companies that labs…

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IBM details a 0.7nm chip manufacturing process that uses a "nanocell" 3D transistor architecture, which it says can sustain chip innovation for 10 years (Don Clark/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 25, 2026

Don Clark / New York Times: IBM details a 0.7nm chip manufacturing process that uses a 3D “nanostack” transistor architecture,…

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As China’s working-age population shrinks, consensus emerges that it needs to deploy embodied AI robots in as many tasks as possible, as soon as possible (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 25, 2026

Financial Times: As China’s working-age population shrinks, a consensus is emerging that the country needs to deploy AI embodied robots…

ASEAN and Trump’s Section 301 Tariffs – The Diplomat

Pakistan wants the world to see it as a peacemaker. I want him to find my father. – The diplomat

Border towns light up at night as North Korea goes solar – Radio Free Asia

What’s next? – The diplomat

Why India’s foreign minister visited Mongolia – The Diplomat

Medicare will soon cover obesity medications, but many seniors may not know it

‘Perfect storm’ portends much smaller U.S. auto market by 2040

Summer box office could generate first $10 billion since pandemic

How Kohl’s lost its way and is trying to become relevant again

Walmart heir Lukas Walton buys minority stake in Chicago Bulls

Even Fox News Can’t Hide Trump’s Great Failing for Fairness in America

Donald Trump now spends his days counting trees in the park

Failure of Trump’s big fair rally in US state really upsets him

Evangelical Christians humiliated as Trump falls asleep on them

President Mike Johnson admits he’s running a protection racket for Trump

Austria is pushing the EU to consider hosting Anthropic within its borders, highlighting EU efforts to strengthen the bloc’s independence from US and Chinese technology (Marton Eder/Bloomberg)

Kunlunxin Technology, Baidu’s chip unit, plans an IPO in Hong Kong with a target valuation of $50 billion, asking investors to buy chips worth 3 to 7 times their IPO investment (Qianer Liu/The Information)

Australia-based Firmus partners with Nvidia to build its first data center in Batam, Indonesia; Nvidia DSX AI 360MW Factory Campus Developed with DayOne (Bloomberg)

Brazil, which has struggled to standardize soccer talent searches, is adopting AI-based search apps that evaluate players by analyzing video clips and more (New York Times)

A profile of Jacob Andreou, the 33-year-old former Snap executive who is leading Microsoft’s Copilot team’s consolidated efforts to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic (Sebastian Herrera/Fortune)

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Italy is investigating Microsoft 365 price hikes, saying Microsoft failed to inform users that AI tools like Copilot were built into the service (Giulia Segreti/Reuters)

Despite the ‘DeepMind mafia’ drawing billions into London AI startups, none of Demis Hassabis’ former lieutenants are building a UK border AI model (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

OpenAI says 97.9% of its employees now use Codex, up from around 40% in August 2025; Codex usage by non-developers increased 137-fold for individual users (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

How the development of AI in the United States is driving up prices for electricity, software and more; in survey, 81% of economists say it will increase inflation over the next year (Justin Lahart/Wall Street Journal)

Apple says it removed VK apps from the App Store to comply with sanctions; VK says they were expelled without warning and were never subject to U.S. sanctions (Reuters)

Microsoft is quietly extending the Extended Security Updates program for Windows 10 users by another year, allowing eligible users to get updates until October 12, 2027 (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

Anthropic hires Steve Jarrett, director of AI at French telecommunications group Orange, to help it “better understand and adapt” its products to Europe and Africa (Gianluca Lo Nostro/Reuters)

Google expands scope of its months-old AI Coding Response Team to ‘intermediate training’ to better compete with Anthropic, after key executives leave (Erin Woo/The Information)

IBM details a 0.7nm chip manufacturing process that uses a "nanocell" 3D transistor architecture, which it says can sustain chip innovation for 10 years (Don Clark/New York Times)

As China’s working-age population shrinks, consensus emerges that it needs to deploy embodied AI robots in as many tasks as possible, as soon as possible (Financial Times)