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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has long been a vocal critic of Microsoft. A couple of years ago, he accused the company of violating antitrust laws in how it sells software bundles. More recently, he has slammed its artificial intelligence chatbot for giving inaccurate responses and being difficult to use.
But that history hasn’t stopped Salesforce from including Microsoft in negotiations it is having with several cloud providers—also including Google and Oracle—about a major new cloud agreement, said Srini T
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Microsoft believes that the future of authentication is passwordless, secure, and user-friendly. Read more ›
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The boss of toy giant Hasbro believes the sci-fi role-playing game space, which famously counts BioWare's Mass Effect trilogy among it, "hasn't had a good game in a long time". Moreover he - Chris Cocks - believes Hasbro's new game Exodus will change that. Read more Read more ›
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Lenovo is back into the smartphone-making game with the Legion Y70 (2026). The Chinese brand hasn't released a phone under its own name since the Y90 in 2022. We knew most, if not all, about the Legion Y70 from the various teasers leading up to this announcement. It's a gaming phone with solid specs and a bonkers 8,000mAh battery with 90W charging and bypass charging capabilities. The Legion Y70 packs... Read more ›
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The LightInk smartwatch has 400 days of battery life, but some serious compromises too Read more ›
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We're back at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California, for this year's edition of Google I/O. These days, Silicon Valley is buzzing about the future of AI search, agents, vibe coding, and e-commerce so you can bet we're expecting to hear tons of news on these fronts. And who knows, we might get a […] Read more ›
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Google is considering using SpaceX or another rocket launch to launch its experimental orbital data centers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Google was an early SpaceX investor and owned 6.1% of the company at the end of 2025, regulatory filings show. Google aims to launch two ... Read more ›
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The House Oversight Committee has opened an investigation into OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s personal investments and their ties to OpenAI’s commercial partnerships ahead of the company’s planned initial public offering. At the same time, 10 Republican attorneys general—including from Florida, ... Read more ›
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For three years, Microsoft was the only cloud provider to sell OpenAI’s large language models to other businesses, an exclusive right it fought hard to preserve after investing $13 billion in the startup. But businesses bought more access to those models from OpenAI directly than from Microsoft over that time, new data show. Even so, Microsoft’s OpenAI bet has paid off handsomely in other ways. Microsoft has already earned back... Read more ›
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Google plans to hire hundreds of engineers to help customers start using its business-focused AI products, according to a person familiar with the situation. Google’s new “forward deployed engineers” will form a new team within Google Cloud, the unit’s chief, Thomas Kurian, said on LinkedIn on ... Read more ›
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Getting in on the ground floor of the next AI wave can feel particularly elusive for investors. With billions continuing to pour into frontier models and the infrastructure powering them, much of that opportunity is already spoken for. For investors looking beyond hyperscalers and data centers, the question is no longer whether AI will reshape industries but where they can still find meaningful value. To unpack where opportunity still exists,... Read more ›
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Perhaps the only thing outpacing AI spending is the volume of commentary dedicated to the technology’s disruption. And while business leaders aren’t lacking for insights, they are discovering that AI is evolving faster than any coherent playbook can keep up with. The result is that companies are making high-stakes decisions without clear returns, stable organizational structures or even agreement over who’s in charge. In a conversation with Ken Brown, The... Read more ›
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Software companies such as HubSpot and Adobe have started pricing their AI tools based on the number of tasks the AI successfully completes rather than based on flat fees or the number of AI tokens they consume. Many more firms plan to follow suit, even as the practice is still being hotly debated.Some 31% of 230 enterprise software firms expect to primarily charge their customers for AI based on “outcomes,”... Read more ›
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SAP has been slower than some of its software rivals in embracing AI agents, but the German software giant’s executives spent the first day of its annual customer conference trying to change that perception. One of SAP’s biggest moves is a new agreement with Anthropic that will make it easier ... Read more ›
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Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire developer tools startup Stainless for at least $300 million, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The four-year-old Stainless sells software to model makers including Anthropic, OpenAI and Google that helps developers, non-technical people and AI agents more quickly access AI models. Such software has been in particular demand as AI agents—such as Claude Code and OpenClaw—become a more popular way... Read more ›
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Madison and Spencer Huang, the daughter and son of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, have quietly become rising forces inside the world’s most valuable company—and their paychecks reflect it. Madison, a senior director of product marketing, earned $1.2 million last year, according to Nvidia’s annual ... Read more ›
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