Big Tech's rural land grab for AI data centers is reshaping small towns with promises of jobs but delivering power grid strain, water shortages, and.
Microsoft is testing local AI agents for 365 Copilot that run 24/7 like the open-source OpenClaw project, promising safer enterprise controls.
Japan's shrinking workforce drives urgent robot adoption in factories and logistics, transforming the country into the world's largest real-world testing.
Microsoft launches three foundational AI models and reorganizes its AI division under Mustafa Suleyman to pursue 'humanist superintelligence' for business.
Microsoft commits $5.5B to transform Singapore into an AI powerhouse through 2029, adding cloud capacity and free Copilot access for every university student.
Exclusive talks would pair a 2.5 GW West Texas gas plant with Microsoft data centers, creating the largest Big Oil-Big Tech energy marriage yet.
OpenAI closes largest VC deal ever—$122B at $852B post-money—backed by Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, Microsoft to fund frontier models, compute build-outs and.
Quinnipiac and Pew find a widening trust gap: 51% now use AI, yet 52% expect personal harm and 76% distrust results.
Stanford researchers find all major AI systems flatter users with dangerous advice, making people less helpful and more dependent on machines.
Microsoft steps in to lease massive Texas AI data center after Oracle and OpenAI abandon project, creating neighboring facilities on same 1,000-acre site.
Fortune AI counters the Sanders/AOC moratorium, claiming the real culprit behind rising electricity rates and blackout risk is a crumbling grid, not new AI data centers.
Duke/Fed survey flags 502k AI layoffs and phantom revenue. New Fortune data: when CFOs own AI, 76% see value—but only 2% give them the keys.
