This has been a pivotal 12 months for Microsoft, a year in which it faced increasing competition that threatened to knock the company off its perch as the world’s leader in AI. Even so, Microsoft managed to add about $400 billion to its valuation this year, pushing it to about $3.5 trillion, depending on the

Under China’s push to clean up its energy system, AI is starting to shape how power is produced, moved, and used — not in abstract policy terms, but in day-to-day operations. In Chifeng, a city in northern China, a renewable-powered factory offers a clear example. The site produces hydrogen and ammonia using electricity generated entirely

Arm Holdings has positioned itself at the centre of AI transformation. In a wide-ranging podcast interview, Vince Jesaitis, head of global government affairs at Arm, offered enterprise decision-makers look into the company’s international strategy, the evolution of AI as the company sees it, and what lies ahead for the industry. From cloud to edge Arm

SoftwareOne today announced it has launched a new GenAI multi-agent cost optimization system that helps customers and partners measure and optimize the cost, accuracy, and performance of their AI agents. Building on a foundation of deep expertise in both AI and software asset management, SoftwareOne is uniquely positioned to help organizations realize value from their

Anysphere, the developer of AI coding assistant Cursor, is adding some code review and debugging skills to its portfolio with the acquisition of Graphite, TechCrunch reported Friday. The output of AI coding tools often requires extensive debugging, something the company sought to address with new code review capabilities in Cursor 2.0. Through the acquisition, Anysphere

Microsoft is providing early access to C++ code editing tools for GitHub Copilot via the Visual Studio 2026 Insiders channel. These C++ tools allow GitHub Copilot to go beyond file searches and unlock greater context-aware refactoring that enables changes across multiple files and sections, according to Microsoft. Public availability was announced December 16, with the blog

As engineers and managers, we all have been interrupted by those unplanned, time-sensitive requests (or tasks) that arrive outside normal planning cadences. An “urgent” Slack, a last-minute requirement or an exec ask is enough to nuke your standard agile rituals. Apart from randomizing your sprint, it causes thrash for existing projects and leads to developer

If you were around for the first big wave of cloud adoption, you’ll remember how quickly the term cloud was pasted on everything. Anything with an IP address and a data center suddenly became a cloud. Vendors rebranded hosted services, managed infrastructure, and even traditional outsourcing as cloud computing. Many enterprises convinced themselves they had

When Austria’s Ministry of Economy, Energy, and Tourism set out to replace Skype for Business as its virtual meeting platform, Microsoft Teams was the obvious choice. The newer collaboration app is already used across other ministries, and it was widely  assumed that the Ministry of Economy would follow suit. “From a management perspective, the path

Recently, Mozilla’s new CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo promised that Firefox will be a “modern AI browser,” which attracted a lot of attention. Fortunately, users who are not interested in the AI features will be able to turn it all off. – There will be an option in Firefox to disable all AI features. We’ve internally called