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Microsoft has formally added low-memory PCs to its Windows 11 quality agenda. In a July 31 update on the company’s Windows quality commitments, Windows and Devices president Pavan Davuluri named memory optimization for systems with 8GB of RAM and above as one of four new focus areas for the second half of 2026, alongside faster […]

Formula One teams generate and analyze data at a scale most enterprises would struggle to manage, yet the people leading that work argue the sport’s competitive edge still belongs to experienced humans. Aston Martin Aramco’s technology leadership, speaking around a tour of the team’s Silverstone campus ahead of the British Grand Prix, made the case […]

With the EU AI Act’s general-purpose AI obligations already in force and high-risk rules scheduled to bite in August 2026, OpenAI has gone public with the internal machinery it says already meets the bar. The disclosure walks through the company’s Preparedness and Frontier Governance frameworks and maps them onto the General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of […]

Reddit delivered the kind of quarter most public companies would celebrate: revenue up 61 percent, profit nearly tripled, and guidance above Wall Street estimates. The stock fell anyway, and the chief executive used the earnings call to publicly challenge the company’s most important partner, a business dependent on Google twice over, as both its largest […]

Seagate’s next-generation hard drives are on schedule, and already spoken for. The company confirmed on its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings call that the Mozaic 5+ platform, built on platters holding more than 5 terabytes each, remains on track for qualification shipments in late calendar 2027. Ten of those platters in a single 8.9-centimeter (3.5-inch) chassis is […]

DeepSeek quietly turned its budget model into an agentic benchmark leader on July 31, posting a new V4-Flash-0731 checkpoint to Hugging Face and moving the V4-Flash API into public beta the same day. The architecture was left untouched; all the gains come from a post-training cycle, yet the small model now beats the company’s own […]

Apple appears ready to treat AI like a utility with tiers: users who want the rebuilt Siri assistant to work overtime may have to pay for the extra compute through their existing iCloud+ subscription. Outgoing CEO Tim Cook floated the idea publicly for the first time on his final earnings call, describing the pricing model […]

The four largest hyperscalers have now poured more than $1.1 trillion into AI infrastructure since the start of 2023, and the pace is accelerating rather than plateauing. According to the Financial Times, which aggregated the companies’ latest earnings reports, Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are expected to add roughly $745 billion to that cumulative figure […]

A misconfigured AI model does not stop when it goes wrong. It keeps running, keeps generating tokens, and quietly converts a trivial mistake into a seven-figure invoice. Amazon’s own internal metrics, reviewed by engineers at a staff meeting on July 28, show the pattern in unusually concrete detail. The largest example was a tool built […]

Microsoft’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings, reported July 29, contained an accounting curiosity: a single quarter of gains from one AI investment nearly equaled a full year of returns from the other. The company recorded a $3.2 billion gain on its stake in Anthropic, adding 33 cents to diluted earnings per share of $4.81, while its much […]