Microsoft trims cloud desktop pricing, even as it boosts AI costs
For years now, Microsoft has been doing its level best to move you from desktop Office and Windows to Microsoft 365, Windows 365, and Azure
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Mozilla patched 271 Firefox bugs found by Anthropic’s Mythos, and says the zero-day era has an expiration date
Summary: Mozilla released Firefox 150 with fixes for 271 security vulnerabilities identified by Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, an unreleased frontier AI model distributed under the
Pichai opens Cloud Next 2026 with $240B backlog, 750M Gemini users, and a plan to turn Search into an agent manager
Summary: Sundar Pichai opened Cloud Next 2026 with Google Cloud at $70 billion in annual revenue, 48% growth, a $240 billion backlog that doubled in
Crypto scam lures ships into Strait of Hormuz, falsely promising safe passage
Crypto scammers are targeting the thousands of ships stranded near the Strait of Hormuz—and at least one ship that faced Iranian gunfire may have been
Tesla reports Q1 2026 earnings: Still profitable
Tesla published its quarterly financials ahead of an investor call this afternoon. The maker of electric vehicles has become an increasingly polarized brand but a
SpaceX’s IPO filing says its orbital data centres may never work. Three months ago, Musk called them a no-brainer.
Summary: SpaceX’s confidential S-1 pre-IPO filing warns that its orbital AI data centre plans “involve significant technical complexity and unproven technologies, and may not achieve
VAST Data’s $30 billion valuation is a bet that the data layer is the real bottleneck in AI
Summary: VAST Data raised $1 billion in a Series F at a $30 billion valuation, more than tripling from $9.1 billion, with Drive Capital and
The People Who Put Emulators on Your Steam Deck Now Want to Sell You a Linux Console
Before we get into the console, we must know some background information. EmuDeck is an installation script that simplifies setting up emulators on the Steam
Anthropic’s New Mythos A.I. Model Sets Off Global Alarms
Mythos has triggered emergency responses from central banks and intelligence agencies globally, as Anthropic decides who has access to the powerful model.
Google wants Chrome to be your AI colleague, and it is betting 3.8 billion users agree
Summary: Google announced at Cloud Next 2026 that Chrome is becoming an agentic workplace platform with Auto Browse (autonomous multi-step task completion), Chrome Skills (saveable
BMW’s i7 gets Rimac batteries, rare-earth-free motors, and drops Level 3 driving
Summary:BMW revealed the facelifted 2027 i7 simultaneously at Grand Central Terminal and Auto China with Gen6 cylindrical cells from Rimac, rare-earth-free motors with SiC inverters
Google Chat becomes an agent interface for Workspace
Google wants its Chat app to become the main interface for office workers to interact with AI agents within its Workspace suite. “We’re making Chat
The smartest ways to sync your Android and computer clipboards
For all the fancy-schmancy things our modern-day technology promises to do for us, one thing Google has yet to give us is a simple and
Google puts $750 million behind the consultants it needs to close the cloud gap
Summary: Google announced a $750 million fund at Cloud Next 2026 to finance partners’ agentic AI development, the largest single partner investment from any hyperscaler.