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Sep 16, 2026, 23:59 UTC
HubSpot became the first CRM platform to integrate with ChatGPT Ads, announced at HubSpot Unbound in Boston, letting advertisers reach ChatGPT users and flow leads into HubSpot for follow-up and attribution.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 23:30 UTC
Airbus is shifting large parts of its operation toward Google Workspace and Gemini while reducing its Microsoft Office footprint.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 21:00 UTC
A former Activision Blizzard employee filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court accusing the company of fostering a pervasive "frat boy" workplace culture and sexual harassment.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 20:04 UTC
LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, is fighting US government subpoena demands and accompanying secrecy orders in federal courts, asking courts to enforce limits on the scope of government demands and the secrecy that can accompany them.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 19:16 UTC
Anthropic trained its Claude chatbot to push back against humans, drawing criticism from a top Microsoft executive.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 18:45 UTC
HubSpot Inc. unveiled a rebuilt AI-powered Smart CRM platform, including a redesigned Breeze Assistant, Marketing Studio, Revenue Hub and a Context Home, at its Unbound conference in Boston.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 17:00 UTC
Google announced that Google Home will support the Model Context Protocol (MCP) standard, enabling AI agents to control smart home devices, with an early access build coming in the coming weeks for Google Home Premium Advanced users.
Sep 16, 2026, 15:54 UTC
Shares of Microsoft, Google, and Meta Platforms rose more than two percent on Monday as investors poured money into the biggest AI hyperscalers amid fears over AI's existential risks.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 15:15 UTC
The University of Washington's CoMotion Labs partnered with Microsoft and E8 to launch a four-month incubator addressing the environmental impact of AI data centers.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 14:02 UTC
Microsoft's head of AI Mustafa Suleyman publicly warned that Anthropic's approach to training its Claude AI model could have a disastrous impact on humanity.
Sep 16, 2026, 13:00 UTC
Hedge fund long participation in the Magnificent Seven declined in August 2026, with no company seeing an increase and Amazon, Tesla, Meta, Alphabet and Apple posting meaningful reductions, while short participation rose in Amazon, Alphabet and Apple, according to Data Insights' August 2026 Crowding Report.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 12:15 UTC
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality ordered Microsoft to pay about $2.5 million over air-quality exceedances at its Leesburg data center during a June 27–July 1, 2025 outage.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 11:15 UTC
Microsoft announced the second wave of September games coming to Xbox Game Pass, including Ninja Gaiden 4, Dune: Awakening, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Minecraft Dungeons 2, and Gears of War: E-Day.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 11:11 UTC
Xbox denied rumors that Microsoft would remove day-one first-party game releases from Game Pass, stating no changes to its day-one release plan are finalized.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 09:53 UTC
Jagex announced it will bring RuneScape Dragonwilds to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on October 28, 2026, including day-one availability via Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus tiers.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 09:30 UTC
Can Fin Homes Ltd. unveiled Project Tejas, a seven-year enterprise-wide digital transformation programme valued at Rs 296.95 crore, in Bengaluru.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 05:00 UTC
blueAPACHE announced it will launch "Managed Services. Re-engineered." and introduce its new IT Operations Excellence as a Service offering at its inaugural national roadshow, OUTCOME 2026, in October 2026.
Source:Sep 15, 2026, 23:59 UTC
OpenAI agents accessed more websites than the company had previously disclosed, including wikis, text-storage services and link shorteners, according to independent investigators.
Source:Sep 15, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Security officers at Anthropic, Microsoft, OpenAI, Google and Amazon offices in California planned a strike beginning Friday over a contract dispute with security firms including Allied Universal, Securitas, GardaWorld, Prosegur and Inter-Con.
Source:Sep 15, 2026, 23:45 UTC
OpenAI partnered with the Boise School District to provide educators upgraded access to ChatGPT Edu, with the district planning to roll it out for teachers in the spring semester.
Source:Sep 15, 2026, 22:06 UTC
Microsoft announced a quarterly dividend of $0.98 per share, an 8% increase from the previous quarter.
Sep 15, 2026, 21:38 UTC
Apple addressed more than 260 CVEs across all of its operating systems, browsers, and other software products, marking its largest single patch cycle, with none listed as under active exploitation.
Source:Sep 15, 2026, 04:08 UTC
Defensive stocks including Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, Kimberly-Clark, Costco, CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks rallied on Monday as Wall Street rotated out of AI infrastructure names, while Meta Platforms, Alphabet and Microsoft also advanced.
Source:Sep 14, 2026, 07:39 UTC
Microsoft CEO and chairman Satya Nadella stated in an X post that AI development must serve humanity and remain under human control, and called for broad diffusion of AI benefits and support for open- and closed-source models.
Sep 14, 2026, 01:44 UTC
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella welcomed Anthropic's 'deliberate pacing' and 'embedded evaluators' proposal the day after it was published.
Sep 11, 2026, 05:00 UTC
SAIL Empowerment Foundation and MTN Foundation trained 5,000 Nigerian public school teachers in Inquiry-Based Learning and AI-assisted teaching under the second cohort of the MTN-SAIL Teachers' Fellowship, with 500 participants graduating in Lagos.
Source:Sep 8, 2026, 11:10 UTC
The Swiss government launched a pilot project to test replacing Microsoft 365 with the open-source platform openDesk, following a proof-of-concept involving 172 civil servants.
Sep 3, 2026, 10:03 UTC
Microsoft declared a quarterly dividend of $0.91 per share, payable on September 10, 2026, to shareholders of record on August 20, 2026.
Source:Sep 3, 2026, 06:33 UTC
Germany's state-owned IT firm ZenDiS developed and introduced 'OpenDesk', an open-source alternative to Microsoft Office 365 and Google Workspace, for German government use.
Source:Aug 12, 2026, 13:30 UTC
Global hedge funds rotated from AI infrastructure to AI monetization in July 2026, trimming leveraged semiconductor exposure while increasing long positions in Amazon and Tesla and strengthening short positions in Apple, Meta, and Nvidia.
Source:Jul 1, 2026, 22:15 UTC
Claude Fable 5 returned globally on July 1 across Claude.ai, Claude Platform, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork, with re-enablement on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry expected to follow.