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Oct 8, 2026, 14:43 UTC
Donald Trump acquired at least seven-figure stakes in Meta Platforms, Inc., MCDONALDS CORP and MICROSOFT CORP, and at least $1 million in Space Exploration Technologies Corp debt, in August.
Source:Oct 8, 2026, 12:35 UTC
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office said ten AI developers had made or committed to changes to improve compliance with UK data protection law after its scrutiny.
Oct 8, 2026, 11:15 UTC
Italy's antitrust authority launched an investigation into several MICROSOFT CORP-owned video-game makers over their use of virtual currencies.
Oct 8, 2026, 07:45 UTC
LOGITECH INTERNATIONAL S.A. launched the Rally Bar 2, a workplace video-conferencing device designed to replace the Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini.
Source:Oct 7, 2026, 23:59 UTC
The Abu Dhabi Department of Government Enablement launched AiNative, an AI training programme for government employees and the public, developed with OpenAI, Inc., MICROSOFT CORP and Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence.
Source:Oct 7, 2026, 21:00 UTC
Nous Research raised $90 million in a Series B round at a reported $1.5 billion valuation, with backing from NVIDIA CORP, MICROSOFT CORP’s M12, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Robot Ventures, Union Square Ventures LLC and Y Combinator LLC.
Oct 7, 2026, 20:00 UTC
The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation and participating private entities launched the Corporate Declaration, encouraging Canadian businesses to commit to strengthening relationships with Indigenous Peoples and communities.
Oct 7, 2026, 19:00 UTC
MICROSOFT CORP announced that Meta Platforms, Inc.’s Muse app is coming to Windows.
Source:Oct 7, 2026, 17:24 UTC
OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceXAI and Anthropic will use MICROSOFT CORP execution containers to isolate and control AI agents.
Source:Oct 7, 2026, 15:15 UTC
Dutch State Secretary for Finance Eelco Eerenberg set out a plan to move the tax administration’s office software from MICROSOFT CORP 365 to agency-controlled servers and European open-source tools.
Source:Oct 7, 2026, 13:00 UTC
Arista Networks, Inc. announced an open Ethernet rack-scale portfolio for scale-up and scale-out AI infrastructure, developed with ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC, Arm Holdings, Broadcom Inc., d-Matrix, Meta Platforms, Inc., MICROSOFT CORP and QUALCOMM INC/DE.
Oct 7, 2026, 11:30 UTC
The Netherlands Tax and Customs Administration abandoned its planned MICROSOFT CORP 365 cloud migration and will move email and calendars to infrastructure it controls in 2027, followed by storage and collaboration services in 2027 and 2028.
Source:Oct 7, 2026, 09:00 UTC
Sage, Inc. acquired Moovin’Cloud’s cloud migration and hosting platform to expand its ability to move customers onto MICROSOFT CORP Azure.
Source:Oct 7, 2026, 02:22 UTC
MICROSOFT CORP introduced an enhanced lifecycle framework for Azure virtual machine instances, defining Current, Extended, End of Life, and Retired phases.
Source:Oct 6, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Phillips 66's Wood River Refinery produced 11 million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel through a partnership supported by the Invest in Illinois Act.
Source:Oct 6, 2026, 16:45 UTC
Dell Technologies Inc. expanded its AI Data Platform with agentic AI context tools, NVIDIA CORP-accelerated data preparation, multi-tenancy, storage performance tools, managed PowerScale for MICROSOFT CORP Azure, and professional services.
Source:Oct 6, 2026, 15:00 UTC
Ontario-based Augmentt is deepening its Microsoft integrations and compliance capabilities, an update on how it is using its 2025 Series A funding.
Source:Oct 6, 2026, 15:00 UTC
U.S. stock futures rose on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, with Dow futures up 334 points (0.65%), S&P 500 futures up 39.5 points (0.5%) and Nasdaq-100 futures up 205 points (0.65%), pointing to a higher Wall Street open after Monday's gains.
Source:Oct 6, 2026, 13:45 UTC
Microsoft asked its employees to limit their use of Anthropic's Claude and use Copilot and other Microsoft tools instead, with internal Claude spending estimated to be on course for at least $1 billion in 2026.
Source:Oct 6, 2026, 13:12 UTC
Tenable Holdings, Inc. appointed Charles Bell as a director effective October 5, 2026, granting him 10,386 restricted stock units vesting in three equal annual installments.
Oct 6, 2026, 11:21 UTC
MICROSOFT CORP's web page stated that OpenAI LLC's GPT-6.1 Sol uses Looped Transformers with two inference passes.
Source:Oct 6, 2026, 11:00 UTC
Microsoft and Meta plan to restrict their developers' use of Anthropic's Claude Code AI coding tool.
Oct 6, 2026, 07:29 UTC
Microsoft cut its internal spending on Anthropic's Claude by more than a third and reduced employee AI usage budgets, pushing staff toward its own AI tools.
Source:Oct 3, 2026, 01:30 UTC
The European Commission rolled out Element Pro, a sovereign collaboration platform by London-based Element, as an internal back-up to Microsoft Teams, drawing negative reviews from some staff.
Source:Oct 1, 2026, 21:55 UTC
Meta launched its Muse AI personal assistant earlier in October 2026, and it overtook ChatGPT as the top free iOS app in the US, surpassing 3.4 million downloads last week.
Source:Sep 30, 2026, 14:30 UTC
HumanTronik acquired Seattle-area technology services provider CloudMoyo to combine its AI-agent platform with CloudMoyo's Microsoft engineering and global delivery capabilities.
Source:Sep 22, 2026, 17:10 UTC
U.S. President Donald Trump disclosed 1,156 securities transactions made on his behalf in July, including sales of between $5 million and $25 million each of Microsoft and Amazon on July 20.
Sep 17, 2026, 14:09 UTC
US stock futures rose on September 17, 2026, with Dow futures up 582 points (1.13%), S&P 500 futures up 1.21% and NASDAQ 100 futures up 1.58%, as technology shares gained and oil prices retreated.
Source:Sep 10, 2026, 09:30 UTC
Israel's National AI Headquarters under the Prime Minister's Office held Israel's first dedicated Physical AI conference in Tel Aviv in partnership with B2B events producer People & Computers, bringing together government officials, defense and technology companies, investors and global technology giants.
Source:Aug 25, 2026, 13:46 UTC
US stock indices rose on Tuesday, with the Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Philadelphia Semiconductor Index all trading higher, while Taiwan stock index futures and TSMC ADR also gained.
Jul 13, 2026, 17:00 UTC
OpenAI designated GPT-5.6 as the preferred model for Microsoft 365 Copilot on July 9, 2026, covering integration across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, and Cowork.
Jul 2, 2026, 11:05 UTC
President Trump purchased up to $5 million each in Broadcom, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia stocks on July 23.
Jun 29, 2026, 15:53 UTC
Japan and India signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on domestic AI development, with Japan providing access to a supercomputer.
Source:Jun 5, 2026, 02:33 UTC
Meta is expanding its Meta Business Agent and rolling out a new Meta Business Agent Platform to allow enterprises to build, customize, and deploy AI agents at scale.