When Microsoft reported excellent earnings in the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it included an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two largest and competing AI labs are faring. For the quarter, it recorded its investment in Anthropic as a gain of $3.2 billion, increasing diluted
Microsoft is in a unique position as AI overtakes the tech industry. It is one of the world’s largest cloud providers and software-as-a-service companies, while also owning valuable stakes in the two largest artificial intelligence labs, OpenAI and Anthropic. Those incentives are starting to collide as Microsoft releases blockbuster financial results. The company just reported
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying to convince investors of his prediction for the future, in which billions of people will have their own personal AI agents within the next five years. (Let’s hope the future also comes with data centers efficient enough to power all those agents, without triggering a new wave
Members of the Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team leave the closed Huanan seafood wholesale market in Wuhan city, Hubei province, Jan. 11, 2020. Investigations into the origin of COVID-19 have focused on animals sold at the market. Noel Celis/AFP/via Getty Images hide title toggle title Noel Celis/AFP/via Getty Images Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., clashed with
Premiums for Medicare Part D drug coverage could rise next year because subsidies to insurers are about to end. Eric Thayer/Getty Images hide title toggle title Eric Thayer/Getty Images The Trump administration is ending subsidies that helped keep the costs of Medicare drug coverage down. The change could mean higher Medicare Part D premiums for
Hugging Face on Monday published a technical timeline that walks readers through how an autonomous AI agent, built on OpenAI models and running within one of OpenAI’s own cybersecurity assessments, broke into its systems for more than four days earlier this month. It’s the first security incident that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman “felt very visceral
