Microsoft says more than 7,000 verified apps and games now work on Windows on Arm as the ecosystem expands and NVIDIA prepares to join Qualcomm with new Arm-powered PCs.
Microsoft is deepening its AI relationship with Saudi Arabia through HUMAIN, a state-backed company chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The partnership could bring ALLAM models to Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft 365 Copilot, raising fresh questions about privacy and human rights.
Microsoft is bringing AI agents deeper into Azure Cosmos DB, allowing them to understand schemas, generate queries, and execute them with developer approval.
Microsoft reportedly increased Windows OEM licensing fees by as much as 10 percent. With PC costs already climbing, Linux has never looked more attractive.
Kubuntu Focus is committing more than $100,000 to a three-year KDE Plasma 6.6 LTS initiative focused on stability, security updates, and making Linux a more practical alternative to proprietary operating systems.
NVIDIA, Microsoft, Meta, IBM, Mozilla, and other major technology companies are backing open AI models, arguing they protect competition, expand access, and give regular folks a fair chance to build without deep financial backing.
Microsoft is investing $2.5 billion and embedding 6,000 engineers inside customer organizations as it bets that successful AI adoption requires people, not just models.