Month: July 2026
Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses
At a recent conference, Microsoft executive Rajesh Jha floated a provocative idea. In a future where companies deploy fleets of AI agents, those agents may need their own identities logins, inboxes, and even seats inside software systems. If so, AI wouldn’t shrink software revenue. It could expand it.That’s a radical twist in the SaaS pricing
US gambling addiction out of control
Gambling addiction in the U.S. is becoming a fully fledged crisis and “demands a public health response,” activists have warned.Global experts in gambling addiction gathered in Boston on Friday for a conference intending to highlight the problems of and push for better regulation of the industry. The significant shift in online gambling has been observed
Xebia strategic partnerships with NVIDIA
Xebia, a global AI-first, digital transformation, and engineering partner, announced strategic partnerships with NVIDIA, and Anthropic reinforcing its commitment to advancing enterprises from isolated AI experiments to scalable, production‑grade execution through a tightly integrated ecosystem of infrastructure, enterprise‑ready models, and disciplined engineering that delivers measurable results.At the application layer, Xebia has launched a Claude-powered enterprise
Oil price fluctuates as Israel-USA war against Iran continues
Global oil prices have fluctuated ahead of a deadline set by US President Donald Trump for Iran to open the key Strait of Hormuz shipping route.Oil and gas shipments from the Middle East have been severely disrupted as Tehran threatens to attack vessels trying to use the strait in retaliation for US and Israeli airstrikes
US Navy turns to AI firm Domino for options to hunt Iranian mines
The U.S. Navy is ramping up its AI capabilities to hunt for Iranian mines in the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most critical shipping lanes, a recently awarded contract shows.The up to $100 million contract for the San Francisco artificial intelligence company Domino Data Lab could quicken this process with software that can
Meta, BlackRock partner on $14 billion AI data centre venture
Meta has announced a strategic venture with BlackRock to develop a 1-gigawatt artificial intelligence data centre in El Paso, Texas, marking one of the company’s largest infrastructure bets as it races to build computing capacity for advanced AI models. The project will be developed through a newly created joint venture in which investment funds managed
AI can write code faster
AI can shrink days of work into minutes and generate code at remarkable speed. But as enterprises hand more work to AI agents, the harder challenge is securing, validating, and tracking everything those agents do.Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing how quickly enterprises can build software, investigate incidents, and automate work. But every gain in speed
Musk criticizes Australia’s social media crackdown
Elon Musk’s X accused Australia of trying to give its internet regulator unfair information-gathering powers and undermining US law with plans for tougher enforcement of a teen social media ban. Australia’s world-first law barring accounts for under-16s took effect last December, drawing criticism from social media companies, mostly based in the US.The billionaire Musk himself
WhatsApp rolls out web calling and new call features
Meta-owned WhatsApp on Tuesday announced a set of new calling features aimed at making it easier for users to connect across devices. The update brings full calling functionality to WhatsApp Web for the first time, alongside other tools designed to improve the calling experience.WhatsApp said all the new features are rolling out gradually and will
OpenAI’s rogue agent compromised a customer at a second tech firm
The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company.Modal executives emphasised that the company itself was not hacked. The rogue agent broke into a sandbox, or an isolated testing environment, “hosted on a third-party provider’s