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The FTC probe into Microsoft’s cloud and AI focuses on possible unfair competition in areas like Azure licensing, bundling, pricing, and barriers to entry, including AI products. The Verge (June 2026) says the FTC sent civil investigative demands to 6+ rival companies and is examining 2019 Windows licensing changes that customers allege raised costs outside Azure. Microsoft says it’s “cooperating fully.”
Play claimed in May 2026 it hacked MyPillow, exfiltrating private data, client documents, budgets, payroll, IDs and taxes, and set a Friday deadline. Mike Lindell denied the breach as a political “hit job,” and the FBI says Silent Ransom Group operatives physically enter offices to steal data.
India’s Delhi High Court ruled on May 22, 2026, that Google infringed trademark rights by allowing competitors to purchase trademarked brand names as advertising keywords — a decision that has since…
More than 150 contract workers staged a protest and march outside Meta’s European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, on Friday, May 29, 2026, demanding better severance pay ahead of planned…
Cognition CEO Scott Wu says his AI coding agent, Devin, is designed to work alongside human programmers — not replace them — even as his company raised $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation in May…
A book examining how artificial intelligence distorts people’s sense of reality is now under scrutiny for its own use of AI-generated content. Steve Rosenbaum, author of The Future of Truth and…
Microsoft plans criminal referrals and legal action against “Nightmare Eclipse” after public disclosure of three unpatched bugs—BlueHammer, RedSun UnDefend, and YellowKey—affecting Windows Defender and BitLocker. A May 29, 2026 blog post says the researcher bypassed coordinated disclosure, even as Microsoft and CISA say the bugs are already being exploited.
More than 700 Wikipedia volunteers say they’re prepared to strike after the Wikimedia Foundation dissolved its Community Tech team on May 20, 2026. The five engineers and one manager built daily tools like plagiarism detectors and dark mode; WMF says it followed a Sept. 2025 review and denies union-linked firings.
Enterprise AI search company Glean announced in 2026 that it has reached $300 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), tripling from the $100 million milestone it hit just 15 months prior. The seven-year-old startup is accelerating growth even as major tech companies enter the…
Asana has acquired StackAI, a no-code AI agent-builder, for $75 million, the company announced Thursday in May 2026 alongside its quarterly earnings and investor call. StackAI’s co-founders, Tony…
Microsoft rolled out a redesigned 2026 Microsoft 365 Copilot, claiming its cleaner interface loads twice as fast on desktop and mobile. “Progressive disclosure” surfaces tools by prompt, paired with a formatted, auto-expanding prompt box and the existing side-panel chat.
AWS says its new OpenSearch Serverless generation (launched May 2026) is redesigned for AI agent spikes by decoupling compute from storage—scaling up in seconds and down to zero when idle—so customers pay nothing in quiet periods, with native integrations for Vercel and Kiro.
Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H funding round in May 2026 at a $965 billion post-money valuation, in what the company suggests may be its last private fundraise before an IPO. The round was…
A phishing campaign is targeting Signal users by impersonating the app’s support team in an attempt to steal recovery keys that unlock encrypted chat backups, TechCrunch reported on May 28,…
Meta will launch paid “Plus” subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp in summer 2026: Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus are $4/month, WhatsApp Plus is $3/month. Maria Cubeta calls it part of “Meta One,” which will later add pricier business/creator tiers and more Meta AI access—echoing Snapchat+, launched at $4/month in 2022 and reaching a $1B annualized direct-pay run rate with 25M+ subscribers in Feb 2026.
Bluesky rolled out an update in May 2026 that brings long-form content to its platform, integrating with Standard.site — a community project that enables articles, blog posts, and newsletters to be…
Anthropic released Opus 4.8 on May 28, 2026, only 41 days after Opus 4.7 and at the same price. It’s more likely to flag uncertainties and avoid unsupported claims, and Dynamic Workflows (research preview) lets Claude Code + Opus 4.8 coordinate hundreds of parallel subagents for migrations spanning hundreds of thousands of lines.
CNN filed suit in New York on May 28, 2026, alleging Perplexity’s Comet outputs “verbatim” CNN articles and paywalled content. CNN says talks over a Comet Plus deal (Oct. 2025) ended in Nov. 2025 and its stop letter went unanswered; Perplexity spokesperson Jesse Dwyer says, “You can’t copyright facts.”