artificial intelligence

ChatGPT, Grammarly, Canva AI, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot are the five AI tools Tribune Online identified on May 16, 2026, as gaining broad attention across Africa, where students, freelancers, small businesses, marketers, and office workers are folding generative software into everyday...

This week’s technology news was dominated by AI’s expanding reach into jobs, phones, photos, cloud infrastructure, operating systems, and energy, while Windows 10’s looming support deadline inspired a symbolic French funeral accusing Microsoft of turning still-usable PCs into electronic waste...

Network television has quietly started to do what Silicon Valley often refuses to: treat artificial intelligence as a dramatic problem, not just a dazzling product. Across recent episodes of network procedurals and legal dramas, AI is being framed as emotionally manipulative, commercially...

From building stethoscopes to experimenting with artificial intelligence, Harper College’s fourth annual STEAM Fair is shaping up as more than a campus event; it is a public showcase for how hands-on learning can connect curiosity, career exploration and modern technology. The free fair...

The latest round of tech layoffs is not just another cyclical purge of overhired teams. It is increasingly being shaped by a new internal logic: AI spending is now competing directly with payroll. In the first quarter of 2026, U.S. technology employers announced roughly 52,050 job cuts, and...

Every day across the Department of the Army, the work of service members and civilians is increasingly defined by a familiar tension: too much information, too little time, and too many administrative tasks competing with mission-critical duties. In that environment, the case for artificial...

Artificial intelligence may be getting easier to use, but Ohio University’s latest warning makes clear that convenience is not the same as safety. In a March 9, 2026 article, the university spelled out how public AI tools can expose data, weaken institutional control, and create device-level...

Microsoft and NVIDIA are not promising a miracle cure for artificial general intelligence so much as attacking a more mundane obstacle that may determine how quickly AI can scale: the physical bottleneck of power and permitting. The larger story here is not that AGI is around the corner, but...

It is a peculiar moment when a Microsoft chief executive can turn a throwaway critique into a broader commentary on how Silicon Valley handles public scrutiny. Satya Nadella’s recent plea to move beyond the language of “AI slop” and his Davos-era warnings about bubbles, social permission, and...

On a Queensland summer afternoon, when air‑conditioners surge and demand spikes, Stanwell Corporation is quietly doing something different: it has folded artificial intelligence into the operational heart of a government‑owned generator, using a cloud‑hosted platform to steer batteries, trading...

Red Bull Basement’s 2026 program has opened its doors to student innovators and first‑time founders with a clear, accelerator‑style promise: equip early‑stage teams with AI tools, hardware, mentorship and a fast path from idea to a minimum viable product — capped by a World Final in Silicon...

Sam Altman’s offhand framing — that one day “intelligence” could be treated like a utility, metered and billed the way we pay for electricity or water — has quickly moved from rhetorical flourish into an active industry conversation about how the AI era will be paid for, regulated, and consumed...

Not long ago a single Microsoft certification could make a resume pop; today it often reads like a mini‑transcript — AZ‑900, AZ‑104, SC‑900, AI‑900 and sometimes an AZ‑500 or AI‑102 stacked on top. That change is not mere credential inflation. The surge in Microsoft certifications is a...

S&P Global used its appearance at the Raymond James Institutional Investor Conference to deliver a clear message: artificial intelligence is not a sideline experiment but a central engine for growth, margin expansion, and product innovation across the company’s data, workflow and ratings...

Microsoft Research has quietly launched a new podcast, The Shape of Things to Come, and its trailer—voiced by veteran researcher Doug Burger—sets a clear, measured tone: AI will reshape the future, but how that future unfolds depends on the research choices and governance frameworks we build...

Microsoft’s official Copilot Discord server was quietly enforcing a one-word ban — “Microslop” — and when the community pushed back by testing and evading the filter, moderators effectively locked large parts of the server to stop the escalation, leaving members unable to read or post while the...

Cisco’s president Jeetu Patel says the company has already shipped a product whose code was written entirely by AI — and he expects at least half a dozen more such products by the end of 2026 — a claim that shifts the enterprise software conversation from “assistive AI” to “agent-driven...

Mark Russinovich and Scott Hanselman — two of Microsoft’s most visible engineering voices — have fired the opening salvo in what may become the industry's defining personnel debate of the AI era: unless companies deliberately preserve and invest in entry-level hiring and mentorship, agentic...

The three biggest cloud players — Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft — are not burning cash for drama: they are rebuilding the industrial plumbing of the 21st‑century internet to win the AI economy. What looks like a ruthless capital deluge — $100 billion from Amazon, roughly $80 billion from...

Microsoft’s gaming organization entered a consequential new chapter on February 20, 2026, when long‑time Xbox leader Phil Spencer announced his retirement and Satya Nadella installed Asha Sharma — a senior Microsoft AI executive — as the new CEO of Microsoft Gaming, a leadership change that...