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Sebastian Herrera

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Exclusive: Microsoft’s departing science president plans to join Mercedes F1 team as AI advisor

Peter Lee spent 16 years at Microsoft shaping its science and research efforts.

12.10.2026 3

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Amazon launches premium Alexa tablets to take on Apple and Samsung

Panos Panay, the e-commerce giant’s devices leader, once built tablets for rival Microsoft.

08.10.2026 10

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Microsoft shows off new Windows software, revamped for agentic AI

At an event in San Francisco, CEO Satya Nadella showed how Microsoft’s Windows operating system will be a box for AI agents, with many tasks running...

07.10.2026 10

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Microsoft unveils Copilot super app, targeting business users with AI agents

Microsoft is launching its super app as a central interface through which customers can chat with AI bots, write code, and access a new "Autopilot"...

25.09.2026 30

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Meta announces new lightweight virtual reality glasses to one-up Apple’s Vision Pro

Mark Zuckerberg showed off Meta's new glasses, named Meta VR Glasses, at the company's annual Connect event in Menlo Park, Calif.

23.09.2026 20

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How Meta took the lead in the race for the post-smartphone world

A head start in smart glasses, a powerful Ray-Ban partnership, and a fashion-first strategy have put Meta ahead—despite persistent privacy concerns.

23.09.2026 20

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Meta’s Muse AI is exploding in popularity—and already drawing heated backlash from another tech giant

The app, which uses Meta's latest Muse Spark AI model, connects users to a range of services that its AI agent autonomously handles.

22.09.2026 20

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Salesforce’s Marc Benioff to AI industry: Regulate yourselves or get sued

The outspoken CEO is hosting the company's annual Dreamforce conference this week in San Francisco.

16.09.2026 10

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Microsoft AI chief: ‘Now’s the time’ for top labs to coordinate on safety

In an interview with Fortune, Mustafa Suleyman said coordination between labs would mean disclosing how capable companies' models are to third...

14.09.2026 10

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Microsoft head of communications Frank Shaw leaving after nearly 30 years of shaping the software giant’s public messaging

Shaw worked with all three of Microsoft's CEOs—Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Satya Nadella— and has played a major role in shaping much of how...

11.09.2026 20

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Apple expected to announce the biggest iPhone update in its history, as new CEO John Ternus prepares launch of foldable device

Apple on Wednesday is expected to unveil its first foldable iPhone.

09.09.2026 30

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Exclusive: Amazon quietly hiked prices on Echo, Fire TV, Kindle, and eero overnight to offset ‘significant increases’ in memory costs

The e-commerce company's hardware price hikes follow similar moves by Apple, Dell, and Microsoft Xbox.

21.08.2026 20

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Amazon isn’t giving up on Jeff Bezos’ drone deliveries dream—and after 13 years of turbulence, the momentum is finally shifting

The e-commerce giant announced it is expanding drone delivery to nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns by the end of this year, a sixfold increase from its...

19.08.2026 20

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Microsoft begins to merge consumer and enterprise Copilot apps in push for super app

The software giant is starting to roll out a unified experience across the two platforms, beginning this week with a small subset of users.

13.08.2026 20

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With latest Wall Street downgrade, Apple now has the most ‘Sell ratings since shortly after Steve Jobs’ death

Investment firm Jefferies on Monday downgraded Apple from hold to underperform, cutting its price target from $285.56 to $263.66.

10.08.2026 20

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AI Is changing work faster than the data can keep up

Recent studies have shown AI having a positive impact on job growth, yet economists and labor activists warn that the emerging technology threatens to...

08.08.2026 20

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How an ex-AWS scientist plans to take on OpenAI and Meta in voice AI models

Boson AI founder Alex Smola believes voice models are ready to take AI, and human-machine interaction, to the next level.

27.07.2026 40

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Can Apple’s incoming CEO bring back the product design mojo of the Steve Jobs era?

With more than half of Apple’s revenue still tied to the iPhone, former insiders say Ternus must give designers more influence as the company...

25.07.2026 30

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AMD’s Lisa Su defends open-source AI following Hugging Face security breach caused by OpenAI agents

Speaking at AMD Advanced AI conference, the chip giant's CEO weighed in on the open source debate—and showcased its latest hardware offerings.

23.07.2026 20

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Apple accuses OpenAI, and former design star Jony Ive’s io Products firm, of stealing hardware trade secrets in blockbuster lawsuit

The lawsuit alleges that two former Apple employees now working at OpenAI stole confidential data including information about unreleased hardware...

10.07.2026 20

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Exclusive: Xbox’s CEO on 3,200 job cuts, four studios axed, and her blunt warning that ‘we spread ourselves too thin’

Asha Sharma unveiled sweeping changes at the Microsoft unit Monday, including layoffs that will impact 20% of staff.

06.07.2026 40

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The 33-year-old executive Satya Nadella is trusting to fix Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant

Jacob Andreou has had a rapid ascent at the 51-year-old tech giant. He is leading the charge to retool its pivotal AI product.

27.06.2026 100

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Why companies are treating AI as a strategic partner rather than a passive technology, and how to avoid an ‘AI hangover’

Building operational AI at scale requires more than just raw algorithmic power, business and tech experts said at Fortune Brainstorm Tech.

24.06.2026 30

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The week that changed AI: Inside Trump’s Anthropic crackdown, and how a phone call from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy triggered the chaos

The fight over Anthropic’s Mythos model is rewriting the rules of AI regulation, with consequences for the trillion dollar startup, the AI industry,...

18.06.2026 40

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The real hurdle to enterprise AI isn’t fixing productivity KPIs. It’s ‘unlearning’ old habits, experts say

At Fortune Brainstorm Tech, industry experts discussed why practices like measuring hours saved is the wrong KPI for the AI age.

11.06.2026 40

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Tech leaders argue AI’s real future Is task augmentation, not mass layoffs

CEOs of C.H. Robinson and Agility Robotics said today’s cutting-edge of automation isn’t replacing the whole human.

11.06.2026 40

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The space economy’s next frontier is in ground infrastructure, Northwood Space CEO says

At Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference, Bridgit Mendler emphasized how massive leaps in launch capacity and spacecraft manufacturing are supercharging...

10.06.2026 20

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Grimes says AI can make music, but humans must still tell the story

The singer-songwriter debated the future for music artists in the age of AI.

09.06.2026 30

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Twitch CEO: Social media has become ‘anti-social’ and can’t match the shared, human connection of live streaming

Dan Clancy, the CEO of the Amazon-owned company spoke at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech summit in Aspen, Colorado on Monday.

08.06.2026 30

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Microsoft seeks to be AI’s center of gravity again. CEO Satya Nadella is in San Francisco to make the case

Software giant revealed a sweep of product announcements at its Build developer conference on Tuesday.

02.06.2026 40

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Snowflake CEO says monster quarter shows why software firms need new pricing models to thrive in AI age

Sridhar Ramaswamy predicts that companies reliant on seat-based income will scramble to justify their premiums as employees use AI to accomplish an...

30.05.2026 30

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Exclusive: Microsoft is building a super app that combines coding, chat, and other Copilot AI tools

The project is being spearheaded by new Copilot chief Jacob Andreou, as Microsoft seeks to streamline its lineup of AI tools amid competition from...

29.05.2026 50

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