Team iUpdates 
Late last year, New York Assemblyman Alex Bores became the target of a pro-AI super PAC campaign to derail his bid in Congress. The Leading the Future group is armed with more than $100 million from backers including Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, AI search startup Perplexity and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale. Bores’ answer … Read more
Dear team, Today I begin my role as CEO of Microsoft Gaming. I feel two things at once: humility and urgency. Humble because this team has built something extraordinary over the decades. Urgency because gaming is in a period of rapid change and we need to move forward with clarity and conviction. I am entering … Read more
Activity tracking platform Strava is introducing a new set of activity categories, including some of the most requested from the community. Here’s the news. Strava says more activity categories are coming Today, Strava is adding five new activity types to its platform, including: Basketball Cricket Dancing He fell Volleyball This, according to the company, will … Read more
When I walked through the doors of Microsoft as an intern in June 1988, I could never have imagined the products I would help build, the players and customers we would serve, or the extraordinary teams I would be lucky enough to join. It was an epic ride and truly the privilege of a lifetime. … Read more
Xbox boss Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft after nearly 40 years at the software giant. Xbox president Sarah Bond is also leaving Microsoft, a major shakeup in the leadership of Xbox and Microsoft’s gaming efforts. Asha Sharma, current product president of CoreAI, takes over as CEO of Microsoft Gaming. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced Phil … Read more
Hi team, I know there is a lot of news today. I am incredibly proud of what we have built together over the past eight years. PC and cloud gaming is growing faster than ever, our next console is in full swing, and together we’ve helped lay the foundation for a more open gaming platform … Read more
Trump’s deregulatory order aims to facilitate rapid construction of new data centers and the fossil fuel infrastructure to power them “The Trump administration is gutting health protections that are important to protecting children from toxins like mercury just to save the coal industry some money,” Nicholas Morales, a lawyer for the environmental nonprofit Earthjustice, said … Read more
OpenAI is working on several AI hardware devices in collaboration with former Apple designer Jony Ive, and the first product to come out could be a smart speaker. The company is developing a smart speaker, a smart lamp, and is considering AI glasses Informationwith the speaker due out in early 2027. The OpenAI smart speaker … Read more
SerpApi, a company that offers web scraping tools, is fighting a copyright infringement lawsuit against Google that accuses it of vacuuming search results “on a staggering scale.” In a motion to dismiss filed Friday, SerpApi argues that Google does not copyright its search results, saying the engine is built “on the backs of others who … Read more
President Trump is implementing a global import tax. Image credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Hours after the Supreme Court struck down sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs as illegal, President Donald Trump appeared before the courts and said he would impose a 10% global tariff under a different trade law with more restrictions and a timetable. The announcement follows … Read more