Two new Xbox controllers have leaked online: an Xbox Elite Series 3 with a removable battery and an odd-looking cloud controller

The designs for two Xbox controllers have leaked online, offering a first look at Microsoft's new Xbox Elite Series 3 and a cloud gaming controller. [...]

Claude’s next enterprise battle is not models: it’s the agent control plane

New VB Pulse data shows Microsoft and OpenAI leading enterprise agent orchestration, but Anthropic’s first measurable foothold points to a larger fight over who controls the infrastructure where AI [...]

Blackstone takes the majority position in Google’s new TPU cloud

The two have formed a joint venture to build a US-based AI compute-as-a-service business on Google’s TPUs, with $5bn of Blackstone equity, $25bn total deal value including leverage, and 500 MW of ca [...]

GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

GitHub confirmed on May 20 that a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an employee’s device gave attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories at the Microsoft-owned code storage and au [...]

Cerebras says its chips run a trillion-parameter AI model nearly 7 times faster than GPU clouds

Less than a week after completing the largest tech IPO of 2026, Cerebras Systems is making its most aggressive play yet to dominate the fast-growing AI inference market. On Monday, the Sunnyvale-based [...]

Merck and Mastercard are seeing real agentic AI results. Both say the plumbing came first.

Merck is using AI agents to cut drug discovery cycles by a third and ship compliant marketing materials up to 80% faster — but VP of Digital Platforms Sean Finnerty says the only reason it's wo [...]

Meta cloud computing business ‘definitely on the table’, Mark Zuckerberg says – excess data center capacity could be used to enter the market

If Meta has surplus compute, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he wouldn't rule out selling this under a potential cloud business. [...]

Control within connection: How data sovereignty is rewriting the rules of critical infrastructure

Presented by EquinixDigital systems are central to economic resilience. But the governance models supporting them were designed for a bygone era, when systems were smaller, often centralized, and rare [...]

AI vendors are switching from subscriptions to consumption pricing. AI PCs are the hedge.

The AI pricing model is shifting. Major software vendors are moving away from per-seat subscriptions toward token consumption or outcome-based pricing for AI features. The flat-rate subscriptions that [...]