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Adobe, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and six other tech companies signed a voluntary anti-fraud accord at the UNODC Global Fraud Summit in Vienna on March 17, 2026.

Microsoft Azure's Foundry platform now runs Fireworks AI's inference engine, bringing DeepSeek V3.2, Kimi K2.5, and MiniMax M2.5 into enterprise AI under a unified control plane.

Microsoft's March 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 84 vulnerabilities including a CVSS 9.8 RCE discovered by XBOW's autonomous AI agent, an Azure MCP Server SSRF, and an Excel XSS that hijacks Copilot to exfiltrate data.

Johns Hopkins and Microsoft's JBDistill achieves 81.8% attack success rate across 13 LLMs by auto-generating fresh adversarial prompts on demand.

Iran's IRGC designated facilities of Amazon, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, IBM, and Palantir across Israel and the Gulf as legitimate targets - with AWS data centers already struck by drones.

Microsoft releases Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B - a 15B open-weight multimodal model trained on 240 GPUs in 4 days that competes with 100B+ parameter models on math, science, and GUI understanding.

OpenAI is developing an internal code repository to replace GitHub, putting the company on a collision course with its biggest backer.

VS Code 1.110 ships native browser control for AI agents, installable agent plugins with MCP support, persistent session memory, and a new Agent Debug panel.

OpenAI's Codex desktop app hits the Microsoft Store with native Windows sandboxing, PowerShell agents, WinUI skills, and multi-agent parallel execution - no WSL required.

A 439,000-worker construction shortage is delaying AI data centers while electricians command $200K salaries and Big Tech scrambles to fill the gap.

A hands-on review of GitHub Copilot in 2026 - from agent mode and the new CLI to multi-model support and the five-tier pricing system, testing whether the market leader still deserves its crown.

Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI will meet at the White House on March 4 to sign a voluntary pledge to build, bring, or buy their own electricity supply for AI data centers - but the agreement has no enforcement mechanism.