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Microsoft Merges Consumer and Enterprise Copilot While August Patch Tuesday Fixes 421 Vulnerabilities Including a Windows Zero-Day

Microsoft on August 13, 2026 merged its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps into a single 'Microsoft Copilot' experience, retiring several AI features that failed to gain traction. Three days later, the company's monthly Patch Tuesday shipped fixes for 421 vulnerabilities, including a Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock zero-day already exploited by Lazarus-linked actors.

TechQuire Daily Staff / 3 weeks, 2 days ago / 6 min read

Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday Fixes 421 CVEs Including a WinSock Zero-Day Under Active Attack

Microsoft shipped 421 security fixes on August 11, 2026, including a WinSock zero-day tracked as CVE-2026-68820 that is being exploited in the wild, plus 62 critical-rated flaws across Windows, Exchange Server, Office, and SharePoint.

TechQuire Daily Staff / 3 weeks, 5 days ago / 7 min read

OpenAI's Enterprise Business Overtakes Consumer as Revenue Run-Rate Hits $40 Billion

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told investors on August 14 that enterprise now generates the majority of OpenAI's revenue, crossing the consumer line two quarters early as the company's annualized run-rate reached $40 billion.

TechQuire Daily Staff / 3 weeks, 6 days ago / 7 min read

Writer Launches Palmyra X6 Model and Cheaper Agentic Harness to Tame Token Costs

Writer unveiled Palmyra X6, a new flagship model built as a post-training variation of Z.ai's open-source GLM-5.2, on August 13 — promising deployment-ready capability at up to 50 percent lower cost for basic tasks.

TechQuire Daily Staff / 4 weeks ago / 5 min read

Google Opens Pixel 11 Pre-Orders as Gemini Intelligence Becomes the Phone's Brain

Pre-orders for the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL and Pixel 11 Pro Fold open today ahead of the Made by Google event, with Gemini Intelligence agentic features and the new HiLight LED light bar leading the pitch.

TechQuire Daily Staff / 4 weeks, 1 day ago / 5 min read

DeepSeek Quietly Ships V4 Pro 0813, Its Flagship Model's General Release

The model version listed for deepseek-v4-pro now reads DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 with no announcement — ending a preview that ran since April at $0.435 per million input tokens, roughly 46 times cheaper than Claude Fable 5 on blended rates, per Decrypt.

TechQuire Daily Staff / 4 weeks, 1 day ago / 5 min read

xAI Ships Grok 4.6 With Long-Running Agents, Starting at $2 per Million Tokens

The model rolls out Tuesday in Cursor, Grok Build and the xAI API at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output — with a fast variant at twice the price — as SpaceXAI targets multi-step agentic work.

TechQuire Daily Staff / 4 weeks, 1 day ago / 5 min read

GitHub Copilot Adds MAI-Code-1.1-Flash as Microsoft Cuts Coding Model Prices by 73%

Microsoft's small coding model MAI-Code-1.1-Flash rolled out in GitHub Copilot on August 11 with native vision, 25% faster token streaming and a price cut to one-quarter of the original — roughly 73% cheaper per token.

TechQuire Daily Staff / 4 weeks, 1 day ago / 5 min read

Google's Gemini App Passes 1 Billion Monthly Users, Fastest-Growing Product in Company History

CEO Sundar Pichai announced the Gemini app surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, the 14th Google product to hit the mark and the fastest to do so, hours before the Made by Google event where the Pixel 11 lineup is expected to lean heavily on Gemini.

TechQuire Daily Staff / 4 weeks, 2 days ago / 4 min read

Cloudflare Launches Kitesurf, a Cloud-Hosted Browser Built for AI Agents

Cloudflare unveiled Kitesurf on August 7, a browser designed for AI agents that manages context windows, token costs and prompt-injection threats — built in 12 weeks on the company's Workers serverless platform.

TechQuire Daily Staff / 1 month ago / 5 min read

Atlassian Shares Surge 30% as Cloud Growth Accelerates to 31% in Q4 FY2026

Atlassian reported Q4 fiscal 2026 revenue of $1.8 billion with cloud growth accelerating to 31% year over year, and guided FY2027 subscription revenue to grow 18% — sending shares up more than 30% and easing fears of a software spending slump.

TechQuire Daily Staff / 1 month ago / 6 min read

Google Joins Agent Plugins 1.0.0, an Open Spec for Packaging Agent Skills

Google announced August 6 that it is joining the vendor-neutral Agent Plugins 1.0.0 specification as a core maintainer, alongside Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, Cursor and Vercel, and is shipping support in two developer products.

TechQuire Daily Staff / 1 month ago / 5 min read

GitHub Hardens npm and Actions Defaults to Disrupt Supply Chain Attacks

GitHub has consolidated security changes shipped across npm and GitHub Actions between March and July 2026, making mitigations the default rather than optional, InfoQ reported on August 8.

TechQuire Daily Staff / 1 month ago / 6 min read

GitHub Pushes Stacked Pull Requests Into Public Preview to Tame AI Code Bloat

GitHub's stacked pull requests break one giant AI-generated change into a reviewable stack of smaller commits, addressing the review bottleneck created by AI coding assistants. The feature is now in public preview.

TechQuire Daily Staff / 1 month ago / 5 min read

Google Maps' Ask Maps Gets Agentic: Food Ordering, Hotel Booking and Personal Intelligence

Google announced on August 6 that Ask Maps is gaining agentic capabilities including food ordering via Square and Toast, hotel booking, live transit updates and Personal Intelligence powered by Gmail, rolling out to more than 150 countries, TechCrunch reported.

TechQuire Daily Staff / 1 month ago / 4 min read

Bending Spoons to Acquire Airtable for $1.28 Billion in First Deal Since Its IPO

The Italian app maker, which went public in July at an $18 billion valuation, agreed Tuesday to buy the spreadsheet-database pioneer for $1.28 billion in cash. Airtable's ARR has grown over 20% year over year to roughly $480 million.

TechQuire Daily Staff / 1 month ago / 6 min read

TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Markdown-Only Website With Ads Built In

A developer found that TIME.com returns a stripped-down markdown version of articles to AI crawlers like ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot, complete with sponsored content invisible to human readers.

TechQuire Daily Staff / 1 month ago / 6 min read

Google's Gemini Spark Gets Full Chrome Browsing, Can Tap Logged-In Accounts and Saved Passwords

Google's AI assistant can now use your logged-in accounts and saved passwords to handle tedious web errands, marking a major step toward a true browser agent.

TechQuire Daily Staff / 1 month ago / 5 min read

Wispr Flow Teases Meeting Notetaker as Updated Terms of Service Surface Ahead of Launch

Updated ToS indicate Wispr Flow is preparing to launch an AI notetaker that generates meeting summaries and action items, joining a crowded enterprise AI market.

TechQuire Daily Staff / 1 month ago / 4 min read

Congress's Favorite AI Tool Is ChatGPT, According to House Spending Records

OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on it to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist with constituent communications.

TechQuire Daily Staff / 1 month, 1 week ago / 5 min read

Judge Denies xAI's Request to Block Minnesota's Ban on AI 'Nudify' Apps

A federal judge ruled that Minnesota can enforce a state law banning apps that 'nudify' images, rejecting xAI's First Amendment challenge.

TechQuire Daily Staff / 1 month, 1 week ago / 5 min read