Alibaba bans Anthropic’s Claude Code after an alleged hidden China-detection backdoor is uncovered — employees told to switch to Qoder as the rift between the f

The episode slots into a U.S.-China AI relationship that has spent 2026 swinging in both directions at once. Washington had earlier placed export restrictions on AI chips to China. It loosened hardware controls this year…

Microsoft ‘resets’ Xbox by cutting 3,200 jobs this year, divesting five game studios — firm cites ‘margins that are 3-10x lower than comparable platform and pub

Andrew E. Freedman is a senior editor at Tom’s Hardware focusing on laptops, desktops and gaming. He also keeps up with the latest news. A lover of all things gaming and tech, his previous work has shown up in Tom’s Guid…

Microsoft ‘resets’ Xbox by cutting 3,200 jobs this year, divesting five game studios — firm cites ‘margins that are 3-10x lower than comparable platform and pub

Andrew E. Freedman is a senior editor at Tom’s Hardware focusing on laptops, desktops and gaming. He also keeps up with the latest news. A lover of all things gaming and tech, his previous work has shown up in Tom’s Guid…

Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft’s ‘world’s most powerful AI data center’ due to data center noise — plaintiffs also mention cons

Bruno Ferreira is a contributing writer for Tom’s Hardware. He has decades of experience with PC hardware and assorted sundries, alongside a career as a developer. He’s obsessed with detail and has a tendency to ramble o…

The ultimate 4K RTX 5090 gaming titan plummets $2,580 — huge discount makes the Alienware Area-51 with 24-core CPU and 64GB RAM irresistible

The Alienware Area-51 is the closest thing to a perfect gaming system by today’s standards. Equipped with a Core Ultra 9 285K processor, it has 24 cores (eight P-cores and 16 E-cores) at its disposal. That’s more than en…