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Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer ·

Microsoft says the outage affecting GitHub's API, Actions, Pull Requests, and other services has been mitigated, three hours after it first confirmed the outage

GitHub is down for some users as a widespread outage is causing errors across the website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and several other services.

Todd Bishop / GeekWire ·

Microsoft begins merging its consumer and commercial Copilot apps into a single app, with a mobile and web rollout in mid-August and desktop in mid-September

Microsoft is starting the process of combining its consumer and business Copilot apps into one, laying the structural foundation for an upcoming …

Reuters ·

Filings and sources: Microsoft closed 15+ branch offices and joint ventures in China over the past five years, amid China pushing domestic software since 2017

Microsoft once regarded the idea of quitting China as unthinkable.

The Information ·

Microsoft plans to unveil its next-gen AI chip, the Maia 300, potentially as soon as September, and is in talks with TSMC to make 300K+ chips for 2027

Microsoft is planning to significantly increase production of its internally designed next-generation AI chips next year in hopes …

Stevie Bonifield / The Verge ·

Microsoft plans to end support for Manifest V2 extensions in Edge starting this month, following Google Chrome, and for enterprise users in early 2027

Microsoft's plan for Edge means that uBlock Origin users are losing one of their browser options.

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac ·

OpenAI debuts Agent Plugins, an open standard for bundling skills and MCP servers, and says Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, and Vercel are on its steering committee

OpenAI's GPT-5 turns one tomorrow, and the company is marking the week by looking beyond individual models.

Bloomberg ·

Filing: Microsoft recorded $24.1B in revenue from OpenAI during the year ended in June, suggesting OpenAI accounted for more than half of Microsoft's AI sales

Microsoft Corp. generates most of its artificial intelligence revenue from OpenAI, according to new disclosures from the company.

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media ·

Internal email: Microsoft introduces token budget limits for employees' AI use, saying "tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for"

Microsoft is introducing budget limits for AI use but says it still wants to be an 'AI-first' company.

Sebastian Herrera / Fortune ·

A profile of Jacob Andreou, the 33-year-old former Snap exec leading Microsoft's consolidated Copilot team efforts to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic

Andreou, who once led product at social media firm Snap, is head of Microsoft Copilot.

Kenneth Shepard / Kotaku ·

Microsoft says the price of Xbox consoles will increase on August 1 by $100 for 512GB models and $150 for 1TB models, the third price increase since 2025

Microsoft is increasing the prices of Xbox Series consoles once more and introducing a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' option

Thomas Claburn / The Register ·

Nature publishes a peer-reviewed paper alleging that Microsoft's 2025 quantum breakthrough claims were based on "basic Python errors" and data cherry-picking

Nature paper argues researchers cherry-picked data. Redmond insists its work is sound

Lorelei Smillie / Bloomberg ·

Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit says AI helped it link two separate hacking tools, Amadey and StealC, and file a single civil lawsuit to help take them down

Investigators used new tools to defeat old malware technology.

Wall Street Journal ·

Satya Nadella says the public wouldn't tolerate a few AI labs "doing all of the learning for the world", as Microsoft moves to provide low-cost models and tools

In interview, Microsoft's CEO offers a blistering critique of AI power balance and calls for earning society's permission

Ina Fried / Axios ·

Microsoft is moving Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing and is considering a Microsoft-hosted version of DeepSeek as a cheaper option

Microsoft is moving Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing as it expands access to the enterprise AI tool

Ashley Stewart / Business Insider ·

Microsoft is adding AWS capacity to GitHub after AI-driven growth strained infrastructure and triggered a series of reliability issues

Microsoft is turning to its biggest cloud rival, Amazon, to help address capacity issues on its GitHub coding platform following a series of AI-driven outages …

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg ·

Several Xbox studios, including Hellblade maker Ninja Theory, are in talks with Microsoft to buy themselves back and go independent to avoid closure

The studios, which include Compulsion Games and Double Fine, are in active negotiations with Xbox and may be given the chance to go independent.

Aaron Holmes / The Information ·

Microsoft considered spinning out or restructuring its Xbox unit as a wholly-owned subsidiary, or creating a joint venture with other partners

As Microsoft gets ready to overhaul its struggling Xbox gaming unit, it hasn't ruled out spinning out or restructuring the unit …

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch ·

Microsoft disabled 70+ of its repos on GitHub, including Azure-related tools like azure-functions-host, after hackers added credential-stealing malware to them

Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates how hackers apparently breached …

Joseph Cox / 404 Media ·

Microsoft has shut down 70+ of its own repositories on GitHub after hackers pushed malware that would steal credentials from users of AI coding agents

Microsoft took the highly unusual step of shutting down more than 70 of its own GitHub repositories after hackers pushed malware …

The Verge ·

Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft aims to become "one of the top four labs in the world", and "the pivotal moment was renegotiating our contract with OpenAI"

At Microsoft's annual Build conference on Tuesday, the company announced a slew of new or expanded AI initiatives …

Ram Iyer / TechCrunch ·

Microsoft releases ASSERT, an open-source framework that lets developers generate and run AI behavior tests using natural-language descriptions

AI researchers and labs have advanced by leaps and bounds in evaluating AI models for everything from safety and compliance to sycophancy and alignment.

Stephen Nellis / Reuters ·

Microsoft unveils Majorana 2, a quantum chip that it developed using AI tools for materials science, and says it will have commercial quantum machines by 2029

Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Tuesday unveiled a new quantum computing chip that it redesigned with the help of AI …

Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal ·

Bill Gates' carefully crafted public image has been eroded by revelations about his ties to Epstein; Gates was recently snubbed from Microsoft's CEO Summit

The billionaire philanthropist was once ranked the world's most admired man

Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch ·

With Microsoft's GitHub Copilot shifting to token-usage billing on June 1, many developers bemoan massive cost increases and the end of flat-rate subscriptions

The golden age of Microsoft's Github Copilot appears to be at an end

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