Windows, Azure, Copilot, and Microsoft’s push into AI.
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Grace Kay / The Information ·
SpaceX's AI unit held talks over the summer about leasing computing capacity to Microsoft, say people familiar with the matter …
Bloomberg ·
Microsoft Corp.'s Azure and Amazon Web Services are set to be designated under the European Union's strict rulebook for Big Tech.
Microsoft AI ·
MAI-Transcribe and MAI-Voice models: accurate, fast, low cost, and chart-topping audio understanding and generation for building the best conversational voice agents.
Tom Warren / The Verge ·
Ryan Roslansky is leaving after nearly 18 years at LinkedIn and Microsoft. … After nearly 18 years at LinkedIn and Microsoft, Ryan Roslansky is leaving the company.
Zachary Small / New York Times ·
Asha Sharma didn't have any experience in video games when she became the chief executive of Xbox this year.
Claude ·
Claude Code CLI and Claude for Microsoft 365 also now available in early access.
Alex Williams / New York Times ·
Bill Draper began funding start-ups in the early 1960s, when the Santa Clara Valley was better known for apricot orchards than microchips.
Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal ·
Leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Meta say AI could soon self-improve faster than humans can keep up with
Ben Thompson / Stratechery ·
Three revolutionary products
Sourav Rudra / It's FOSS ·
Eight municipalities are already testing DAWO, the government's NixOS-powered work environment.
Madison Mills / Axios ·
OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which their frontier models took steps …
Zac Bowden / Windows Central ·
In a new interview, Microsoft Surface CVP confirms that its new Surface PCs are no longer called Copilot+ PCs, but will still support all Copilot+ features.
Tom Warren / The Verge ·
The new Copilot merges AI chat, coding, and Autopilot agents.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire ·
Microsoft is moving its communications function out of its marketing group and into the corporate, external and legal affairs organization led …
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg ·
Microsoft Corp. pledged about $2 billion in additional spending in the Middle East, providing the first significant update on its business …
Zac Bowden / Windows Central ·
If you're a fan of Microsoft's smaller and lighter Surface PCs, we've got some good news! During Qualcomm's annual Snapdragon Summit event …
Andrew Webster / The Verge ·
The latest changes at Microsoft's gaming division signal a further retreat from the Xbox brand.
Julian Chokkattu / Wired ·
Two years after trying to sidestep mobile apps with dedicated AI hardware, Rabbit is launching OS3, a cross-platform agent that lives on the screens you already use.
Stephen Nellis / Reuters ·
Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Tuesday said it will give the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency direct, on-site access …
Aaron Holmes / The Information ·
Xbox is planning to lay off hundreds of employees this week in its second major staff reduction this year, according to someone briefed on the plans.
Alexander Martin / The Record ·
The ShinyHunters extortion group hijacked the dark web leak site of the prolific Cl0p ransomware gang, according to material posted on the site over the weekend.
Bloomberg ·
Nscale's 1,000-fold increase in contacts over the last three years is mainly due to two clients thirsty for artificial intelligence …
Axios ·
The Department of Justice's statement of interest supporting OpenAI and Microsoft in the New York Times' copyright infringement lawsuit …
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal ·
A bug-hunting independent security research team was able to access OpenAI's internal code system, exposing growing risks in automated cyber threats
Financial Times ·
Lawyers say AI co-founder Greg Brockman was 'motivated by the gazillions' he hoped to gain from models trained on copyrighted content
Tom Warren / The Verge ·
The out-of-band update fixes Remote Desktop, USB audio, and Hyper-V issues. … Microsoft has started rolling out an emergency …
John Reynolds / Tech.eu ·
The funding will be used for European expansion, driving up its customer base, and expanding to "an AI-native clinic operating system".
Tom Warren / The Verge ·
Microsoft has created a 'humanist AI code of conduct' in response to safety concerns.
Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information ·
Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle and other AI data center developers are sweetening financial offers to municipalities and regulators to gain approval for new facilities.
Business Insider ·
Google has some fresh talent in the AI race.
Tom Warren / The Verge ·
Frank Shaw has been supporting Microsoft's communications for nearly 30 years. … Frank Shaw is leaving Microsoft after 17 years as chief communications officer.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica ·
LinkedIn beat two lawsuits over its practice of scanning users' browser extensions, with a judge granting the Microsoft subsidiary's motion to dismiss the cases.
Bloomberg ·
Shortages forced the company to turn away some AI and cloud business. Now it's planning for 38 gigawatts of data center capacity to meet demand.
Axios ·
A Republican-led Senate subcommittee that oversees disaster management is investigating OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach in July, Axios has learned.
Madina Touré / Politico ·
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Dan Goodin / Ars Technica ·
Microsoft's patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high critical-severity threshold.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire ·
Microsoft was sued Friday by the parent company of its hometown daily newspaper, The Seattle Times Co., which joined with Newsday …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica ·
A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters …
Lauren Feiner / The Verge ·
Fewer than 1 percent of more than 8 million chat logs regurgitated at least 16 words. … Microsoft's Copilot rarely reproduces …
Tom Warren / The Verge ·
The first Project Zenith devices ship with AMD's Ryzen AI Halo chips. … Microsoft is giving its developer-optimized Windows experience a name: Project Zenith.
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat ·
Then it priced the thing at 10 cents per hour of audio.
Tom Warren / The Verge ·
Microsoft is trying once again to tempt people without an Xbox into its ecosystem. … Microsoft says it will let anyone access Xbox Cloud Gaming …
Stephen Nakrosis / Wall Street Journal ·
Microsoft is changing its reporting structure from three segments to two
Reuters ·
Norwegian browser maker Opera (OPRA.O) on Wednesday lost its court challenge against EU antitrust regulators' decision to exempt Microsoft's …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch ·
Snow day? Microsoft on Monday confirmed a widespread, multi-hour outage affecting Outlook users, leading to email delays and failures, authentication issues, and other problems.
Luke James / Tom's Hardware ·
AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.
Emily Graffeo / Bloomberg ·
Lambda Inc., an AI cloud-computing provider backed by Nvidia Corp., has raised about $1 billion of private short-dated debt …
Sam Sabin / Axios ·
OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and more than 100 other companies warned Thursday …
Bloomberg ·
The US government is investigating Singapore-based Apex Logistics for its suspected role in smuggling Nvidia Corp. AI chips to China …
Sarah Klearman / Wall Street Journal ·
The ChatGPT maker is dedicating $400 million to investing in early-stage AI companies
Business Insider ·
- The companies have not reached a deal, and the talks could still fall apart.
Tom Warren / The Verge ·
Xbox Insiders will get access to this new feature on August 31st. … Microsoft is officially announcing a new Xbox feature …
Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal ·
From capex to its flagship cloud platform, Microsoft stands out for lack of transparency
Reuters ·
China's Moonshot AI is negotiating revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft (MSFT.O), Amazon (AMZN.O) and Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) …
Sean Hollister / The Verge ·
Is the best handheld screen worth an extra $300 to you? … The Asus Xbox Ally X20 looked like it could be one of the best handheld gaming PCs yet …
Natasha Singer / New York Times ·
One humid afternoon in the summer of 2025, representatives from Microsoft were waiting as some 200 teachers trooped into a conference hall in downtown Manhattan.
Vlad Fedorov / The GitHub Blog ·
An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability.
Brody Ford / Bloomberg ·
Meta Platforms Inc. has become one of Microsoft Corp.'s biggest AI customers, underscoring how demand for the emerging technology remains concentrated in the tech industry.
Bloomberg ·
China is pulling the plug on an older version of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows tailored for government agencies, taking another step toward rooting …
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