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Windows, Azure, Copilot, and Microsoft’s push into AI.

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Bloomberg ·

China orders some state-linked entities to uninstall a government-tailored version of Windows 10, ahead of its February 2027 retirement timeline

China is pulling the plug on an older version of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows tailored for government agencies, taking another step toward rooting …

Cursor ·

Cursor says it is rolling out its code hosting service Origin in early beta on all paid plans, featuring support for repos, pull requests, GitHub sync, and more

Cursor can now host your code.

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.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch ·

X makes the source code for its For You timeline available on GitHub and adds tools to let users see if X's ranking systems "shadowbanned" them

X is significantly expanding its open-source codebase, which includes the app's "For You" algorithm and its core ranking engine …

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.

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac ·

SpaceXAI rolls out Grok Bot AI agent app in beta on Mac, iOS, Windows, and Linux, initially for SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams Premium users

SpaceXAI and Cursor are in the process of becoming a single company, but first, the two firms are releasing an all-new iPhone and Mac app called Grok Bot.

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.

Julian Chokkattu / Wired ·

Meta's Starfire glasses with Kylie Jenner include a tiny gemstone on the lens, a metal nose pad to prevent absorbing makeup, and an AI version of Kylie's voice

The new Meta-branded glasses have the same camera, microphones, and chatbot as the Ray-Bans. They come in three styles, one of which was codesigned with Kylie Jenner.

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

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