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Microsoft threads AI through Copilot, Azure and Office, anchored by its OpenAI partnership. This hub tracks Copilot rollouts, Azure AI moves, enterprise deals and regulatory attention.
In the New York Times copyright MDL, Microsoft filed against sanctions sought from its own co-defendant — arguing a jury cannot be told to hold an adverse inference against only one of them.
4d ago
Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash are gone from every Copilot surface. The changelog says no action is required, which is true of the removal and not of what comes after it.
Aug 1, 2026
A widely repeated report described a $600 million OpenAI markdown in Microsoft's fourth quarter. Microsoft's own reconciliation shows the opposite — a $480 million gain — and the Anthropic windfall sits inside the adjusted earnings that beat consensus.
Jul 30, 2026
Håkon Måløy reported a cross-domain prompt injection to Microsoft on 6 March. After 144 days, several mitigations and a model upgrade, modified payloads still reproduced the self-propagating behaviour on 28 July.
Jul 30, 2026
Fourth-quarter revenue reached $90.0 billion and Copilot hit 30 million paid seats. Microsoft also extended the useful life of its data centres from 15 years to 25, cutting its calendar-2026 capex headline by about $15 billion without changing what it intends to build.
Jul 30, 2026
MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and Project Perception put Microsoft into direct competition with the model vendors it resells — with a benchmark that compares a two-model system against rivals' single models.
Jul 28, 2026
Land-registry records show another 37.5 hectares next to its Middenmeer campus — plus a grid-connection application for a data centre the company says is still hypothetical.
Jul 27, 2026
US tech has announced close to 140,000 job cuts this year while the same handful of firms head toward more than $800 billion in AI spending. The market has not rewarded the explanation.
Jul 27, 2026
A record $190 billion capital-spending year has not stopped Azure customers queueing behind Microsoft's own Copilots — and after a run of GitHub outages, it was Amazon that supplied the capacity.
Jul 27, 2026
The expanded partnership makes the French lab a supplier of GPU capacity to Microsoft's own cloud customers, and puts Mistral Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 into Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio.
Jul 22, 2026
AMD's most direct challenge yet to Nvidia's rack-scale machines packs 72 MI455X GPUs per rack — and Microsoft committed to run it on Azure, joining Meta, OpenAI and Oracle as early buyers.
Jul 20, 2026
The Microsoft CEO's unusually pointed criticism of a partner — 'when was the last time you had a creation tool that was so editorially controlled?' — lands months after Microsoft put $5 billion into Anthropic.
Jul 17, 2026
At an internal FY27 kickoff, executives reportedly told the sales force to attack rival AI products on cost, security and completeness — including a side-by-side deck arguing Anthropic's Claude runs slower and less accurately inside Microsoft's own Office apps.
Jul 16, 2026
A $2.5 billion unit of about 6,000 people will sit inside enterprises to build and run their AI — Microsoft's bet that the hard part of AI is deployment, not the model.
Jul 6, 2026
