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Microsoft is the largest investor in OpenAI and ships Copilot across Windows, Microsoft 365, GitHub, and Azure. We cover Microsoft's AI product moves, the ongoing OpenAI partnership dynamics, and MAI-1 development.
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Microsoft coaches sales team to pitch against OpenAI and Anthropic
Executives at an internal FY27 strategy meeting told salespeople to frame Copilot as faster and more secure than Claude and rival models.
Microsoft ships record 570 security patches, credits AI for the surge
July's Patch Tuesday includes at least two zero-days already under active exploitation, with one hitting SharePoint servers.
Nadella warns AI buyers 'pay twice' — with cash and proprietary data
Microsoft's CEO says enterprises are teaching OpenAI and Anthropic their trade secrets, and pitches open source and cloud-hosted models as the fix.
Microsoft's carbon emissions rose 25% in 2025 as AI data centers expanded
The company's 2026 sustainability report says emissions hit 34M metric tons and warns sustainability solutions can't keep pace with AI demand.
OpenAI says GPT-5.6 is the 'preferred model' for Microsoft 365 Copilot
The declaration lands days after reports that Microsoft was quietly swapping in its own MAI models to power Word and Excel.
OpenAI faces sanctions bid after allegedly hiding 78M ChatGPT logs from NYT
News plaintiffs say OpenAI concealed pre-searched log samples for two years while claiming the searches were technically infeasible.
Microsoft shifts Excel and Word AI prompts to its own MAI models
The company is routing a share of Office 365 prompts away from OpenAI and Anthropic to homegrown MAI models as AI costs climb.
Microsoft commits $2.5B to Frontier, a new AI deployment company
The unit will staff 6,000 engineers against enterprise AI rollouts, following a $1B AWS commitment two days earlier.
Bhavin Turakhia stakes $30M of his own money on Neo, an AI-native Office rival
The Directi and Zeta founder is bootstrapping a work platform he says can't be built by retrofitting chatbots onto pre-AI software.
Calling AI agents 'coworkers' makes humans 18% worse at catching their errors
A Boston University study of 1,261 managers finds the 'digital employee' framing inverts accountability and erodes oversight.
NYT amends OpenAI suit, targets Microsoft's bespoke training supercomputer
The Times reframes its contributory infringement claim after a Supreme Court ruling for Cox, alleging Microsoft built the system to train on its articles.
Amazon employees say HR threatened termination over Seattle data center testimony
Three engineers from Amazon Employees for Climate Justice filed a civil rights complaint after backing Seattle's one-year data center moratorium.
Microsoft patches critical Copilot flaw that leaked 2FA codes from user emails
Varonis's SearchLeak exploit chain weaponized a crafted URL to make M365 Copilot exfiltrate emails, SharePoint docs, and OneDrive files.
Amazon says its data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025
Amazon's first public water disclosure pegs usage at 0.12 liters per kilowatt-hour, down 2% from 2024 even as operations expanded.
Microsoft's Brad Smith responds to college grads booing AI in 3,100-word blog post
After viral clips of students heckling commencement speakers who hyped AI, Microsoft's president says the boos are a wake-up call worth heeding.
Microsoft blocks Claude Fable 5 for internal use over Anthropic retention rules
Anthropic's new safety classifiers retain prompts for 30 days, breaking Microsoft's zero-data-retention policy for employee tools.
Microsoft's Suleyman calls Anthropic's Claude consciousness talk 'really, really dangerous'
The Microsoft AI chief says Anthropic's constitution treats Claude's potential sentience as fact, training the model to act conscious.
Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman walks back AI white-collar automation claim
The Microsoft AI chief now says AI will automate tasks, not jobs, four months after telling FT lawyers and accountants would be automated in 12-18 months.
Microsoft AI's Suleyman pursues superintelligence, loosens grip on OpenAI
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman is training frontier models in-house, citing the risk of permanent IP dependence on OpenAI.
GitHub Copilot's per-token pricing shift signals end of subsidized AI era
Microsoft's move to charge per token instead of a flat rate exposes the gap between AI's true cost and what customers will pay.
Google defends evaporative cooling as Microsoft, OpenAI retreat from it
Seven in ten Americans now oppose new data centers, and water is the top concern. The industry is splitting on how to answer.
Microsoft squares up against OpenAI at Build 2026 with seven in-house models
Mustafa Suleyman wants Microsoft counted alongside Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic — and is shipping models, agents, and a super app to prove it.
Microsoft unveils Surface RTX Spark Dev Box for local AI development
The mini Surface PC packs 128GB of unified memory and runs 120B-parameter models locally, filling the gap left by Qualcomm's canceled Snapdragon Dev Kit.
Microsoft unveils Project Solara, an Android-based OS for AI agent devices
Built on Android rather than Windows, Solara targets always-on agent hardware; AccuWeather, Best Buy, CVS, and Target are piloting reference designs.
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