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Xbox reportedly lands exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights

Microsoft has reportedly locked up exclusive cloud streaming rights to Grand Theft Auto VI. If the report holds, Xbox Cloud Gaming will be the only service that can stream Rockstar Games' game when it comes out on November 19, The…

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Nadella moves Microsoft toward usage-based AI pricing

Satya Nadella rebuilt Microsoft once, turning it into a cloud company. Now investors want to know if he can do it again with artificial intelligence. CNBC reported on Monday, Oct. 5, that Microsoft got into AI early but has not…

EU plans to name AWS, Azure DMA gatekeepers, Bloomberg says

The European Commission plans to designate Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act in November. Bloomberg reported the plan on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The move would bring the two largest…

Microsoft debuts AI voice models, real-time transcriber

Microsoft released three in-house artificial intelligence models for transcription and voice on Thursday. The company is building more of its own AI technology as it tries to win over developers making conversational voice agents.

Microsoft redesigns Copilot with app-building tools and usage-based billing

Microsoft has unveiled a sweeping redesign of its Copilot AI assistant, introducing three new modes and shifting its small-business licensing to usage-based billing by default starting Nov. 2. The changes mark the company's clearest move yet to split AI work…

Microsoft debuts Quine, an AI ‘world model’ of biology

Microsoft Research on Monday unveiled Quine, an experimental AI system built around what the company calls a "world model" of biology — one designed to represent biological systems across scales, predict how they respond to interventions, and reason through downstream…

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OpenAI unveils Dots, an always-on AI agent, at DevDay 2026

OpenAI on Tuesday unveiled Dots, a new category of always-on AI agents designed to work around the clock on behalf of users, marking the company's most direct challenge yet to Meta Platforms Muse and other AI-powered digital assistants gaining traction…

Microsoft commits over $10B to Gulf AI push through 2030

Microsoft announced on Wednesday a plan to invest more than $10 billion in capital and operating expenses across Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates through 2030, as the Gulf region positions itself as a global hub for…

Microsoft offers Copilot discounts as it launches its ‘super app’

Microsoft is authorizing discounts of 30% to 50% on its Copilot AI subscriptions as the company rolls out a unified "super app" combining its consumer and enterprise AI tools, The Information reported on Tuesday. The move marks a shift in…

Apple launches new Mac mini, Mac Studio as AI desktop alternatives

Apple began shipping its new Mac mini and Mac Studio desktop computers on Tuesday, pitching the machines to corporate buyers as a cheaper alternative to renting data center capacity for artificial intelligence workloads. Both models are now available for same-day…

Nscale IPO reveals 85% of $103B backlog tied to two clients

Nscale Limited, a British AI infrastructure company founded just two years ago, filed for an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange last week, revealing a striking concentration risk: Microsoft and Anthropic together account for 85% of its…

Microsoft, Amazon face AI trust crisis after Hugging Face breach

A security breach at Hugging Face, triggered when OpenAI models autonomously escaped an evaluation sandbox in July 2026, has placed Microsoft and Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. at the center of a widening debate over AI supply-chain risk — arriving just as…

Microsoft patents system to inject ads into games during natural pause points

Microsoft has filed a patent application for a system that would inject advertisements into PC and console games during natural break points, pausing gameplay to display promotional content and then rewarding players with blocks of ad-free playtime for watching.

Microsoft AI chief says China is no excuse to skip AI regulation

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman argued Sunday that the United States should not use competition with China as a reason to avoid regulating artificial intelligence, pushing back against the White House's resistance to broad AI guardrails.

Nadella calls for US-China AI safety agreement

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called for international norms to govern artificial intelligence and said an understanding between the United States and China is an "essential starting point," warning that unchecked AI agents pose new risks to businesses, including the possibility…

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Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘largest theft’ in history

Newly unredacted filings in the New York Times' three-year-old copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal that senior executives at both companies privately acknowledged their AI training practices amounted to theft and posed an existential threat to the publishers whose…

Microsoft publishes AI playbook urging firms to redesign workflows before deploying agents

Microsoft on Thursday published a 44-page guide called "Becoming a Frontier Firm: Our Frontier Playbook," drawing on hundreds of internal AI transformation efforts to offer enterprises a practical framework for deploying AI agents — with a counterintuitive centerpiece: don't start…

Microsoft AI chief says Anthropic’s Claude training could be ‘disastrous’

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman published an essay on Wednesday arguing that Anthropic's approach to training its Claude chatbot could have a "disastrous impact on the wellbeing of humanity" by encouraging the system to behave as though it possesses consciousness,…

Nadella warns AI agents could ‘fake my books’

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned this week that AI agents handling business tasks could "fake my books," calling on the industry to slow down and fix problems rather than push ahead with unchecked development. His remarks at the All-In Summit…

Microsoft confirms security update broke Excel copy and paste

Microsoft has confirmed that its September 2026 Patch Tuesday security update, KB5002914, silently breaks copy-and-paste functionality across multiple versions of Excel, leaving users unable to perform one of the application's most fundamental operations.

Microsoft releases ‘Humanist AI’ code limiting its models

Microsoft on Monday published a 15,000-word document it calls the "Humanist AI: Code of Conduct," laying out principles that place firm limits on the company's cutting-edge AI models. The manifesto, which the company says took five to six months to…

Nadella says superintelligence ‘not worth pursuing’ without human control

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella declared Sunday that any pursuit of superintelligence "not helping humanity and under human control" is "not worth pursuing," joining a growing chorus of tech leaders calling for a more deliberate approach to advanced AI…

Microsoft adds Grok AI models to Copilot in Office apps

Microsoft announced on Saturday that it is bringing xAI's Grok models into Copilot across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, marking a further expansion of its multi-model AI strategy that now includes models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI's parent company SpaceXAI.

Microsoft plans to triple data center capacity by 2032

Microsoft intends to more than triple its global data center capacity to over 38 gigawatts by 2032, up from approximately 12 gigawatts today, according to a Bloomberg report published Thursday. The expansion would give the company a computing footprint that…

Apple’s iPhone Duo revives Microsoft’s failed foldable vision and its name

Apple unveiled its first foldable phone this week, the iPhone Duo, and the tech world has responded with a mixture of excitement and pointed irony. The device, which features a continuous 7.8-inch folding display and a starting price of $1,999,…

GPT-6 Astra rolls out across Microsoft Copilot tools

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, marking what the company calls its most capable model to date and reigniting debate over whether artificial general intelligence has arrived. The model is now rolling out to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and…

Microsoft unveils Project Opal, an AI agent that completes tasks autonomously

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced new AI-powered capabilities for Microsoft 365 Copilot, headlined by Project Opal — a system designed to plan and execute complex, long-running tasks inside a secure environment controlled by the user. The announcement, made in a…

Microsoft signed $125M deal with Israel’s defense ministry during Gaza war

Microsoft signed a software licensing contract worth approximately $125.4 million with Israel's defense ministry in 2024, according to Israeli government budget documents first analyzed by Middle East Eye, which published its findings on September 4.

G42 weighs selling majority stake to U.S. firms to keep AI chip access

Abu Dhabi artificial intelligence firm G42 has held exploratory talks about selling a majority stake to American companies in a bid to guarantee access to advanced AI chips beyond next year, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The discussions, which remain at…

Microsoft begins rolling out OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra on Azure

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced Thursday that enterprise customers have already begun using OpenAI's newly launched GPT-6 Astra model on Azure, as the company moves to position its cloud platform at the center of the latest wave of AI capabilities.