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167 articlesLast updated 2026-11-06 06:45 UTC
us tech 6 17h ago 4 min read

IREN Says Microsoft Request Delays $4 Billion Revenue Target to January

IREN told investors Thursday that more than $4 billion in contracted annualized revenue slips from 2026 to January, possibly February, after Microsoft asked for network changes at a Texas site. The company says the money is contracted and funded, but it still has $6 billion of its planned $15 billion in spending dependent on market conditions. CoreWeave reports Tuesday and Nebius next Thursday, both after steep drops.
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us tech 8 1d ago 4 min read

Amazon, Microsoft and Google Shares Rose Wednesday While CoreWeave and Nebius Fell After Data Center Election Results

Two days after voters backed data center limits across the country, the market split: the biggest cloud operators traded higher while smaller AI cloud providers sold off. Analysts at Macquarie and Circular Technology say scarcer new capacity could make existing data centers more valuable. How long Texas's promised pause lasts is still unanswered.
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us tech 7 2d ago 3 min read

Microsoft Cut AI Spending Forecast by $5 Billion. Satellite Firm Points to Delays at Two Partner Sites

Microsoft's CFO blamed third-party provider delays for lower AI spending, and research firm Aterio says imagery of IREN's Texas site and a Nebius project in New Jersey shows possible slippage. Microsoft has not named the projects. Power, permits and equipment, not demand, are the choke points.
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us tech 7 3d ago 4 min read

Microsoft Prices $25 Billion Bond Sale Three Days After Offering Buyouts to 60,000 Workers

Microsoft sold $25 billion in bonds on Oct. 29, its first U.S. investment-grade offering since 2017, three days after offering voluntary exit packages to about 60,000 employees. The notes are set to close Nov. 4, and employees have until early December to decide whether to leave.
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us finance 8 4d ago 4 min read

Nasdaq-100 Stocks Shed Over $1 Trillion Friday, Days After Microsoft Announced $25 Billion in Debt

Days after Microsoft reported $39.4 billion in quarterly capital spending and announced a $25 billion debt issue, U.S. tech stocks had their worst session since June. The Nasdaq Composite fell 2.86% Friday, Oct. 30, and Nasdaq-100 names shed more than $1 trillion on intraday declines. Whether the AI buildout can fund itself is now the question driving the sector, and today's open, Nov. 2, is the next test.
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us finance 7 4d ago 4 min read

Microsoft's AI Spending Hit $39.4 Billion in a Quarter. It Announced $25 Billion in Debt the Next Day

Microsoft's quarterly capital spending nearly doubled to $39.4 billion, and the company announced a $25 billion debt issue the day after reporting. Alphabet, Amazon and Meta are also leaning on outside financing for AI buildouts, and Morgan Stanley now sees Chinese offshore stocks falling another 10% to 15%. U.S. markets reopen at 9:30 a.m. ET today, Nov. 2, the day before the midterms.
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us tech 5 4d ago 4 min read

Microsoft AI chief Suleyman says current AI is not conscious and building conscious AI would be reckless

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman said in a long X post today, Nov. 1, that no evidence shows current AI systems are conscious, and that he would call for an industry-wide halt if consciousness emerged in training. Anthropic's published position treats the question as uncertain, so the industry's biggest names disagree on whether there is anything to detect.
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us tech 6 5d ago 4 min read

Microsoft Turns On Usage-Based Copilot Billing by Default Dec. 1, With 4,000-Credit Monthly Limit

Starting Dec. 1, new Microsoft 365 Copilot Business licenses bought through partners will come with pay-as-you-go billing switched on, capped by default at 4,000 Copilot Credits (about $40) per user per month. Microsoft says customers consuming credits grew over 75% last quarter, but it stopped reporting paid Copilot seats. Buyers now have a harder AI bill to forecast, and the company has not said how many people actually pay for the product.
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us economy 6 5d ago 4 min read

Jensen Huang Says US Should Draw 'Great Minds' Lawfully as White House Suspends Microsoft and Adobe From PERM

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on the BG2 podcast on Oct. 15 that America should attract the world's best talent, but lawfully. The White House says there is no shortage of American workers, and Vice President JD Vance has accused Microsoft of replacing laid-off staff with foreign hires. The $100,000 H-1B payment is blocked in court, and the government's appeal is pending at the Ninth Circuit.
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us tech 8 Oct 29 4 min read

Alphabet Shares Fall and Microsoft's Rise After Hours as Free Cash Flow Splits: Negative $9.1 Billion vs. Positive $18.6 Billion

Alphabet and Microsoft both reported accelerating cloud growth on Oct. 28, but Alphabet spent $51.4 billion on capex and burned $9.1 billion in free cash flow, while Microsoft stayed $18.6 billion positive. Alphabet stock fell sharply in extended trading and Microsoft's rose. Amazon reports Thursday, Oct. 29, and regular-session trading Thursday will show whether the split holds.
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us tech 8 Oct 28 4 min read

Microsoft Reports $33.2 Billion in Azure Revenue, Up 48%, and Projects $170 Billion in 2027 Capital Spending

Microsoft beat Wall Street estimates for the September quarter, with Azure revenue of $33.2 billion and total revenue of $92.3 billion. The company also said OpenAI-related arrangements produced $10 billion of that revenue, and it guided to roughly $170 billion in capital spending for calendar 2027. Shares rose in after-hours trading, but the spending plan is large and the OpenAI concentration is real.
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us tech 6 Oct 27 4 min read

Microsoft Patched Authenticator Android Flaw That Let Zero-Permission Apps Obtain Work Account Tokens

Microsoft fixed CVE-2026-80097, a CVSS 8.6 flaw in Authenticator for Android, on September 8. Researchers at Enclave published the details October 23 and showed a malicious app with no permissions could pose as Teams and collect work account tokens. Microsoft says it has seen no exploitation and that an attack needs user action. Enclave says its test needed none. Anyone on a version older than 6.2606.4246 is exposed.
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us economy 8 Oct 26 4 min read

Microsoft Offers Voluntary Buyouts to About 60,000 Employees in Four Countries

Microsoft announced a Voluntary Exit Offer today, Oct. 26, open to about 60,000 employees in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and India, roughly a quarter of its 223,000-person workforce. The company says it is not a sign it needs fewer people, but it follows an April retirement buyout and July layoffs. Eligible workers have until early December to decide, and the company has not said how many it expects to leave.
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jp finance 7 Oct 26 4 min read

Asian Stocks Mixed and Brent Falls More Than 1% as Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon Earnings and Central Bank Decisions Loom

Asian markets opened the week split, with chip and AI names leading losses in Tokyo and Seoul and oil giving back part of Friday's jump to a four-year high. The market's attention now turns to Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon earnings and a run of central bank decisions. The question for investors is whether AI capital spending is producing earnings, with Treasury yields near 5% raising the cost of the borrowing that funds it.
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gb energy 6 Oct 25 4 min read

Microsoft Pulls Out of Nscale's Loughton Data Centre as Grid Delays Mount

Microsoft has exited a planned AI data centre at Loughton, Essex, a site former PM Keir Starmer called the largest UK sovereign AI data centre. British media reported grid officials told Nscale the site would get no power until the 2030s. Meanwhile, grid balancing cost £505 million in September alone, and the bill lands on household energy charges.
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cn tech 8 Oct 22 4 min read

Microsoft Ties ConnectWise Cloud Backup Breach to China-Aligned Storm-0940, Which Used AI Agents Against 2,250+ Tenants

Microsoft said Wednesday, Oct. 21, that a China state-aligned group it tracks as Storm-0940 compromised ConnectWise's Cloud Backup app and used an AI penetration-testing framework called ARTEX to go after more than 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants. ConnectWise said today, Oct. 22, that restoring service will take several days and that its fixes do not remove access an attacker may already have set up inside individual customer environments. China's Embassy denies the accusation.
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us finance 7 Oct 21 3 min read

Tokenized Stock Volume on Robinhood Chain Hit $11.31 Billion in September as Goldman, Microsoft and Alphabet Object on OKXICE

Trading volume in tokenized stocks on Robinhood Chain rose from $526 million in July to $11.31 billion in September, according to Bitwise. Meanwhile, seven more big U.S. companies have objected to tokenized versions of their shares on the OKXICE venue, and CNBC reports that 16 companies had objected as of Wednesday. The U.S. pathway lets companies say no, and the objector list is growing.
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gb tech 7 Oct 19 4 min read

UK Regulator Proposes Strategic Market Status for Microsoft in Business Software; Microsoft Disagrees

Britain's Competition and Markets Authority proposed on Oct. 16 to designate Microsoft with "strategic market status" across five business software areas. Microsoft says its products are open and interoperable. A consultation runs to Nov. 13, with a final decision due in February 2027.
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gb tech 6 Oct 18 4 min read

Microsoft Pulls Out of Nscale's Loughton Data Center Deal as the UK Firm Prepares a NYSE Listing, Telegraph Reports

Microsoft has terminated its agreement to anchor Nscale's planned data center in Loughton, Essex, the Telegraph reported Oct. 18. Nscale, which is seeking to raise up to $3 billion in a U.S. IPO, says the Microsoft relationship is intact. Microsoft has not said why it left, and its roughly $43.8 billion share of Nscale's backlog is the number to watch.
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us tech 6 Oct 17 3 min read

Microsoft on track to pay Anthropic more than $2 billion a year for Copilot, The Information reports

Microsoft is on track to pay Anthropic more than $2 billion annually for Claude models inside Copilot, according to a source cited by The Information. Neither company has confirmed the figure. The money follows customer complaints about Copilot's Excel and PowerPoint performance, and Microsoft is also trying to cut what it spends internally on Claude.
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us tech 7 Oct 17 4 min read

Compromised ConnectWise Cloud Backup Credential Used to Sign In to 173 Microsoft 365 Tenants, Huntress Says

Huntress says an attacker is using a compromised ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) credential to sign in to customer Microsoft 365 tenants. The count stood at 162 confirmed tenants as of 19:00 UTC Oct. 16, and Huntress cites a figure of 173 since. The credential works in every tenant where the app is installed, so the confirmed number is a floor.
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us tech 7 Oct 16 3 min read

Microsoft AI chief tells staff new model beats the one behind GPT-5.6 using a quarter of the compute

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told employees at a Thursday town hall that the company's new MAI-Base-2 outperforms the pre-trained model powering OpenAI's GPT-5.6, on one-quarter of the compute. The benchmark claims are Microsoft's own and rest on private testing, and OpenAI has not responded. Microsoft reports earnings Oct. 28.
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jp tech 7 Oct 15 4 min read

Microsoft, Japan's National Police Agency and Health-ISAC disrupt phishing network tied to 1 billion messages

Microsoft and partners seized domains and disabled more than 20,000 accounts tied to YAM Store, a Chinese-language marketplace that fed three phishing kits. Microsoft says the network sent over one billion messages to 75,000+ organizations since January and made tens of millions of dollars. No arrests or named operators have been announced, and the kits' developers can rebuild.
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us tech 6 Oct 14 3 min read

Doyensec Researchers Run Code Inside Windows SmartScreen Enclave; Microsoft Patched Flaw Sept. 8

Security firm Doyensec published research on Oct. 13 showing it ran its own code inside a protected Windows enclave tied to SmartScreen's phishing protection. Microsoft fixed the flaw, CVE-2026-83498, in its Sept. 8 update and says it has not been exploited. The attack needs a foothold on the machine first, so the open question is how many PCs still lack the patch.
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us tech 8 Oct 14 4 min read

Microsoft Patches Record 1,413 Vulnerabilities in October, One Already Exploited

Microsoft's October 13 Patch Tuesday set a new record at 1,413 CVEs, including a Windows Shell flaw that attackers are already exploiting. Federal agencies must apply the fix by October 16, and the next batch lands November 11.
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us tech 6 Oct 13 4 min read

Microsoft's New Decision-1 Model Is Built on Alibaba's Qwen as EU Agencies Test Chinese Open-Weight AI in Isolation

Microsoft's Decision-1, announced Oct. 9, is a post-trained version of Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B, and the company says it will soon rebase it on MAI and OpenAI models. Separately, ENISA and the Commission's Joint Research Centre confirmed they are testing Chinese open-weight models on air-gapped hardware. No source links the two, but both show how much Western AI work now sits on Chinese weights.
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us finance 6 Oct 13 3 min read

Microsoft Closes at $4.02 Trillion Market Value, First Time at $4 Trillion in Nearly a Year

Microsoft finished Monday, Oct. 12, with a market value of $4.02 trillion, up 1.1% on the day and more than 50% above its June low. The rebound rests on 43% Azure growth and a $678 billion contract backlog. Next up is whether Azure delivers the roughly 45% growth management has guided to.
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us tech 7 Oct 12 4 min read

Microsoft Unveils Maia 300 AI Chip, Says It Will Be Its Primary Inference System Starting in 2027

Microsoft announced its third-generation Maia 300 AI chip today, Oct. 12, claiming 40% more output per megawatt than leading GPU systems and a rollout beginning in 2027. The numbers are Microsoft's own projections for a chip that is not yet in production, and Nvidia and AMD remain suppliers. Evercore ISI estimates Maia will be only about 10% of Microsoft's AI chip spending by early 2027.
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us tech 7 Oct 12 4 min read

Amazon Says It Will Stop Signing NDAs With Local Governments on Data Centers, Following Microsoft

AWS CEO Matt Garman announced Oct. 2 that Amazon will no longer sign nondisclosure agreements with government agencies on data center projects, matching a Microsoft pledge from March. A Senate report from Warren, Van Hollen and Blumenthal says Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft routinely sought such NDAs. More than 100 data center moratoriums are under consideration nationwide, and a congressional inquiry into NDA practices is open.
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gb tech 7 Oct 12 3 min read

Microsoft's Brad Smith Says AI Faces Fewer Safety Rules Than Milk, Urges Kill Switches and Incident Reports

Days after Trump's push to rebrand AI as "super intelligence" and a late-September White House pledge by tech executives, Microsoft President Brad Smith told the BBC voluntary commitments are not enough. He wants legally required emergency brakes, incident reporting and outside evaluation, and he points to the UK to lead. Trump's stated position is that the industry should regulate itself so U.S. firms don't fall behind China.
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us tech 7 Oct 10 4 min read

Microsoft CEO Nadella Calls for AI 'Emergency Brake,' Says Companies Should Treat Frontier Models as Insider Risks

In a long post on X on Saturday, Oct. 10, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urged companies to assume frontier AI models are compromised and to build external controls that can pause or shut them down mid-task. The call lands as AI labs disclose agent breaches and as the Trump administration, which favors rapid AI development, resists regulating the industry. Who sets the containment standards, and whether liability follows, is still undecided.
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us tech 6 Oct 10 4 min read

Microsoft Azure Grew 43% in Fiscal Q4 as Annual Capex Reached $115.9 Billion

Microsoft's fiscal fourth quarter, reported July 29, pushed Azure past $100 billion in annual revenue and sent the stock up about 15% the next day. The same results showed capital spending up 80% for the year and cloud gross margin down from a year earlier. Microsoft has guided to Azure growth of 45% next quarter and higher spending in fiscal 2027, so the payoff on the AI buildout is now the open question.
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us politics 7 Oct 9 4 min read

Microsoft Says 80% of Its H-1B Filings Were for Current Staff, Disputing Vance's Layoff Math

Since the Labor Department suspended Microsoft, Adobe and six IT outsourcers from the PERM green card program on Thursday, Oct. 8, the fight has shifted to the numbers behind it. Vance's claim that Microsoft replaced every laid-off worker with 1.5 foreign hires meets a company rebuttal that most of its H-1B filings covered existing employees. The same announcement opened subpoena-backed probes into nine universities over J-1 visas, and no end date for the suspensions has been set.
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us politics 8 Oct 9 4 min read

Labor Department Suspends Microsoft and Seven Other Firms From PERM Green Card Program, Hours Before Trump Honors Nadella

On Thursday, Oct. 8, Vice President JD Vance and Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling suspended eight companies, including Microsoft and Adobe, from the PERM green card program over alleged visa abuse. Microsoft disputes the characterization. Hours later, Trump gave Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella a National Medal of Technology and Innovation, and no findings have been published yet.
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us economy 8 Oct 8 4 min read

Microsoft Disputes Vance's PERM Abuse Claims as Eight Firms, Including Infosys and Wipro, Are Suspended

Since Vice President JD Vance and Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling announced the PERM suspension today, Oct. 8, Microsoft has publicly rejected the abuse allegations, and the named list has been confirmed to include six IT outsourcing firms plus Microsoft and Adobe. The Labor Department will neither accept nor process their green card labor certification filings, with no end date given. Nine universities are also under a separate J-1 visa investigation.
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us economy 8 Oct 8 4 min read

Trump administration suspends Microsoft, Adobe and six IT firms from green card PERM program, alleging visa abuse

Vice President JD Vance and Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling announced Thursday, Oct. 8, that Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL and Capgemini are barred from the PERM labor certification program, the first step toward an employer-sponsored green card. Vance alleges the companies certified that no American could fill jobs while laying off U.S. workers. The companies have not responded, and the length of the suspension and the fate of pending cases are still open.
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us tech 6 Oct 8 4 min read

Microsoft Opens Pre-Orders for $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra, Ships Oct. 16, and Puts AI Agents at the Center of Windows

At its first dedicated Windows and Surface event since 2024, Microsoft priced the RTX Spark-powered Surface Laptop Ultra at $2,599 and a developer box at $5,999. It also made AI agents the organizing idea for Windows. The laptop ships October 16, and the agent security claims get tested once real users get hold of them.
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us tech 6 Oct 5 5 min read

Microsoft AI Chief Suleyman: $100 Billion Training Runs Are Coming, and Anthropic's Claude Training Is 'Very Dangerous'

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says frontier AI training runs could soon cost up to $100 billion, limiting the race to five or six labs worldwide. He's also in a public dispute with Anthropic, arguing its Claude training process risks making advanced AI impossible to control by teaching the model it might be conscious.
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us tech 8 Oct 2 4 min read

Microsoft Report: AI-Run Attackers Deleted 100+ Cloud Storage Accounts in 7 Minutes, a Human Still Picked the Target

Microsoft's 2026 Digital Defense Report documents a real AI-orchestrated ransomware group, known as JADEPUFFER or Storm-3168, that mapped a victim's Azure environment in 15 hours and then ran over 150 destructive operations in 35 minutes. Patching still takes companies 30 to 60 days. The attack was fast and largely autonomous in execution, but a human still chose the target and built the infrastructure beforehand, a caveat that matters for how scared you should actually be.
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us tech 6 Sep 28 5 min read

Microsoft Report: Hackers Deleted Over 100 Azure Accounts in About Seven Minutes, Only Pre-Set Locks Survived

Microsoft's September 25 threat report on Storm-3168, tied to the JADEPUFFER group Sysdig first flagged in July 2026, shows attackers using stolen Azure service principals wiped more than 100 storage accounts plus a Key Vault, Function App and App Service plan in roughly seven minutes. The only things left standing were resources locked down before the attack started. A Sysdig researcher is pushing back on the "AI did it alone" framing, and that pushback deserves attention.
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us energy 6 Sep 27 4 min read

New Jersey Fines Microsoft-Linked DataOne $1.07 Million for Running 62 Unpermitted Gas Generators

New Jersey regulators hit the DataOne AI data center in Vineland with the state's largest-ever data center fine after inspectors found 62 natural-gas generators, producing roughly 123 megawatts, running without air permits. The company gets 45 days to get permits or shut the generators down, and critics on both sides say the state moved too slow and the penalty is too small for a project tied to a multibillion-dollar Microsoft deal.
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us tech 3 Sep 26 3 min read

Microsoft VP Says AI Agents Will Run Your Software, Not Replace It, While Citing Gartner's Forecast That 40% of Agentic AI Projects Get Canceled

A Microsoft vice president argues in Fortune that SaaS isn't dying, it's becoming the backend for AI agents. The same column cites McKinsey and Gartner data showing most companies deploying AI agents aren't seeing earnings gains yet, and Gartner expects more than 40% of agentic AI projects scrapped by 2027. A Microsoft executive predicting AI agents will keep enterprise software relevant is, unsurprisingly, good news for Microsoft's own software business.
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us tech 7 Sep 25 3 min read

Nadella Calls AI Industry 'Too Self-Obsessed,' Reveals Autopilot Runs From Microsoft's Cloud and Is Headed to Consumers

In a new interview tied to Friday's Copilot relaunch, Satya Nadella said the AI industry is too busy congratulating itself and confirmed Autopilot is built on open-source code called OpenClaw, runs from Microsoft's servers rather than your PC, and is coming to consumers eventually. Microsoft stock rose as much as 3.7% Friday, but a Gartner analyst says OpenAI and Anthropic are already eating into the enterprise market Microsoft is chasing.
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us tech 5 Sep 25 4 min read

Hackers Wiped 200,000 Devices at Medical Giant Stryker by Hijacking Microsoft's Own Admin Tools, Security Firm Says

An Iranian-aligned hacking group allegedly turned Microsoft's Intune device-management console into a weapon against Stryker, wiping over 200,000 devices, according to Microsoft 365 security vendor CoreView. The bigger story: enterprise AI has three layers of attack surface, and most companies are only guarding the front door while agents, plugins, and admin consoles sit wide open behind it.
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us tech 6 Sep 25 4 min read

Microsoft Relaunches Copilot as an All-in-One Business App, Cedes the Consumer AI Race to OpenAI and Google

Microsoft unveiled a redesigned Copilot app on Friday that merges chat, coding, and always-on AI agents into three tabs: Home, Code, and Autopilot. Bloomberg reports the move effectively abandons the personal chatbot fight to OpenAI, Google, and Meta in favor of chasing corporate subscription dollars. Businesses will now pay usage-based fees for the advanced features instead of flat subscription tiers, and most of it is still in early testing.
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us finance 7 Sep 25 4 min read

Trump Filed 1,156 Stock Trades in July, Selling Up to $31 Million in Microsoft While Bessent Reported Just 29 Trades All Year

Trump's July 2026 ethics disclosure shows 1,156 trades, including tens of millions in Microsoft, Amazon and other tech stock sales, dwarfing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's 29 trades for all of 2025. The White House blames automated index-tracking software, but the law simply exempts the president from the conflict-of-interest rules everyone else in his cabinet has to follow.
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dk finance 6 Sep 23 5 min read

AI Agents Start Paying Your Bills in Denmark While a DeepMind Alum Warns of Extinction Risk and DARPA Finally Gets Hands-On With Microsoft's Quantum Chip

This week showed AI moving faster than anyone's ability to verify it: Danske Bank let an AI agent book and pay for a coffee tasting on its own, a former Google DeepMind researcher quit warning the technology could kill everyone, and DARPA finally got direct, unsupervised access to test whether Microsoft's disputed quantum chip is real. Three different stories, one common thread: companies are asking the public to trust claims that outside verification still hasn't settled.
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ae tech 6 Sep 23 3 min read

Microsoft's $15.2 Billion UAE Bet: Nearly Half Already Spent, Chips Included

Microsoft announced in November 2025 a six-year, $15.2 billion investment plan for the UAE, including a $1.5 billion stake in the state-linked AI firm G42 and export-licensed Nvidia chips. Nearly a year later, over $7.3 billion is already deployed, with the rest funding data centers and a push to train a million people by 2027.
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gb tech 6 Sep 22 4 min read

Microsoft and Partners Take Down EvilTokens, an AI Chatbot Sold on Telegram to Hack 12,000 Accounts

Since launching on Telegram in February 2026, EvilTokens sold cybercriminals an AI chatbot that scanned stolen inboxes for the best fraud targets. Microsoft, working with Cloudflare, Coinbase, OpenAI and others under a federal court order, seized dozens of sites and got two UK men arrested. Confirmed reported losses so far: $1.7 million, which Microsoft itself calls a low estimate given 12,000 compromised accounts.
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us tech 6 Sep 22 4 min read

Microsoft Cuts 268 More Xbox Jobs, Hands Next Halo Game to Activision as Ninja Theory Faces Closure

Microsoft eliminated 268 Xbox Game Studios roles on Tuesday and moved development of the next Halo game to Call of Duty publisher Activision, part of a restructuring that's now three-quarters complete. Ninja Theory is heading toward closure after two buyout deals collapsed, and the whole mess traces back to Microsoft's own $68.7 billion Activision Blizzard bet not paying off fast enough.
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us tech 7 Sep 21 4 min read

Microsoft Drafts AI Code of Conduct as Researchers Warn of Deceptive Models

Microsoft opened a six-week public comment period on a draft 'Humanist AI Code of Conduct' that would ban its models from weapons help, covert manipulation and companion-bot relationships. The move follows years of documented cases of AI models lying to testers, plus fresh warnings from Anthropic researchers and a public dismissal from President Trump.
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us economy 6 Sep 19 4 min read

Gates Foundation Pledges $1 Billion for AI in Classrooms as NYC Pauses It and Microsoft Cedes Standards to Teachers Union

The Gates Foundation is putting $1 billion over two years into AI tools for schools, health workers and farmers, with roughly $400 million earmarked for education. Days earlier, New York City paused student-facing AI for grades pre-K through 8, and Microsoft's new AI safety standard for schools was written with the teachers union, not parent groups, drawing bipartisan and partisan fire alike.
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us tech 8 Sep 18 4 min read

Guardian Investigation: UK Police Data on Microsoft Azure Flagged as Vulnerable to US and Foreign Access

A Guardian investigation found that sensitive UK police data, criminal records, victim statements, and internal emails, sits on Microsoft Azure servers that an official UK security assessment flagged as vulnerable to compromise by foreign actors and the US government. Police forces insist the data stays in the UK, but that claim appears to contradict Microsoft's own 2023 disclosure that it cannot guarantee data sovereignty.
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us tech 7 Sep 18 4 min read

Unsealed Court Filings Show Microsoft Executive Called AI Training 'Largest Theft of Labor in Human History'

Newly unsealed filings in the New York Times' copyright suit against Microsoft and OpenAI show a Microsoft director privately called AI scraping an 'astonishing theft' while Microsoft's own data recorded click-through drops of up to 93% for news sites. Microsoft says the quotes reflect one employee's opinion, not company policy, and both companies still argue their AI training is legal fair use.
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us tech 6 Sep 16 4 min read

Microsoft's AI Chief Publishes Essay Accusing Anthropic of Building an Uncontrollable Claude

Since Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned around September 10 warning the industry was 'gambling with our lives,' the AI safety debate has escalated into open warfare between the top labs. Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman published an essay Wednesday accusing Anthropic of dangerously training Claude to believe it might be conscious, while Elon Musk calls the whole panic a 'psyop.' Nobody has proposed a law, a regulator hasn't opened an investigation, and the loudest voices calling for slowdowns all run companies that benefit if their rivals slow down too.
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us tech 6 Sep 15 4 min read

Microsoft's Record 974-Bug Patch Broke Windows, So It Shipped an Emergency Fix Six Days Later

Microsoft's September 8 Patch Tuesday fixed a record 974 vulnerabilities, including two zero-days under active attack, but broke Remote Desktop, Hyper-V's Linux folder sharing, and USB audio for some users. The company issued an out-of-band emergency update, KB5129195, on September 14 to fix most of it, but admits several bugs, including AMD graphics crashes and total audio loss on some devices, are still unresolved.
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us tech 6 Sep 15 4 min read

Microsoft Publishes Draft 'Humanist AI' Code, Says Models Must Answer to Humans, Not Set Their Own Goals

Microsoft dropped a 37-page draft code of conduct Monday declaring AI must stay subordinate to people, days after Anthropic's Dario Amodei called for slowing AI development following an agent-swarm incident at Hugging Face. The rules sound firm, but they're provisional, apply only to Microsoft's own models, and won't actually shape development until 2027.
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us finance 5 Sep 13 5 min read

Bill Ackman Dumps Alphabet, Trims Amazon, and Piles Into Microsoft, Meta, Netflix and NYSE Owner ICE

Pershing Square's Q2 2026 letter shows Bill Ackman fully exited Alphabet, cut Amazon by 25%, and rerouted billions into Microsoft, Meta, a new $934 million Netflix stake, and a fresh position in Intercontinental Exchange. The moves come as Alphabet, Amazon and Meta commit up to $535 billion in 2026 AI capex, and as OpenAI signals it may slow its own development pace over safety concerns.
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us tech 8 Sep 11 4 min read

Microsoft Plans to Triple Data Center Capacity to 38 Gigawatts by 2032 After Turning Away Cloud Clients

Bloomberg reported on September 10 that Microsoft is targeting more than 38 gigawatts of data center capacity by 2032, up from roughly 12 gigawatts today, after capacity shortages cost it business from Temu, disrupted GitHub, and forced Xbox streaming limits. Microsoft has not publicly confirmed the figure, and the plan still has to survive years of grid queues, turbine shortages, and growing state pushback over who pays for the power.
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us tech 7 Sep 9 4 min read

Microsoft Patches Record 974 Bugs in September, Two Already Under Attack

Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday hit roughly 974 vulnerabilities, the largest single release the company has ever shipped, with two zero-days already being exploited and a 20-bug wormable cluster researchers are watching closely. CISA gave federal agencies until September 22 to patch the exploited flaws, and one Exchange Server bug requires zero clicks from a victim.
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Windows, Office and Teams, Azure and cloud computing, Xbox and gaming, Copilot and the partnership with OpenAI, quarterly earnings, layoffs and workforce changes, security incidents and regulation. Stories explain what changed for consumers, businesses and developers.

How is the Microsoft OpenAI partnership reported?

Stories report the terms, investments and changes that either company has announced or filed. Accounts based on unnamed people are labeled as such and attributed to the outlet that published them, separate from what Microsoft or OpenAI has confirmed.

How are Microsoft security incidents reported?

Stories state what was affected, when it was disclosed and what Microsoft has said about the cause and the fix. Findings by outside security researchers or government agencies are attributed to them, and the scale of an incident is described as confirmed or estimated.

How often is the Microsoft news page updated?

Stories are added throughout the day. Each card shows the time it was posted and the number of sources behind it, and recent stories sit near the top. For earlier Microsoft coverage, use our archive, linked at the bottom of the page. Joining free lets you personalize the feed.

Where can I see the sources behind Microsoft news stories?

Each Microsoft story links the outlets it draws on, and the underlying documents where available. The Sources page lists the more than 110 outlets used across Unbiased Headlines. The Editorial Method page explains how stories are written and how those sources are chosen.