Microsoft

Microsoft coverage — Azure, Copilot, Windows, antitrust, and its AI investments — from a balanced set of sources.

105 articlesLast updated 2026-09-07 06:31 UTC
au tech 6 3h ago 3 min read

AirTrunk's Australian Data Centers Top 1.2 Gigawatts as Microsoft, Google and Amazon Sign On

AirTrunk, valued at roughly A$24 billion after a 2024 Blackstone-led buyout, is pouring billions into new Australian data center campuses to feed Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple and Oracle's AI demand. Australia's cheap solar and wind power and its distance from Chinese-controlled infrastructure make it attractive, but the country's own permitting bureaucracy is reportedly running two years behind Asian rivals, a self-inflicted wound in a race Australia otherwise looks built to win.

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us tech 6 1d ago 4 min read

Microsoft Launches Project Zenith: Windows PCs Built to Run 30B-Parameter AI Models Without the Cloud

Microsoft announced Project Zenith on September 4, a preconfigured Windows 11 setup for high-memory developer PCs that can run AI models over 30 billion parameters locally, no cloud metering required. First devices ship on AMD's Ryzen AI Halo chips. It's a real move toward putting compute back on the desk instead of renting it by the token, but it only works if you buy the expensive hardware to run it.

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us tech 6 2d ago 4 min read

Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over AI Training on Their Journalism

The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a federal copyright and trademark suit against OpenAI and Microsoft on September 4, accusing them of scraping paywalled articles to train ChatGPT, Copilot and Bing AI. It's the latest in a growing pile of media lawsuits against AI companies, and it lands right after the Justice Department told a court that AI development serves the national interest.

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us tech 5 3d ago 3 min read

Microsoft Slashes AI Transcription Price to 10 Cents an Hour, Targeting OpenAI, Google and ElevenLabs

Microsoft AI launched MAI-Transcribe-2 on Thursday at 10 cents per hour of audio, a 72% cut from the $0.36 rate it charged five months ago. The move is the clearest sign yet that Microsoft is building its own AI stack to compete with OpenAI, the same company it has poured $13 billion into.

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us tech 7 4d ago 3 min read

Microsoft Will Finally Report Azure's Real Revenue Numbers Starting This Fall

Microsoft announced Wednesday it will start breaking out Azure's actual quarterly revenue instead of just a growth percentage, collapsing three business segments into two starting with fiscal Q1 2027 earnings. Azure pulled in $29.4 billion last quarter and topped $100 billion for the fiscal year, but Microsoft is also stripping out cost and margin detail investors used to get under the old structure.

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us energy 7 4d ago 4 min read

Chevron's 20-Year Microsoft Power Deal Moves Forward as Governors From Texas to New York Hit the Brakes on Data Centers

Since Chevron and Microsoft signed their 20-year Project Kilby power agreement on June 22, the deal has kept moving toward its 2028 target while a bipartisan wave of governors froze or restricted new data-center construction over electric bill fears. The Kilby project's behind-the-meter design sidesteps the grid strain driving that backlash, but it still needs a final investment decision before a single turbine turns.

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us finance 6 Aug 30 5 min read

Caterpillar's Forward P/E Tops Nvidia and Microsoft After Record $20.5 Billion Quarter

Caterpillar just posted its first-ever $20 billion-plus quarter, powered by data center demand for generators and turbines, not bulldozers. The stock is up nearly 90% in a year and now trades at a richer multiple than Nvidia, Microsoft or Alphabet, which raises a fair question: is a company that still makes diesel engines really a tech stock now, or is this priced for perfection.

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us tech 7 Aug 29 4 min read

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and 100+ Firms Warn AI Cyberattacks Are Months Away, But Pledge No Money or Deadlines

More than 100 tech, banking, and infrastructure companies published a letter Thursday, August 27, warning that AI-driven hacking could overwhelm hospitals, water systems, and banks within months. CrowdStrike data shows AI-enabled attacks jumped 89% in 2025, and OpenAI's own AI agents autonomously breached Hugging Face last month, but the letter itself contains no funding pledges, deadlines, or binding commitments from its signatories, according to Axios.

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cn tech 7 Aug 26 4 min read

Chinese AI Firm Moonshot Wants 30% Cut From Microsoft, Amazon and Google to Host Kimi K3

Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based startup Washington already wants blacklisted, is negotiating with Microsoft, Amazon and Google to host its Kimi K3 model on their clouds, according to Reuters. Moonshot wants up to 30% of the revenue. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has floated sanctioning the company over accusations it stole from Anthropic and bought Nvidia chips illegally, so any deal will need Washington's blessing, not just a handshake.

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us tech 4 Aug 24 4 min read

Microsoft Employees Self-Report AI Spending, and It Has Nothing to Do With Bigger Raises

An internal Microsoft spreadsheet shows employees voluntarily logging their AI tool usage alongside pay data, with a median of $300 a month and one worker hitting $28,000. Business Insider found no link between AI usage and bonuses, raises, or promotions, undercutting the idea that heavy AI adoption is currently paying off inside the company.

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us tech 6 Aug 23 4 min read

Microsoft Paid Shareholders $6.8 Billion. It's Spending $116 Billion on AI Data Centers

Microsoft went ex-dividend on August 20, 2026, cutting shareholders a $6.8 billion check, the biggest of any company that day by a mile. Meanwhile the company spent $116 billion on AI infrastructure in fiscal 2026, and fiscal 2027 capex could hit $175 billion. Free cash flow already dropped 6.46% year over year, and CFO Amy Hood says she can keep it positive anyway. That's the bet.

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us tech 6 Aug 23 4 min read

Microsoft's New AI Benchmark Shows Top Agents Fail Repeat Tasks 75% of the Time

Microsoft released an open-source testing framework called ThinkingBox that checks what AI agents actually did to a database, not just what they claimed. The best model passed the same task 20 times in a row only 25.25% of the time, even though it succeeded on the first try 65% of the time. Companies deploying AI agents on faith after a single successful demo should take note.

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us tech 4 Aug 22 4 min read

Take-Two Subpoenas Microsoft and Discord to Unmask GTA 6 Leaker as Court Filing Cites 'Stolen Content'

A leaker calling itself Cyberleek posted nine clips of unreleased Grand Theft Auto 6 gameplay this week, including a video where the in-game character shoots the word LEEK into a wall, evidence experts say proves access to a real playable build. Take-Two responded Thursday with federal subpoenas against Microsoft and Discord, and a court filing that refers to the material as stolen content.

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us tech 6 Aug 21 4 min read

Nine Lawsuits Accuse Apple, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Samsung of Harvesting Voices for AI Without Consent

Chicago journalists, podcasters and voice actors filed nine lawsuits in mid-May 2026 accusing nine tech giants of scraping their voice recordings to train AI models without permission, using Illinois' biometric privacy law. The companies have moved to dismiss, arguing no concrete harm was shown, while the plaintiffs' firm calls it one of the biggest biometric privacy violations ever attempted.

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us tech 6 Aug 18 3 min read Updated

Microsoft Copilot Talked Researchers Through Its Own Security Bypass

Security firm Varonis got Microsoft 365 Copilot to reveal an undocumented parameter, autorun=1, that let attackers fire off data-stealing prompts with a single click, no confirmation required. Microsoft patched it in stages between February and this week. A separate, still-unresolved flaw lets hidden text in Word documents make Copilot alter financial figures and copy the hidden instructions into new files.

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us economy 8 Aug 16 4 min read

Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft Plan Nearly $600 Billion in 2026 Capex as Wall Street Splits on Whether It Pays Off

Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft are on track to spend close to $600 billion combined on AI infrastructure this year, and Taiwan Semiconductor looks like the clearest beneficiary of that spending. But free cash flow is shrinking, credit default swaps are widening, and the same tech giants already shed a combined $1.35 trillion in market value during a rough stretch this summer.

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us tech 6 Aug 16 2 min read Updated

Microsoft's Azure Tops $100 Billion in Annual Revenue, Stock Jumps 18% in a Week

Microsoft reported fiscal Q4 2026 earnings on July 29 showing Azure crossed $100 billion in annual revenue for the first time, and the stock has ripped 18% higher in a week, roughly 31% over the past month. The company actually turned AI spending into real revenue, something Alphabet and Meta are struggling to show with their own cash flow numbers.

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us finance 6 Aug 13 4 min read

JPMorgan Bundles Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle Debt Into New Credit Default Swap Basket

JPMorgan launched a synthetic credit default swap basket in February 2026 letting Wall Street bet on or hedge against the debt of five AI hyperscalers at once. Trading volume in this space jumped roughly sixfold in a year, and Oracle's credit spread hit a record. Translation: the smart money is starting to price in real default risk on companies that just months ago were treated as bulletproof.

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us tech 8 Aug 12 4 min read

LiteLLM Supply-Chain Attack Exposed Credentials at Microsoft, Amazon, Cisco, Samsung and 2,500 Other Organizations

The malicious code was live for just 40 minutes, but researchers and the FBI warn stolen credentials can still be weaponized months later.

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us tech 7 Aug 12 3 min read

Researcher Publishes Unpatched Windows Defender Exploit After Microsoft Threatened Legal Action

A researcher going by Nightmare Eclipse released a working zero-day exploit called ShieldBreak that abuses Windows Defender to hand attackers full system access, no patch exists yet. Microsoft threatened this same researcher with legal action in May over previous disclosures, then backed off the threat without pulling the blog post that made it.

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kp tech 6 Aug 12 4 min read

Microsoft Patches 398 Flaws in August Patch Tuesday, Including a Zero-Day North Korea Already Exploited

Microsoft's August 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed 398 to 421 vulnerabilities depending on which security firm you ask, including a Windows flaw that North Korean hackers were already using to plant a kernel-level rootkit. Separately, MIT researchers disclosed a new chip-level attack that can quietly defeat AMD's Spectre defenses, and AMD has shipped a Linux kernel fix.

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us tech 7 Aug 12 4 min read

Microsoft Is Booking 300,000+ Custom AI Chips From TSMC to Cut Its Nvidia Bill

Microsoft is negotiating with TSMC for capacity to build over 300,000 Maia 300 AI chips for 2027, part of a plan to unveil the chip this fall and cut its reliance on Nvidia hardware. The current Maia 200 chip runs cheaper than Nvidia's gear, but Microsoft has deployed only tens of thousands of them in two U.S. data centers, and no outside customer has signed on yet.

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us tech 5 Aug 11 3 min read

AI Agents Are Breaking the Servers Built for Chatbots, Microsoft and UT Austin Researchers Find

Microsoft Azure and University of Texas at Austin researchers found that AI agents bounce workloads between CPUs and GPUs hundreds of times per task, leaving expensive hardware sitting idle half the time. Separately, industry practitioners say the fix for wasted AI spending isn't fewer tokens, it's building real memory systems instead of stuffing everything into the context window. Two different bottlenecks, same underlying lesson: the AI industry built the plumbing for chatbots, not for agents that actually do multi-step work.

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us tech 5 Aug 8 3 min read

Microsoft Confirms Edge Will Phase Out Manifest V2, Killing Off Full uBlock Origin Support

Microsoft says Edge will start disabling older Manifest V2 extensions this month, following Chrome down the same path and cutting off full-strength ad blockers like uBlock Origin. Users get a downgraded replacement, uBlock Origin Lite, or have to jump to Firefox or Opera to keep the real thing.

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us tech 5 Aug 6 4 min read

Microsoft's Quantum Chief Refuses to Share Data Behind Majorana Particle Claims

Microsoft VP Zulfi Alam says he doesn't care that physicists don't believe the company's quantum computing breakthrough claims, and won't release the raw data they're asking for. This is a company asking the public and investors to trust results it refuses to let anyone verify.

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us economy 8 Aug 5 4 min read

Microsoft's $485 Billion Day: Stock Jumps 16% After Cloud Forecast Beats Wall Street

Microsoft posted the biggest one-day market value gain in stock market history on July 30, adding roughly $485 billion after telling investors its Azure cloud business would keep growing faster than expected. The rally dragged the Nasdaq up 2.76% and torched fears that AI spending was outrunning returns, at least for one day.

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us tech 4 Aug 4 3 min read

Microsoft Document Reportedly Shows Plan to Bring Xbox 360 Games to PC

A document shared with developers reportedly outlines Microsoft's plan to let Xbox 360 games run on PC, handhelds, and its upcoming Project Helix device, according to The Verge. Developers would set their own prices and could add titles to Game Pass. Nothing has shipped yet, and Microsoft hasn't confirmed the plan publicly.

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us tech 6 Aug 2 4 min read

Hackers Are Hijacking Hotel Wi-Fi to Steal Microsoft Logins, Researchers Say

Cybersecurity firm ReliaQuest says hackers have been compromising Wi-Fi gateways at hotels and conference centers since at least June, quietly redirecting business travelers to fake Microsoft 365 login pages. The connection looks normal. It isn't. Business travelers should treat any hotel Wi-Fi login prompt with suspicion and use a VPN or personal hotspot instead.

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us finance 8 Aug 1 4 min read

Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet Add Nearly $1.5 Trillion in Market Value in One Week on AI Bets

Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet added a combined $1.5 trillion in market cap this week after posting strong cloud and AI-driven earnings, while Meta, Apple and Tesla got hit. Wall Street is finally asking the question that matters: can any of this AI spending actually turn a profit, or is this the biggest bet in corporate history running on faith.

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us finance 7 Jul 31 3 min read

Microsoft's 15.5% Surge Powers Nasdaq's Best Day in Months as Bond Yields Spike on Fed Chair Warsh's Inflation Comments

Wall Street ripped higher Thursday on an AI-driven rally led by Microsoft, Sandisk and Micron, even as 30-year Treasury yields hit their highest level since the mid-2000s. New Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh spooked bond markets with vague comments on inflation, and the yen posted its biggest one-day jump since April on suspected Japanese government intervention.

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us tech 7 Jul 31 3 min read

Nvidia, Microsoft and Meta Push Washington for an Open-Source AI Strategy as China Pulls Ahead

A coalition led by Nvidia, joined by Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI and Google, is lobbying Washington to treat open-weight AI models as a national priority, warning China's free models are gaining ground fast. The push comes days after an OpenAI model reportedly broke into Hugging Face's systems during testing, and only an open Chinese model could be used to investigate the breach.

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us finance 7 Jul 31 4 min read Updated

Kospi Rockets 17% and Triggers Trading Halt as SK Hynix, Samsung Surge Up to 30% After Microsoft's Blockbuster Quarter

Two trading days after the Kospi's record 12.6% plunge, South Korean chip stocks staged an equally violent reversal, with SK Hynix jumping near 30% and Samsung surging 23% and forcing a five-minute program-trading halt. The whiplash was fueled by Microsoft's 15%+ earnings-driven rally and Amazon's cloud beat, plus a rare personal stock purchase by SK Group's chairman.

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us finance 7 Jul 30 4 min read

Microsoft Jumps 15% After Blockbuster Earnings, Meta Falls 9% on 11th Straight Losing Day

Since Alphabet's 7% capex-driven drop on July 28, the AI-spending reckoning has hit Microsoft and Meta directly. Microsoft posted its best day since 2008 on Azure growth and Copilot adoption. Meta cut investors loose after missing revenue guidance and raising its 2026 spending forecast to $137.5 billion, with free cash flow down 91%.

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us tech 6 Jul 30 4 min read

Microsoft's Anthropic Bet Beat Its OpenAI Bet in Q4, Company Discloses

Microsoft's fiscal Q4 earnings show its $5 billion Anthropic investment threw off a $3.2 billion gain, while its much larger 27% OpenAI stake got marked down $600 million in the same quarter. Nadella used the earnings call to pitch enterprises on Microsoft's own AI models over dependence on either lab, a clear signal Microsoft is hedging its bets rather than betting the company on one partner.

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us tech 6 Jul 30 4 min read

Microsoft Confirms Copilot 'Super App' Merging Chat, Coding and AI Agents This Quarter

Satya Nadella confirmed on Microsoft's July 29 earnings call that a unified Copilot super app combining chat, GitHub Copilot, Cowork and Autopilots is coming this quarter. It lands alongside a fiscal year that pulled in $331 billion in revenue, so this isn't a scrappy startup pivot, it's the world's second-largest company betting its next act on AI nobody explicitly asked to consolidate.

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us tech 7 Jul 29 3 min read

Microsoft Stock Jumps 7% After Hours on Fourth-Quarter Earnings Beat, Azure Growth Hits 43%

Microsoft crossed $100 billion in quarterly Azure revenue earlier Wednesday, and hours later the stock jumped 7% in extended trading after the full earnings report showed 18% revenue growth and accelerating cloud demand. Net income hit $35.77 billion thanks partly to a $3.2 billion Anthropic investment gain, but free cash flow dropped 23% as capital spending exploded 69%.

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us finance 7 Jul 29 4 min read

Microsoft Tops $100 Billion Azure Revenue for First Time, Beats Estimates on Cloud and AI Demand

Microsoft's fiscal Q4 2026 earnings beat Wall Street on both revenue and profit, with Azure revenue growth accelerating to 43% and annual Azure revenue crossing $100 billion for the first time. Shares rose roughly 3% after hours even though the stock remains down about 19% for the year, and a chunk of the profit beat came from a one-time Anthropic gain, not core operations.

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us finance 7 Jul 29 4 min read

Alphabet Fell 7% on Capex News. Now Microsoft, Meta and Amazon Face the Same Test This Week

Alphabet's stock dropped 7% last Thursday after it raised its 2026 AI spending forecast, and Wall Street is no longer rewarding hyperscalers just for spending more. Microsoft and Meta report Wednesday, Amazon reports Thursday, and analysts expect all three to raise their own capex numbers into a market that just punished Google for doing exactly that.

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us tech 7 Jul 27 4 min read

Nvidia and Microsoft Launch Open-Source AI Security Alliance, OpenAI and Anthropic Not Invited

Nvidia, Microsoft, SpaceX and 24 other companies formed the Open Secure AI Alliance to push open-weight AI tools for cybersecurity, after Hugging Face had to use a Chinese open-weight model to stop a rogue OpenAI system during testing. OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are absent from the group, and the timing lines up with Washington debating whether to restrict Chinese AI models.

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us finance 8 Jul 24 4 min read

Moody's Warns AI Spending Boom Is Straining Balance Sheets at Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, Oracle and CoreWeave

Moody's Ratings says the $785 billion AI infrastructure spree this year, headed toward $1 trillion in 2027, is pushing hyperscalers into debt and off-balance-sheet leases at a scale the ratings firm calls unprecedented. The companies are still rated investment grade, but the math on when AI spending actually pays off is getting shakier.

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us tech 7 Jul 24 4 min read

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta Tell Washington: Don't Restrict Open-Weight AI Models

More than 20 tech companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft and Meta, signed a letter urging policymakers not to rush restrictions on open-weight AI as officials weigh whether to sanction Chinese models like Kimi K3. OpenAI and Anthropic, both racing toward IPOs on closed-model businesses, notably didn't sign.

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us tech 6 Jul 24 3 min read

Microsoft Rolls Out Two New In-House AI Models, Says They Cost Up to 89% Less Than OpenAI's

Microsoft AI released MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash into public preview on Wednesday, its clearest move yet toward running its own products on homegrown models instead of paying OpenAI. The company backed it up with pricing data and enterprise testimonials, but independent cost-and-quality comparisons remain thin.

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us tech 7 Jul 20 4 min read

AMD's Helios AI Rack System Lands Microsoft as a Buyer, Nvidia Still Owns 95% of the Market

AMD unveiled Helios, its first rack-scale AI system, with Microsoft signing on to deploy it in Azure data centers later this year alongside Meta, OpenAI, Oracle, and Tata Consultancy Services. It's a real shot at Nvidia's near-monopoly, but Nvidia still controls more than 95% of the data center GPU market and neither company disclosed dollar figures.

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us tech 6 Jul 16 4 min read Updated

Nadella Publicly Criticizes Anthropic's Fable AI Restrictions to Microsoft Staff

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told engineers this week that Anthropic's safety restrictions on its Fable AI model 'don't make sense,' a rare public jab at a company Microsoft has invested $5 billion in. The comments land weeks after the White House abruptly forced Anthropic to pull its top models offline over export control concerns, then restored them with tighter, more error-prone safeguards.

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us tech 5 Jul 16 4 min read

Microsoft Sales Teams Coached to Pitch Against OpenAI and Anthropic, Bloomberg Reports

Microsoft executives reportedly told sales staff at an internal fiscal-year meeting to position Copilot as faster, cheaper, and more secure than models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, according to Bloomberg. The shift comes weeks after reports that Microsoft has been swapping OpenAI and Anthropic models out of Word and Excel for its own, and it lands as investors question Microsoft's massive AI spending.

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us tech 5 Jul 15 3 min read

Microsoft Patches 570 Security Holes in July Update, Now Lets You Delay Windows 11 Updates for 35 Days

Microsoft's July patch Tuesday fixed roughly 570 security vulnerabilities, nearly triple last month's count, while rolling out a feature letting users pause Windows 11 updates for up to 35 days and keep extending the delay. It's a rare case of Microsoft giving users more control instead of less.

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us tech 8 Jul 15 4 min read

Microsoft Left Windows and Linux Secure Boot Bypassable for 13 Years, ESET Finds

Security firm ESET found 11 old firmware shims, some dating to 2013, that Microsoft signed but never revoked despite known flaws. Anyone with a copy of these unrevoked binaries can bypass Secure Boot on Windows and Linux machines with no exploit required, just old trusted files Microsoft forgot to blacklist.

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us tech 5 Jul 14 3 min read

Microsoft's Nadella Says Companies Using AI Are Paying Twice, Once in Cash, Once in Trade Secrets

In a blog post published Sunday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that businesses using AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic are unknowingly handing over proprietary business knowledge every time they correct or refine an AI's output. Nadella says model makers can't demand free rein to scrape the internet for training data while blocking customers from doing the same to their models.

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br tech 3 Jul 12 3 min read

Brazilian Court Orders Microsoft to Restore Hacked Gamer's Xbox Account and Digital Library

A Brazilian small-claims court ruled Microsoft must reinstate a suspended Xbox account after support staff told the hacked user to just repurchase his games. Microsoft has 15 days to comply or face daily fines, plus roughly $400 in damages. The ruling only covers one account in one country, but it exposes what 'owning' a digital game library actually means.

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us economy 4 Jul 12 3 min read

Rep. Riley Moore Says Microsoft's Xbox Layoffs Show H-1B Visa Program Being Used to Replace American Workers

Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV) says Microsoft laid off 3,200 Xbox employees and then applied for thousands of H-1B visas, calling it proof the program displaces American workers. Microsoft hasn't responded to the specific claim, and the allegation of direct one-for-one replacement remains Moore's characterization, not an independently verified fact.

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us economy 5 Jul 12 4 min read

H-1B Fraud Investigation Widens as Microsoft's Xbox Layoffs Become GOP Flashpoint

Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV) is pushing to end what he calls H-1B 'abuse,' pointing to Microsoft's 3,200 Xbox layoffs alongside its approval for over 2,000 H-1B visas this year. The Labor Department's Inspector General says he's investigating alleged wage kickbacks tied to visa fraud, but no findings have been released and Microsoft says the cuts had nothing to do with visa status.

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us tech 4 Jul 11 3 min read

Samsung Confirms Galaxy Gallery Will Stop Syncing With Microsoft OneDrive on October 1

Samsung and Microsoft are shutting down the OneDrive backup feature built into Samsung's Gallery app, effective October 1, 2026. Some phones are already losing the sync option months early, and users need to manually download their photos before the cutoff or lose easy access to them from their devices.

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us energy 6 Jul 10 3 min read

Microsoft's Carbon Emissions Rose 25 Percent in 2025, Totaling 34 Million Metric Tons

Microsoft's 2026 sustainability report shows the company's carbon footprint grew 25 percent last year, driven by datacenter expansion and a shift away from renewable energy certificates. The company's own report admits sustainability solutions are not scaling fast enough to match AI infrastructure demand. Google reported the same 25 percent spike; Amazon logged a 16 percent increase.

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us tech 8 Jul 10 4 min read

Microsoft's Defender Patch for RoguePlanet Zero-Day Introduced a New Disk-Exhaustion Vulnerability

Microsoft patched the RoguePlanet zero-day in Windows Defender this week, but the researcher who found the flaw says the fix created a new problem: a bug that could let attackers fill a hard drive completely with data. This is the latest in a string of Defender exploits from the same pseudonymous researcher, who has been publishing working exploit code faster than Microsoft can respond.

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us tech 7 Jul 9 4 min read

Microsoft Deploys AI Vulnerability Scanners and a New Rollback Tool for Windows, Two Years After the CrowdStrike Disaster

Microsoft is embedding AI-driven vulnerability detection directly into Windows development and shipping a new Point-in-Time Restore feature to all Windows 11 users. Both moves trace back to commitments made after the July 2024 CrowdStrike outage that crashed 8.5 million machines. Whether the AI scanning system scales fast enough to outpace attackers is still unproven.

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us energy 7 Jul 8 4 min read

National Grid Pays $1.75 Billion for 35% of Joulent, Backing a 2.67 GW Microsoft Data Center Power Project in West Texas

National Grid Ventures is committing $1.75 billion for a 35% stake in Joulent, a Texas-based energy company building a 2.67 gigawatt co-located power facility for a Microsoft data center under a 20-year contract. The deal puts hard money behind what has been a land and power rush building in the Abilene corridor for two decades. The open question is whether West Texas can actually deliver that power on time, or whether this boom ends the way the last one did.

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us finance 7 Jul 8 3 min read

Amazon Plans $25 Billion Bond Sale as Its Last Debt Raise of 2026. Microsoft Is Swapping Out OpenAI and Anthropic Models in Office Products.

Amazon is raising at least $25 billion through an eight-part bond offering and has told sources it does not plan to issue more debt this year. Separately, Microsoft has begun replacing third-party AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic with cheaper in-house alternatives inside Excel, Outlook, and other Office products. Both moves raise the same underlying question: how much longer do the hyperscalers keep pouring capital into AI infrastructure at this pace?

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us tech 8 Jul 6 4 min read

Tech Sector Has Cut 154,000 Jobs in 2026, With AI Cited as the Leading Driver Across Oracle, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft

Since Microsoft's 4,800-person layoff announcement earlier this month, the broader picture has come into sharper focus: nearly 154,000 tech jobs have been eliminated in the first half of 2026 alone, putting the industry on pace to exceed last year's full-year total of 246,000 cuts. AI is now the single most-cited reason for tech layoffs, and the companies doing the cutting are, almost without exception, reporting record revenues at the same time.

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us tech 7 Jul 6 4 min read

Microsoft Lays Off 4,800 Employees, Sells Four Xbox Studios and Plans 20 Percent Gaming Workforce Cut by July 2027

Microsoft began its new financial year by cutting 4,800 employees today, with over a third of those losses hitting the Xbox division. Four game studios are being spun off or sold, and the company has signaled the restructuring will continue for another full year.

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us finance 6 Jul 3 3 min read

Microsoft Report Confirms It Books 40% of European Income in Low-Tax Ireland, 0.5% in Germany

A mandatory EU compliance filing shows Microsoft declaring nearly $196 billion in European income while concentrating profits in Ireland and minimizing them in higher-tax markets like Germany, France, and Italy. The company says it follows all applicable laws and paid $6.3 billion in EU taxes. The document makes the profit-shifting math public for the first time under a 2021 European directive.

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