Microsoft Corp. is cracking down on employee AI spending after an internal tracker revealed one worker in its Customer and Partner Solutions organization spent $28,000 on AI tools in a single 28-day p…
Microsoft is limiting AI token usage by its employees, with each department allocated a pool of tokens, as the company seeks to control rising AI costs. Executive Vice President Jay Parikh communicate…
Microsoft is limiting engineers' AI usage by making OpenAI GPT-5.6 the default internal model and introducing an 'AI token budget target' for divisions, as stated in an email from EVP Jay Parikh obtai…
Microsoft has introduced new limits on how much its engineers can spend on AI tools at work, telling employees that 'Tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for.' Executive Vice President Jay Parik…
Microsoft is training its sales teams to position its proprietary MAI models as superior to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, marking a strategic shift away from its partnership with OpenAI. During an in…
Microsoft executives held an internal sales meeting on Tuesday coaching the sales force to downplay OpenAI and Anthropic models, even though those companies supply the models inside Microsoft's own pr…
Microsoft is training its sales team to negatively compare AI products from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to its own, according to a Bloomberg report. At an internal meeting on Tuesday, executives out…
At Microsoft Build, Microsoft VP of AI Core Jay Parikh discussed the company's end-to-end agent development system for enterprises, emphasizing the need for scalable AI agents with demonstrable ROI an…
Microsoft at Build 2026 unveiled a new GitHub Copilot desktop app enabling developers to direct multiple AI agents in parallel from a single interface. The company also launched seven new MAI models, …