Microsoft is a global technology corporation that has made major AI investments through a multi-billion dollar partnership with OpenAI. It integrates AI across Bing, Azure, GitHub Copilot, and Microsoft 365.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees in a September 14 internal memo that AI systems not firmly under human control are "not worth pursuing" and that companies neglecting AI safety risk losing t…
Microsoft shipped Agent Merge in public preview with VS Code 1.136 on September 2, a feature that runs a repeating supervision loop on open pull requests — answering review comments, fixing failing re…
A swift pause in AI development is unlikely because critics distrust both frontier AI companies and the safety advocates tied to them, according to an Axios report. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed…
Microsoft released a September patch fixing a record 972 vulnerabilities, including 112 rated critical, according to the article. The update reflects an acceleration in patch releases driven by AI-pow…
Microsoft's Foundry Local lets developers embed AI inference directly inside application binaries, using the same SDK and API shapes as the company's cloud Foundry offerings, with automatic hardware a…
Bill Gates warned that no government is prepared for the societal upheaval artificial intelligence will cause, saying he has lobbied world leaders including President Donald Trump and plans to meet Ch…
A developer building Auricle, an unsigned Rust and Slint Windows music player, investigated why VirusTotal flagged the Inno Setup installer as malicious while the application executable inside it was …
Microsoft agreed last week to adopt binding AI privacy and safety standards for its education products, negotiated with the American Federation of Teachers, under which Microsoft will not use student …
Microsoft released a draft 37-page Humanist AI Code of Conduct on Monday, pledging that its AI models "should remain subordinate to humanity" and inviting public feedback, but the document contains no…
Microsoft is removing the COPILOT function from Excel as of September 14, 2026, ending a preview feature that had been available only through the Frontier program and the Microsoft 365 Insider program…
Microsoft published a 38-page draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct on Monday and opened a public consultation to refine the guidelines, which it expects to apply to Microsoft AI (MAI) model development n…
A developer's documentation check found that Microsoft's Copilot code review pages for Azure Repos are all labeled Azure DevOps Services, with no stated support for the self-managed Azure DevOps Serve…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees in an internal memo posted late Monday that AI must remain under human control and endorsed broader third-party testing, writing that "as the stakes get high…
A 2026 Halkwinds survey of 758 engineering organizations found 76% had rolled out at least one AI coding assistant organization-wide, up from 41% in 2024, but only 34% could point to a measurable, aud…
A September 16, 2026 census of vendor policy pages found that consumer tiers of ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Copilot all permit human review of chats for model improvement by default, while business, e…
Microsoft AI, under CEO Mustafa Suleyman, published a code of conduct for its MAI models that explicitly rejects any claim of consciousness or rights for the systems and makes safety a prerequisite fo…
Microsoft's Playwright MCP, an open-source MCP server that exposes Playwright browser automation tools to MCP clients via structured accessibility snapshots, was last updated in September 2026 and has…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella highlighted a demo by Jeff Hollan showing how Microsoft Foundry makes long-running agents enterprise-ready by building security, safety guardrails, auditability, and FinOps…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing the pace of AI capability improvements in a nearly 4,000-word essay, warning that a "race to the bottom, spurred by commercial incentives" could make cata…
Microsoft is positioning its data platform — spanning Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databases, OneLake, Power BI, and Fabric IQ's semantic intelligence layer — as the foundation for enterprise AI at scale a…