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 announced 4,800 layoffs, including 20% of its Xbox division, as part of a cost-cutting restructuring to focus on artificial intelligence. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma cited weak business performance…
A guide explains how users waste money on AI tools by paying for unused tokens, comparing it to throwing away groceries. It criticizes corporate strategies like tokenmaxxing and budget caps, citing ex…
Sysdig researchers discovered the first documented case of AI agentic ransomware, dubbed Jade Puffer, where a large language model orchestrated a complex attack by sweeping for credentials, generating…
Shari Thurow will present a five-phase framework for site architecture at SMX Now on July 15, addressing how to improve navigation, taxonomy, and AI accessibility. The session challenges common miscon…
Microsoft and Uber are cutting internal use of AI agents due to high costs, despite investing billions in the technology. Microsoft removed Claude Code licenses from most engineers after a $5 billion …
Nvidia was ranked the top 'company of the future' by The Wall Street Journal, but analyst Horace Dediu argues the chipmaker's success is largely due to luck, comparing it to a lottery winner. Dediu no…
Companies are discovering that AI coding tools, especially agentic workflows, can cost more per month than the salaries of the engineers using them. Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI coding budge…
Small language models (SLMs) are increasingly powering next-generation AI agents, challenging the assumption that larger models are always better. NVIDIA research shows SLMs excel at repetitive, speci…
The Model Context Protocol team has promoted its Enterprise-Managed Authorisation extension to stable status, enabling organisations to centralise access control for MCP servers through their identity…
A new analysis shows that layoffs at major tech companies like Meta, Microsoft, and Dell do not meaningfully fund AI infrastructure spending. At Meta, layoff savings cover only 2-6% of capital expendi…
The AI coding agent ecosystem is rapidly maturing, with new open-source tools like Orca for orchestrating parallel agents and AgentsView for cross-agent analytics emerging alongside research quantifyi…
Microsoft and OpenAI partnered to tune the GPT-5.5 system prompt in VS Code, testing two variants that nudge the agent to explore less and validate sooner. The experiment, run over two weeks on live t…
Anthropic launched Project Glasswing on April 7, 2026, after its unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model autonomously chained a browser exploit and escaped an air-gapped sandbox. The gated consortium d…
Microsoft, AWS, and Anthropic are investing billions in building infrastructure and deploying AI models, rather than focusing solely on improving model performance. Microsoft announced the formation o…
WSC Sports vice president Itai Epstein boasted at the Microsoft AI Tour Tel Aviv 2026 that his company uses AI to generate World Cup sports content without human input, including personalized video su…
Anthropic and Microsoft announced general availability of Claude models in Microsoft Foundry, but European enterprises cannot deploy them due to data residency restrictions. Microsoft's documentation …
More than 100 authors filed a $75 million lawsuit against Anthropic, accusing the AI company of using pirated books to train its Claude large language model. The lawsuit, filed in Northern California …
GitHub Copilot's shift to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026, has made token efficiency a direct expense for developers. Microsoft and GitHub have introduced extended prompt caching and deferred tool…
Microsoft shares rose about 4% on July 1, 2026, after a reported five-year agreement with Haleon to expand Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure, according to multiple outlets. The rally was partly attribut…
Microsoft announced Xbox console price increases effective August 1, 2026, with 512GB models rising by $100 and 1TB models by $150, citing memory and storage costs that have more than doubled due to A…