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.
In a blog post, Mac Wright highlights TypeScript 7, Microsoft's rewrite of the TypeScript compiler in Go, which is significantly faster and now supports the Language Server Protocol, enabling standard…
Codeberg e.V., a German nonprofit open-source hosting platform, voted to ban projects related to cryptocurrency and those heavily tied to or created by large language models (LLMs), effective after a …
Microsoft introduced MAI-Thinking-1, a 35B-active, ~1T-total parameter sparse Mixture of Experts reasoning model that matches leading models on software engineering benchmarks and is preferred to Sonn…
Microsoft is moving Mico, the animated character in Copilot Voice, to its Learn Live tutoring experience, with the change starting in August 2026 and rolling out in waves. Copilot Voice will remain av…
Microsoft is removing its Mico avatar from Copilot's voice mode, moving the character to its Learn Live platform, according to a Microsoft support page. Mico, which launched in Copilot's voice mode la…
Microsoft Windows 11 Pro is available for $9.97 (MSRP $199) through August 20, a deal promoted by Boing Boing that includes advanced security, productivity, and management features such as BitLocker a…
Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia are collaborating through the Open Compute Project (OCP) to establish 800-volt direct current (800VDC) as an open standard for powering high-density AI data centers, aimi…
A Nikkei analysis finds that Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle carry approximately $1.65 trillion in hidden debt from AI build-out financing, exceeding their roughly $1.35 trillion in disc…
AI hallucinations are fabricated or incorrect responses produced by AI models, and they are a built-in property of how these models work, not rare edge cases. High-profile incidents include Google's B…
Steve Eisman, the investor known for 'The Big Short,' said Anthropic and OpenAI are the 'Achilles' heel' of the AI trade, warning that a price war with cheaper Chinese models could hurt the two AI lab…
IBM and OpenAI announced a strategic partnership on August 13, making IBM an OpenAI Elite partner and integrating OpenAI's GPT-5.6, Codex, and ChatGPT Work into IBM Consulting Advantage. IBM will cert…
Steve Eisman, the investor known for predicting the 2008 housing crash, warned on CNBC's 'Fast Money' that OpenAI and Anthropic together account for roughly 70% of AI-related revenue for major hypersc…
The S&P 500 hit a record high on Thursday, climbing 0.56% to 7,791.70 points, as tame producer price inflation data eased concerns about a September Federal Reserve rate hike. Memory chip makers Sandi…
Microsoft is shutting down Copilot features including Deep Research, AI Podcasts, Group Chats, Copilot Labs, and the Mico mascot on August 18, and merging its consumer Copilot app with Microsoft 365 C…
Microsoft is consolidating its various Copilot features into a single 'super app' that will serve as the primary interface for its AI assistant, according to a support document update. The unified Cop…
Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.133 on August 12, adding flexibility to Anthropic Claude sessions by allowing users to mix Anthropic and Copilot providers between turns, and introducing an exp…
Microsoft is merging its consumer Copilot app and business-oriented Microsoft 365 Copilot app into a single application, and will remove the Mico mascot, Group Chat, Podcasts, Deep Research, and Copil…
Paramount Skydance has capped monthly Claude token usage for tech employees to control AI spending, a senior AI leader announced in an early-August Slack message. The limits, tailored by person and ne…
Amazon is offering the 2026 Microsoft Surface Laptop (13.8-inch, 512GB SSD) for $300 off its MSRP, bringing the price down to an unspecified amount. The laptop features a 12-core Snapdragon X2 Elite p…
Microsoft has begun integrating its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps, starting with a small subset of users this week, as part of a push toward a super app featuring chat, coding, and autonomous f…