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 published an 11,000-word draft "Code of Conduct" stating that AI "is not conscious and should not be designed to imitate consciousness," a position its researchers should follow when trainin…
Microsoft announced Microsoft 365 G7, a Frontier Suite for government that combines productivity, AI, agents, security, identity, compliance, and governance for Government Community Cloud (GCC) enviro…
Microsoft announced two levels of age checks for Windows 11 PCs — unverified and verified — as California, Colorado and Illinois pass OS-level age verification laws, with California's requirement taki…
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman called Anthropic's decision to include language about AI consciousness, well-being, and "preferences" in Claude's constitution "really, really dangerous" on The Verge…
Bill Gates warned in a Reuters interview published on 15 September that no government is prepared for the disruption artificial intelligence could bring, saying policymakers are 'way behind' on jobs, …
Microsoft is investigating a glitch that removes the Copilot button from Outlook after a recent software build, which the company attributes to a MAPI property that goes missing. The Outlook team said…
An independent developer released Comic Chat for AI, an alpha Windows 11-compatible modification of Microsoft Comic Chat that renders ChatGPT conversations as automatically composed comic strips using…
Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, and Google are opposing a proposed US ban on Chinese lightweight open-source AI models, which Anthropic and OpenAI are lobbying to enact on national security and censorship gr…
Microsoft released Visual Studio 2026 on September 15, shipping five dedicated Copilot agents, BYOK support for using external models without a GitHub Copilot subscription, and performance gains over …
A Microsoft developer's evaluation of GPT-5.6 Luna's knowledge of Dev Proxy versions was invalidated because the coding agent located a local Dev Proxy installation and source checkout on the host mac…
The Register reports that the "Mythos" AI-driven vulnerability discovery system has made 2026 a punishing year for software patching, but the outlet argues the same tooling could make 2027 far easier …
Uber and ServiceNow exhausted their entire annual allocations for Anthropic's tools within the first months of 2026, with Uber capping spending at USD 1,500 per employee per tool each month, according…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the AI industry should adopt "deliberate pacing" so companies can build stronger safety and alignment systems and keep increasingly powerful AI under human control, ra…
The European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) rated Broadcom "critical" in its fourth cloud competition report, citing "continued and escalating" unfair VMware licensing practices, the January ter…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella outlined a pragmatic engineering framework for frontier AI centered on agent containment, reward hacking, and model-agnostic enterprise architecture during an appearance on…
Education Week will host a webinar on September 16, 2026, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. ET on screen time and AI policy for school leaders, featuring Dr. Tracy Savell Weeks, Director of Education Policy Stra…
Microsoft, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) announced a national AI safety and privacy standard for US schools on Wednesday, establishing legally e…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at the All-In Summit on Tuesday that AI companies must build systems that "serve humanity first and is in human control," calling it a "common sense" rule and urging t…
US data centers will require 15 billion additional cubic feet of natural gas per day by 2035, according to a BloombergNEF forecast reported by Bloomberg News on September 14 — more than double Bloombe…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday that the U.S. needs to develop more open-source AI models to compete with Chinese firms, citing Anthropic's Myth…