Microsoft laid off 4,800 employees, including 37-year veteran engineer Kevin LaChapelle who led Xbox Backward Compatibility, as part of a restructuring of its gaming division. The cuts come amid a $2.…
The US imposed export controls on Anthropic's newest models on June 12, citing jailbreak and cybersecurity risks, highlighting the risk of hold-up for Europe's AI strategy. The authors argue that reli…
Microsoft has begun replacing OpenAI and Anthropic models with its own MAI models in Excel and Outlook as part of a cost-cutting strategy, according to a Bloomberg report. The shift, which handles ten…
Microsoft announced it will cut 4,800 jobs globally, including a 20% reduction at its Xbox division, as the company shifts investment toward artificial intelligence. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma cited declini…
Anthropic launched web and smartphone versions of its Claude Cowork AI agent, revealing that 33.4% of customers use it for business operations and 16.4% for tasks like slide decks and documents. The c…
Three Wisconsin residents filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging that its $7.3 billion AI data center in Mount Pleasant emits excessive noise from diesel generators and HVAC systems,…
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…
Frontier Co. launches to help enterprises build their own AI systems that continuously improve by turning knowledge, workflows, and judgment into learning loops. The initiative emphasizes capturing de…
Microsoft announced a $2.5 billion investment in a new business unit, Microsoft Frontier, to help enterprise customers adopt AI tools and demonstrate return on investment. The unit will employ 6,000 f…
At the AI Engineer World's Fair, industry leaders highlighted the growing importance of AI agent loops, where systems iteratively evaluate and refine their outputs without human intervention. Microsof…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella unveiled the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box at the Microsoft Build conference on June 2, a desktop PC with 20 CPU cores, 128GB unified memory, and 1 petaflop of AI compute, enab…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls for AI 2.0, emphasizing lower costs, customer choice, and enterprise control, signaling a shift from expensive frontier models to more accessible and flexible AI. Ope…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella promoted 33-year-old Jacob Andreou to EVP of Copilot after just one year at the company, giving him oversight of 11,000 employees. Andreou has merged consumer and enterpris…
Microsoft promoted Jacob Andreou to Executive Vice President of Copilot, consolidating consumer and commercial AI teams under his leadership. The former Snap executive, who demonstrated Copilot Tasks …
Microsoft executive Jacob Andreou, 33, successfully ordered a McDonald's cheeseburger using the company's AI tool Copilot Tasks, demonstrating the product's capabilities. CEO Satya Nadella has entrust…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urged companies to build custom AI models using their own data, warning against vendor lock-in and arguing that outsourcing learning undermines institutional value. In a se…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said every company should build its own AI model tailored to its business, warning that relying on a few frontier models poses long-term economic risks. He emphasized that …
A federal jury in Oakland deliberated for only two hours before returning a complete defense verdict in Musk v. Altman, rejecting all three surviving claims against OpenAI, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, …
CodeRabbit CEO Brandon Gubitosa argues that the industry's focus on AI code generation speed has created a dangerous review bottleneck, with AI now writing up to 30% of code at Microsoft and Google. T…
Microsoft is introducing skills to Copilot for Excel, enabling teams to scale expertise across workbooks through structured markdown workflows and deterministic financial connectors. This shift from i…