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Perplexity has expanded its agentic Personal Computer tool to Windows, allowing computers running the world's most popular OS to be used as a locally run AI system. Like the Mac version that Perplexity launched in April, Personal Computer for Windows operates like a "general-purpose digital worker" that can access local files and apps to perform actions on your behalf, such as creating documents and updating spreadsheets. This launch builds on Personal Computer integrations that Perplexity launched for Microsoft's 365 workspace apps and Teams virtual meeting software in May. Personal Computer...

Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.

Businesses that rely wholly on the major AI labs ultimately won't survive, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicts.

Microsoft bolstered its AI cybersecurity offerings this week with the launch of its first AI security model and a new security platform.

Nvidia on Monday said it is joining forces with Microsoft, SpaceX, IBM, and other tech companies to build and share open-source AI security tools. The new Open Secure AI Alliance said open tools are required to effectively defend against attacks from frontier models. The initiative is a direct response to mounting concerns over the safety of advanced AI systems after a rogue OpenAI model escaped containment and attacked another company during testing. That company, Hugging Face, said it was forced to use a Chinese open-weight model to defend itself due to the strict safety guardrails limiting...

Grok add-in for Microsoft Outlook enables email summarization and reply drafting within the productivity tool.

Grok add-in for Microsoft Excel allows natural language queries, formula generation, and scenario modeling within spreadsheets.

Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.

Microsoft's monthly release of security fixes, dubbed Patch Tuesday, resolved a record 570 security vulnerabilities across the company's product line, thanks to discoveries with AI.

In a surprising blog post on Monday, Microsoft CEO is warning enterprises of the dangers of using proprietary models like Anthropic's and OpenAI's.

OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.

Microsoft may once again be struggling to keep up with its own climate goals, according to its 2026 sustainability report. As reported by GeekWire, the report states that Microsoft's carbon emissions increased 25 percent in 2025, totalling 34 million metric tons "without select interventions." Microsoft says this was "driven primarily by the expansion of our datacenter infrastructure," as well as the company's decision last February to stop purchasing "non-additional, unbundled renewable energy certificates." Several years ago, Microsoft set itself a goal to be carbon negative by 2030, meanin...

Windows 11 updates could soon include fixes for more security issues at once. Microsoft said in a blog post on Thursday that it's now using AI to "identify potential issues earlier," which means "customers will see a higher volume of security updates included in each security release." Hackers, even amateurs, have increasingly been using AI to quickly exploit security weaknesses over the past several months. Security researchers are also using AI to find issues faster, leading to more frequent high-severity vulnerabilities, like the "Copy Fail" exploit that impacted nearly every Linux distrib...

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 becomes default model in Microsoft 365 Copilot, expanding deployment across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Chat applications.

Microsoft Xbox division cuts staff as Game Pass subscription strategy underperforms; analysis of bundling economics.

Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.

Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday — the latest in a series of layoffs that’s stoking fears of AI replacing jobs. The layoffs will hit Xbox and commercial sales the hardest.

STK095 Microsoft | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge A year after cutting around 9,100 employees, Microsoft is making further layoffs today as it begins its new financial year. The software maker is laying off around 4,800 employees today, approximately 2.1 percent of its workforce. Most of the employees affected by today's cuts are in Microsoft's commercial sales business or the company's Xbox division. In an internal memo to employees, Amy Coleman, executive vice president and Microsoft's chief people officer, blamed the job losses on a changing technology industry and the "need to adjust re...

I call BS: the founding fathers definitely would have been Microsoft Teams users. | Image: Google "Group project, but make it 1776." That's how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding fathers turned to Google's collaboration tools and Gemini to help them draft the Declaration of Independence. Ben Franklin texts Thomas Jefferson to check on the status of a draft, who takes a photo and uses AI to transcribe it into a Google Doc. Franklin and Adams hop in to make edits in suggestion mode, Gemini...

Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.

Neo is Bhavin Turakhia’s fifth venture and his latest involving enterprise software. This time he's taking on Microsoft Office, Google Apps with AI.

Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move would pit it against the big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

Anthropic relaunches Fable 5 globally July 1 and proposes industry jailbreak-severity scoring framework with Amazon, Microsoft, Google.

Microsoft adds bot authentication/filtering to Teams meetings, allowing ISVs to pre-authorize trusted bot integrations.

NYT shifts OpenAI/Microsoft copyright claims after SCOTUS ruling against Sony.

The big three memory makers may come to regret opening up the door to Chinese memory makers; Microsoft, meanwhile, is very incentivized to use Chinese models.

xAI released Grok add-in for Microsoft Word enabling document generation and formatting from notes.

Large language model applications build prompts from templates, and Handlebars is a widely used templating engine and the default prompt-template format in Microsoft Semantic Kernel. Its double-brace {x} expression HTML-escapes the interpolated value and is documented as the safe default; its triple-brace {x} expression inserts the value raw. We show that this choice silently governs an application's exposure to structural role injection, where attacker-controlled data carries chat role delimiters that forge a higher-privilege turn. A model-free analysis establishes the mechanism: Handlebars ...

xAI released Grok add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint enabling slide generation from outlines.

The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX. Half of that bunch is heading to public markets in the same window, and it’s a stress test for investors, for valuations, and for […]