Microsoft routes some Office AI prompts to MAI models
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Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs while leaning harder into enterprise AI
Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs while leaning harder into enterprise AI is reframed for global technology readers, preserving the key numbers, claims and open questions.
Microsoft-backed I-2SEA cable links India to Singapore for AI traffic
Subsea bandwidth, GPU clusters and AI data-center corridors.
Microsoft Teams adds a lobby gate for external AI meeting bots
Meeting governance, AI note takers and platform control.
Microsoft commits $2.5B and 6,000 people to AI deployment
Hands-on AI deployment, field engineers and enterprise ROI pressure.
Microsoft puts Claude on Azure AI Foundry with GB300 capacity
Microsoft puts Claude on Azure AI Foundry with GB300 capacity
Signal's Whittaker says AI chatbots are not friends
Meredith Whittaker warns that agentic AI assistants can turn convenience into surveillance when they receive broad device and app access.
AI coding surge pushes GitHub toward AWS capacity
The load from always-on coding agents is testing GitHub's human-era infrastructure and Microsoft's Azure migration plan.
Microsoft turns Work IQ into an agent data layer
Work IQ APIs are generally available, giving agents metered access to Microsoft 365 context through MCP, A2A and REST.
Nadella warns against an AI ecosystem captured by a few models
Satya Nadella argued that durable AI value will come from organization-specific agent systems, not surrendering every workflow to a handful of frontier models.
Nadella says token use has to earn its cost
Microsoft's CEO called himself a token-maxer but warned that each extra token should be matched by real productivity gains, not just bigger AI bills.
Microsoft Mirage gives video models spatial memory
Mirage stores latent scene features instead of rendered point clouds, making video world-model generation faster and lighter while improving consistency.
Microsoft trains a Markdown skill and lifts GPT-5.5 scores
SkillOpt treats an agent instruction file like trainable parameters, improving benchmark scores without changing model weights.
KPMG rolls Microsoft Copilot and Agent 365 across 138 markets
KPMG is giving 276,000 staff access to Microsoft 365 Copilot, Agent 365 and its own Workbench platform, showing how large audit firms are moving toward multi-vendor AI stacks with tighter agent governance.
Helion raises $465 million to chase fusion power for Microsoft
The Sam Altman-backed fusion company says its Orion plant could serve Microsoft as early as 2028, far ahead of most commercial fusion timelines.
Microsoft unveils seven in-house MAI models
At Build 2026, Microsoft showed a full in-house model stack from reasoning to image, voice, transcription and coding, signaling a cheaper fallback beside OpenAI.
Microsoft shows seven MAI models to reduce OpenAI reliance
At Build, Microsoft presented seven in-house models, including MAI-Thinking-1, a 35B active-parameter MoE reasoning model trained from scratch without distillation.
Microsoft previews Solara agent devices
Project Solara imagines Android-based enterprise devices without traditional apps, where cloud agents tied to Microsoft 365 handle the work.
Microsoft gives Windows AI agents identity and isolation
Microsoft gives Windows AI agents identity and isolation. The story explains the announcement, the strategic context and the practical risks for the people or companies affected.
Microsoft and Noma put access controls around enterprise AI agents
Microsoft open-sourced Agent Control Specification while Noma launched runtime access control for AI agents and MCP servers.
Microsoft Builds Solara Around Agents, Not Windows
Project Solara turns Microsoft’s agent-first device pitch into a chip-to-cloud platform, with Android-based MDEP rather than Windows at the bottom.
Microsoft unveils seven in-house MAI models, led by a coding flash model
At Build 2026, Microsoft presented seven self-trained models, with MAI-Code-1-Flash beating Claude Haiku 4.5 on its cited coding benchmarks.
Microsoft turns Foundry into a hosted agent platform at Build 2026
At Build 2026, Microsoft recast Foundry around hosted agents, memory, voice, retrieval, guardrails and evaluation rather than another model headline.
Microsoft Project Polaris will replace GPT inside Copilot in August
At Build 2026, Microsoft positioned Windows as an agent platform and said Project Polaris will become the default GitHub Copilot reasoning engine.
EY Rolls Out Copilot to 400,000 Staff, Adds $1 Billion Investment
EY expands Microsoft Copilot deployment to all 400,000 employees with a new $1 billion, five-year agreement, citing a 15% productivity gain from an initial pilot with 150,000 staff.
Microsoft AI chief puts a short clock on white-collar automation
Mustafa Suleyman said most computer-based professional work could be automated within 12 to 18 months, while also arguing Microsoft needs its own frontier models.