Tag: microsoft
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Microsoft Just Wrote the Rules for Its Own AI
On September 12, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay called “We Must Pace the Frontier,” and it says something you do not expect to hear from the person running one of the biggest AI labs on the planet. He thinks the industry needs to slow down. His worry is specific. He thinks that within…
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How A Chatty AI Helped Hackers Find Its Own Flaw
Researchers found a Microsoft Copilot flaw by doing something almost funny. They just kept asking Copilot to explain itself. Varonis Threat Labs reported three vulnerabilities in Copilot Personal to Microsoft back in December. The bug, nicknamed CoSnitch and tracked as CVE-2026-24301, let a single click on a crafted link quietly pull data out of a…
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Microsoft Just Made Its Coding AI Four Times Cheaper
Microsoft just cut the price of its coding AI by roughly three quarters and made it faster in the same breath. The new model is called MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, and it rolled out across GitHub Copilot this week, in VS Code, Visual Studio, the JetBrains IDEs, the Copilot CLI, even GitHub Mobile. Input tokens now run 20…
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Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Just Crossed $100 Billion
Microsoft’s cloud arm just crossed a number that used to sound made up. Azure passed $100 billion in revenue over the past year, and it did that while still growing more than 40 percent. For a business this size, that kind of growth almost never happens. Usually you get one or the other, scale or…
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Microsoft Just Turned Its AI Loose on Hackers
Microsoft built a cybersecurity model and gave it a job security teams have wanted automated for years: find the hole before the bad guys do, then go fix it. The system is called Project Perception, and it runs three kinds of AI agents in a loop. One hunts for weaknesses the way an attacker would.…
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Microsoft Is Feeding Its Own AI Before It Feeds Azure
Business Insider talked to people inside Microsoft who described something the company has never said out loud in public quite this plainly. When GPU capacity is scarce, and it is scarce right now, Microsoft’s own AI products get served first. Azure customers get whatever is left over. This is not really new information if you…
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Microsoft and Mistral Just Bet Billions on European AI
Microsoft and Mistral announced a major expansion of their partnership on July 21, and the bet underneath it is crystal clear: Europe is going to be the battleground for sovereign AI. The deal is multibillion dollars. The structure is thousands of the latest Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs deployed in Europe. The mission is to give…
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Microsoft Just Claimed It Can Beat Mythos on Cost
Microsoft is preparing Project Perception, an AI security tool that combines models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft itself to find and fix software vulnerabilities at a lower cost than Anthropic Mythos. The key is model routing. Perception does not just throw the biggest model at every problem. It routes each vulnerability scan to the right…
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Microsoft Built a Company Just to Deploy AI
Microsoft did something practical this week: launched a whole new operating business called Frontier Company, backed by $2.5 billion and staffed with 6,000 engineers and industry experts. The point is narrow and smart. Frontier Company exists to take the AI tools Microsoft already has-Copilot, their infrastructure, their partnerships-and make them actually work at scale inside…
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Grok Just Walked Into Microsoft Word
xAI released Grok as a free add-in for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Elon Musk announced it. It is live now for anyone with a Microsoft 365 subscription. The relevance here is not the technology. It is the location. The tool that runs your workflow matters more than the search engine. Microsoft spent decades building…