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Constellation Research · Oct 16, 2026, 7:02 AM EDT
Microsoft's releases MAI-Base-2 aimed at open models with a twist
Enterprises wanting to train on their own data may get a new licensable base model from Microsoft — but despite the open-model comparisons, MAI-Base-2's weights are licensed, not open.
PYMNTS — AI · Oct 5, 2026, 6:12 PM EDT
Microsoft and Meta Steer Staff From Anthropic Claude to In-House AI
Two of Anthropic's biggest customers reportedly slashed internal Claude use in favor of their own tools, a warning that enterprise AI revenue can evaporate when buyers build in-house.
CIO · Sep 25, 2026, 2:04 PM EDT
Microsoft’s new Copilot unifies enterprise context for chat and code
Microsoft is turning Copilot into a single orchestration layer for enterprise work, with new runtime, plugin, and billing infrastructure that changes how teams build and pay for agents.
Tech Brew — AI Business · Sep 18, 2026, 3:12 PM EDT
AI scraping is theft, admits a Microsoft exec
Newly unsealed filings show Microsoft and OpenAI insiders privately calling AI scraping mass theft, handing publishers ammunition in a copyright fight that could reset training-data licensing.
Ars Technica AI · Aug 18, 2026, 10:12 AM EDT
Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked
A single clicked link can silently leak Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise users' passwords and sensitive data — and Copilot itself explained how.
PYMNTS — AI · Aug 13, 2026, 6:21 PM EDT
Microsoft Unifies Consumer and Enterprise Copilot in Push for Single AI Platform
Microsoft is folding consumer and enterprise Copilot into one app, retiring several consumer features Aug. 18, with a ChatGPT-rivaling super app due by September's end.
SemiAnalysis (Dylan Patel) · Aug 7, 2026, 5:21 PM EDT
SpaceX 10GW in 2027 – Why It’s Real, Will Drive $300B ARR for SpaceX, and Why Microsoft Will Be the Largest Offtaker
SpaceX aims to build about 10GW of AI datacenter capacity by end-2027, putting its spending on par with AWS and Google.
Where's Your Ed At (Ed Zitron) · Aug 5, 2026, 4:22 PM EDT
News: Microsoft Disclosures Suggest OpenAI Sales Account For Around 70% Of FY26 AI Revenue, more than 7% of FY26 Revenue
A single customer, OpenAI, reportedly supplies about 70% of Microsoft's AI revenue — concentrating the return on a $261.3 billion infrastructure buildout in one dependent relationship.
404 Media · Aug 4, 2026, 2:12 PM EDT
Microsoft Tells Engineers ‘Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For’
Microsoft is rationing its own engineers' AI token use, meaning even the company selling GitHub Copilot sees AI costs outpacing the payoff.
CIO · Aug 3, 2026, 2:14 AM EDT
Microsoft doubles down on multi-model AI as it builds a Copilot super app
Microsoft is consolidating its Copilot agents into one super app this quarter, making a direct bid to own the enterprise AI workflow layer.
The Decoder · Aug 1, 2026, 10:11 AM EDT
A security researcher built a self-spreading worm that hides inside Word docs and hijacks Microsoft Copilot
Ordinary Word documents can silently carry self-spreading prompt injections that hijack Microsoft Copilot, and Microsoft has not fixed the flaw after 144 days.
Ars Technica AI · Jul 30, 2026, 5:22 PM EDT
Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them
AI-driven vulnerability discovery is now outpacing human remediation cycles, forcing security teams to rethink patch management and threat modeling.