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Microsoft opened Build 2026 by shipping three upgraded in-house AI models — MAI-Voice 2, MAI-Image 2.5, and MAI-Transcribe 1.5 — accelerating its push to reduce dependence on OpenAI-supplied models.
Microsoft is replacing GPT-4 Turbo in GitHub Copilot with Project Polaris, its own in-house mixture-of-experts coding model, starting August 2026 — the company's biggest step yet toward AI independence from OpenAI.
Microsoft released Windows Agent Framework 1.0 under the MIT license at Build 2026, enabling developers to build AI agents that run across local PCs, cloud desktops, and edge devices from a single YAML manifest.
GitHub Copilot's flat monthly fee ends today as Microsoft moves all plans to usage-based billing via AI Credits at $0.01 each, raising cost concerns for heavy users.
Microsoft launched MDASH, a multi-model agentic security system that coordinates AI agents to detect and respond to threats at machine speed — and claims top scores on industry cybersecurity benchmarks.
Microsoft, xAI, and other major AI companies have agreed to provide U.S. government regulators early access to AI models before public release — the most substantive voluntary federal AI oversight commitment in the U.S. to date.
Anthropic is in preliminary talks to adopt Microsoft's custom Maia 200 AI chips, a move that would add a third major chip supplier to the AI lab's diversified compute stack — which already includes AWS, Google, and SpaceX.
Google's Gemini Spark executes multi-step tasks autonomously across Workspace — raising real questions about AI's role in office work and what employers will actually authorize.
LinkedIn is eliminating ~900 jobs — 5% of its workforce — as Microsoft pushes the platform to accelerate AI-powered hiring products that have already crossed $450M in annual recurring revenue.
Microsoft is weighing whether to abandon its 2030 goal of matching 100% of its electricity with carbon-free energy on an hourly basis, as AI data center demand outpaces renewable deployment.
Microsoft is internally reviewing whether to abandon its 2030 clean energy commitment as AI data center expansion has pushed power demand far beyond what its renewable procurement pipeline can cover.
Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI signed agreements with NIST to provide pre-release frontier model access to US government evaluators. All five major US AI labs are now part of the program.
Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon report Q1 2026 earnings today with a combined $600B AI infrastructure commitment under scrutiny — the biggest AI ROI test of the year.
Microsoft and OpenAI have amended their partnership, ending Microsoft's exclusive access to OpenAI models and freeing OpenAI to deploy on any cloud — including AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle.
Anthropic's Claude Mythos autonomously found and demonstrated high-severity exploits across every major OS and browser — triggering Project Glasswing, a defensive coalition of Apple, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Cisco.
Meta and Microsoft announced roughly 20,000 job cuts in a single week—and new data shows AI and automation now account for nearly half of all tech-sector layoffs.
Mozilla's MZLA Technologies launched Thunderbolt, an open-source self-hosted enterprise AI client at $15/user/month — half the cost of Microsoft Copilot 365 — built for organizations that cannot send internal data to external clouds.
Stellantis has signed a five-year strategic partnership with Microsoft to co-develop more than 100 AI initiatives — a deal that also moves the automaker toward cloud consolidation and company-wide AI tooling.
DeepL is entering real-time voice translation, putting the accuracy-first service in direct competition with Google and Microsoft in the spoken-language AI space.
Microsoft released three in-house AI models — speech transcription, voice generation, and image creation — reducing its dependence on OpenAI-provided capabilities for its core product stack.