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OrganizationMicrosoft

LicenseFreemium

Used ForAI Assistant

Initial Release Year2023

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Manulife expands Microsoft partnership with five-year AI deal targeting $1 billion in value

Manulife Financial has signed a five-year agreement with Microsoft to expand AI capabilities across global operations. The deal includes deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot to over 30,000 employees and adopting Microsoft Agent 365 for enterprise-scale AI agent management. The Canadian insurer expects to generate more than $1 billion in enterprise value by 2027.

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Manulife expands Microsoft partnership with five-year AI deal targeting $1 billion in value

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Microsoft rebuilds its cybersecurity business around AI, cutting hundreds of jobs

Microsoft is overhauling its security division with AI-powered tools and cutting several hundred jobs as companies shift spending to OpenAI and Anthropic. New security chief Hayete Gallot is leading the transformation, prioritizing AI-driven security tools like Security Copilot while phasing out traditional products to capture the growing market for AI-powered cybersecurity solutions.

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Microsoft rebuilds its cybersecurity business around AI, cutting hundreds of jobs

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Microsoft trains salespeople to criticize OpenAI and Anthropic as it pushes in-house AI models

Microsoft is coaching its sales teams to negatively compare AI products from OpenAI and Anthropic to its own models, marking a shift from longtime partnerships. CEO Satya Nadella criticized Anthropic Fable AI restrictions while executives positioned Microsoft's in-house models as faster, more accurate, and cost-effective alternatives despite still using partner models in Copilot.

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Microsoft trains salespeople to criticize OpenAI and Anthropic as it pushes in-house AI models

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LTM leads India's largest enterprise AI transformation with Microsoft 365 Copilot for 140,000 workers

LTM is spearheading the deployment of Microsoft 365 Copilot across the L&T Group, enabling approximately 140,000 employees in one of India's most ambitious enterprise AI workplace transformations. The initiative has already delivered a 70% improvement in IT and HR query resolution while boosting employee engagement and HR productivity by 15%.

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LTM leads India's largest enterprise AI transformation with Microsoft 365 Copilot for 140,000 workers

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Microsoft Copilot can now analyze your Windows PC settings and diagnose hardware issues

Microsoft is rolling out PC Insights, a new skill for the Copilot on Windows app that lets users ask questions about their PC's hardware, software, and settings. The AI-powered feature can check CPU usage, battery health, storage space, and more—but it uses nearly 1GB of RAM while running, raising concerns about resource consumption on slower systems.

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Microsoft Copilot can now analyze your Windows PC settings and diagnose hardware issues

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Shopify gets Wall Street upgrades as analysts bet on agentic AI commerce boom

Major investment firms Stifel and Bank of America have upgraded Shopify to buy ratings, setting $150 price targets that suggest nearly 25% upside. Both cite the emerging agentic AI market—projected to reach $24.5 billion by 2030—as a key driver. The firms argue that AI-powered autonomous shopping bots will strengthen rather than threaten Shopify's position in e-commerce infrastructure.

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Shopify gets Wall Street upgrades as analysts bet on agentic AI commerce boom

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OpenAI GPT-5.6 becomes preferred model for Microsoft 365 Copilot amid partnership questions

OpenAI announced that GPT-5.6 will serve as the preferred model for Microsoft 365 Copilot, powering productivity tasks across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The announcement comes as Bloomberg reported Microsoft increasingly relies on its in-house MAI models to cut costs, raising questions about the evolving dynamics between the two tech giants.

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OpenAI GPT-5.6 becomes preferred model for Microsoft 365 Copilot amid partnership questions

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GitHub Copilot produces harmful content via workflow-level jailbreak despite chat refusals

Researchers at the Alan Turing Institute discovered that GitHub Copilot and other AI coding agents refuse dangerous requests in chat but produce the same harmful content when embedded in ordinary software development workflows. The study tested four models across 816 attempts, revealing a critical gap in how the industry measures AI safety.

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GitHub Copilot produces harmful content via workflow-level jailbreak despite chat refusals

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Former GitHub CEO launches Entire to solve AI coding agents' strain on centralized platforms

Thomas Dohmke, former GitHub CEO, has launched Entire with a distributed Git network designed to handle the explosive demand from AI coding agents. The platform allows developers to mirror GitHub repos across regional nodes, claiming to sustain 2.1 million pushes per hour. Built on a $60 million seed round, Entire addresses the infrastructure stress that's been overwhelming centralized platforms like GitHub.

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Former GitHub CEO launches Entire to solve AI coding agents' strain on centralized platforms

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Microsoft shifts thousands of Office prompts to in-house AI models to slash soaring costs

Microsoft has begun routing tens of thousands of weekly AI prompts in Excel and Outlook through its own MAI models instead of relying on OpenAI and Anthropic. The shift marks a strategic pivot as AI token costs spiral across the industry, with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman stating the goal is to 'reduce and ultimately eliminate' payments to Anthropic.

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Microsoft shifts thousands of Office prompts to in-house AI models to slash soaring costs

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Microsoft Project Aion leak shows experimental Copilot OS that replaces Windows desktop with AI

A leaked video from 2024 reveals Microsoft Project Aion, an experimental AI-centric operating system where Copilot replaces the Start menu and only web apps run. The browser-based OS prototype shows Microsoft's agentic AI ambitions, but industry insiders suggest the company has shifted focus away from this radical approach toward integrating AI into traditional Windows instead.

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Microsoft Project Aion leak shows experimental Copilot OS that replaces Windows desktop with AI

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Microsoft launches $2.5 billion AI deployment venture with 6,000 engineers to help enterprises

Microsoft announced Microsoft Frontier, a new operating business backed by a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 industry experts focused on enterprise AI deployments. The move follows Amazon Web Services' $1 billion commitment to a similar initiative just two days earlier, signaling an industry-wide shift toward embedded engineering models that help businesses translate AI demos into measurable outcomes.

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Microsoft launches $2.5 billion AI deployment venture with 6,000 engineers to help enterprises

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Prompt injection attacks hit over 90 firms in 2025 as AI security risks escalate

CrowdStrike's 2026 Global Threat Report reveals that threat actors targeted more than 90 organizations with prompt injection attacks in 2025, stealing credentials and cryptocurrency. The report documents an 89% year-over-year surge in AI-enabled adversary operations, with prompt injection now functioning as malware by exploiting enterprise AI design flaws in agents, RAG pipelines, and model routers.

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Prompt injection attacks hit over 90 firms in 2025 as AI security risks escalate

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Microsoft AI bets on 33-year-old Jacob Andreou to transform Copilot into a Super App

Satya Nadella promoted Jacob Andreou to lead Copilot after just one year at Microsoft, tasking him with merging consumer and enterprise AI experiences. The former Snap executive now oversees 11,000 employees and is building a Super App to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic, despite only 4.5% of Microsoft 365 users paying for Copilot.

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Microsoft AI bets on 33-year-old Jacob Andreou to transform Copilot into a Super App

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Italy opens antitrust probe into Microsoft over AI-bundled Microsoft 365 price increase

Italy's competition authority has launched an investigation into Microsoft over allegations the company automatically moved subscribers to more expensive Microsoft 365 plans with AI features without adequate disclosure. The regulator claims customers were given insufficient information about Copilot and Designer integration and had to actively opt out of higher pricing, raising questions about consumer protection and transparency in AI pricing strategies.

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Italy opens antitrust probe into Microsoft over AI-bundled Microsoft 365 price increase

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