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Founded1975

Key PeopleSatya Nadella, Mustafa Suleyman

HeadquartersRedmond, USA

ProductsCopilot, Azure

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Microsoft and Lumen expand partnership to jointly sell networking solutions for AI workloads on Azure

Microsoft and Lumen Technologies announced an expanded partnership to co-sell networking infrastructure for companies running AI workloads on Azure. The collaboration addresses connectivity challenges across public clouds, private data centers, and offices, with Lumen bringing its cloud networking suite to Azure customers.

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Microsoft and Lumen expand partnership to jointly sell networking solutions for AI workloads on Azure

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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman Warns Creating Conscious AI Would Be Reckless, Calls for Halt

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has warned that building conscious AI would be reckless and called for an immediate halt to AI development if consciousness emerges during training. His remarks come amid growing disagreements with Anthropic over whether advanced models could possess subjective experiences or deserve moral consideration.

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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman Warns Creating Conscious AI Would Be Reckless, Calls for Halt

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Microsoft Patents AI System That Can Put Words in People's Mouths During Live Broadcasts

Microsoft filed a patent for an AI system that can modify spoken words in real-time during live broadcasts, altering both audio and facial movements. While the technology promises features like real-time translation and removing filler words, it raises concerns about deepfakes, disinformation, and authenticity in an era already struggling with AI-generated content.

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Microsoft Patents AI System That Can Put Words in People's Mouths During Live Broadcasts

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Google, OpenAI, Microsoft Back Unified AI Scraping Opt-Out Standard Using Robots.Txt

Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic commit to honoring a shared opt-out standard for AI scraping. Publishers can now block AI training crawlers with a single robots.txt entry instead of managing separate rules for each company, simplifying content control.

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Google, OpenAI, Microsoft Back Unified AI Scraping Opt-Out Standard Using Robots.Txt

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Big Tech Returns Smallest Share to Shareholders in 15 Years as AI Spending Creates Cash Crunch

Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Oracle returned just 9.3% of operating cash to shareholders in the first nine months of 2026—down from 27.4% a year earlier—as AI spending doubled to $556.9 billion. Share buybacks plummeted 83% while capital expenditures exceeded cash generation for the first time since 2011, leaving investors dependent on future AI profits to justify valuations.

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Big Tech Returns Smallest Share to Shareholders in 15 Years as AI Spending Creates Cash Crunch

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Wikimedia Foundation Proposes Middle Ground in OpenAI Copyright Lawsuit Over Fair Use and AI Training

The Wikimedia Foundation filed an amicus brief in the New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, proposing that AI model training on copyrighted material constitutes fair use, but retrieval-augmented generation systems that reproduce content should require licensing. The nonprofit warns that extreme rulings could either stifle innovation or threaten the open web.

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Wikimedia Foundation Proposes Middle Ground in OpenAI Copyright Lawsuit Over Fair Use and AI Training

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Microsoft OpenAI Revenue Reaches $10 Billion in Single Quarter, Exceeding Xbox and Bing Combined

Microsoft disclosed $10 billion in quarterly revenue from OpenAI, representing 11% of its total earnings—more than Xbox and Bing combined. The figure highlights the massive financial ties between the companies despite loosening partnership terms and Microsoft's shift toward building its own AI models and diversifying cloud providers.

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Microsoft OpenAI Revenue Reaches $10 Billion in Single Quarter, Exceeding Xbox and Bing Combined

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Microsoft Azure Revenue Jumps 48% to $33.2 Billion as AI Infrastructure Demand Outpaces Capacity

Microsoft's Azure revenue surged 48% to $33.2 billion in the September quarter, driven by intense AI demand and cloud computing services. Despite spending $45.2 billion on AI infrastructure—$6.5 billion less than expected due to delayed data center capacity—the company projects capital expenditures to reach $170 billion by calendar year 2026.

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Microsoft Azure Revenue Jumps 48% to $33.2 Billion as AI Infrastructure Demand Outpaces Capacity

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Microsoft Ends Copilot Support on Smart TVs After User Backlash

Microsoft is pulling its Copilot AI assistant from all smart TVs in 2026, just two years after LG and Samsung announced the integration at CES 2025. The decision follows widespread user complaints about forced AI integration and unremovable shortcuts that appeared on LG TVs without user consent.

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Microsoft Ends Copilot Support on Smart TVs After User Backlash

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Seagate Mozaic Drives Secure Broadcom HBA Approval, Simplifying High-Capacity Storage for AI Infrastructure

Seagate Technology achieved a major interoperability milestone as its Mozaic drives became the first SMR drives approved for Broadcom's host bus adapter list. Microsoft Azure Storage completed qualification of this configuration, validating the technology for hyperscale deployment and addressing growing AI-driven storage demands.

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Seagate Mozaic Drives Secure Broadcom HBA Approval, Simplifying High-Capacity Storage for AI Infrastructure

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Microsoft Offers 60,000 Employee Buyouts as AI Investment Reaches $175 Billion in 2026

Microsoft announced a voluntary exit offer to approximately 60,000 employees—27% of its global workforce—as the company channels unprecedented resources into AI infrastructure. With AI spending expected to reach $175 billion in 2026, the move signals a fundamental shift in how tech giants balance human capital against automation and compute power.

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Microsoft Offers 60,000 Employee Buyouts as AI Investment Reaches $175 Billion in 2026

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AI Spending Triggers Over 100,000 Layoffs as Companies Reallocate Budgets to Infrastructure

Companies across tech and finance are cutting more than 100,000 jobs to fund AI infrastructure investments. Microsoft eliminated 23,000 positions while Meta cut 8,000 workers. The trend reveals how AI spending is reshaping corporate resource allocation and workforce structures.

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AI Spending Triggers Over 100,000 Layoffs as Companies Reallocate Budgets to Infrastructure

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Microsoft AI Diagnostic Tool Beats Doctors With 83% Accuracy on Complex Medical Cases

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman unveiled an AI diagnostic tool that outperformed generalist physicians by more than twice on complex medical cases. The MAI Diagnostic Orchestrator achieved 83% accuracy compared to 36% for human doctors in a Science journal study. The system works step-by-step like a medical panel, questioning patients and ordering tests before reaching diagnoses.

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Microsoft AI Diagnostic Tool Beats Doctors With 83% Accuracy on Complex Medical Cases

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Power Infrastructure Emerges as the Biggest Bottleneck Choking AI Data Centers Growth

Goldman Sachs identifies power infrastructure as the primary constraint on AI expansion, projecting 170% surge in global data center power demand by 2030. Microsoft's withdrawal from a major UK AI project highlights how grid connection delays are forcing tech giants to rethink their AI race strategy.

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Power Infrastructure Emerges as the Biggest Bottleneck Choking AI Data Centers Growth

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Xbox Manager Brandon Stirrup Deletes Account After Claiming Devs Rejecting AI Shouldn't Be in Business

Xbox senior business strategy manager Brandon Stirrup ignited controversy by asserting that game developers who don't embrace AI in game development should not be in business. After claiming hundreds at Xbox use AI tools and that he vibe coded a game in three hours, Stirrup deleted his X account within 24 hours amid overwhelming backlash from the gaming community.

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Xbox Manager Brandon Stirrup Deletes Account After Claiming Devs Rejecting AI Shouldn't Be in Business

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