Artificial Intelligence
The latest Artificial Intelligence coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft Bets Big on AI-Powered Retail as 80% of Enterprises Adopt Gen AI by 2026
Microsoft is betting that the next big wave in artificial intelligence will reshape the retail industry, and it’s putting its vast partner network at the center of the transformation. A new...
GPT-5 Hits Microsoft 365 Copilot on Launch Day with Automatic Model Selection
OpenAI’s GPT-5, the most advanced AI system yet, is rolling out today in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio—the very same day the model launches. For the first time, Copilot uses a...
Microsoft Lays Off 15,000, Scraps Flexible Remote Work in All-in Bet on AI
Microsoft has axed more than 15,000 jobs and is ending its era of ultra-flexible remote work, demanding employees return to offices three days a week as it channels $80 billion into artificial...
Microsoft Exec Says 'Mousing Around and Typing' Will Soon Feel as Archaic as MS-DOS
David Weston, Microsoft’s Vice President of OS Security, has laid out a future for Windows that renders the traditional mouse and keyboard as relics of a bygone era. “The world of mousing around...
Motorola Preinstalls Microsoft Copilot App and Adds Vision AI to Moto AI Suite
Motorola is giving its Moto AI suite a major upgrade by weaving Microsoft Copilot Vision directly into its devices, allowing users to point their phone cameras at objects and get instant AI-powered...
GPT-5 Is Here: OpenAI Unifies AI Models, Adds Emotional Intelligence, and Opens Free Access
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman kicked off the company’s August 7, 2025 livestream with a direct statement: “We’re ushering in GPT-5.” After weeks of cryptic teasers—including a Star Wars Death Star...
Microsoft’s $101.8B Profit Overshadowed by 17,000 Layoffs as AI Investment Hits $85B
Microsoft just delivered a fiscal year that would be the envy of any tech giant—record revenues, soaring profits, and a market cap that surpassed $4 trillion for the first time. But beneath the...
AWS Shatters Microsoft's OpenAI Exclusivity, Brings gpt-oss Models to Bedrock
Amazon Web Services ended Microsoft's five-year chokehold on cloud-hosted OpenAI models Tuesday, rolling out two new open-weight artificial intelligence models on its Bedrock platform. The August 5,...
Microsoft Poaches Over 20 DeepMind AI Talents, Pushing ‘Low Ego’ Culture Over Nine-Figure Pay
More than 20 top artificial intelligence researchers and engineers have left Google DeepMind for Microsoft in a matter of months, drawn not by unheard-of salaries but by a promise of something harder...
Microsoft Defender's New AI Agent Cuts Phishing Noise by 90%, Now in Public Preview
Microsoft has launched an AI-powered Phishing Triage Agent in public preview, embedding it directly into Microsoft Defender to automate the triage of user-reported phishing emails and slash...
OpenAI's GPT-5 Leaks on GitHub Hours Before Launch, Revealing Four Model Variants and Altman's Safety Fears
Just hours before OpenAI’s scheduled livestream on August 6, 2025, a now-deleted GitHub blog post inadvertently leaked key details about GPT-5, the company’s next-generation AI model. The post,...
NTT DATA’s New Microsoft Cloud Unit Pledges to Shrink Enterprise AI Deployments from Months to Weeks
NTT DATA has launched a new global business unit laser-focused on Microsoft Cloud and AI, promising to slash the time it takes for large enterprises to move from AI experimentation to...