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Microsoft Deploys GPT-5 to Power Copilot Across 365, GitHub, and Azure, Claiming First-Mover Advantage
Microsoft today became the first major technology company to fully deploy OpenAI's GPT-5 model across its product suite, embedding the advanced AI into Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Azure AI...
Microsoft Azure Powers Israel’s Mass Surveillance of Palestinians, Leaked Documents Reveal
In late 2021, a private meeting between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and then-commander of Israel’s Unit 8200, Yossi Sariel, set in motion a partnership that would transform the elite signals...
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 Azure Hosts 11,500 TB of Israeli Military's Palestinian Surveillance Data, Investigation Finds
A colossal trove of raw intelligence—11,500 terabytes of intercepted Palestinian phone calls and communications—has been quietly stored and processed on Microsoft Azure cloud servers under a...
Windows 10 Support Has Ended: Your 5 Options If Your PC Can't Upgrade to Windows 11
The official deadline came and went on October 14, 2025, yet millions of perfectly functional PCs are still running Windows 10. Microsoft’s compatibility checker insists those machines can’t move...
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,...
Leaked Docs: Israel Stored Millions of Palestinian Calls on Microsoft Azure
Millions of phone calls made by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have been systematically intercepted, processed, and stored on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, according to a joint...
NTT Data Unveils Global Microsoft Cloud Unit to Turbocharge AI-Driven Enterprise Transformation
NTT Data has launched a dedicated global business unit for Microsoft Cloud, a move executives say will accelerate enterprise adoption of secure, AI-powered cloud services amid soaring demand for...
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...
Microsoft Fixes One Windows 11 Nag, Introduces a Harder-to-Ignore OneDrive Prompt in Start Menu
Windows 11 testers are confronting a classic good-news-bad-news scenario. In the latest Dev channel build 26200.5722, Microsoft has finally streamlined the persistent “second-chance out-of-box...
Leaked Files Expose Microsoft Azure’s Role in Israel’s Mass Call Interception and AI Warfare
A joint investigation by The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and Local Call has exposed how Israel’s elite military intelligence unit, Unit 8200, harnesses Microsoft Azure to store and process intercepted...