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Microsoft Debuts In-House AI Models MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-Preview, Redrawing Copilot Strategy
Microsoft has quietly shipped two first-party foundation models—a high-throughput speech generator called MAI-Voice-1 and a mixture-of-experts language model styled MAI-1-preview—marking a...
Microsoft Activates Austrian Data Residency: Copilot, Teams, and Exchange Now Stored Locally
Microsoft has flipped the switch on a trio of data-residency controls for its Austrian commercial customers, pairing the long-awaited Microsoft 365 Advanced Data Residency (ADR) add-on and Multi-Geo...
Microsoft Copilot Lands in Firefox Nightly: Full AI Sidebar with GPT-5 Smart Mode Sparks Privacy Debate
Mozilla has delivered a jolt to the browser AI race by quietly integrating Microsoft Copilot into Firefox Nightly’s built-in sidebar. The move, spotted in the latest experimental builds, brings the...
Microsoft Deploys In-House MAI Models as SeoulTech's Artificial Synapses Promise Ultralow-Power Edge AI
Two seemingly unrelated announcements last week quietly redrew the map for Windows users and hardware engineers alike. In a Seoul laboratory, Dr. Eunho Lee’s team published a molecular trick that...
U.S. Judge Forces Google to Open Search Data and End Exclusive Android Deals, Giving Microsoft a Path to Boost Bing and Copilot
A federal judge has ordered Google to share key search infrastructure with rivals and dismantle exclusive distribution agreements, while sparing the company from a forced breakup of Chrome and...
Stop Windows from Hoarding Gigabytes of Junk: The Safe Cleanup Plan You Need
If you’ve ever stared at a “Low Disk Space” warning and wondered where all your gigabytes went, you’re not alone. The answer often hides in plain sight: Windows itself, along with your apps,...
Copilot Now Powered by GPT-5: Microsoft Adds Smart Routing, Agent Controls, and Multimodal Editing
Microsoft’s August refresh of its Copilot platform introduces GPT-5 across chat, agent, and desktop experiences, but the quieter story for IT managers is a new centralized governance dashboard and...
Microsoft Ships First-Party AI Models as GPU Fleet Expands to 15,000 H100s
Microsoft has quietly but decisively moved from being a heavy consumer of third-party AI models to a company shipping its own first-party foundation and voice models—and it has paired those models...
uBlock Origin Vanished from Edge—Here’s the Fix and What It Means for MV2 Extensions
For a handful of hours this week, uBlock Origin—the widely trusted, open-source content blocker used by millions—simply disappeared from Microsoft Edge. The extension’s author, known as...
Microsoft's Copilot Free Tier Now Runs on GPT-4 Turbo, Offering 128K Context and April 2023 Cutoff
Microsoft has silently shifted the free tier of its Copilot AI assistant onto OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo model, a move that brings a dramatically larger context window, more recent training data, and...
Microsoft Edge Canary Upgrades Scareware Blocker with Default-On Scam Site Blocking and URL Sharing
Microsoft has quietly upgraded its experimental Scareware Blocker in Edge Canary to not only interrupt tech-support scams but to block entire scam websites and optionally send detected URLs to...
Critical ANGLE Use-After-Free Fix in Chrome 139 Forces Urgent Edge and Enterprise Patching
Microsoft has confirmed that a freshly disclosed use-after-free vulnerability in the Chromium ANGLE graphics layer, tracked as CVE-2025-9478, is now resolved in the latest Edge stable channel —...