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GPT-5 Lands in Microsoft 365 as Altman Dismisses Musk's 'Eat Alive' Warning
Microsoft has begun embedding OpenAI’s GPT-5 model across its core productivity and development tools—from Microsoft 365 Copilot to GitHub Copilot and Azure AI Foundry—even as Tesla and xAI CEO...
GPT-5 Launch Sparks Musk-Nadella Clash, But Azure’s Model Router Quietly Redefines the Enterprise AI Battle
Elon Musk’s blunt warning that “OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive” after the August 7, 2025 launch of GPT‑5 crystallized a volatile moment in enterprise AI, but the far more telling...
Microsoft’s Windows XP Bliss Crocs Drop as $80 Employee Exclusive, Public Sale Teased
Microsoft surprised the tech world this week with an unorthodox 50th-anniversary drop: a limited-edition pair of Windows XP–themed Crocs. Priced at $80, the clogs first appeared as an...
Microsoft's In-Game AI Companion 'Gaming Copilot' Now Available to Windows 11 Insiders
For the past year, Microsoft has been quietly testing the boundaries of artificial intelligence in gaming. Now, the fruits of that labor are landing on Windows 11 desktops: Gaming Copilot, a...
Steam Data Reveals Windows 10 Retains 35% of Gamers Weeks Before Support Ends
With the October 14, 2025 end-of-support date for Windows 10 now just weeks away, Microsoft’s push to migrate users to Windows 11 is hitting a wall of resistance from one of its most passionate...
Copilot's OneDrive Connector: Microsoft's AI Now Reads Your Cloud Documents Without Uploads
Microsoft has quietly begun rolling out a major update to its Copilot AI assistant, enabling direct access to files stored in OneDrive through a new "Connected apps" feature. The change, still...
Windows 11’s Settings App Still Can’t Replace Control Panel — And Users Are Frustrated
Microsoft’s decade-long effort to retire the classic Control Panel in favor of the modern Settings app has reached a new milestone in Windows 11, but the finish line remains frustratingly out of...
Microsoft Sued Over Windows 10 Sunset in ‘Forced Obsolescence’ AI Monopolization Claim
A California man has filed a lawsuit aiming to block Microsoft from ending free support for Windows 10, arguing the October 14, 2025 cutoff is a ploy to force users onto AI‑ready hardware and...
GPT-5 arrives in Microsoft 365 Copilot: a dual-mode AI that scales from quick answers to deep strategy
Microsoft has begun rolling out GPT-5 to licensed Microsoft 365 Copilot users, marking the first time the tech giant has brought OpenAI’s most advanced reasoning model directly into its enterprise...
Download Windows 10 22H2 ISO Now: Your Last Chance Before Support Ends
The clock is ticking: on October 14, 2025, Microsoft will pull the plug on free security updates and support for Windows 10. For the millions of users who still run the decade-old OS—especially...
Microsoft Azure Hosted Israeli Military Surveillance of Palestinian Calls as War Deepened
Unit 8200, Israel's elite signals intelligence corps, built and operated a mass surveillance system atop Microsoft Azure that collected and stored recordings of millions of Palestinian phone calls,...
Mustafa Suleyman Orchestrates Microsoft's Raid on DeepMind, Luring Over Two Dozen AI Experts
Microsoft has pulled off a stunning talent heist, convincing more than two dozen artificial intelligence researchers and engineers to leave Alphabet's DeepMind and join its own AI division. The...