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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...
Gaming Copilot Hits Windows 11 Game Bar: Instant AI Help Comes with Strings Attached
Microsoft has planted its AI flag deeper into Windows 11 with the arrival of Gaming Copilot in the Game Bar, marking the software giant’s most direct integration of generative assistance into the...
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...
Exchange Hybrid Bug Lets Attackers Quietly Escalate to Cloud Admin — Patch Now
A single compromise on a dusty, overlooked Exchange Server can now silently hand an attacker the keys to your entire Microsoft 365 kingdom — with no alarm raised and no audit trail left behind....
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...
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...
Microsoft Executive: Keyboards, Mice Will Be as Outdated as MS-DOS by 2030
Keyboards and mice will be as alien to future generations as MS-DOS is to Gen Z today, according to Microsoft’s corporate vice president of enterprise and security, David Weston. Weston’s stark...
Microsoft’s 50th Anniversary Bloom Wallpaper: From Surface Exclusive to Community Sensation
Microsoft's ultra-exclusive 50th Anniversary Bloom wallpaper for Windows 11 has broken free from its limited-edition hardware shackles. Within days of the commemorative Surface Laptop's unveiling,...
Motorola to Preinstall Microsoft’s Copilot Vision on New Razr and Edge Phones
Motorola’s upcoming Razr and Edge smartphones will ship with Microsoft’s Copilot Vision preinstalled, the Lenovo-owned brand announced Wednesday, bringing advanced computer vision AI to its Moto...
Engineer Storms Microsoft 50th Bash to Protest Azure's Role in Palestinian Mass Surveillance
A Microsoft software engineer disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary Copilot event in April 2025, storming the stage to denounce what she called the tech giant’s complicity in mass surveillance...
Microsoft's Copilot for Gaming Hits Game Bar—Xbox Insiders Get First Access to AI Sidekick
Microsoft has begun rolling out Copilot for Gaming to Xbox Insiders on PC, embedding a context-aware AI assistant directly into the Windows Game Bar. The limited release marks the first public test...
Leaked Documents Expose Microsoft Azure's Role in Storing 200 Million Hours of Palestinian Call Data for Israeli Military Targeting
Israel’s elite signals intelligence agency, Unit 8200, has used Microsoft Azure to warehouse more than 11,500 terabytes of intercepted Palestinian phone calls—equivalent to 200 million hours of...