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Microsoft unveiled MAI Image 2.5 Pro, a new in-house AI model with improved image generation quality, complex prompt handling, text rendering, and natural language editing.
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger discusses the newspaper's $20 million lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright infringement, the threats to journalism from AI and the Trump administration, and the future of news in the digital age.
Microsoft releases VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet, a compressed multilingual ASR model for real-time CPU inference. It achieves 1.6-2.3x faster inference than Whisper.cpp with real-time capability on as few as 3 CPU threads.
Microsoft announced two new AI-powered security tools, MDASH and Project Perception, claiming they outperform competing platforms on benchmarks like CyberGYM and reduce costs by selecting the best model per task.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns companies against relying on a single AI model provider, advising them to retain control over their data and prompts to avoid outsourcing their thinking and maintain flexibility.
An extended Xbox outage prevented users from playing both digital and disc-based games, highlighting the downside of tying authentication to physical copies. Xbox reported progress on recovery by evening.
Microsoft launched its first cybersecurity-specialized AI model, MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, and a new agentic cybersecurity platform called Perception, aiming to compete with Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI in AI-powered security.
A retrospective on Windows NT 3.1, Microsoft's first fully 32-bit operating system, discussing its advantages (stability, security, portability, NTFS) and disadvantages (high hardware demands, limited software support).
Amazon and Microsoft are each spending roughly $200 billion this year on AI data centers, and investors are growing impatient for returns as competition intensifies with Google.
Microsoft co-signs a statement advocating for open-weight AI models, arguing they are essential for American AI leadership by fostering innovation, competition, and broad economic diffusion.
Kai-Fu Lee comments that the notable aspect of the Open Weight letter is who didn't sign it, linking to Microsoft's response on open-weight models.
Microsoft announced Frontier Company, a $2.5B initiative with 6,000 experts, to help enterprises embed AI into real workflows with measurable outcomes and governance.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate three-month subscriptions are available for $39.01 at Eneba, nearly half off the regular price, offering access to Microsoft's game library and online multiplayer.
Microsoft's corporate responsibility page lists OpenAI as a signatory to an open weight AI letter, indicating support for open-weight AI models.
Microsoft Research and the Broad Institute, with support from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, are collaborating on Project Ex Vivo to use AI for better understanding cancer cell states and advancing precision oncology.
Microsoft argues that open-weight AI models are essential for American AI leadership by promoting competition, innovation, and broad access across sectors, while acknowledging the associated risks.
Major tech companies including Microsoft, NVIDIA, Meta, IBM, and Palantir issued a joint letter urging Washington regulators to avoid policies that would cripple open-weight AI models, warning of negative consequences for innovation.
Microsoft pressured LG to disable unwanted McAfee pop-up ads that were automatically installed on Windows 11 when connecting LG monitors, following user backlash.
Microsoft announces public preview of MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, their latest purpose-built generative AI models for image and voice, now available on Azure AI and powering Microsoft products like Bing Image Creator.
Microsoft confirms that LG monitors can automatically install the LG Monitor App Installer and McAfee ads via Windows Update without user consent, raising privacy concerns.