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Microsoft reported a $3.2 billion gain from its Anthropic investment in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, while its OpenAI investment was written down by $600 million, though it gained $5 billion for the full year.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that the company is developing a 'super app' that integrates Copilot's chat, coding, and agentic capabilities, set to launch this year for both consumer and commercial use.
Microsoft's Q4 2026 earnings report shows Xbox revenue declining 10% while cloud and AI revenue surged to $59 billion, driven by Azure and Microsoft 365 Copilot growth.
The article explores the growing conflict between open-weight and closed AI models, highlighting the debate over distillation and US-China tensions, with Microsoft and many tech giants supporting open weights.
Anthropic's Mythos AI model has been uncovering critical and important bugs in Microsoft's SharePoint and other software at a rate that outstrips Microsoft's ability to patch them, raising urgent security concerns about adversaries exploiting the same vulnerabilities.
Microsoft's Mage-Flow models appear to have been removed from HuggingFace (404), though community quantized versions remain available elsewhere.
Microsoft confirms that the recent Xbox outage shouldn't have prevented disc-based games from working, blaming an external licensing service for the issue and planning a fix.
Microsoft unveils Mage, a family of compact 4B-parameter multimodal models for visual understanding and generation, designed for easy training and deployment on modest hardware while staying competitive with larger open models.
Microsoft announces general availability of Video Super Resolution for NPU and CPU, using on-device AI to enhance lower-resolution video quality.
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.