Microsoft

23 stories in the last two weeks

Financial Times ·

A profile of Asha Sharma, an outsider elevated by Satya Nadella to lead Xbox, where she made sweeping job cuts and shed game studios within her first few months

Elevated to fix Microsoft's struggling gaming division, she is making tough decisions about its future

Max Spero / Pangram Labs ·

An analysis of 1M+ social media posts from April 24 to June 30: ~25% of longform posts with 250+ words were fully AI-generated; on LinkedIn, the figure was 41%

A first look at analytics from our Pangram Chrome extension

Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive ·

CISA says weak security controls around the use of public GitHub repos allowed a contractor to accidentally leak private cloud access keys and other credentials

The agency's blog post came as lawmakers pressed the agency for answers.

Muvija M / Reuters ·

The UK designates Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Oracle as critical third-party financial sector suppliers, bringing them under direct regulatory oversight

Britain has designated cloud service providers Microsoft (MSFT.O), Google (GOOGL.O), Amazon (AMZN.O) and Oracle (ORCL.N) …

Andrew Ackerman / Washington Post ·

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh names Marc Andreessen and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead a task force on the economic impact of new technologies, including AI

The billionaire investor will help shape how the Federal Reserve assesses a technology his firm has bet heavily on.

Beatrice Nolan / Fortune ·

Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US now has AI "regulation without transparent or complete rules", and adds that "without rules, businesses can't plan"

Microsoft President Brad Smith has weighed in on U.S. policy on AI, saying that the Trump administration's …

Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET ·

Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's Entire launches a decentralized Git network to handle high coding agent traffic, with servers in the US, the EU, and Australia

ZDNET's key takeaways

Anna Washenko / Engadget ·

DuckDuckGo updates its browser for iOS, Windows, and macOS to block most video ads by default, including those on YouTube, based on uBlockOrigin's filter lists

An unsubtle shot at Chrome.

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg ·

Sources detail Xbox's big reset after its Game Pass strategy failed; Xbox spent nearly $80B on content deals, but gamers prefer to stick with a handful of games

Microsoft's Xbox to Cut 3,200 Jobs, Divest Studios in Overhaul. Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox spent nearly $80 billion in the last decade …

Brody Ford / Bloomberg ·

Microsoft, looking to reduce AI costs, is starting to replace models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its MAI models in products like Excel and Outlook

Microsoft Corp., looking to reduce AI costs, is starting to replace OpenAI and Anthropic with its own models in software products like Excel and Outlook.

Sam Smith / GamesBeat ·

Xbox appoints Helen Chiang as its first COO; Chiang was previously corporate vice president for the Minecraft Franchise and the studio head of Minecraft

Xbox has confirmed that Helen Chiang has been promoted to the role of new chief operating officer in the wake of structural changes at Microsoft.

The Information ·

Memo: Microsoft is merging the consumer and enterprise versions of its Copilot chatbots into a single app featuring coding tools and AI agents dubbed AutoPilot

Microsoft is merging its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps and cutting unwanted features to 'earn the right to exist' in the eyes …

Todd Bishop / GeekWire ·

Microsoft invests $2.5B and forms the Microsoft Frontier Company to embed 6,000 forward-deployed engineers with customers to help deploy AI systems

Microsoft is launching a new AI "company." It won't be a separate legal entity, and most of its 6,000 people already work at Microsoft.

New York Times ·

Filings: Trump purchased up to $5M each in Broadcom, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia stocks on July 23, the same day he unveiled his AI action plan

President Trump and his family reaped vast financial rewards from a memecoin that generated losses for hundreds of thousands of investors.

Bloomberg ·

Meta plans a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI compute and models, to compete with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud; META jumps 9%

Inside Meta's $200 Billion Louisiana Data Center Bet

Ashley Stewart / Business Insider ·

Microsoft plans to announce job cuts next week affecting less than 2.5% of its 220,000-person workforce, including roles in sales, consulting, and Xbox

Microsoft is planning to announce job cuts soon as the tech giant continues efforts to control costs, according to people familiar with the situation.

Wall Street Journal ·

Filings: Microsoft's Ireland hub generated $47B in pretax profits for FY 2025, or 38.1% of its global total; new EU rules require country-by-country reporting

Country-by-country EU reporting requirement forces companies to offer additional public tax details

Sebastian Herrera / Fortune ·

A profile of Jacob Andreou, the 33-year-old former Snap exec leading Microsoft's consolidated Copilot team efforts to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic

Andreou, who once led product at social media firm Snap, is head of Microsoft Copilot.

Kenneth Shepard / Kotaku ·

Microsoft says the price of Xbox consoles will increase on August 1 by $100 for 512GB models and $150 for 1TB models, the third price increase since 2025

Microsoft is increasing the prices of Xbox Series consoles once more and introducing a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' option

Thomas Claburn / The Register ·

Nature publishes a peer-reviewed paper alleging that Microsoft's 2025 quantum breakthrough claims were based on "basic Python errors" and data cherry-picking

Nature paper argues researchers cherry-picked data. Redmond insists its work is sound

Lorelei Smillie / Bloomberg ·

Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit says AI helped it link two separate hacking tools, Amadey and StealC, and file a single civil lawsuit to help take them down

Investigators used new tools to defeat old malware technology.

Julian Chokkattu / Wired ·

Meta's Starfire glasses with Kylie Jenner include a tiny gemstone on the lens, a metal nose pad to prevent absorbing makeup, and an AI version of Kylie's voice

The new Meta-branded glasses have the same camera, microphones, and chatbot as the Ray-Bans. They come in three styles, one of which was codesigned with Kylie Jenner.