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Microsoft News — Page 3

Microsoft news covering Copilot and its AI strategy, Azure, Windows, gaming and its partnership with OpenAI.

102 briefs, newest first.

Microsoft Quietly Kills the ‘Copilot Plus PC’ Brand After Recall Backlash
Hardware
29 days ago•2 min read

Microsoft Quietly Kills the ‘Copilot Plus PC’ Brand After Recall Backlash

Zubiqo Take

“When every machine has a neural processor by default, a premium AI sticker just serves as a warning label for invasive software.”

BearishMag 7
The Verge
Chinese Hackers Weaponize Chrome-Windows Zero-Day Chain to Deliver CLEANGULP Malware
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Cybersecurity
about 1 month ago•2 min read

Chinese Hackers Weaponize Chrome-Windows Zero-Day Chain to Deliver CLEANGULP Malware

Zubiqo Take

“State-sponsored actors are now sharing fully weaponized, multi-stage zero-day kits like open-source libraries, making standard browser sandboxing effectively useless for high-value targets.”

BearishMag 8
The Hacker News
Microsoft Blocked Salesforce From OpenAI. Now Benioff's Anthropic Bet Could Pay 'Tens of Billions'
Big Tech
about 1 month ago•2 min read

Microsoft Blocked Salesforce From OpenAI. Now Benioff's Anthropic Bet Could Pay 'Tens of Billions'

Zubiqo Take

“Being boxed out of OpenAI might be the luckiest accident in Salesforce's history if Anthropic's IPO actually cashes out at a $1.3T valuation.”

BullishMag 7
TradingView
Undead Labs Hit With 'Significant' Layoffs After Xbox Spin-Off
Big Tech
about 1 month ago•2 min read

Undead Labs Hit With 'Significant' Layoffs After Xbox Spin-Off

Zubiqo Take

“Corporate independence is a great marketing narrative right up until you have to fund a 2027 AAA game without Microsoft's balance sheet.”

BearishMag 8
IGN
Microsoft Guts Halo Studios, Hands Next Halo Game to Activision in Latest Layoffs
Gaming
about 1 month ago•2 min read

Microsoft Guts Halo Studios, Hands Next Halo Game to Activision in Latest Layoffs

Zubiqo Take

“Hollowing out the studio built exclusively for your flagship franchise and handing the keys to Activision is a brutal admission of internal management failure.”

BearishMag 8
XDA Developers
DOJ Bypasses Copyright Office to Back OpenAI and Microsoft in NYT Lawsuit
Regulation
about 1 month ago•2 min read

DOJ Bypasses Copyright Office to Back OpenAI and Microsoft in NYT Lawsuit

Zubiqo Take

“The government is openly admitting that if enforcing the law slows down the AI arms race, they simply prefer not to enforce the law.”

BearishMag 7
Axios
Nvidia-Backed AI Data Center Firm Nscale Files for US IPO Despite $1.02B Loss
Finance
about 1 month ago•2 min read

Nvidia-Backed AI Data Center Firm Nscale Files for US IPO Despite $1.02B Loss

Zubiqo Take

“Burning a billion dollars in six months to generate $140 million in revenue is the exact kind of math Wall Street only tolerates when you attach the letters AI to the prospectus.”

Mag 8
Bloomberg
Unsealed NYT Lawsuit Filings Expose Microsoft and OpenAI Executives Calling AI Scraping "Theft"
AI
about 1 month ago•2 min read

Unsealed NYT Lawsuit Filings Expose Microsoft and OpenAI Executives Calling AI Scraping "Theft"

Zubiqo Take

“AI companies arguing fair use in public while internally tracking exactly how much of their supplier's business they're destroying is just peak Silicon Valley disruption.”

BearishMag 7
TechCrunch
Microsoft and Nvidia CEOs Will Co-Host October 7 Surface Event Focused on Local AI
Hardware
about 1 month ago•2 min read

Microsoft and Nvidia CEOs Will Co-Host October 7 Surface Event Focused on Local AI

Zubiqo Take

“When two tech giants team up on local silicon, it just means they're tired of subsidizing the cloud compute costs for your AI agents.”

Mag 7
Engadget
Microsoft Issues Emergency Windows 11 Update After Record-Breaking Patch Breaks VMs
Big Tech
about 1 month ago•2 min read

Microsoft Issues Emergency Windows 11 Update After Record-Breaking Patch Breaks VMs

Zubiqo Take

“Pushing nearly 1,000 patches at once guarantees severe regressions, proving they're turning enterprise IT into an unpaid QA department.”

BearishMag 8
The Verge
Passkey Phishing Explodes: Hackers Weaponize AI to Hijack Microsoft Cloud Accounts
Cybersecurity
about 1 month ago•2 min read

Passkey Phishing Explodes: Hackers Weaponize AI to Hijack Microsoft Cloud Accounts

Zubiqo Take

“The tech industry spent billions building passkeys to eliminate credential theft, only to realize that social engineering easily bypasses the entire stack.”

BearishMag 7
The Hacker News
Microsoft Adds xAI’s Grok Models to Copilot in Push Against AI Vendor Lock-In
AI
about 1 month ago•2 min read

Microsoft Adds xAI’s Grok Models to Copilot in Push Against AI Vendor Lock-In

Zubiqo Take

“Microsoft is turning Copilot into a model buffet entirely to strip pricing power away from the AI labs building the foundation models.”

Mag 7
Crypto Briefing
Microsoft Chief Communications Officer Frank Shaw Exits After 17 Years
Big Tech
about 1 month ago•1 min read

Microsoft Chief Communications Officer Frank Shaw Exits After 17 Years

Zubiqo Take

“When the guy who wrote the playbook for defending a software monopoly for three decades quietly exits, the boardroom is about to change its entire defensive posture.”

Mag 8
The Verge
Microsoft Makes Rust a 'Tier 1' Language to Kill C++ Memory Bugs
Big Tech
about 1 month ago•2 min read

Microsoft Makes Rust a 'Tier 1' Language to Kill C++ Memory Bugs

Zubiqo Take

“Microsoft is finally admitting that attempting to secure billions of lines of legacy C++ code is a losing battle, opting instead to slowly rewrite the OS from the inside out.”

BullishMag 7
The Register
Google Drops Native Gemini App for Windows 10 and 11
AI
about 1 month ago•1 min read

Google Drops Native Gemini App for Windows 10 and 11

Zubiqo Take

“The battle for AI dominance has moved past the browser and straight into hijacking your OS keyboard shortcuts.”

Mag 7
Engadget
Microsoft Targets 38-Gigawatt Data Center Expansion to Avert AI Shortages
Big Tech
about 1 month ago•2 min read

Microsoft Targets 38-Gigawatt Data Center Expansion to Avert AI Shortages

Zubiqo Take

“Software margins mean nothing if you literally run out of electricity to power the hardware.”

BullishMag 8
Bloomberg
1,900 Blizzard Workers Secure AI Guardrails in Historic Microsoft Union Contract
Gaming
about 1 month ago•2 min read

1,900 Blizzard Workers Secure AI Guardrails in Historic Microsoft Union Contract

Zubiqo Take

“Microsoft didn't agree to labor protections out of corporate goodwill; they capitulated to a mobilized workforce right as they prepare to slash another 1,600 jobs across the Xbox division.”

Mag 7
GameSpot
NYT and OpenAI Present Final Arguments Ahead of Landmark Copyright Ruling
AI
about 1 month ago•2 min read

NYT and OpenAI Present Final Arguments Ahead of Landmark Copyright Ruling

Zubiqo Take

“The entire multi-billion dollar valuation of the AI industry hinges on courts agreeing that ingesting the internet for free was a transformative public service rather than mass theft.”

Mag 7
Axios
Microsoft Plugs Record 974 Security Holes in Massive September Update
Cybersecurity
about 1 month ago•2 min read

Microsoft Plugs Record 974 Security Holes in Massive September Update

Zubiqo Take

“AI is making software safer in theory, but in practice it's just burying understaffed IT admins in a never-ending avalanche of weekend patch deployments.”

BearishMag 8
KrebsOnSecurity
Microsoft Benchmark Exposes Catastrophic Reliability Flaws in Long-Horizon AI Agents
AI
about 2 months ago•2 min read

Microsoft Benchmark Exposes Catastrophic Reliability Flaws in Long-Horizon AI Agents

Zubiqo Take

“The entire tech sector is pitching autonomous AI workers while quietly ignoring that the models forget how to do their jobs after a few dozen iterations.”

BearishMag 7
Crypto Briefing
Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over AI Training Data
AI
about 2 months ago•2 min read

Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over AI Training Data

Zubiqo Take

“Demanding the destruction of an already trained AI model is technically impossible without a full retrain, making it a pure negotiation tactic to force a massive settlement.”

BearishMag 7
Crypto Briefing
Microsoft Asks Court to Dismiss NYT Lawsuit After Discovery Shows Copilot Rarely Regurgitates Text
AI
about 2 months ago•2 min read

Microsoft Asks Court to Dismiss NYT Lawsuit After Discovery Shows Copilot Rarely Regurgitates Text

Zubiqo Take

“Microsoft is betting that a 1% memorization rate is small enough to legally launder the other 99% of their training data.”

Mag 7
The Verge
Tim Schafer Details Double Fine’s Abrupt Microsoft Exit and $400k Survival Plan
Gaming
about 2 months ago•2 min read

Tim Schafer Details Double Fine’s Abrupt Microsoft Exit and $400k Survival Plan

Zubiqo Take

“Microsoft is quietly offloading the prestige studios it bought for goodwill now that the Game Pass growth narrative has stalled out.”

BearishMag 8
Kotaku
Gimlet Labs Hits $3B Valuation With $300M a16z-Led Round to Optimize AI Compute
Startup
about 2 months ago•1 min read

Gimlet Labs Hits $3B Valuation With $300M a16z-Led Round to Optimize AI Compute

Zubiqo Take

“Everyone is throwing billions at software layers hoping one of them finally breaks the hardware monopoly.”

BullishMag 7
Bloomberg