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Coverage mixes concerns over rising debt and a record‑high patch rollout with positive notes on new Windows preview builds and AI chatbot user milestones tied to Microsoft.
Microsoft releases a major update to Copilot in Excel, adding personalization features that let users customize date formats, table layouts, and default commands for a more tailored workflow.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urged firms to develop tailored AI models rather than rely on a handful of foundation models, emphasizing the need for diverse, company‑specific solutions.
Microsoft announces the global general availability of Copilot Cowork, an agentic AI that can execute complex, long‑running tasks end‑to‑end across Microsoft 365.
Microsoft’s Azure Quantum platform will add 50 new quantum nodes across the United States, positioning it as the largest public quantum cloud provider. The rollout is part of a broader push into quantum infrastructure.
One of Google’s most prominent AI researchers, Noam Shazeer, has left Alphabet to join OpenAI, marking a significant win in the race to build the most powerful language models.
Microsoft unveiled its Majorana 2 quantum chip, claiming a 1,000‑fold increase in qubit reliability, bringing the company closer to a commercial‑grade quantum computer.
At its Build 2026 conference, Microsoft launched MAI-Code-1-Flash and MAI-Thinking-1, proprietary models aimed at reducing costs and dependence on OpenAI’s APIs.
Microsoft patched a critical flaw in its M365 Copilot AI platform that let attackers extract 2‑factor codes by embedding malicious URLs in emails.
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CrowdStrike and Microsoft Corp. have expanded their strategic partnership to make the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform available through the Microsoft Marketplace. This move enables organizations to deploy advanced, AI-native cybersecurity solutions while leveraging their existing Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC). By streamlining procurement and aligning security investments with cloud spending, the integration helps enterprises accelerate secure digital transformation, improve operational efficiency, and maximize the value of their existing cloud budgets.
New performance data shows that NVIDIA’s next-generation Blackwell Ultra platform delivers up to 50× higher throughput and up to 35× lower cost per token for agentic AI workloads compared with the previous Hopper generation — enabling significantly faster, more economically scalable real-time coding assistants and autonomous AI agents.