Microsoft
Microsoft is the world's largest software company and OpenAI's key partner, embedding GPT models across Copilot, Windows, Office and the Azure cloud. It also builds its own Phi small models and the MAI model line. This page gathers all our coverage of Microsoft's AI moves.
MGX from Abu Dhabi Raised $49 Billion for One of AI's Largest Funds Ever
Investment company MGX from Abu Dhabi raised a $49 billion fund for AI deals, joining the ranks of the industry's largest investors.
Microsoft Prepares New Workforce Reduction—Thousands of Employees to Be Laid Off
Microsoft is preparing to cut fewer than 2.5% of its workforce in a new round of layoffs, reports Business Insider—sales and consulting divisions are among the…
Goldman Sachs: Hyperscaler AI Spending Will Continue to Support European Equities
Goldman Sachs' chief equity strategist stated that rising hyperscaler capital expenditure on AI will continue to fuel profit growth in Europe.
AI Agents as Office 'Colleagues': Why This Is a Flawed Metaphor — MIT Technology Review
Qualcomm considers acquiring AI-chip startup Tenstorrent for $8-10 billion
SAP Reorganizes Product and Engineering for the Second Time in 2026 Amid AI Race
LangChain: AI agent swarms using LangGraph cut code debugging time by 93%
Salesforce to acquire AI startup Fin for customer support for $3.6 billion
Salesforce Inc. has agreed to acquire Fin, a developer of AI agents for customer support, for approximately $3.6 billion, strengthening its position in enterprise…
Microsoft launches AI business Frontier Company with 6000 engineers for enterprise implementations
Microsoft announced a new operating division Frontier Company backed by 2.5 billion dollars in investments.
Sonya Yun: chip demand cycles and hyperscaler AI spending cycles are diverging
Five AI plugins for Obsidian that help retain knowledge from notes
Zuckerberg confirmed that Meta is exploring launching a cloud AI business
Microsoft's Gaming Copilot will arrive on Xbox Series X|S in 2026
Google Expands Managed Agents in Gemini API: Background Tasks and MCP
Google announced new capabilities for Managed Agents in Gemini API, including support for background tasks and remote Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling…
Amazon Developing Moonraker: Alexa Becomes an Agent
Amazon's Moonraker project — an agentic upgrade for Alexa, revealed in internal documents — shows serious investment in competing with OpenAI and Google.