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.
Startup Acti built AI agents into the smartphone keyboard for iOS and Android
Startup Acti introduced an AI keyboard for iOS and Android that works across all apps and lets users create custom AI shortcuts using plain text.
Indian entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia invested $30 million in an AI alternative to Microsoft Office
The Indian serial entrepreneur launched Neo — a startup building an AI-native alternative to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace with his own $30 million.
Palantir released a manifesto on AI sovereignty and attacked the token-based AI monetization model
Palantir published a nine-point manifesto urging organizations to retain their own data, control model weights, and abandon “tokenmaxxing.”
ByteDance is building the largest data center outside China in Brazil for $39 billion
SAP SE limits hiring and travel to fund major AI investments
Microsoft releases Azure Linux 4.0 — the company's Linux distribution targets enterprise servers
ExpressVPN updates ExpressKeys: password sharing and passkey support
Vibe coding with Claude Code and Copilot: why development speed comes at the cost of security
Vibe coding with GitHub Copilot, Claude Code and Cursor accelerates development but destroys the DevSecOps model: developer data leaks into AI models without…
Venice AI becomes a unicorn: $65M Series A and $70M in annual revenue while profitable
Venice AI closed a $65 million Series A round and became a unicorn with a valuation above $1 billion — notably, the company is already profitable, with annual…
Anthropic in talks with Samsung to develop its own AI chip
OpenAI launched an initiative to find and fix vulnerabilities in open-source software
GitHub Copilot harness demonstrated leading token efficiency and support for 20+ models
Qwen, Gemma, Phi-4: five open-source omni-models for every data type
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son: Musk's orbital data centers won't win the AI race
SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son has said Elon Musk's idea of putting data centers in orbit makes no sense: the AI race will be won by ground-based computing…
Microsoft and Chevron Sign 20-Year Power Supply Deal for a Data Center in Texas
Microsoft and Chevron have signed a 20-year agreement: the oil giant will supply gas-generated electricity to one of the largest data centers in the U.S., located…