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.

OpenAI spent $3.7 billion in the first quarter of 2026 — more than half of its quarterly revenue
According to shareholder documents, OpenAI spent $3.7 billion while generating $5.7 billion in revenue in January–March 2026. Both figures tripled year over year.

HSBC deploys Google Cloud AI targeting $100+ million from each project
One of the world's largest banks has agreed with Google to use AI in global operations — each AI project is expected to generate more than $100 million in…

Microsoft SkillOpt: automatic prompt optimization instead of manual trial and error
Microsoft SkillOpt optimizes AI prompts through an automatic six-step loop — reflection, selection, validation gating — and shows measurable accuracy gains as early…

ByteDance shifts to in-house AI chips: rollout to begin next year

Gary Gensler: AI Is the Most Important Technology of Our Time, but It Needs Real Returns

Vibe-coding vulnerabilities: how AI-generated websites create security holes for hackers

Perplexity launches Computer for Counsel — an AI agent for legal teams

Meta Unveils Astryx — A React Design System with AI Agent and MCP Support
Meta has released Astryx, an open-source React and StyleX design system with an MCP server and CLI, where engineers and AI agents work with the same components via…

Trump administration authorized 100+ US companies and agencies to use Anthropic Mythos 5
The Trump administration has officially authorized more than 100 US companies and government agencies to use the Anthropic Mythos 5 AI system, including foreign…

Datalab Releases lift — a 9B Open-Weight Model for Extracting JSON from PDFs

Elastic to Acquire Startup Deductive AI for $85 Million — AI for Automatic Bug Detection

NewCore raises $66M to give AI agents corporate credentials

Schneider Electric and Foxconn Partner to Build Next-Generation AI Data Centers

Neuro-punk: decentralized AI beyond corporate control
A Habr essay urges ML researchers and hardware engineers to become "neuro-punks" — to build AI independent of corporations and states while it's still possible.

China will invest $295 billion in AI computing infrastructure, challenging the US
Beijing launched a state program worth $295 billion to build AI infrastructure — the largest bet in history on computing power in its competition with American tech…









