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Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees
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Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees

Satya Nadella in February 2026. | Photo by Sven Hoppe / picture alliance via Getty Images A year after cutting around 9,100 employees, Microsoft is making further layoffs today as it begins its new...

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Microsoft follows Anthropic and OpenAI into the AI super app race with overhauled Copilot and AutoPilot agents
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Microsoft follows Anthropic and OpenAI into the AI super app race with overhauled Copilot and AutoPilot agents

Microsoft plans to merge its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps into a single unified application in August,...

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Microsoft's SkillOpt boosts GPT-5.5 by using nothing but a trained Markdown file
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Microsoft's SkillOpt boosts GPT-5.5 by using nothing but a trained Markdown file

Microsoft and three Chinese universities developed SkillOpt, a method that optimizes instruction documents for AI...

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For the 2nd time in weeks, Microsoft packages laced with credential stealer
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For the 2nd time in weeks, Microsoft packages laced with credential stealer

Microsoft packages containing malicious credential stealer malware were discovered for the second time in weeks, with...

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Satya Nadella publicly torches a VP's plan to make Microsoft's AI agent deliberately addictive
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Satya Nadella publicly torches a VP's plan to make Microsoft's AI agent deliberately addictive

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella publicly criticized an internal memo proposing to make the company's AI agent Scout...

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Microsoft Fara Tutorial: Run a Browser-Use Agent in Google Colab with a Mock OpenAI-Compatible Endpoint
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Microsoft Fara Tutorial: Run a Browser-Use Agent in Google Colab with a Mock OpenAI-Compatible Endpoint

A tutorial on running Microsoft Fara, a browser-use agent, in Google Colab with a mock OpenAI-compatible endpoint. The...

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Scout from M’Soft is the agentic Autopilot that works across M365
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Scout from M’Soft is the agentic Autopilot that works across M365

Microsoft has announced wider testing of its new Autopilot feature, a new category of autonomous agents that can work...

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Microsoft and OpenAI broke up — now they’re ready to fight
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Microsoft and OpenAI broke up — now they’re ready to fight

Microsoft announced new AI initiatives at its Build conference, including in-house reasoning models and AI agents,...

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Microsoft’s Majorana 2 quantum chip is also a case study for agentic AI in R&D
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Microsoft’s Majorana 2 quantum chip is also a case study for agentic AI in R&D

Microsoft announced its Majorana 2 quantum chip with significant improvements including qubits 1,000 times more...

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Microsoft Fully Commits to AI Models, Intros Unmetered Intelligence
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Microsoft Fully Commits to AI Models, Intros Unmetered Intelligence

Microsoft is committing to AI models and introducing unmetered intelligence capabilities for enterprises. The company...

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Meet Microsoft Scout, Your AI Coworker That Never Logs Off
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Meet Microsoft Scout, Your AI Coworker That Never Logs Off

Microsoft has introduced Scout, an AI agent that integrates into Teams to automate routine office tasks. The agent...

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Microsoft offers devs a better way to control AI agent behavior
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Microsoft offers devs a better way to control AI agent behavior

Microsoft has introduced a specification that allows developer, compliance, and security teams to define policies for...

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Microsoft’s Project Solara is an OS for AI agent gadgets
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Microsoft’s Project Solara is an OS for AI agent gadgets

Microsoft announced Project Solara, a new operating system built on Android designed specifically for AI agent-powered...

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Microsoft created the mini Surface dev box that Qualcomm couldn’t
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Microsoft created the mini Surface dev box that Qualcomm couldn’t

Microsoft announced the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a miniature PC powered by Nvidia's Arm-based RTX Spark chips...

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Microsoft Build 2026: All the news about Windows, AI, RTX Spark, and more
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Microsoft Build 2026: All the news about Windows, AI, RTX Spark, and more

Microsoft Build 2026 is launching with announcements about new AI models, agentic tools similar to OpenClaw, and...

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Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP
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Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP

Nvidia is targeting the $200B CPU market by enabling AI agents on personal computers through partnerships with...

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An Implementation of the Microsoft Agent Governance Toolkit for Safe AI Agent Tool Use with Policies, Approvals, Audit Logs, and Risk Controls
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An Implementation of the Microsoft Agent Governance Toolkit for Safe AI Agent Tool Use with Policies, Approvals, Audit Logs, and Risk Controls

This tutorial demonstrates an implementation of Microsoft's Agent Governance Toolkit for building safe AI agent...

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Microsoft and Nvidia reportedly team up on AI PCs that run actual agents instead of Copilot
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Microsoft and Nvidia reportedly team up on AI PCs that run actual agents instead of Copilot

Microsoft and Nvidia are collaborating on AI PCs that run autonomous agents instead of Copilot, with new devices from...

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Microsoft Research Releases Webwright: A Terminal-Native Web Agent Framework That Scores 60.1% on Odysseys, Up from Base GPT-5.4’s 33.5%
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Microsoft Research Releases Webwright: A Terminal-Native Web Agent Framework That Scores 60.1% on Odysseys, Up from Base GPT-5.4’s 33.5%

Microsoft Research released Webwright, a terminal-native web agent framework that uses Playwright scripts instead of...

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Microsoft Releases Fara1.5: A Family of Browser Computer-Use Agents (4B/9B/27B) That Outperform OpenAI Operator and Gemini 2.5 Computer Use on Online-Mind2Web
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Microsoft Releases Fara1.5: A Family of Browser Computer-Use Agents (4B/9B/27B) That Outperform OpenAI Operator and Gemini 2.5 Computer Use on Online-Mind2Web

Microsoft Research released Fara1.5, a family of browser computer-use agents in three sizes (4B, 9B, 27B) that achieved...

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