Microsoft
Stories curated for Microsoft
Microsoft Opens Voluntary Exit Offer for Eligible Staff in Four Countries
Microsoft’s voluntary offer covers eligible workers in four countries; participation depends on organization needs, and no departure target is public.
Windows 11 Insiders Get Internet Speed Tests in Quick Settings
Microsoft is gradually testing a Windows 11 feature that shows download, upload and ping results from Quick Settings without opening a browser.
Europe’s Physical AI Lab Offers Startups a Route to Hardware
Four partners launch a 2027 Physical AI accelerator for startups, combining Azure credits, NVIDIA tools and Infineon hardware access for robotics teams.
Microsoft Exits Nscale’s Essex AI Data Center Deal
Microsoft has reportedly ended its planned Nscale data-center deal in Loughton, putting the UK AI project’s timeline and expansion plans under pressure.
Microsoft Sets 2027 Start for Maia 300 as Azure Plans Multi-Gigawatt AI Inference
Microsoft says Maia 300 production deployments will begin in 2027, as it scales its custom AI-accelerator program for inference across Azure.
Microsoft Makes Execution Containers Generally Available to Sandbox AI Agents
Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) is now generally available, providing policy-driven OS-level containment for AI agents on Windows, macOS, and Linux, with Windows 365 support.
Microsoft Launches Decision-1: Fast Decision-Scoring Model Built on Qwen3.5-9B
Microsoft introduced Microsoft-Decision-1 on October 9, 2026, a specialized decision-scoring model post-trained from Alibaba’s Qwen3.5-9B. It returns calibrated probabilities for fixed answer options and is available in Microsoft Foundry and OpenRouter.
Microsoft's Satya Nadella Calls for an 'Emergency Brake' on Advanced AI Models
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urges the industry to build containment systems, tamper-proof logs, and a human-controlled emergency brake for agentic AI, assuming models may be compromised from the start.
Microsoft Puts a Petaflop on Your Desk: Windows Goes All-In on Local AI
At its October 7 Windows and Surface event, Microsoft and Nvidia unveiled the RTX Spark-powered Surface Laptop Ultra and Dev Box, an on-device AI coding model, and new guardrails that let Windows 11 run 120B-parameter models and AI agents entirely offline.
AI Has Tipped the Cyber Battlefield in Attackers' Favor, Microsoft Warns
Microsoft's 2026 Digital Defense Report concludes that AI has already shifted the near-term advantage to attackers, with vulnerabilities weaponized in under 24 hours and autonomous multi-step attack chains now documented in the wild.