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Microsoft faces backlash after blog post implicates criminal firing and legal action against security researcher Nightmare Eclipse over public bug disclosures (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 29, 2026

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Interesting moments: why do we still drive? The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin…

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Microsoft is working on an application that will include GitHub Copilot, Copilot chat, Copilot Cowork and a new agent workflow tool called Autopilot (Sebastian Herrera/Fortune)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 29, 2026

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Interesting moments: why do we still drive? The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin…

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Activision shareholders reach a $250 million settlement following allegations that Microsoft and Activision underpaid them during Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision in 2023 (Tom Hals/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 22, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: Substack CEO talks AI slop, free speech and taking over YouTube A show about the inside conversations…

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Microsoft announces plans to integrate Snapdragon X2 chips into new Surface Pro and Laptop later in 2026; sources say delay is due to component availability (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 19, 2026

Featured Podcasts Training data: Rebuilding computing from the ground up for the AI era: Serval’s Jake Stauch Sequoia Capital partners…

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Bill Ackman says his fund took a new stake in Microsoft after the company’s recent stock price decline; Ackman says investors underestimated Microsoft (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 15, 2026

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: What does it mean to be mission-driven in 2026? A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly…

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Musk vs. Altman: Microsoft Executive Michael Wetter Testifies Microsoft Spent More Than $100 Billion on OpenAI Partnership, Including Initial Investments (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 13, 2026

Bloomberg: Musk vs. Altman: Microsoft executive Michael Wetter testifies that Microsoft spent more than $100 billion on its partnership with…

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Microsoft and G42’s billion-dollar geothermal data center in Kenya is blocked after the government fails to provide annual payment guarantees requested by Microsoft (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 10, 2026

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Letter to investors: TCI, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, has reduced almost its entire $8 billion stake in Microsoft, citing AI risks for Office and Azure (Costas Mourselas/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 8, 2026

Costas Mourselas / Financial Times: Letter to Investors: TCI, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, has reduced almost its…

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OpenAI partners with researchers from Microsoft, AMD, Broadcom, Nvidia and Intel to detail the Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC) protocol to facilitate large-scale computing (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 6, 2026

Nat Rubio-Licht / The deep view: OpenAI partners with researchers from Microsoft, AMD, Broadcom, Nvidia and Intel to detail the…

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Microsoft Work Trends Index 2026: Survey of 20,000 AI users finds 65% worry about falling behind, but only 13% say they’re rewarded for experimenting with AI in the workplace (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 5, 2026

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft Work Trends Index 2026: Survey of 20,000 AI users finds 65% worry about falling behind,…

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Browsing: Microsoft

Microsoft faces backlash after blog post implicates criminal firing and legal action against security researcher Nightmare Eclipse over public bug disclosures (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Microsoft is working on an application that will include GitHub Copilot, Copilot chat, Copilot Cowork and a new agent workflow tool called Autopilot (Sebastian Herrera/Fortune)

Activision shareholders reach a $250 million settlement following allegations that Microsoft and Activision underpaid them during Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision in 2023 (Tom Hals/Reuters)

Microsoft announces plans to integrate Snapdragon X2 chips into new Surface Pro and Laptop later in 2026; sources say delay is due to component availability (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

Bill Ackman says his fund took a new stake in Microsoft after the company’s recent stock price decline; Ackman says investors underestimated Microsoft (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)

Musk vs. Altman: Microsoft Executive Michael Wetter Testifies Microsoft Spent More Than $100 Billion on OpenAI Partnership, Including Initial Investments (Bloomberg)

Microsoft and G42’s billion-dollar geothermal data center in Kenya is blocked after the government fails to provide annual payment guarantees requested by Microsoft (Bloomberg)

Letter to investors: TCI, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, has reduced almost its entire $8 billion stake in Microsoft, citing AI risks for Office and Azure (Costas Mourselas/Financial Times)

OpenAI partners with researchers from Microsoft, AMD, Broadcom, Nvidia and Intel to detail the Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC) protocol to facilitate large-scale computing (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View)

Microsoft Work Trends Index 2026: Survey of 20,000 AI users finds 65% worry about falling behind, but only 13% say they’re rewarded for experimenting with AI in the workplace (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)