AISep 25, 2026Ars Technica
Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC"
New Surface laptops meet Copilot+ specs—80 TOPS NPUs included—but Microsoft is dropping the Copilot+ PC badge as AI-PC hype cools.
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AISep 25, 2026The Verge
Microsoft thinks its new Copilot ‘super app’ will be as influential as Office
Microsoft is betting a three-tab Copilot — chat, Code, and Autopilot agents — can become the AI operating system for work, billed by usage and sold with Office-era ambition.
AISep 23, 2026Microsoft Research
Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics
Microsoft Research challenges the onboard-GPU orthodoxy in robotics: offloading inference to edge or cloud GPUs improved task success, unlocked larger models, and stretched battery life in their study.
AISep 23, 2026TechCrunch
Ema raises $77M as AI starts eating into enterprise software and services
Ema’s $77M Series B bets that multi-agent “AI employees” can wrap SaaS today and replace chunks of it tomorrow — services margins included.
AISep 22, 2026Ars Technica
Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts
EvilTokens turned inbox compromise into a subscription product — AI for target picking and lure drafting — until Microsoft and partners tore down the shop.
AISep 22, 2026TechCrunch
Nscale’s IPO will test Wall Street’s appetite for concentrated AI bets once again
Nscale’s public debut packages $100B-plus in AI contracts — and a reminder that most of that revenue dream sits with two customers.
AISep 21, 2026Microsoft Research
Improving synthesis prediction of small molecules at scale with RetroChimera
Microsoft Research’s Nature paper on RetroChimera pairs complementary retrosynthesis models and open-sources the stack—useful chemistry acceleration that still needs lab proof beyond chemist preference tests.
AISep 18, 2026The Verge
OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
Unsealed New York Times filings show OpenAI and Microsoft internally framed scraping and chatbots as a “doom loop” that would starve the web—and shipped anyway.
AISep 17, 2026Ars Technica
Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Unsealed NYT-led filings quote Microsoft’s Brent Hecht calling news scraping historic theft and a fair-use mockery, while internal data shows 51–94% click-through collapses and execs describe chatbots as largely substitutive.
AISep 17, 2026TechCrunch
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal
TechCrunch’s unredacted-filing read adds scale: 91,000+ mid-training copies of plaintiff works, 2M+ nytimes.com Common Crawl docs, Project Mango’s 160,903 unique publisher works, and Brockman’s “gazillions” motivation line.
AISep 17, 2026The Verge
The AI Superintelligence Slowdown
The Verge’s living brief tracks whether Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and xAI’s post-summer “pace the frontier” talk becomes real slowdown—or regulatory theater next to China-race acceleration.
AISep 17, 2026The Verge
Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse
On Decoder, Mustafa Suleyman argues AI threats are real, containment must sit beside alignment—and that Anthropic’s model-welfare framing makes the hard control problems harder.