Anthropic hired Microsoft AI Platform president Eric Boyd as head of infrastructure, signaling aggressive cloud capacity expansion amid surging AI demand.

Microsoft's ToS for Copilot explicitly states the AI is for entertainment only and may make mistakes, raising questions about enterprise trust in AI tools.

Microsoft announced a four-year, $10 billion investment in Japan to expand AI infrastructure, strengthen cybersecurity, and train 1 million engineers by 2029.

Microsoft is aiming to develop new large, cutting-edge AI models by 2027 as part of a push to build in-house alternatives to the most powerful AI tools.

Microsoft unveils three proprietary AI models targeting transcription, voice synthesis, and image generation, directly challenging OpenAI and Google.

Microsoft has upgraded its Copilot research assistant, allowing users to simultaneously utilize multiple AI models, including OpenAI's GPT and Anthropic's Claude.

Microsoft has stepped in to take over a large-scale AI data center expansion in Texas that OpenAI had originally planned to lead under the Stargate initiative, signaling a strategic shift in how the two companies are dividing infrastructure responsibilities for the AI buildout.

Microsoft is considering suing OpenAI after the AI startup's landmark $50 billion cloud infrastructure agreement with Amazon threatened the exclusivity of its Azure partnership.

Microsoft has launched Copilot Health, a dedicated AI health companion integrating wearable data from 50+ devices and records from 50,000+ U.S. hospitals via HealthEx, positioning the company's AI toward medical superintelligence for everyday patients.

Microsoft filed an amicus brief in federal court supporting Anthropic's lawsuit against the Pentagon, urging a judge to issue a temporary restraining order blocking the DOD's supply chain risk designation and warning the ban could 'hamper U.S. warfighters' by disrupting AI systems already in use.

Following the Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation of Anthropic, cloud giants Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have confirmed that Claude remains available to all their customers except those using it directly under Department of Defense contracts, limiting the practical impact of the designation.

Microsoft introduced Copilot Tasks, a new AI agent feature that runs autonomously on a cloud PC to complete multi-step tasks on behalf of users, transforming Microsoft Copilot from a conversational assistant into a proactive action-taker.

Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet announced massive AI investment commitments to India at the AI Impact Summit, as Reliance and Adani pledged a combined $210B in domestic AI infrastructure.

India's AI Impact Summit concluded with landmark announcements: Adani pledged $100B for data centres, Reliance committed $110B, Microsoft announced a $50B global south investment, and OpenAI partnered with Tata Group.

OpenAI pledges $7.5M to The Alignment Project, bringing total AI alignment research funding to £27M with support from Microsoft and UK AISI.

Microsoft announces plans to invest $50 billion by 2030 to bring AI infrastructure and training to countries across the Global South, addressing the growing AI divide.

Microsoft pivots from $13B OpenAI partnership to develop MAI-1 model as OpenAI faces $14B projected loss in 2026 and financial sustainability concerns.

Mustafa Suleyman says AI will achieve human-level performance on professional tasks including law, accounting, and project management by 2027.

The Federal Trade Commission has ramped up its investigation into Microsoft's AI and cloud business practices, sending civil investigative demands to companies competing with Microsoft. The probe examines potential anticompetitive behavior in the rapidly growing AI market.

Australian retail conglomerate Wesfarmers expands Microsoft partnership, doubling Copilot footprint across Bunnings, Kmart, and other divisions for agentic commerce.