Microsoft

Microsoft is a global technology leader that develops and licenses software and services across a broad range of devices. It is headquartered in Redmond, Wash., and was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Satya Nadella currently serves as CEO. Microsoft’s divisions include Windows, Office, Azure and LinkedIn. The company’s competitors include Apple, Amazon and Google. Our coverage of Microsoft closely follows the company’s attempts to lead in artificial intelligence, such as its major $11 billion investment in OpenAI.
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Applied AI

New Microsoft Copilot Security Flaws Show How AI Can Leak Customer Secrets

By Aaron Holmes · Jul 30, 2026 11:57am PDT
Cybersecurity is top of mind for many businesses following the remarkable hack of Hugging Face earlier this month. And rightly so. The problem they now face is that many of the AI firms selling tools to find and patch vulnerabilities are themselves vulnerable to security problems.The latest is Microsoft’s Copilot AI features for Office 365,... Cybersecurity is top of mind for many businesses following the remarkable hack of Hugging Face...
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The Briefing

Meta Could Learn Cost Control From Microsoft

By Martin Peers · Jul 29, 2026 5:01pm PDT
Talk about a tale of two companies. Today’s June-quarter earnings reports from Meta Platforms and Microsoft showed very different approaches to cost control, a discipline that may never be more important for big tech companies. Meta, whose CEO Mark Zuckerberg seems to have a you-only-live-once approach to AI investment, reported a 55% surge in... Talk about a tale of two companies. Today’s June-quarter earnings reports from Meta Platforms and...
Asha Sharma, CEO of Xbox. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images.
The Briefing

Microsoft Begins Gaming Retreat

By Martin Peers · Jul 6, 2026 5:00pm PDT
We’re guessing the July 4 weekend was not too relaxed for some folks at Microsoft. Today we got news that the company is laying off 4,800 people—around 2% of its total workforce—mostly in sales and at its troubled Xbox business. It's also selling at least four, and probably five, small gaming studios. Asha Sharma, Microsoft’s new gaming... We’re guessing the July 4 weekend was not too relaxed for some folks at Microsoft. Today we got...
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Exclusive

Microsoft’s Homegrown AI Chip Effort Shows Signs of Life After Slow Start

By Aaron Holmes and Qianer Liu · Aug 10, 2026 6:00am PDT
Microsoft is planning to significantly increase production of its internally designed next-generation AI chips next year in hopes of persuading big cloud customers like Anthropic to use them, according to two people with direct knowledge of the plans. That’s despite slow uptake of the current generation of Microsoft-designed chips, known as the... Microsoft is planning to significantly increase production of its internally designed...
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AI Infrastructure

The Risks of Microsoft’s Relatively Restrained Capex

By Anita Ramaswamy · Aug 9, 2026 11:00am PDT
Microsoft came out of this summer’s earnings season looking like a prudent spender. Unlike rival cloud computing firms Amazon and Alphabet, which both burned cash thanks to their heavy AI investments, Microsoft not only generated $19.6 billion in free cash flow in the June quarter but forecast it will continue to generate cash for at least the... Microsoft came out of this summer’s earnings season looking like a prudent spender. Unlike rival...