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Two days after OpenAI’s Atlas, Microsoft launches a nearly identical AI browser

AI /

Microsoft released a new batch of features for its AI assistant Thursday, including an ambitious project that builds artificial intelligence directly into one of its most central products. More than a simple extension, the new CoPilot Mode of Microsoft’s Edge browser is the company’s take on the long-hyped AI browser category — an intelligent and […]

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Microsoft, AWS and Google are trying to drastically reduce China’s role in their supply chains

Hardware /

As geopolitical tensions intensify between the U.S. and China, tech giants Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are ramping up efforts to move production of their products and data centers outside of China, Nikkei reported, citing supply chain sources. In particular, Microsoft wants to have up to 80% of the components needed to make its Surface notebooks

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Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to advise Microsoft and Anthropic 

Government & Policy /

Rishi Sunak, who served as the United Kingdom’s prime minister from 2022 to 2024, has taken on senior advisory roles as Microsoft and Anthropic, The Guardian reports.   Letters from the Parliament’s office of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba) disclosing Sunak’s appointments revealed concerns that the ex-Conservative PM’s privileged information could “grant Microsoft an unfair advantage.”  

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While OpenAI races to build AI data centers, Nadella reminds us that Microsoft already has them

AI /

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday tweeted a video of his company’s first deployed massive AI system — or AI “factory” as Nvidia likes to call them. He promised this is the “first of many” such Nvidia AI factories that will be deployed across Microsoft Azure’s global data centers to run OpenAI workloads. Each system

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Microsoft buys another 100 MW of solar, this time in Japan

Enterprise /

Microsoft is buying 100 megawatts of solar capacity from Japanese developer Shizen Energy, the latest in a string of renewable energy deals designed to power the tech company’s growing compute needs.  The agreement, which the companies announced late last week, covers four different solar developments; one is already operating and three are under construction. The

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Inside Microsoft’s AI bet with CTO Kevin Scott at Disrupt 2025

Startups /

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott joins the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to share how one of the world’s largest technology companies is navigating the AI revolution and what it means for startups and the future of innovation. From its landmark partnership with OpenAI to reshaping enterprise and consumer products with AI, Scott will pull

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Former Microsoft execs launch AI agents to end Excel-led finance

AI /

Despite millions spent on financial software, many finance teams still rely on Excel to close their books and reconcile numbers while preparing them for audit. Two former Microsoft executives view it as a problem — and they have started Maximor to replace spreadsheets with AI agents for the grunt work finance teams perform. Excel spreadsheets

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