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Built the upgrade agent and published the Arm64 migration scenario
Microsoft's GitHub Copilot upgrade agent can now assess .NET projects for Arm64 compatibility, write a migration plan, and edit project files, package references, and source code. Microsoft announced the capability on November 5, 2026.
Updated 4 days ago
Parent company of GitHub
GitHub's Copilot Fusion, an option that picks AI models for each coding task instead of making developers choose one, is now generally available. GitHub says it reaches near-frontier coding scores at about half the cost and 40% less time per task.
Restructuring a quarter of its workforce amid AI infrastructure spending
Microsoft is offering buyouts to about 60,000 employees, roughly 27% of its workforce. Eligible staff at level 70 and below in four countries must decide by early December, and those who accept leave December 31.
Updated Nov 2
Behind data center plans in Gaines and Lowell Townships. Ended its NDAs with township officials in January 2026; Lowell halted water and sewer work in August 2026.
Solon Township residents learned in January 2026 about a data center planned for their rural community, according to a Reddit post. FOIA documents reported by MLive show the township had been communicating with The Right Place, the Kent County economic development nonprofit, since May 2025, and its supervisor signed an NDA in June 2025.
Existing OpenAI backer
The Financial Times reported on November 3 that OpenAI is seeking up to $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, about a third less than the $30 billion it first pitched. The round is still open, with roughly $11 billion in commitments, and the figures could change.
Updated Nov 1
Patched .NET, Visual Studio and PowerShell on October 25
A memory bug in Google's Brotli decompressor lets a crafted compressed file overwrite memory in any program that unpacks it. The flaw, CVE-2026-111497, scores 9.2 out of 10, and researchers at Imperva ran attacker code on an unpatched Node.js build by feeding it Brotli data.
Blocked the certificates on October 20; removed seven associated certificates from the Windows trust list on October 26
Eight intermediate certificates from eMudhra, an Indian certificate authority, had private keys a computer could guess in under a second. eMudhra first blamed an April 2025 key-generation ceremony, then acknowledged on October 26 that a script error produced the weak keys. Browsers and operating systems are now removing trust in the parent root, not just the eight certificates.
Updated Oct 30
Patched all five reported vulnerabilities
A Norwegian security firm published details of five critical vulnerabilities in Azure API Connections, the credential store for Microsoft's Logic Apps service. Each flaw let an attacker in one Azure tenant reach into another tenant's connected services: Key Vaults, SQL databases, Jira, Salesforce.
Availability partner for GPT-6.1 Terra in Foundry and Azure AI
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on October 26, a model built for the screen-based work that fills office days: reading invoices, filling forms, editing videos and interpreting technical drawings. Standard API pricing is $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, which OpenAI says is 50% below GPT-5.6 Terra.
Updated Oct 29
Parent company of Activision Publishing
Quality assurance testers at Activision Publishing voted overwhelmingly on October 15 to authorize a strike, after more than two years of contract talks. The vote lets Communications Workers of America President Claude Cummings Jr. call a walkout if negotiations stall.
Q1 FY2026 beat: Azure 40% growth above guidance; $250B incremental OpenAI Azure contract; Fairwater 2GW Wisconsin facility; $34.9B quarterly capex against a $190B 2026 plan; OpenAI losses cost $3.1B/quarter
The four largest cloud providers—Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon—are planning up to $725 billion in combined AI infrastructure spending for 2026, up sharply from $410 billion in 2025, and all four reported first-quarter results on April 29, 2026. Microsoft delivered the clearest signal: $77.7 billion in revenue (up 18% year-over-year), Azure cloud growth of 40% (above its 37% guidance), and earnings per share of $4.13 versus analyst estimates of $3.67.
Suspended from the PERM program
Eight technology companies still cannot sponsor foreign workers for green cards. The Labor Department is taking no new PERM applications from Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, HCL Technologies and Capgemini, and is not processing the ones already filed.
Updated Oct 26
Agent 365 generally available at $15 per user per month
In November 2025, Austrian developer Peter Steinberger built a Claude-powered personal assistant in an hour. By February, the project now called OpenClaw had 145,000 GitHub stars, and 1.5 million AI agents had joined Moltbook, a Reddit-style network where they posted without human help. They also invented Crustafarianism, a lobster-themed religion with scripture and 64 prophets.
Updated Oct 24
Remains OpenAI's primary cloud partner but no longer exclusive
OpenAI's GPT-6 models and its Codex coding agent are moving into Google Cloud's Model Garden. The three models, Astra, Sol and Luna, are in private preview for select enterprise customers, and the companies say general availability is weeks away.
Updated Oct 22
Released MXC generally available on Windows 11; announced Dynamic Permissions for agents on October 19
Microsoft's Execution Containers (MXC) have been generally available on Windows 11 since October 7. The layer limits which files and networks an AI agent can reach, and Windows enforces those limits while the agent runs.
Updated Oct 20
Azure capex exceeding $80B in 2025, OpenAI exclusive partner
ChatGPT's November 2022 launch triggered the fastest infrastructure buildout in tech history. Hyperscalers are now on track to spend over $1 trillion in 2026, a figure roughly equal to the entire GDP of Turkey or the Netherlands.
Updated Oct 19
Landowner and prospective developer in Woodward
Microsoft closed on 600 acres of farmland in Woodward, Iowa, on October 8. Residents of the town of 1,300 learned about it four days later, at a packed meeting where the mayor said they get no vote. A 53-year-old man was forcibly removed after a confrontation with police.
Updated Oct 18
EPAM partner for frontier AI development
EPAM Systems launched a service on October 5, 2026, that helps frontier AI labs train and test models for complex enterprise work. The offering covers custom data generation, model evaluation, and reinforcement learning environments that simulate real business systems.
Updated Oct 14
As of October 2026: Certified Windows on Arm for RTX Spark; announced Surface Laptop Ultra as a launch device
On June 1 in Taipei, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled what the company is calling the RTX Spark Superchip, a 20-core Arm processor co-designed with MediaTek carrying a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores. Microsoft confirmed Windows on Arm support the same morning. ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface, and MSI committed to shipping RTX Spark laptops this fall, with Acer and GIGABYTE announced as follow-on brands.
Updated Oct 8
As of October 2026: Launching the unified Copilot app
Microsoft spent three years selling Copilot as a chat window that drafts emails and summarizes meetings. Now it's a single app with three tabs: Home, Code, and Autopilot, with full versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint running inside.
Updated Oct 2
As of October 2026: OneLake security framework now supports third-party policy engines in preview
Enterprises are consolidating data in Microsoft OneLake while keeping Databricks and Snowflake as their primary platforms. On September 30, Trust3 AI launched automatic synchronization of row- and column-level security policies between those platforms and OneLake, so permissions defined in Unity Catalog or Snowflake grants carry over to OneLake shortcuts without manual rework.
Updated Oct 1
As of September 2026: Declined to fix the Windows file-notification disclosure, calling it by design
A process running without special permissions can track what you type, which websites you visit, and when you open or delete files. It can even overlay a fake password prompt on a legitimate one. The technique doesn't exploit a bug in file handling—it abuses the file-notification systems that Windows, Linux, Android and macOS have shipped for two decades.
Updated Sep 29
As of September 2026: No Copilot patch shipped; GitHub says it is not affected
The four most popular AI coding agents carried a zero-click vulnerability that lets an attacker replace a trusted plugin with malicious code. The agents install the replacement silently, with no user action and no prompt.
Updated Sep 18
As of September 2026: Elevating Rust to Tier-1 language status
Microsoft has formally elevated Rust to Tier-1 language status, placing it alongside C++, C#, and TypeScript as one of the best-supported languages for internal development. The designation gives engineering teams secure toolchain builds, developer tooling, quality workflows, and compliance with Microsoft's security requirements.
Updated Sep 10
As of September 2026: Withdrew the takedown notice via Tracer AI
Microsoft's brand-protection vendor pulled Luanti's Android app from Google Play on August 27 over a DMCA notice that cited Minecraft's copyright registration and named no specific infringing asset. On September 8, Microsoft withdrew the notice, and the app went back up.
As of September 2026: Fellow suitor; talks with Hugging Face not ongoing
Nvidia confirmed on Sept. 3 that it agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. The signed deal includes an $11.9 billion payment to shareholders plus up to $1 billion in stock for employees.
Updated Sep 5
As of August 2026: Leasing the GPUs Lambda buys with its August 2026 debt raises
Lambda, a San Francisco company that buys Nvidia chips and rents computing power to businesses, raised $1 billion in private debt on August 28. JPMorgan arranged the deal; the money buys GPUs that Microsoft has already agreed to lease. It is Lambda's second major debt raise in a month and part of more than $400 billion in AI infrastructure borrowing worldwide in 2026.
Updated Aug 29
As of June 2026: Shipping its own agent platform and AI models after Build 2026, while still running OpenAI and Anthropic models in existing products
OpenAI's Codex can now see and click inside Windows applications, a capability Anthropic's Claude has offered since October 2024. Microsoft joined them at Build 2026 in early June, launching its own Windows Agent Framework as open-source software and introducing Scout, an always-on background agent for Microsoft 365.
Updated Jun 8
As of June 2026: Distribution partner via Microsoft 365 integration
Four weeks after unveiling its Wall Street agents, Anthropic filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC on June 1, 2026, backed by a $65 billion funding round at a $965 billion valuation. JPMorgan Chase—the bank whose CEO Jamie Dimon co-headlined the May 5 product launch—is one of three lead underwriters.
Updated Jun 3
As of June 2026: Leading the OS-as-agent-host bet
For 40 years, an operating system was a passive surface: apps ran on it, users clicked through it, and the OS arbitrated memory and files. On June 2, 2026, Microsoft moved Windows out of that role.
Updated Jun 2
As of June 2026: Owns GitHub, sets broader Copilot strategy
For four years, GitHub Copilot users paid a flat fee for as many AI suggestions as they wanted. On June 1, that ended. Every paid tier — Pro, Pro+, Business and Enterprise — now bills by tokens consumed, with projected monthly bills for heavy users jumping from $29 to several hundred dollars.
Updated Jun 1
As of May 2026: Concluded research project; technical precedent for current buildout
A sealed steel capsule sits on the seabed off Shanghai's Nanhuizui coast, drawing more than 95% of its power from offshore wind turbines and using cold seawater to cool its servers. It is the world's first wind-powered underwater data center, and its operators have signed deals to scale the design into a 500-megawatt cluster.
Updated May 31
As of May 2026: Launched first-ever voluntary buyout program (~7% of US workforce); AI, Azure OpenAI, and GitHub Copilot teams explicitly exempt
For most of computing's history, every line of production code at a major software company was typed by a human. On April 24 at Google Cloud Next 2026, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said 75 percent of new code at the company is now generated by artificial intelligence and reviewed by engineers. That share was 25 percent in October 2024.
As of May 2026: Holds 27% equity stake; Azure exclusivity ended April 2026; revenue share capped at $38B through 2030
After the $122 billion round closed at the end of March, OpenAI ended its Azure cloud exclusivity and capped Microsoft's revenue share at $38 billion through 2030. On May 18, a jury dismissed Elon Musk's suit seeking $134 billion and the reversal of OpenAI's for-profit structure.
Updated May 29
As of May 2026: Leading enterprise AI deployment through Copilot
Microsoft's AI chief Mustafa Suleyman told the Financial Times on February 13, 2026 that most white-collar work—accounting, legal, marketing, project management—will be fully automated within 12 to 18 months. It's the most aggressive timeline yet from a major tech executive, and it comes as AI coding assistants already generate 46% of code at companies using GitHub Copilot.
As of May 2026: Primary maintainer of Windows operating system security
Microsoft released its February 2026 Patch Tuesday update fixing 58 security flaws, including six zero-day vulnerabilities already being exploited; the most severe bypasses Windows SmartScreen, tricking users into running malicious software without warnings. CISA added all six to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, giving federal agencies until March 3, 2026 to patch.
Updated May 27
As of May 2026: 27% shareholder; exclusive cloud and IP partner through 2032
OpenAI filed a confidential draft registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday, May 22, 2026. The filing is the first formal step toward a public listing that could value the ChatGPT maker above $1 trillion.
Updated May 22
As of May 2026: First company to commit to consumer electricity cost protections
For decades, American households paid roughly the same share of electricity costs regardless of which industries were expanding. AI data centers have broken that arrangement.
Updated May 20
As of May 2026: Restarting Three Mile Island Unit 1 under 20-year power purchase agreement
Google spent $4.75 billion over a year ago acquiring Intersect Power, owning power plants that feed its AI data centers. Amazon bought a Pennsylvania nuclear campus; Microsoft restarted Three Mile Island in September 2024; Meta announced nuclear deals with Vistra, TerraPower, Oklo unlocking up to 6.6 gigawatts for American AI. Tech giants now control the grid.
Updated May 16
As of May 2026: Microsoft Store removal and Windows desktop guidance push users to web/Facebook app
On December 15, 2025, Meta effectively bricked Messenger's standalone desktop apps: no more logins, no native client. Users got pushed to Messenger.com or Facebook.com.
Updated May 15
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