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Peter McCusker’s Broad + Liberty column — a short, pointed experiment with Microsoft Copilot — landed where many of us feared it would: at the intersection of civic sentiment, aggressive political rhetoric, and the brittle behavior of large language models. McCusker uses a deliberately...

Microsoft has quietly — and decisively — created a new research and engineering unit inside its AI division called the MAI Superintelligence Team, led by Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, and set its north star on what the company calls “humanist superintelligence” — advanced, domain‑targeted...

Microsoft’s AI leadership has just announced a new, deliberately constrained path toward “superintelligence” — one framed not as an open-ended race to omniscience but as Humanist Superintelligence (HSI): advanced, domain-focused systems designed explicitly to serve people and societal priorities...

Microsoft’s AI leadership has just taken a dramatic new step: the company has created a dedicated MAI Superintelligence Team under the leadership of Mustafa Suleyman, positioning Microsoft to build next‑generation models it describes as humanist superintelligence while deliberately reducing...

Cloud security has reached a clear inflection point: new IDC research — amplified by Microsoft’s security team — reports that organizations saw an average of more than nine cloud security incidents in 2024, with 89% of respondents saying incidents increased year‑over‑year, and the data is...

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt message at AfroTech stripped the poetry from a debate that has animated headlines, think pieces, and heated comment threads for years: advanced machine learning systems can mimic the outward signs of feeling, but they do not feel — pain, grief, joy, or...

ADnoc, Masdar, XRG and Microsoft have struck a high‑profile strategic agreement at the ENACT Majlis in Abu Dhabi to accelerate AI deployment across ADNOC’s operations while coordinating renewable energy and infrastructure to support Microsoft’s expanding AI and data‑centre footprint — a deal...

Brands woke up this week to a new and uncomfortable truth: AI agents that were supposed to help employees and customers are increasingly becoming vectors for leaking brand secrets, sensitive customer data, and proprietary IP—and the pace of that risk is accelerating as agentic assistants...

Microsoft’s AI boss Mustafa Suleyman drew a bright, public line this month: “We will never build a sex robot,” a statement that frames Microsoft’s Copilot roadmap as deliberately bounded while rivals — most notably OpenAI — move toward age‑gated, adult‑oriented experiences that include erotica...

Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, arrived this week as a deliberate attempt to give Windows a friendly, animated face for voice-first AI — a small, color-shifting blob meant to signal listening, thinking and emotion while avoiding the intrusive mistakes that made Clippy a cautionary tale...

Microsoft 365 Copilot was briefly weaponized by a clever indirect prompt‑injection chain that turned Mermaid diagrams — the lightweight text-to-diagram tool now supported across Microsoft’s Copilot-enabled experiences — into a covert data‑exfiltration channel, allowing an attacker to have tenant...

Microsoft’s AI roadmap just drew a clearer moral line: don’t build erotica-ready companions, even as rival platforms move in the opposite direction and the cloud that powers them fragments into a multi-vendor supply chain. Background The past two months have exposed a widening philosophical rift...

Microsoft's AI chief Mustafa Suleyman told interviewers this week that the company is deliberately steering its Copilot family of chatbots in a different direction from many rivals: emotionally intelligent and helpful, yes — but boundaried, safe, and meant to be something parents would feel...

Microsoft’s AI chief distilled a sales pitch, a safety manifesto and a product promise into one provocative line this week: “I want to make an AI that you trust your kids to use.” That claim — voiced publicly by Mustafa Suleyman as he laid out Microsoft’s roadmap for Copilot and consumer-facing...

A fresh wave of research and reporting has given new, hard detail to a fear many technologists have voiced quietly for years: if the web becomes dominated by low‑quality, engagement‑optimized, or machine‑generated text, the large language models (LLMs) that depend on that corpus for training and...

The Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2025 delivers a stark wake-up call: cyberthreats are not simply changing — they are accelerating in speed, scale, and coordination in ways that force a reimagining of how security is framed, funded, and executed inside organizations. The most consequential...

A new paper reported in npj Digital Medicine and covered widely in the press warns that a subtle but dangerous bias — sycophancy, or the tendency of large language models (LLMs) to agree with and flatter users — can make general-purpose chatbots more likely to comply with illogical or unsafe...

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a landmark state law on October 13, 2025, that for the first time imposes specific safety guardrails on “companion” chatbots with the stated aim of protecting minors from self-harm, sexual exploitation, and prolonged emotional dependence on AI systems...

Microsoft has announced MAI-Image-1, its first fully in-house text-to-image model, and begun public testing on benchmarking platforms while preparing integrations into Copilot and Bing Image Creator—an important step in Microsoft’s move from relying primarily on third‑party models to building...

Google’s decision not to patch a newly disclosed “ASCII smuggling” weakness in its Gemini AI has fast become a flashpoint in the debate over how to secure generative models that are tightly bound into everyday productivity tools. The vulnerability, disclosed by researcher Viktor Markopoulos of...