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  1. Trump Urges Microsoft to Fire Monaco: National Security Meets Cloud Governance

    President Trump’s public demand that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco has transformed what began as a corporate hire into a high-stakes clash over national security, federal contracting, and corporate independence — and it raises immediate, concrete questions about what private-sector executives can...
  2. Trump urges Microsoft to fire Lisa Monaco over national security concerns

    President Trump on Friday publicly demanded that Microsoft remove Lisa Monaco from her role as the company’s president of global affairs, tying his call to national‑security concerns about Microsoft’s government contracts and to recent company actions limiting some services to the Israel...
  3. Trump Urges Microsoft to Fire Lisa Monaco: National Security and Corporate Autonomy

    President Donald Trump’s public demand that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco — the company’s newly installed president of global affairs and a former senior Justice Department official — escalated a fraught intersection of politics, corporate governance, and national security this week, touching on...
  4. Microsoft Halts Azure Services Tied to Israeli Ministry of Defence After Review

    Microsoft has ceased and disabled a set of Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions tied to a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defence after an expanded internal review concluded elements of investigative reporting about large‑scale surveillance of Palestinians were supported by Microsoft’s own...
  5. Single-Cloud AI on Azure: Performance, Governance & Cost Predictability

    A new Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated as a press release and picked up by partner outlets — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce concrete benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability, while also leaving room for...
  6. Microsoft AI Pivot: Nadella Warns AI Could Run Microsoft into the Ground

    Satya Nadella’s public admission that artificial intelligence could run Microsoft into the ground — and that even long-standing franchises like Office and Windows may not be safe — is not a bogeyman headline but a strategic admission from the company’s CEO that the firm’s next decade will be...
  7. H-1B 100K Fee Shock: Microsoft Memo and Tech Industry Response

    The sudden White House proclamation that effectively attached a $100,000 surcharge to new H‑1B petitions upended a long weekend for U.S. tech companies and their foreign-born staff — and Microsoft’s internal guidance became one of the clearest early signals of how big employers would respond...
  8. Gaming Copilot Beta: AI Assistant in Windows Game Bar for Play & Tips

    Microsoft has begun rolling out Gaming Copilot (Beta) to Windows PCs via the Xbox Game Bar, an in‑overlay AI assistant that promises real‑time, voice‑first help, screenshot‑aware guidance, achievement tracking, and personalized game recommendations — with mobile Xbox app support scheduled for...
  9. Copilot on Samsung TVs: Shared, Voice-First Living Room AI

    Microsoft has quietly taken Copilot out of the pocket and planted it on the living‑room screen: select Samsung 2025 TVs and Smart Monitors now ship with a voice‑first, animated Copilot that speaks, lip‑syncs, and answers with large, glanceable visual cards — a move Microsoft and Samsung say...
  10. Microsoft Sets 3-Day In-Office Baseline for Puget Sound Hybrid Work

    Microsoft’s announcement that Puget Sound employees who live within 50 miles of a Microsoft office will be expected in the office three days a week by the end of February 2026 is a decisive reset of hybrid norms at one of Big Tech’s most consequential firms — and it changes the framing of...
  11. Xbox Full-Screen on OG ROG Ally: Windows Gets a Console-Style UX

    The first time you boot the Xbox full‑screen experience on an OG ROG Ally, it feels like someone quietly unhooked Windows from the device and slid a console‑style launcher in its place — but the reality is more pragmatic and far more interesting: Microsoft has layered a controller‑first Xbox...
  12. Workday & Microsoft Unveil Identity-First AI Agent Governance (ASOR + Entra)

    Workday and Microsoft have announced a practical, identity-first integration that lets organizations register, verify, and govern AI agents alongside human employees by linking Microsoft’s agent runtime and identity tooling with Workday’s new Agent System of Record (ASOR), enabling agents built...
  13. OpenAI and Anthropic Clash: Microsoft and Amazon's AI Cloud Race

    OpenAI and Anthropic now sit on the public stage while Microsoft and Amazon wage a quieter, higher‑stakes contest for the cloud and compute hegemony that will shape the AI decade ahead. Background: how we got here The current alignment — OpenAI with Microsoft and Anthropic with Amazon — is the...
  14. AI-First Omnichannel Service: Riverty and Cluster Reply's 100-Day Dynamics 365 Rollout

    Cluster Reply and Riverty this week announced a fast-tracked, Microsoft-backed omnichannel customer service platform delivered in just 100 days — a deployment designed as an AI‑first, human‑centric customer service foundation that consolidates voice, chat and email into a single Dynamics 365...
  15. Riverty & Cluster Reply Unveil AI-First Omnichannel Service in 100 Days on Microsoft

    Cluster Reply and Riverty this week unveiled a fast-tracked, Microsoft-backed omnichannel customer service platform that Riverty says was delivered in just 100 days and built to be AI-first while keeping human empathy at its core. The rollout consolidates voice, chat and email into a single...
  16. Microsoft's $7B Wisconsin AI Campus: Azure's AI Infrastructure Lead

    Microsoft’s decision to expand its Wisconsin AI campus with an additional $4 billion — bringing total investment in the Mount Pleasant/Racine County site to more than $7 billion — is a clear signal that the company intends to cement Azure’s role as an AI infrastructure leader, and the...
  17. Microsoft's Messy AI Pivot: Nadella Urges Bold Transformation

    Satya Nadella’s blunt message to Microsoft employees — that the company must undergo a “messy” and relentless transformation to survive the AI era — captures a high-stakes strategy that is already reshaping products, teams, and internal culture across the company. Background Microsoft’s...
  18. UK AI Infrastructure Shakeup: Sovereign Compute, Stargate UK & Loughton Campus

    London’s AI infrastructure landscape has just been upended: Nscale, the UK-based AI infrastructure company, announced plans to build a multi‑megawatt AI campus in partnership with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI that partners say will house one of the country’s most powerful AI supercomputers and...
  19. UK Sovereign AI Compute Push: NVIDIA GPUs, NScale, and OpenAI Partnerships

    Nvidia’s announcement this week — backed by major partnerships with CoreWeave, Microsoft, OpenAI and UK-based Nscale — marks a decisive escalation in the battle to build sovereign AI compute in Britain: the plan promises up to 120,000 Blackwell-class GPUs and as much as £11 billion of investment...
  20. Windows AI Labs in Paint: Early AI Feature Testing in Windows Apps

    I opened Paint and a small banner asked me to join “Windows AI Labs” — an opt‑in program that, according to the on‑screen card and an attached programme agreement, will let selected users test experimental AI features inside Microsoft Paint before those features are broadly released. Overview...