AIOct 16, 2026The Verge
A week with RTX Spark: everything we’ve learned using Nvidia’s new laptops
The Verge’s early RTX Spark laptop tour: NVIDIA’s new SoC is in Windows machines from six makers — and the local-AI pitch is finally on metal.
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Microsoft
https://www.microsoft.comMicrosoft ships Copilot products and Azure AI services and invests across the model ecosystem.
Tools: GitHub Copilot
AIOct 16, 2026Ars Technica
The Surface Laptop Ultra delivers on most of Microsoft's promises
Ars Technica: Surface Laptop Ultra’s RTX Spark hardware mostly thrills — Copilot+ and AI tooling still have to catch up.
AIOct 15, 2026The Verge
How Windows is being optimized for Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops
Microsoft's prep for Nvidia's Arm-based RTX Spark laptops shows where the AI PC is heading: two-click local agents, tuned emulation, and a delayed Recall.
AIOct 13, 2026The Verge
Xbox is officially embracing the chaos of AI-powered game ports
Xbox Labs will explore AI-assisted decompiles and remixes in the open—player upside is real, and so is the IP collision course with unauthorized ports.
AIOct 12, 2026Microsoft Research
Simulating student learning for better AI tutoring
Microsoft Research’s StudentSim builds personalized student simulators from de-identified learning records so AI tutors can get scalable feedback before expensive human studies.
AIOct 12, 2026TechCrunch
Microsoft president says UK is best placed to drive AI regulation
Brad Smith says milk has more safety rules than frontier AI labs, and he wants London—not Brussels or Washington—to lead global AI guardrails before voluntary pledges run out of road.
AIOct 12, 2026The Verge
Microsoft’s new AI chip makes it less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs
Microsoft says its Maia 300 chip will become the main engine behind its own AI services from 2027, a serious bet that owning silicon beats renting it from Nvidia.
AIOct 10, 2026The Verge
Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are ‘compromised’
Microsoft's CEO wants the industry to treat frontier models like insider risks: contain them first, trust them last, and keep a human hand on the emergency brake.
AIOct 10, 2026TechCrunch
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says AI models need an ‘emergency brake’
Nadella's emergency brake is a good idea with a hard question attached: who gets to pull it, how fast, and whether the brake lives somewhere the model cannot reach.
AIOct 9, 2026MarkTechPost
Microsoft AI Releases Microsoft-Decision-1: A Qwen3.5-9B Decision-Scoring Model
Microsoft is betting the next useful AI layer does not talk at all. Decision-1 picks from fixed options fast and cheap, but every number behind it comes from Microsoft's own scoreboard.
AIOct 9, 2026TechCrunch
Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust?
Amazon says it no longer uses NDAs in data center talks with local governments. Dropping secrecy is the floor, not the fix, for an industry that has lost communities' trust.
AIOct 9, 2026TechCrunch
Amazon drops data center NDAs, and AI agents want your credit card
A wave of personal AI agents wants access to inboxes, files and credit cards. The startups are selling privacy as the product, while the websites agents need are locking the door.
AIOct 8, 2026The Verge
Google is launching a one-stop Gemini agent for your work tasks
Google's universal Gemini agent wants to be a coworker with its own email address, which could genuinely lighten office work and also blurs who is accountable when an agent acts.
AIOct 7, 2026Ars Technica
Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes
Microsoft is betting the next Windows on local AI and agents that act for you. The sandboxing is the most important announcement, and the one we most need to see work.
AIOct 7, 2026TechCrunch
Microsoft releases new Nvidia-chip AI PCs with revamped Windows 11
The pricey Nvidia-powered Surface machines are the headline, but the bigger move is a Windows feature to sandbox AI agents, and that one ships to everyone.
AIOct 7, 2026NVIDIA Blog
NVIDIA, Microsoft Kick Off a New Beginning for Windows PCs With RTX Spark and AI Agents
NVIDIA and Microsoft are betting that AI agents will live on the PC, not just in the cloud, and the security plumbing matters more than the petaflops in that bet.
AIOct 7, 2026Microsoft Research
Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses
Microsoft Research wants agents trained in the same harness they ship in. That closes a real gap between lab and deployment, and it makes reward design and safeguards matter even more.
AIOct 6, 2026Microsoft Research
What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us
A Microsoft researcher's work points to the quiet failures of AI at work, models that drift across long conversations and slowly corrupt documents, which benchmarks rarely catch.
AIOct 2, 2026MarkTechPost
Microsoft AI Releases MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming: #1 Real-Time Speech-to-Text Model on Artificial Analysis
Microsoft’s first streaming STT model tops Artificial Analysis for accuracy and partials — faster words for voice agents, at a premium to xAI and Meta.
AISep 30, 2026Microsoft Research
Forecasting space weather risks on power grids
Microsoft Research internship work: an ML pipeline flags space-weather risk for 66,935 U.S. substations with 30–60 minutes’ warning and ~80% major-event detection in evaluation.
AISep 29, 2026TechCrunch
OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT’s own office suite
ChatGPT Space, Pages, and collaborative Slides put OpenAI squarely in Microsoft Office’s lane — with Dots as coworkers inside the docs.
AISep 29, 2026Microsoft Research
Introducing Quine: An AI research system designed for the complexity of biology
Microsoft Research’s Quine pairs a multimodal biology world model with a harness linking tools, literature, wet labs, and scientists—already prioritizing tumor-state compounds with the Broad.
AISep 28, 2026Microsoft Research
One year in: How Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore is advancing research, partnership and talent for real-world impact
Microsoft Research Asia’s Singapore lab marks one year since its July 2025 opening—leaning on partnerships, talent, and four pillars from agentic systems to domain AI.
AISep 25, 2026Ars Technica
Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC"
New Surface laptops meet Copilot+ specs—80 TOPS NPUs included—but Microsoft is dropping the Copilot+ PC badge as AI-PC hype cools.
AISep 25, 2026The Verge
Microsoft thinks its new Copilot ‘super app’ will be as influential as Office
Microsoft is betting a three-tab Copilot — chat, Code, and Autopilot agents — can become the AI operating system for work, billed by usage and sold with Office-era ambition.
AISep 23, 2026Microsoft Research
Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics
Microsoft Research challenges the onboard-GPU orthodoxy in robotics: offloading inference to edge or cloud GPUs improved task success, unlocked larger models, and stretched battery life in their study.
AISep 23, 2026TechCrunch
Ema raises $77M as AI starts eating into enterprise software and services
Ema’s $77M Series B bets that multi-agent “AI employees” can wrap SaaS today and replace chunks of it tomorrow — services margins included.
AISep 22, 2026Ars Technica
Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts
EvilTokens turned inbox compromise into a subscription product — AI for target picking and lure drafting — until Microsoft and partners tore down the shop.
AISep 22, 2026TechCrunch
Nscale’s IPO will test Wall Street’s appetite for concentrated AI bets once again
Nscale’s public debut packages $100B-plus in AI contracts — and a reminder that most of that revenue dream sits with two customers.
AISep 21, 2026Microsoft Research
Improving synthesis prediction of small molecules at scale with RetroChimera
Microsoft Research’s Nature paper on RetroChimera pairs complementary retrosynthesis models and open-sources the stack—useful chemistry acceleration that still needs lab proof beyond chemist preference tests.