Microsoft

Microsoft hosts ready-to-use political censorship software on its Azure Marketplace in China, further evidence of how the company has aided the development and implementation of the country’s repressive system of political control.

Microsoft has announced that it has stopped providing cloud services and AI tools to a division of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, following an investigation into a report from the Guardian about the IDF’s Unit 8200 building a system for tracking Palestinians’ phone calls.

Game publisher Bethesda, owned by Microsoft, is facing backlash after posting and later deleting a short video clip that is a reference to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI CEO, has cautioned against granting rights to artificial intelligence, stating that it would be a perilous and ill-advised move.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that the Pentagon has shut down Microsoft’s decade-old “digital escort” program, first implemented under a Democrat administration, which allowed Chinese engineers supervised by U.S. contractors to work on sensitive defense cloud systems. He said the Defense Department has launched audits and investigations to assess the program’s impact on national security.

At least 18 people were arrested Wednesday at Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington, campus during an employee-led protest against the tech giant’s contracts with Israel.

Despite years of promises from tech leaders about lucrative coding careers, recent computer science graduates are facing a challenging job market due to the rise of AI programming tools and widespread layoffs in the tech industry. Some are taking jobs at fast food restaurants while they plan their next move.

Vice President JD Vance accused Microsoft of displacing American workers through mass layoffs while relying heavily on the H-1B visa program to hire immigrants. Vance called Big Tech’s approach to replacing Americans “a bullshit story” at an event on Wednesday.

A significant zero-day attack targeting a previously unknown vulnerability in Microsoft’s widely used SharePoint software has hit government agencies, universities, energy companies, and businesses around the world.

Microsoft claims it is changing practices to ensure that engineers based in China no longer provide support to U.S. defense clients using the company’s Azure cloud services. The Company was previously called out for using engineers based in the hostile communist nation to support Pentagon and other critical defense systems.

OpenAI has announced that it will be utilizing Google’s cloud infrastructure for ChatGPT. The AI giant had previously partnered exclusively with Microsoft, but that relationship has shown considerable strain in recent months.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is asking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for information on Microsoft’s use of Chinese engineers to maintain Pentagon cloud computing systems, warning that the practice may expose “our nation’s most sensitive data to a foreign adversary.”

Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems — with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel — leaving some of the nation’s most sensitive data vulnerable to hacking from its leading cyber adversary, a ProPublica investigation has found.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is demanding answers from big tech giants including Meta, Google, and OpenAI, about their AI chatbots distorting facts and producing biased results about President Donald Trump. Bailey writes, “Missourians deserve the truth, not AI-generated propaganda masquerading as fact.”

The American Federation of Teachers has partnered with tech companies including OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic to establish a national AI training hub for educators. The union is supportive of AI in the classroom despite troubling research that shows regular usage of chatbots can impact the cognitive function of young people.

Tech giant Microsoft has applied for up to 6,000 H-1B visas to bring in foreign workers while simultaneously cutting 9,000 jobs.

Microsoft has developed an AI diagnostic tool that it claims can diagnose diseases with significantly higher accuracy and lower costs compared to human physicians.

Microsoft is implementing a second round of significant job cuts this year, impacting approximately 9,000 employees across various teams and regions.

Microsoft Research Asia, an influential research institute based in Beijing and Shanghai, has continued to conduct AI research at high risk of abuse, including facial recognition, with sanctioned Chinese universities linked to the communist country’s military. Despite these ties Microsoft insists there are guardrails against such sensitive research at the institute.  

Microsoft is gearing up for another round of layoffs, with plans to cut thousands of jobs with a specific focus on its sales workforce, according to people familiar with the matter.

Tensions between AI startup OpenAI and tech giant Microsoft are reaching a boiling point as the two companies grapple with the future of their high-profile partnership.

The tech world is shocked as Builder.ai, once a highly valued AI startup, faces bankruptcy amid revelations that its AI was actually a team of Indian workers.

Creepy Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and a noted friend of Jeffrey Epstein, has announced that the bulk of his $200 billion philanthropic pledge will be directed towards addressing challenges in Africa over the next 20 years.

LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned professional networking platform, has announced layoffs affecting almost 300 employees across California, with a significant impact on Bay Area engineers.

Google is experimenting with a new “AI Mode” search feature on its homepage, potentially marking a significant shift in how users interact with the search engine giant’s artificial intelligence features.

Microsoft President Brad Smith recently testified to Congress about the company’s role in America’s AI race against China, while simultaneously allowing Chinese companies to access cutting-edge AI tools despite OpenAI’s restrictions on the communist country.

The FTC has lost its appeal of a ruling in its case against Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of gaming giant Activision Blizzard.

Microsoft has officially closed its Skype service, replacing it with Microsoft Teams, the company’s Slack competitor. The software giant mismanaged the popular communications product for many years through slow innovation and a confusing user experience.

A California judge has ruled that Elon Musk can proceed with fraud claims against AI startup OpenAI as part of his lawsuit alleging the company broke its promise to operate as a public charity when CEO Sam Altman decided to become a for-profit enterprise.

In a discussion at Meta’s inaugural “LlamaCon” AI developer event, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shed light on the growing role of artificial intelligence in software development within their respective companies. Nadella claims that up to 30 percent of Microsoft’s code is now written by AI.

The world’s largest technology companies, known as the “Silicon Six,” have paid nearly $278 billion less in corporate income tax over the past ten years than would be expected based on the average statutory tax rate for U.S. companies, according to a new report by the Fair Tax Foundation (FTF).

Microsoft has been pulling back on data center projects around the world, prompting questions about the company’s expectations for future demand of cloud and AI services.

The Investigation Bureau of Taiwan’s Department of Justice (MIJB) on Friday published a report that accused China of creating fake companies to hire top technology experts who would never have willingly worked for the Communist tyranny.

Microsoft has recently closed its Shanghai AI lab while facing criticism for its extensive technology partnerships with China despite positioning itself as a defender against Chinese tech dominance.

Microsoft co-founder and billionaire leftist Bill Gates predicts that within the next 10 years, artificial intelligence will advance to the point where human specialists like doctors and teachers will no longer be needed for most tasks.

A new study from Columbia Journalism Review’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism has uncovered serious accuracy issues with generative AI models used for news searches. According to the study, AI search engines have a startling error rate of 60 percent when queried about the news.