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A Blue Robotic Owl Is Helping Israeli Students Catch Up on Missed Lectures
Bar-Ilan University built an AI study agent into its course platform. Students are spending less time hunting for notes and more time actually learning.

Microsoft Built Its Own AI Chip and Plans to Run Its Office Suite on It
The Maia 300 is designed to run frontier AI models inside Azure data centres, reducing Microsoft's reliance on outside chip suppliers and lowering the cost of every AI answer it serves.

Seven Minutes, 100 Azure Accounts Gone. Here Is How JadePuffer Did It.
Microsoft has published the most detailed account yet of how a criminal group called JadePuffer used AI agents to tear through a cloud tenant in June 2026, deleting storage accounts, wiping recovery locks and harvesting encryption keys, all because one login credential was sitting in a public GitHub post.

Microsoft soars, Meta sinks: AI spending is splitting Big Tech in two
Both companies are pouring billions into artificial intelligence. One set of investors cheered. The other hit sell.

Microsoft Posts $90 Billion Quarter as Cloud and AI Drive Record Results
Azure revenue crossed $100 billion for the full year, Copilot reached 30 million paid users, and capital spending nearly doubled. Here is what the numbers mean and where the caution flags are.

Microsoft made more from Anthropic in one quarter than from OpenAI all year
Fresh earnings figures show Microsoft's bet on Anthropic is paying off fast, while its older stake in OpenAI had a rough three months.

AMD's Helios Takes On Nvidia: Microsoft Joins the Queue for a New AI Supercomputer
AMD is shipping its first rack-scale AI system to Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI and others. It's the most serious challenge to Nvidia's grip on the data centre market in years, but the price premium and software gap are real hurdles.

Microsoft Is Using AI Agents to Mathematically Prove Its Encryption Code Has No Flaws
The team behind Windows and Azure's cryptography library isn't just testing the code. They're proving it correct, for every possible input, using formal mathematical proofs written partly by AI.

Microsoft's CEO warns companies are paying for AI twice, once in cash and once in secrets
Satya Nadella says every prompt, correction and workflow businesses feed into AI models is quietly training the companies they pay. He wants enterprises to take back control.