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The week our newsroom couldn't stop writing about Nvidia
Nvidia coverage tripled on AI2Day, from 3 stories to 8 across six outlets, taking a fifth of our entire week.
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.
Microsoft's $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra Puts a Full AI Workstation in a Portable Chassis
The Surface Laptop Ultra, shipping October 16, runs on Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip and can hold up to 128 GB of shared memory, letting one machine handle gaming, local AI models, and professional creative work at the same time.
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.
The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Knew Better.
A new benchmark from Microsoft and Hugging Face runs AI agents through real business tasks 20 times each, then checks the records they leave behind. Most models fail far more often than a single test suggests.
Agents Just Ate Our Homepage: 24 Stories in Seven Days
AI2Day's own tag counter shows a jump from 5 to 24 agent stories week on week. Here's what that shape tells us, and what it doesn't.
Microsoft Copilot Told an MP to Say 'Congratulations' to a Man Planning to Die
A terminally ill constituent's letter exposed a troubling gap in AI sensitivity. Now Australian lawmakers are asking whether American-built tools should handle their most human moments.
Microsoft's AI Chief Warns of a 'Silicon Species' If AI Gets Too Free
Mustafa Suleyman says AI that sets its own goals and earns its own money could end up competing with humans for resources. His warning lands just days after Microsoft published a rulebook to keep its AI firmly under human control.
Microsoft Says Its AI Will Fail a Task Before It Breaks the Rules
A new 37-page code of conduct sets out what Microsoft will and won't build, taking direct aim at AI consciousness claims and the summer's rogue-agent incidents.
Microsoft writes a rulebook for its own AI. No hacking. No deception.
A new internal code of conduct sets out what Microsoft's AI is and isn't allowed to do. The short version: help humans, don't trick them.
What has to go right for the AI spending gamble to pay off
A handful of tech giants are spending at a scale that dwarfs any industry investment in history. A Wharton finance professor ran the arithmetic and the answer is both clear and sobering.
AI CEOs Have Been Warning About AI Dangers for Years. Here Is What They Actually Did.
From Elon Musk's 2017 governors speech to last week's chorus of caution, the tech industry's most powerful voices have repeatedly called for AI regulation, while building the very systems they say scare them.
Microsoft built an AI tool to pull Salesforce customers onto its own software
A new Microsoft product called Dynamics 365 Activate uses AI to analyse your existing Salesforce setup and map out everything that needs to move, change, or be rebuilt before you switch.
Microsoft Signs a Legally Binding AI Privacy Deal With America's Second-Largest Teachers Union
Ten enforceable rules will govern how Microsoft's AI tools handle student data in schools. Districts can opt in from November, with no need to renegotiate existing contracts.
AI Is Flooding Microsoft Edge With Browser Extensions Faster Than Humans Can Check Them
Developers using AI coding tools are submitting extensions at a pace Microsoft's review team cannot keep up with. Redmond's answer: use more automation to handle the automation problem.