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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 is killing its Excel Copilot formula after less than a year
The COPILOT() function, which let users call Microsoft's AI assistant directly from a spreadsheet cell, will stop working on 14 September 2026. The side pane is what Microsoft wants you to use instead.
Microsoft Pulls Its Animated Blob Mico From Copilot Voice Mode
The yellow animated character, launched less than a year ago to give the chatbot a face, is being quietly moved off to a learning platform.
Microsoft Is Merging Its Two Copilot Apps Into One Super App
The personal and work versions of Microsoft's AI assistant are being folded into a single unified app, but a few features won't survive the move.
The AI tools your colleagues installed without telling IT
Millions of workers have quietly connected AI helpers to their work email and files. Most companies have no idea what is running, or what it can do.
Perplexity Brings Its AI Computer Agent to Windows
The tool can open files, update spreadsheets, and send emails on your behalf, but it costs $200 a month and is aimed squarely at business users.
Forg365: The $400-a-Month Service That Hijacks Your Work Email
Forg365, a phishing kit sold on Telegram, uses AI to impersonate familiar business tools and steal access to Microsoft 365 accounts.
Microsoft is coaching its sales team to badmouth OpenAI and Anthropic
The company that built its AI business on partners' models is now telling salespeople those same models are slower, less accurate, and too expensive.