Microsoft
Latest about Microsoft

Amazon employees admit to using AI unnecessarily to pump up internal usage scores
By Luke James published
Amazon is the latest hyperscaler where employees have been caught inflating AI token consumption to hit internal usage targets.

Compromised Mistral AI and TanStack packages may have exposed GitHub, cloud and CI/CD credentials in 'mini Shai Hulud' malware infection
By Etiido Uko published
The malware reportedly refused to run on Russian-language systems but could execute a destructive payload under certain geographic conditions.

Microsoft's massive Kenya AI data center would require switching off 'half the country' to meet power requirements, government says
By Luke James published
The project was supposed to bring a geothermal-powered data center to the Olkaria region in Kenya's Rift Valley.

Microsoft CTO confesses that 30-year-old code from the mid-90s still forms the bedrock of Windows 11
By Mark Tyson published
A top Microsoft exec has admitted that Windows 11 still relies on a bunch of old code from the 1990s.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma kills Copilot for Gaming — overhauls leadership with CoreAI veterans
By Luke James published
Sharma took over as Xbox CEO in February after Phil Spencer retired following 38 years at Microsoft.

Microsoft says 'Transformation Paradox' holding back AI adoption in the workplace
By Jowi Morales published
“Employees are ready to reinvent how they work, but the system around them continues to reinforce the old way.”

Google, Microsoft, and xAI agree to let US government test AI models before public release
By Luke James published
OpenAI and Anthropic, which had existing evaluation partnerships with the center dating to 2024, renegotiated their deals to align with priorities in Trump's AI Action Plan.

45 years later, earliest DOS source code transcribed from a stack of old printouts found in a garage
By Mark Tyson published
Microsoft continues to make some of the earliest chapters of its operating system history open-source and freely available. Here's 86-DOS 1.00, released on its 45th anniversary, for example.

The Pentagon announces AI deals with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, and more
By Jowi Morales published
The U.S. Department of War announced agreements with seven AI providers, allowing it to deploy multiple LLMs for its use and avoiding lock up with a single vendor.
Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox.
