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Microsoft confirms Copilot ‘super app’ coming this year

Microsoft is working on an AI “super app” that combines Copilot’s chat, coding, and agentic capabilities. During an earnings call on Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the app will span “both consumer and commercial experiences” when it launches this year. “Copilot is evolving rapidly from chat to Cowork to Autopilots,” Nadella said. “This quarter, […]

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Microsoft’s Azure just crossed $100bn a year, and the AI bet mostly paid off

Microsoft went into its earnings facing one question: is the vast AI spending working? The numbers said yes, mostly. Revenue rose 18% to $90bn for the quarter to 30 June, and net income climbed 31% to $35.8bn, the company reported. Microsoft Cloud brought in $59.3bn, up 27%. The shares rose about 2% after hours. Azure […]

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Xbox revenue drops 10 percent as Microsoft’s cloud and AI business surges

Xbox is having yet another tough quarter, as revenue from Game Pass subscription and other services dipped 10 percent over the past few months. At the same time, Xbox hardware sales declined 14 percent, according to Microsoft’s fourth-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday. The news comes just weeks after Xbox head Asha Sharma announced a […]

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Traders price an outsized Microsoft move as AI capex scrutiny mounts

Options traders are positioning for a swing of roughly $190 billion in Microsoft’s market value after its results, an unusually large bet on a single earnings report. The pricing, reported by Reuters on 29 July, implies a move of about 6.6% in either direction once the fiscal fourth-quarter numbers land. That is well above Microsoft’s […]

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Xbox outage shouldn’t have affected games on disc, Microsoft confirms

After the recent Xbox outage even blocked people from playing offline disc-based console games, Microsoft is trying to soothe concerns that you don’t truly own anything under Xbox’s license system. In a statement to The Verge, Xbox technology chief Scott Van Vliet says that while physical game discs are subject to licensing inspections, that shouldn’t […]

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AI is finding twice as many software flaws. Almost none get exploited.

AI-discovered vulnerabilities are arriving at roughly twice last year’s rate. Almost none of them are being exploited. The US National Vulnerabilities Database recorded 45,207 software flaws between January and 27 July, already approaching the whole of 2025, which was itself a record. On that trajectory the year ends at roughly double the 2025 total, Bloomberg […]

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Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns Windows PCs into AI agents

Perplexity has expanded its agentic Personal Computer tool to Windows, allowing computers running the world’s most popular OS to be used as a locally run AI system. Like the Mac version that Perplexity launched in April, Personal Computer for Windows operates like a “general-purpose digital worker” that can access local files and apps to perform […]

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Microsoft built an agentic security system with red, blue, and green team AI agents. It enters public preview August 3.

Microsoft announced Project Perception on Monday, an agentic security system that coordinates three classes of AI agents in a continuous loop: red team agents that find vulnerabilities before attackers do, blue team agents that investigate and assess which risks are meaningful, and green team agents that fix defences across the environment. The system enters public […]

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Microsoft pursues Supreme Court appeal in £270 million software resale case

Microsoft is seeking permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court after losing twice in the ValueLicensing case over whether businesses can legally resell surplus on-premise software licences. The Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled in 2025 that resale and subdivision of Microsoft licences did not infringe copyright. Microsoft appealed and lost again on July 7. An […]

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