Microsoft News & Updates
Last updated November 14, 2026
Microsoft’s Outlook and Teams outage nears recovery after a day of global disruption that could cost close to $7 billion
Anthropic launches Claude Sheets and Whiteboards in beta, taking on its backers Microsoft and Google weeks before its IPO
Alphabet adds about 10,000 employees since March to reach 204,757, even as Meta and Microsoft work to shrink their workforces
Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle top $3 trillion in data center spending commitments, led by Alphabet’s $1 trillion
Google joins Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic in backing a single robots.txt signal that lets sites opt out of AI training in 2027
Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, more than a quarter of its workforce, on terms similar to severance
Former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak earned over £2.2 million advising Anthropic, Microsoft, and Goldman Sachs, with Microsoft paying the most per hour
Meta Superintelligence Labs director Rohit Patel quits to launch Ndoc, an AI-first rival to Microsoft Office and Google Workspace
Microsoft expands its sovereign cloud so customers can run Azure, AI models, and Microsoft 365 on their own servers, even offline
Private equity firms weighed a $100 billion to $150 billion buyout of Microsoft’s Xbox, which would top the record $55B EA deal
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells staff its new MAI-Base-2 model beats the base model behind OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol
Microsoft Azure president tells his 11,500-person group to find 20% in cost cuts as data center spending squeezes cash flow
Microsoft shifts Copilot’s agent mode back toward OpenAI models to protect margins as its Anthropic bill tops $2 billion a year
TikTok CEO Shou Chew and Microsoft’s Judson Althoff warn against AI hype, saying people still outdo models at key creative work
OpenAI’s next flagship model also uses loop transformers, after Microsoft accidentally confirmed the technique in GPT-6.1 Sol
Microsoft cuts internal Claude spending by a third and Meta halves Claude Code users as both push staff onto their own AI tools
Amazon hires Microsoft’s former Copilot CTO Pedram Rezaei to work on AWS’s AI agents, starting with its Quick and Kiro products
OpenAI adds Space, Pages, and collaborative slides to ChatGPT, pushing into document and presentation tools against Microsoft
Sen. Elizabeth Warren presses Meta, Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft on AI tax breaks as Meta’s federal tax bill drops to $2.8B
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