Microsoft News & Updates
Last updated November 15, 2026
Nscale IPO filing shows Microsoft and Anthropic behind 85% of a $103B contract book, of which just $2.6B is active so far
Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging ChatGPT and Copilot trained on their journalism without consent
Top 1% of customers generate 80% of enterprise revenue at OpenAI and Anthropic, where Cursor and Copilot alone drove $1.2 billion
Microsoft’s Cloud and AI staff report stock awards reaching $1.4M while Xbox tops out at $65K, per a leaked pay spreadsheet
FTC sues Hims & Hers over tracking pixels that allegedly fed patient health data to Meta, Snap, Microsoft, Reddit, and X
Disney drops Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot and two Amazon AI coding tools in the US in August while bringing in OpenAI’s Codex
Perplexity brings its Personal Computer agent to Windows, letting it reach local files, Microsoft 365, and the web at once
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, and Palantir sign a letter warning policymakers against premature restrictions on open-weight AI models
Microsoft launches two in-house AI models and says routing product traffic to them cuts GPU costs up to 89% versus OpenAI
Microsoft’s new security chief Hayete Gallot is overhauling its cyber business around AI, replacing execs and cutting roles
Microsoft is drilling its sales team to beat Anthropic and OpenAI on price, security, and a fuller end-to-end product suite
OpenAI’s IPO window narrows as Anthropic overtakes it in valuation, Microsoft ties cool, and Apple’s lawsuit adds legal risk
Bank of England gains powers to regulate cloud providers AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, and Microsoft as critical to UK banking
Microsoft starts replacing OpenAI and Anthropic models with its own MAI models in Excel and Outlook to cut rising AI costs
Microsoft lays off around 4,800 employees, 2.1% of its workforce, concentrated in sales and Xbox gaming, amid heavy AI spending
Z.ai launches ZCode coding agent on its GLM-5.2 model, pricing tokens far below Anthropic to challenge GitHub Copilot and Cursor
New York Times moves to amend its copyright suit, alleging Microsoft built a bespoke supercomputer to help OpenAI infringe
Publishers of nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft over AI training in the largest such suit by regional papers
EU moves to label Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure as cloud gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act, risking 10% fines
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