Artificial Intelligence
The latest Artificial Intelligence coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft’s $101.8B Profit Overshadowed by 17,000 Layoffs as AI Investment Hits $85B
Microsoft just delivered a fiscal year that would be the envy of any tech giant—record revenues, soaring profits, and a market cap that surpassed $4 trillion for the first time. But beneath the...
AWS Shatters Microsoft's OpenAI Exclusivity, Brings gpt-oss Models to Bedrock
Amazon Web Services ended Microsoft's five-year chokehold on cloud-hosted OpenAI models Tuesday, rolling out two new open-weight artificial intelligence models on its Bedrock platform. The August 5,...
Microsoft Poaches Over 20 DeepMind AI Talents, Pushing ‘Low Ego’ Culture Over Nine-Figure Pay
More than 20 top artificial intelligence researchers and engineers have left Google DeepMind for Microsoft in a matter of months, drawn not by unheard-of salaries but by a promise of something harder...
Microsoft Defender's New AI Agent Cuts Phishing Noise by 90%, Now in Public Preview
Microsoft has launched an AI-powered Phishing Triage Agent in public preview, embedding it directly into Microsoft Defender to automate the triage of user-reported phishing emails and slash...
OpenAI's GPT-5 Leaks on GitHub Hours Before Launch, Revealing Four Model Variants and Altman's Safety Fears
Just hours before OpenAI’s scheduled livestream on August 6, 2025, a now-deleted GitHub blog post inadvertently leaked key details about GPT-5, the company’s next-generation AI model. The post,...
NTT DATA’s New Microsoft Cloud Unit Pledges to Shrink Enterprise AI Deployments from Months to Weeks
NTT DATA has launched a new global business unit laser-focused on Microsoft Cloud and AI, promising to slash the time it takes for large enterprises to move from AI experimentation to...
Microsoft Copilot Study: The Real Jobs AI Is Transforming, and Why It's Not an Apocalypse
Microsoft researchers have crunched 200,000 real-world Copilot interactions to build a first-of-its-kind occupational map of AI disruption, and the results upend years of pundit speculation. By...
OpenAI Drops Apache 2.0 GPT-OSS Models: On-Device and Cloud AI Now Unified on Windows and Azure
OpenAI has completely upended its playbook. On Tuesday, the company released two new open-weight models—gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b—under the permissive Apache 2.0 license. It’s the first time...
Microsoft Debuts OpenAI's gpt-oss-20b on Windows 11 for Agentic Local AI — But Hallucinations Remain a Concern
Microsoft has quietly opened the door to a new breed of local AI on Windows 11 by making OpenAI's gpt-oss-20b, an open-source 20-billion-parameter language model, available through Windows AI...
Jim Cramer Hails Microsoft’s Dominance as AI Energy Crisis Looms
Microsoft’s stellar quarterly earnings and Jim Cramer’s effusive praise—he said the company is “doing incredibly well in every single phase of its business” on a recent broadcast—paint a...
Microsoft Azure Stores 200 Million Hours of Intercepted Palestinian Calls, Investigation Finds
Israel’s elite military intelligence unit has been using Microsoft Azure to build and operate a colossal surveillance system that hoovers up Palestinian phone calls on an industrial scale, a joint...
Microsoft’s Copilot Data Exposes 10 Jobs AI Can’t Replace—Yet
Microsoft’s latest deep dive into workplace AI has turned up a counterintuitive finding: while writers, translators, and customer service reps face mounting automation pressure, a distinct set of...