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In short: Microsoft has spent billions building Copilot into every corner of its product lineup, pitching it as an indispensable AI co-worker. Its own Terms of Use tell a different story. A clause quietly buried in the document labels Copilot “for entertainment purposes only” and warns users not to rely on it for important advice. The […]
Six months after renegotiating the contract that once barred it from independently pursuing frontier AI, Microsoft has released three in-house models that directly challenge the partner it spent $13 billion cultivating. MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 are now available in Microsoft Foundry, and they do not carry OpenAI’s name anywhere on the label. The models are […]
Brad Smith met Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul in Bangkok to announce the 2026-2028 investment spanning data centre infrastructure, cybersecurity, sovereign technology, and AI skills training for millions of Thai workers. Microsoft has announced a commitment of more than $1 billion in cloud and AI infrastructure in Thailand between 2026 and 2028, the company’s largest publicly […]
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Tech bosses say AI will make us work less. So far, that's mostly meant fewer of us will be working for them full-time.