Despite years of investment in cybersecurity technologies, many enterprise breaches still begin with familiar weaknesses.
Microsoft is reportedly using its internally developed artificial intelligence models to handle some workloads in Excel and Outlook, offering new evidence that the company is moving its AI strategy beyond model development and into large-scale cost reduction.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/09/2026
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is shaping up to be more than the world's biggest sporting event. According to Flashpoint, it is also becoming one of the largest cybersecurity and security challenges ever faced by tournament organizers.
Microsoft is rolling out new capabilities aimed at showing orgswhether artificial intelligence agents deliver measurable value while expanding how employees use Copilot to create and analyze surveys.
Microsoft is investing $2.5 billion in an effort to help enterprises move artificial intelligence projects beyond pilots and into production, betting that deployment expertise will become a more important competitive advantage than model development alone.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/07/2026
Microsoft is cutting about 4,800 jobs worldwide in a companywide transformation that executives said is focused on changing business priorities, customer needs and operating models.
Anthropic's Claude family of AI models is now generally available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure, giving enterprise developers another frontier model they can deploy, manage and govern through Microsoft's cloud AI platform.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/02/2026
Microsoft is accelerating its quantum-safe security timeline, saying advances in quantum computing and new federal requirements have pushed post-quantum cryptography from a future planning issue into an immediate engineering priority.
Artificial intelligence agents are moving beyond experimentation and into production, according to Microsoft's inaugural 2026 Agent Confidence Index.
Microsoft has disrupted a large malicious browser extension campaign that used hidden payloads, delayed execution and disposable developer accounts to evade detection while targeting users with ad fraud, credential theft and remote code execution capabilities.
Forrester’s latest extended detection and response platform evaluation puts Microsoft and CrowdStrike in the Leaders category, but the bigger story for cloud-focused security teams is how much the XDR market has changed.
The rapid buildout of AI infrastructure is facing growing public resistance, but a new survey suggests the opposition may be rooted less in local datacenter projects than in broader distrust of artificial intelligence, Big Tech and who stands to benefit from the AI boom.
Microsoft on Wednesday said it has disrupted infrastructure tied to StealC and Amadey, two widely used cybercrime tools that the company says have become part of a broader malware supply chain used to steal credentials, support fraud and enable ransomware attacks.
Microsoft has made point-in-time restore generally available for Windows 11, giving users and IT administrators a built-in way to roll back PCs after bad updates, driver problems, app corruption or other disruptions.
Broadcom Inc. is making the case that enterprise AI has reached a new infrastructure phase, arguing that production workloads are forcing organizations to rethink where they run cloud applications and how they manage cost, security and governance.
Microsoft on Monday unveiled plans for one of the largest datacenter expansions in its history, pairing a new 2-gigawatt AI-focused campus in Pecos, Texas, with a 20-year power agreement from Chevron designed to ensure the facility has dedicated energy capacity as demand for AI services continues to surge.
Satya Nadella is making the case that the next phase of enterprise AI will not be won by the company with the highest-scoring model on a public leaderboard.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/18/2026
Enterprises moving generative AI from pilots into production may be underestimating the cost of running those systems at scale, particularly as inference workloads and AI agents become more common, according to a new Gartner report.
A new phishing campaign is targeting banks and other high-value organizations with Phantom Stealer, a commercially available infostealer that runs in memory to avoid traditional detection, according to new research from Fortra.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the general availability of Copilot Cowork, moving one of its major agentic AI tools out of preview and into broader enterprise use.