Microsoft released RAMPART and Clarity as open-source projects intended to help developers test AI agents earlier in the software lifecycle and turn red-team findings into repeatable engineering checks.
More than half of small and midsize businesses rank cybersecurity and data protection among their top priorities, with many planning to increase security spending as AI adoption adds new risks, according to a new IDC survey commissioned by Sage.
Microsoft’s latest Surface for Business update brings new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, more on-device AI performance and several IT-focused manageability and security additions.
Microsoft is now accelerating its Linux strategy with the debut of Azure Linux 4.0 and the general availability of Azure Container Linux.
Microsoft has named longtime design executive Jon Friedman as its first chief design officer, a new role focused on shaping the company’s AI user experience across Microsoft 365.
A new agentic AI security multi-model defense system built by Microsoft's Autonomous Code Security team helped researchers find 16 new vulnerabilities across the Windows networking and authentication stack.
Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday release broke a long zero-day streak, arriving without any vulnerabilities listed as exploited or publicly disclosed.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took center stage Monday in Elon Musk's civil lawsuit against OpenAI, offering jurors new insight into the partnership that transformed OpenAI from a nonprofit research lab into one of the most influential companies in artificial intelligence.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/12/2026
Microsoft's latest Global AI Diffusion Report shows AI usage reaching 17.8 percent among the world's working-age population, while adoption remains far higher in developed economies than in the Global South.
The Cloud Security Alliance on April 29 announced several CSAI Foundation milestones aimed at securing agentic AI systems, including a planned catastrophic risk annex, new CVE Numbering Authority status and stewardship of two agentic AI specifications.
The U.S. Defense Department has reached agreements with several major technology companies to expand the use of advanced artificial intelligence tools on classified military networks, according to a Pentagon statement.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/04/2026
Microsoft on Friday announced the general availability of Agent 365, its control plane for governing and securing AI agents across enterprise environments, alongside the release of Microsoft 365 E7.
Microsoft on Tuesday released the earliest known DOS source code materials found to date to mark the 45th anniversary of 86-DOS 1.00.
Microsoft and OpenAI on Monday announced an amended partnership agreement that loosens the exclusive ties that have defined one of the tech industry's most consequential AI relationships since 2019.
Microsoft this week rolled out new agentic Copilot capabilities across Word, Excel and PowerPoint, part of the company's push to make its AI assistant more useful inside the apps enterprises use on a daily basis.
Microsoft issued a report warning users about a popular attack method that involves a "human-operated" attack playbook, in which hackers impersonate IT helpdesk staff using Microsoft Teams to gain access to company systems and steal data.
Microsoft this week released one of the largest Patch Tuesday bundles in its history, delivering fixes for 163 new Microsoft CVEs in a month that includes three zero-days and eight Critical-rated vulnerabilities.
Microsoft is warning organizations about two active cybersecurity threats: a fast-moving ransomware campaign and a Russian espionage operation that abuses small office and home office routers to monitor victims' network traffic.
Microsoft this week says it has uncovered a large-scale, sophisticated AI-driven phishing campaign that uses automation and legitimate authentication processes to compromise accounts more effectively than traditional phishing attacks.
Anthropic has hired Eric Boyd, a longtime Microsoft executive who most recently led Azure AI platform work, as its new head of infrastructure, adding an experienced cloud and AI engineering leader as the company expands the systems behind its growing product portfolio.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/07/2026