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The Netherlands’ Tax and Customs Administration has abandoned its planned Microsoft 365 public-cloud rollout.

“It can’t be entirely up to these companies to dictate the terms of their transparency,” says Brad Smith. Credit: Oliver Douliery/

The Norwegian Data Protection Authority (NDPA) has charged Xandr, an adtech subsidiary of Microsoft, with a fine of 92 million Norwegian kroner, or around $9.6 million. According to the data protection agency, Xandr allegedly didn’t obtain “explicit consent” to use sensitive user data of those on Grindr for advertising purposes, instead only assuming that the dating…

Microsoft President Brad Smith is calling for urgent regulation of AI, and his argument is that consumer products like milk and washing machines have more oversight than the companies building artificial intelligence.

Microsoft is making some hefty upgrades to its Copilot app, allowing users to create, edit and collaborate on popular Office documents directly within the AI hub.

Oct 12 (Reuters) – Artificial Intelligence needs urgent global regulation with independent evaluators able to vet new developments, the president of Microsoft said, warning ‌that AI currently faces fewer safety requirements than milk

Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than the safeguards around it, and industry self-regulation is “not sufficient any longer”. That is president of Microsoft. Speaking to Will Bain on BBC’s Big Boss Interview, Mr Smith said the world should worry more about AI safety than about any previous generation of digital technology in his 33 years…

Microsoft introduced a new artificial intelligence model built for one narrow job: making fast, structured calls instead of writing essays. Microsoft-Decision-1, unveiled on October 9, 2026, skips free-form text generation entirely. Feed it a situation, a question, and a fixed set of answer options, and it returns a typed, numerical decision or a calibrated probability…

MSI has launched the Prestige N16 Flip AI+, adding a 16-inch convertible to Nvidia’s rapidly expanding RTX Spark hardware lineup.

A few weeks back, I wrote an article about how local AI servers are bringing everything full circle, away from cloud storage. If Microsoft’s latest move, reducing the amount of storage you get with Microsoft 365, is anything to go by, then the humble NAS starts to seem like a good investment again.