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Microsoft Claims 4–12× Efficiency Edge With MAI-Base-2
The 2.8-trillion-parameter model strengthens Microsoft’s in-house AI ambitions, but its benchmark claims remain internal and its weights are not publicly available.
Jim Clyde Monge7 minAll articles
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Microsoft MXC Brings Policy Controls to AI Agents
The SDK supports Windows, macOS and Linux, but Windows session isolation ships ahead of Entra attribution and enterprise management integrations.
Jim Clyde Monge7 minAI News
Microsoft Decision-1 Targets Costly LLM Decisions
Microsoft’s Qwen-based scoring model offers inexpensive agent control in Foundry, while its headline speed and accuracy results remain vendor-reported.
Angelica Kim7 minAI News
Microsoft ISOC Preview Brings SIEM and AI Into Defender
Eligible Defender Suite and Microsoft 365 E5/E7 customers can try integrated security workflows, but workspace requirements and ingestion costs matter.
Jim Clyde Monge7 minAI News
Microsoft Maia 300 Anchors Its 2027 Inference Plan
Maia 200 already serves Copilot workloads, while Microsoft plans multi-gigawatt deployments to make its accelerator family the main inference platform.
James Rivera7 minAI News
Microsoft Killed Its Claude Code Licenses Because Token Billing Broke the Budget
From Microsoft's internal pilot cancellation to Uber's blown AI budget, token-based pricing is forcing a reckoning across the industry.
Jim Clyde Monge8 minAI News
NVIDIA and Microsoft Put Workloads First in Sovereign AI
The new white paper offers architecture guidance, while preview-stage Foundry Local documents how connected and disconnected on-premises inference can work.
Angelica Kim9 minAI News
Anthropic Faces Reported Claude Cuts at Meta and Microsoft
Reported spending and usage reductions highlight platform owners’ incentives to favor their own tools, without establishing a break with Anthropic.
Angelica Kim7 minAI News
Microsoft Patches Copilot Flaw That Enabled Code Execution
A Windows filename mismatch let hijacked Copilot agents alter protected settings in Visual Studio and SSMS, according to the researcher who disclosed…
James Rivera7 minAI News
Microsoft Copilot Home, Code and Autopilot: Who Gets In?
Microsoft is combining collaboration, app building and persistent agents in Copilot, but each experience has a different access timeline.
Angelica Kim8 minAI News
Microsoft Copilot Adds Home, Code and Metered Agents
The redesign brings Office work, natural-language app building and persistent agents together, but availability and billing differ sharply between them.
James Rivera8 minAI News
Microsoft Opens RTX Spark Surface Preorders From $2,599
The $5,999 Dev Box offers a desktop alternative, but local-model capacity and forthcoming Windows agent controls need separate scrutiny.
Jim Clyde Monge7 minAI News
Microsoft Copilot AI Pricing Adds Credits for Agents
Everyday Chat and Office work stays under a user license, but advanced agents require Copilot Credits and an admin billing policy.
Jim Clyde Monge7 minAI News
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash Lands in Copilot With Lower Pricing
Microsoft claims faster responses and fewer tokens than its June model, while GitHub lists usage rates developers can evaluate against completed tasks.
James Rivera7 minAI News
Grok 4.7 Goes GA in Foundry With OpenAI-Compatible APIs
Azure developers gain Microsoft-managed deployment, enterprise authentication, and Azure billing for Grok 4.7, separate from the model’s September launch.
Jim Clyde Monge6 minAI News
Copilot Studio Adds Apps, Hooks, and Foundry IQ
Apps and Managed Runtime enter public preview, while Foundry IQ and the Review panel offer generally available grounding and readiness checks.
Jim Clyde Monge7 minAI News
Dynamics 365 Ships 30 CRM Skills for Copilot Cowork
Microsoft separates generally available CRM skills from public-preview sales and Teams features, while restricting its more autonomous Service Agent to selected customers.
James Rivera7 minAI News
Anthropic Claude User Claims $17.6K Bill Despite Credits
Vegalabs says $21,168 in unused credits did not cover its Claude invoice; Microsoft explicitly excludes Anthropic models from startup-credit coverage.
Jim Clyde Monge6 minAI News
Windows ML Previews GGUF With OpenAI-Compatible Access
Microsoft's experimental update lets Windows developers run GGUF models locally while keeping ONNX workflows and reusing familiar OpenAI client code.
Jim Clyde Monge7 minAI News
AI Industry Needs Emergency Brakes, Says Brad Smith
Microsoft’s president wants enforceable safety duties, independent evaluations and containment controls, challenging Washington’s preference for voluntary commitments from AI companies.
James Rivera7 minTutorialsSponsored
Here’s a Better Alternative to Claude’s PPT Add-on
Anthropic released a Claude add-on for Microsoft PowerPoint, but it wasn’t great. Here’s a better alternative.
Jim Clyde Monge5 minAI News
Satya Nadella Calls for AI Controls Outside the Model
Microsoft’s CEO proposes independent permissions, readable action logs and a human-operated emergency brake for advanced AI systems working with sensitive enterprise data.
Angelica Kim7 min
