[New] A major Copilot-driven breach exposes the risks of AI over-permissioning: 2026 will see a headline-grabbing incident where Microsoft Copilot accesses sensitive data or executes privileged actions beyond its intended scope.
Radical Data Science
[New] With researchers discovering security vulnerabilities and AI code and implementations such as Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot, a new category of threats has begun to emerge.
Radical Data Science
[New] Microsoft announces a new community-first AI initiative and claims it will not increase the electricity bills of the neighborhoods around its data centers.
AdExchanger
[New] Security leaders should pay attention to patching vulnerabilities that Microsoft says are more likely to be exploited.
CSO Online
[New] Early adopters like Microsoft, which is building next-generation Fairwater AI superfactories with Rubin NVL72 rack-scale systems, will be key.
Ainvest
[New] Strategic pivots toward autonomous data engineering, exemplified by Microsoft and its acquisition of Osmos, will likely become the blueprint for companies looking to maintain margins in a high-tariff environment.
Statesman-Examiner
[New] Microsoft Defender for Endpoint applies ML models trained on trillions of signals to identify emerging threats.
The Data Community
[New] Major tech firms like Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet are projected to spend $364 billion on AI infrastructure in 2025, with broader capital investments expected in the coming years.
G2
[New] For Microsoft, the Rubin platform will form the foundation of its next-generation Fairwater AI superfactory sites, indicating that the infrastructure for the next decade of AI is being laid now.
Thought Canvas
[New] In the Netherlands SurfNET, which provides IT services to academic institutions, recommended that institutions do not use Microsoft Copilot due to privacy risks and a lack of transparency from Microsoft.
Roar News
[New] Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has cautioned that artificial intelligence could be misused by non-state actors to create bioterrorism weapons, particularly as open-source AI tools become more widely accessible.
Moneycontrol
[New] Mercedes' MBUX infotainment system will integrate AI from both Microsoft and Google.
National Law Review
[New] Memory safety mandates will drive interest in Rust and Zig for systems programming: Major players such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta have adopted Rust for critical systems, and Zig is behind Anthropic's most recent acquisition, Bun.
O'Reilly Media
[New] Sony's AFEELA 1 will feature a Microsoft Azure OpenAI-based AI assistant that should be able to keep up a conversation.
Yahoo Tech
[New] Swiss Re's work with Microsoft on Risk Digital Twins is positioned as a way to simulate complex scenarios - natural catastrophes, supply chain disruptions, even pandemics - and understand portfolio impacts before losses happen.
Openkoda
[New] In 2026 alone, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are each expected to spend more than $100 billion, totaling more than $300 billion among them.
Sage Financial Group
[New] Concerned that a power crunch could delay the roll out of data centers, Microsoft and Google have signed long-term power deals to support the reopening of shuttered nuclear plants in Iowa and Pennsylvania.
Electricity Info
[New] Microsoft demonstrated its quantum computing potential with its revolutionary Majorana 1 chip.
Yahoo Finance
[New] Hyperscaler capex has entered unprecedented territory: $602 B projected for 2026, with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta each exceeding $100 B individually.
Introl
By 2026, AI will be seamlessly embedded within the daily tools legal professionals use, such as Microsoft Word and Outlook.
Litera
2026's major outages, from the global Microsoft 365 disruption to the AWS and Cloudflare incidents that took major services offline, have reminded businesses how fragile modern operations can be, and how quickly they can lose control of critical services when a few shared platforms fail.
TechRound
One of the most exciting shifts is that Copilot will become more deeply embedded across Microsoft 365, even for users on the free tier.
SMS
Last updated: 18 January 2026
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