At least 10 former Allen Institute for AI staffers and researchers have joined Microsoft's Superintelligence team, including the core of the institute's OLMo open-source model effort.

Microsoft is retiring “Copilot Mode” in Edge as it builds AI browsing tools directly into Edge on desktop and mobile.

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) stock is solidly in the green on Friday despite a bearish backdrop for tech stocks. The company's share price was up 3% as of noon ET. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 was down 1.2%, and the Nasdaq Composite was off 1.

Microsoft veteran Jon Friedman was named the tech giant's first chief design officer; Susan Loosmore resigns as T-Mobile EVP; and OfferUp's chief growth officer departs.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT | MSFT Price Prediction) and Palantir (NASDAQ:PLTR) both delivered AI-fueled earnings beats this season, yet the businesses behind those tickers operate at completely different altitudes.

Charles Lamanna, Microsoft EVP of Copilot, Agents and Platform, joins Jon Fortt on multi-model AI orchestration: layering models yields a 15-point research-accuracy jump at lower cost than a single bigger one.

On Thursday, Microsoft shared mitigations for a high-severity Exchange Server vulnerability exploited in attacks that allow threat actors to execute arbitrary code via cross-site scripting (XSS) while targeting Outlook on the web users.

The zero-day vulnerability affects on-premises installations for all versions of Exchange Server 2016, 2019 and Subscription Edition

Microsoft's new vulnerability-scanning system, codenamed MDASH, scored 88.45% on the CyberGym benchmark, surpassing single-model systems from Anthropic and OpenAI by using more than 100 specialized AI agents across multiple models.

Microsoft is updating the Edge web browser to ensure it no longer loads saved passwords into process memory in clear text at startup after previously stating it was "by design."