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Microsoft Hooked the Government on Its Products With Freebies. Could Elon Musk’s Starlink Be Doing the Same?

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. A few weeks ago, my colleague Doris Burke sent me a story from The New York Times that gave us both deja vu. The piece reported that Starlink, the satellite internet provider … Read more

Microsoft releases AI-generated Quake II demo, but admits ‘limitations’

Microsoft has released a browser-based, playable level of the classic video game Quake II. This functions as a tech demo for the gaming capabilities of Microsoft’s Copilot AI platform — though by the company’s own admission, the experience isn’t quite the same as playing a well-made game. You can try it out for yourself, using … Read more

Microsoft Employee Disrupts 50th Anniversary Over Israel AI Contracts

Microsoft celebrated the company’s 50th anniversary on Friday with a splashy event that featured all three of its current and former CEOs, but it did not come without surprises. The Verge reported earlier that an employee by the name Ibtihal Aboussad disrupted a presentation by the company’s head of AI, Mustafa Suleyman, alleging the company … Read more

Protester interrupts Microsoft Copilot keynote, says company has ‘blood on its hands’

A protester interrupted Microsoft’s Copilot-focused keynote Friday afternoon, calling attention to the company’s reported dealings with the Israeli military. “Shame on you,” the protester said. “You claim that you care about using AI for good, but Microsoft sells AI weapons to the Israeli military … All of Microsoft has blood on its hands.” Microsoft Head of … Read more

Microsoft 50 birthday party interrupted by employees protesting AI use

At Microsoft‘s 50th anniversary celebration on Friday, a software engineer in the company’s artificial intelligence division interrupted the event with a message: Stop allowing the Israeli military to use Microsoft’s AI products. At the time, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman was delivering a speech. “Mustafa, shame on you,” the employee, Ibtihal Aboussad, said as she … Read more

Microsoft reportedly pulls back on its data center plans

Microsoft has pulled back on data center projects around the world, Bloomberg reports, suggesting that the company is wary of expanding its cloud computing infrastructure too rapidly. Microsoft has halted talks for or delayed development sites of data centers in the U.K., Australia, North Dakota, Wisconsin, and Illinois, per Bloomberg. A spokesperson told the publication … Read more

Microsoft turns 50: How it’s remained essential, based on my 27 years there 

On April 4, 1975, two young visionaries, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, set out to do something bold: build a software company for the nascent world of personal computing. Their vision? A computer on every desk and in every home. At a time when software wasn’t even considered an industry, that idea felt radical. Today, … Read more

Microsoft turns 50 as the world’s second largest company—trying not to fall behind on AI

Microsoft has been at the heart of computing for half a century, becoming a tech stalwart almost taken for granted as lifestyles embraced the internet. As the company, founded with a vision of putting computers in every home and office, celebrates its 50th anniversary on Friday, it is looking to boost its fortunes by being … Read more

OpenAI and Microsoft add new image generation and AI agent features—and showcase their platform advantage

Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In today’s edition…OpenAI releases a more capable image generator, while Microsoft plants its stake in reasoning agents; Google debuts Gemini 2.5 “thinking” models; Amazon tests AI assistants for health and shopping; Character.AI gives parents a lens into their kid’s time on the platform; and AI companies’ aggressive crawlers … Read more

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