Microsoft Copilot Business launched globally on December 1, offering meeting notes, document drafting, and productivity tools such as Outlook to small and medium-sized businesses at a lower price. Google's Gemini, meanwhile, provides AI summaries for Docs, Sheets, and Slides, and supports audio overviews of PDFs in Drive. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman put ChatGPT into "code red" status, pushing the team to accelerate improvements.
Aim Labs disclosed the zero-click vulnerability EchoLeak in Microsoft 365 Copilot: an attacker only needs to send a single email to the victim to exfiltrate sensitive data in the Copilot context without the user's awareness. The attack chain consists of three vulnerabilities, which in sequence bypass the XPIA prompt injection classifier, the sanitization of external links and images, and, with the help of SharePoint and Teams URLs, bypass CSP restrictions. Aim Labs calls the core technique LLM Scope Violation and believes that similar design flaws may also exist in other RAG-based chatbots and AI agents, and states that Microsoft has confirmed that no customers were affected.
Aim Labs disclosed the zero-click vulnerability EchoLeak in Microsoft 365 Copilot: an attacker only needs to send a single email to the victim to exfiltrate sensitive data in the Copilot context without the user's awareness. The attack chain consists of three vulnerabilities, which in sequence bypass the XPIA prompt injection classifier, the sanitization of external links and images, and, with the help of SharePoint and Teams URLs, bypass CSP restrictions. Aim Labs calls the core technique LLM S
Microsoft Research built the Industry Evaluation Data Generation Platform to evaluate Microsoft Copilot. The platform generates fully synthetic enterprise environments based on public data such as O*NET, job postings, and SEC filings, avoiding the use of any customer data. These simulated tenants contain realistic organizational structures, meeting and email histories, can cover issues missed by general benchmarks, and have formed Copilot's first standardized evaluation baseline.
Microsoft Research built the Industry Evaluation Data Generation Platform to evaluate Microsoft Copilot. The platform generates fully synthetic enterprise environments based on public data such as O NET, job postings, and SEC filings, avoiding the use of any customer data. These simulated tenants contain realistic organizational structures, meeting and email histories, can cover issues missed by general benchmarks, and have formed Copilot's first standardized evaluation baseline.
Microsoft Research built the Industry Evaluation Data Generation Platform to evaluate Microsoft Copilot. The platform generates fully synthetic enterprise environments based on public data such as O*NET, job postings, and SEC filings, avoiding the use of any customer data. These simulated tenants contain realistic organizational structures, meeting and email histories, can cover issues missed by general benchmarks, and have formed Copilot's first standardized evaluation baseline.
On October 30, 2026, Microsoft opened the public beta of the GitHub Copilot agent harness through the Foundry Agent Service in Microsoft Foundry. The harness provides built-in sandboxing, reusable skills, MCP integration, and sub-agent support; the same harness already supports Copilot Code, Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot, CLI, and VS Code. When creating a prompt agent, this harness must be selected and cannot be changed afterward; CPU, memory, and idle duration are controlled by Microsoft, and bring-your-own-model is not supported. The service is free until December 1, 2026, after which it is billed at $0.0994 per vCPU-hour and $0.0118 per GiB-hour, with model inference and some tools billed separately.
On October 30, 2026, Microsoft opened the public beta of the GitHub Copilot agent harness through the Foundry Agent Service in Microsoft Foundry. The harness provides built-in sandboxing, reusable skills, MCP integration, and sub-agent support; the same harness already supports Copilot Code, Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot, CLI, and VS Code. When creating a prompt agent, this harness must be selected and cannot be changed afterward; CPU, memory, and idle duration are controlled by Microsoft, and
On October 30, 2026, Microsoft opened the public beta of the GitHub Copilot agent harness through the Foundry Agent Service in Microsoft Foundry. The harness provides built-in sandboxing, reusable skills, MCP integration, and sub-agent support; the same harness already supports Copilot Code, Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot, CLI, and VS Code. When creating a prompt agent, this harness must be selected and cannot be changed afterward; CPU, memory, and idle duration are controlled by Microsoft, and bring-your-own-model is not supported. The service is free until December 1, 2026, after which it is billed at $0.0994 per vCPU-hour and $0.0118 per GiB-hour, with model inference and some tools billed separately.
Microsoft has decided to end support for all Copilot features on TVs. A pop-up notification on LG TVs states that the feature is "scheduled to be discontinued in 2026," with the exact date depending on Microsoft's timeline. LG and Samsung announced at CES 2025 that their new smart TVs would integrate Copilot, allowing users to talk to it, ask about on-screen content, or get movie and TV recommendations. Previously, LG drew user complaints after a webOS update added a non-removable Copilot shortcut, and later allowed it to be deleted.
Microsoft has decided to end support for all Copilot features on TVs. A pop-up notification on LG TVs states that the feature is "scheduled to be discontinued in 2026," with the exact date depending on Microsoft's timeline. LG and Samsung announced at CES 2025 that their new smart TVs would integrate Copilot, allowing users to talk to it, ask about on-screen content, or get movie and TV recommendations. Previously, LG drew user complaints after a webOS update added a non-removable Copilot shortc
Microsoft disclosed in a regulatory filing that it earned $10 billion in revenue from its commercial arrangement with OpenAI in the quarter ended September 30, accounting for nearly 11% of its total quarterly revenue of $92.3 billion. The same disclosure shows that revenue from OpenAI for the full 2026 fiscal year was $24.1 billion, or roughly $40 billion annualized at the latest quarterly pace. As of the end of September, Microsoft's receivables from OpenAI stood at $7.2 billion, up from $6 billion at the end of June; Microsoft's stake fell from about 25% in June to 24% in September. This information currently comes from TechCrunch AI's reporting on the regulatory filing, with no further developments yet.
Microsoft disclosed in a regulatory filing that it earned $10 billion in revenue from its commercial arrangement with OpenAI in the quarter ended September 30, accounting for nearly 11% of its total quarterly revenue of $92.3 billion. The same disclosure shows that revenue from OpenAI for the full 2026 fiscal year was $24.1 billion, or roughly $40 billion annualized at the latest quarterly pace. As of the end of September, Microsoft's receivables from OpenAI stood at $7.2 billion, up from $6 bil
Microsoft disclosed in a regulatory filing that it earned $10 billion in revenue from its commercial arrangement with OpenAI in the quarter ended September 30, accounting for nearly 11% of its total quarterly revenue of $92.3 billion. The same disclosure shows that revenue from OpenAI for the full 2026 fiscal year was $24.1 billion, or roughly $40 billion annualized at the latest quarterly pace. As of the end of September, Microsoft's receivables from OpenAI stood at $7.2 billion, up from $6 billion at the end of June; Microsoft's stake fell from about 25% in June to 24% in September. This information currently comes from TechCrunch AI's reporting on the regulatory filing, with no further developments yet.
On October 26, 2026, Microsoft offered voluntary severance packages to employees at level 70 and below across teams in the United States, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom, covering up to approximately 60,000 people, or about 27% of its global workforce; employees must decide by early December, and those who accept will leave the company by the end of the year. The Verge AI reported that this scale far exceeds the retirement plan offered to about 9,000 people earlier this year; as of June 30, Microsoft had approximately 223,000 employees, a decrease of 5,000 from the previous year. On October 29, Microsoft announced its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027, with Azure revenue up 48% year over year; the company said demand for AI infrastructure has exceeded available capacity; a few days before the earnings release, Microsoft offered voluntary departure packages to approximately 60,000 employees.
On October 26, 2026, Microsoft offered voluntary severance packages to employees at level 70 and below across teams in the United States, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom, covering up to approximately 60,000 people, or about 27% of its global workforce; employees must decide by early December, and those who accept will leave the company by the end of the year. The Verge AI reported that this scale far exceeds the retirement plan offered to about 9,000 people earlier this year; as of June 30
On October 27, 2026, Microsoft AI released the image editing model MAI Image 2.7, launching it in preview form. The Microsoft AI Blog said that the model ranks 3rd on Arena Edit and 2nd on the Artificial Analysis image editing leaderboard, making Microsoft AI the 2nd-ranked lab; the company also said that it outperforms 2.6 on all 10 use cases and 7 categories of editing actions evaluated by Artificial Analysis, and leads the next-best model by 24 Elo on scenes and styles. A subsequent IT Home report said that the model ranks 2nd on the AA-Image-Editing v2.1 leaderboard with 1193 Elo, second only to OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max). Users can currently try it on Arena, Artificial Analysis, and the MAI Playground, with text-to-image functionality coming soon; Microsoft has not yet announced a public API, pricing, or an official commercial launch date, and the model weights have not been released.
On October 26, 2026, Microsoft offered voluntary severance packages to employees at level 70 and below across teams in the United States, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom, covering up to approximately 60,000 people, or about 27% of its global workforce; employees must decide by early December, and those who accept will leave the company by the end of the year. The Verge AI reported that this scale far exceeds the retirement plan offered to about 9,000 people earlier this year; as of June 30, Microsoft had approximately 223,000 employees, a decrease of 5,000 from the previous year. On October 29, Microsoft announced its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027, with Azure revenue up 48% year over year; the company said demand for AI infrastructure has exceeded available capacity; a few days before the earnings release, Microsoft offered voluntary departure packages to approximately 60,000 employees.
Microsoft has decided to end support for all Copilot features on TVs. A pop-up notification on LG TVs states that the feature is "scheduled to be discontinued in 2026," with the exact date depending on Microsoft's timeline. LG and Samsung announced at CES 2025 that their new smart TVs would integrate Copilot, allowing users to talk to it, ask about on-screen content, or get movie and TV recommendations. Previously, LG drew user complaints after a webOS update added a non-removable Copilot shortcut, and later allowed it to be deleted.
On October 27, 2026, Microsoft AI released the image editing model MAI Image 2.7, launching it in preview form. The Microsoft AI Blog said that the model ranks 3rd on Arena Edit and 2nd on the Artificial Analysis image editing leaderboard, making Microsoft AI the 2nd-ranked lab; the company also said that it outperforms 2.6 on all 10 use cases and 7 categories of editing actions evaluated by Artificial Analysis, and leads the next-best model by 24 Elo on scenes and styles. A subsequent IT Home report said that the model ranks 2nd on the AA-Image-Editing v2.1 leaderboard with 1193 Elo, second only to OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max). Users can currently try it on Arena, Artificial Analysis, and the MAI Playground, with text-to-image functionality coming soon; Microsoft has not yet announced a public API, pricing, or an official commercial launch date, and the model weights have not been released.
On October 27, 2026, Microsoft AI released the image editing model MAI Image 2.7, launching it in preview form. The Microsoft AI Blog said that the model ranks 3rd on Arena Edit and 2nd on the Artificial Analysis image editing leaderboard, making Microsoft AI the 2nd-ranked lab; the company also said that it outperforms 2.6 on all 10 use cases and 7 categories of editing actions evaluated by Artificial Analysis, and leads the next-best model by 24 Elo on scenes and styles. A subsequent IT Home r
On October 27, 2026, Microsoft AI launched MAI Cyber 1.1 Flash. The model is now available to verified customers through MDASH; existing customers can use it by selecting the MAI Cyber 1.1 Flash profile when creating a new scan. According to the Microsoft AI blog, on the internal MDASH vulnerability scanning evaluation suite, its performance is comparable to MAI Cyber 1 Flash, with the cost per scan reduced by 18%. Microsoft also stated that MAI Cyber currently accounts for nearly 50% of all MDASH scans, and that after customers first use the MAI Cyber 1 Flash profile, nearly 90% of subsequent scans continue to use an MAI profile rather than a profile that uses only OpenAI models. The next day, Testing Catalog reported that the model had gone live on MDASH, and cited Mustafa Suleyman as saying that over the past 30 days, user adoption of MAI Cyber models among security tools had doubled to 50%.
On October 27, 2026, Microsoft AI launched MAI Cyber 1.1 Flash. The model is now available to verified customers through MDASH; existing customers can use it by selecting the MAI Cyber 1.1 Flash profile when creating a new scan. According to the Microsoft AI blog, on the internal MDASH vulnerability scanning evaluation suite, its performance is comparable to MAI Cyber 1 Flash, with the cost per scan reduced by 18%. Microsoft also stated that MAI Cyber currently accounts for nearly 50% of all MDA
On October 26, 2026, Microsoft offered voluntary severance packages to employees at level 70 and below across teams in the United States, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom, covering up to approximately 60,000 people, or about 27% of its global workforce; employees must decide by early December, and those who accept will leave the company by the end of the year. The Verge AI reported that this scale far exceeds the retirement plan offered to about 9,000 people earlier this year; as of June 30, Microsoft had approximately 223,000 employees, a decrease of 5,000 from the previous year. On October 29, Microsoft announced its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027, with Azure revenue up 48% year over year; the company said demand for AI infrastructure has exceeded available capacity; a few days before the earnings release, Microsoft offered voluntary departure packages to approximately 60,000 employees.
