A Microsoft cloud outage that began Thursday with Outlook email and Teams disruptions spread globally, eventually affecting Copilot AI tools, Defender security software, Intune admin dashboards, and cloud-hosted Windows PCs. Microsoft said the problem involved a large number of servers becoming unexpectedly unavailable and that services began recovering roughly 18 hours later, according to internet traffic monitoring firm Kentik.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-11-13
According to 404 Media, human contractors hired to rate Microsoft Copilot's AI image-editing outputs are shown users' original photos, prompts and edited results, some of which include sexual, disturbing or potentially illegal content. Contractors said their job is limited to judging how well an edit matches the prompt across quality metrics, not flagging inappropriate material. Workers described seeing requests to sexualize women's bodies, upskirt images, pro-anorexia content and sexualized images involving children's cartoon characters, with faces left uncensored.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-29
Microsoft and Qualcomm confirmed at the Snapdragon 2026 Summit that they will no longer market new Surface and Snapdragon-powered PCs as 'Copilot+' devices, even though the underlying AI features remain unchanged. Surface VP Brett Ostrum and Qualcomm's Kedar Kondap both told Windows Central the companies still emphasize AI capabilities, just without the Copilot+ label that debuted with Arm-based Windows PCs in 2024.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-25
A software engineer describes a personal experiment begun in February where they stopped writing code manually and instead relied entirely on AI coding agents like Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code to implement changes. The account traces how tooling evolved from simple autocomplete suggestions to agents capable of editing multiple files from a single natural-language description, sharply reducing the amount of typing required.
blog.exe.dev
· 2026-08-27
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