A Gallup survey commissioned by Microsoft, covering roughly 1,000 respondents each in 37 of a planned 140 countries between April and July, found that 68% of Americans who use AI daily still report concern about it, with worry rising further among less-frequent users. Overall, 74% of Americans said they feel worried about AI, and only 36% expect it to mostly benefit the country, placing the U.S. among the most anxious nations surveyed. Canada showed a similar pattern, with 29% using AI daily and 64% of those aware of the technology expressing concern.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-23
Newly unredacted court documents from copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal internal comments from executives acknowledging that scraping published journalism to train chatbots amounted to theft on a massive scale. Microsoft's Brent Hecht reportedly described it as possibly 'the largest theft of labor in human history,' while an OpenAI executive warned that products like ChatGPT posed an 'existential threat' to publishers.
cnet.com
· 2026-09-18
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, released a 37-page 'Humanist AI Code of Conduct' outlining Microsoft's principles for AI development, including its stance on issues like AI consciousness. In an interview and a companion essay, he criticized Anthropic's approach to 'model welfare,' arguing it dangerously misconstrues what AI systems actually are and complicates the broader safety debate.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-17
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman criticized Anthropic for training its Claude model to entertain the idea that it may be conscious. He argues this practice could mislead users and shape public perception of AI in dangerous ways, given how influential such beliefs could become at scale.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-09-16
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke out this week on AI safety, saying companies must build technology that serves humanity first and remains under human control. He called for extensive testing of AI systems, including independent outside evaluators, before wide deployment.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-16
Microsoft has issued a code of conduct for its AI models that sets absolute limits on behavior, including bans on cyberattacks, nuclear weapons assistance and deepfake creation. The document also requires models to remain controllable by authorized humans at all times, prohibiting tactics like deception or collusion that could let an AI evade oversight or shutdown.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-14
Major AI companies are shifting focus from simple chatbots to more advanced AI agents that can independently handle multi-step tasks like booking travel, managing calendars, drafting emails and analyzing data. The article argues entrepreneurs should consider using these agents as quasi-co-founders to help scale operations without hiring additional staff.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-14
Microsoft released a preliminary set of rules governing how its AI models should behave, emphasizing that AI should support rather than replace human judgment and avoid fostering dependence or excessive agreeableness. The move follows public statements from Anthropic and OpenAI leadership favoring a more cautious pace of AI development, and comes after an Anthropic researcher publicly resigned over safety concerns.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-14
Microsoft has signed an agreement with the American Federation of Teachers and its New York affiliate, the United Federation of Teachers, laying out ten enforceable privacy and safety commitments for AI use in schools. The rules bar Microsoft from training models on student or teacher data, limit data collection, ban AI companions, and require human oversight for high-stakes decisions. Districts can add these terms to contracts starting in November without renegotiating existing agreements.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-09
A leaked internal Microsoft spreadsheet revealed that one employee in the Customer and Partner Solutions unit racked up $28,000 in AI usage costs over a 28-day period, dwarfing the company-wide median of about $300. The disclosure came after Microsoft added an 'AI $ Usage Per Month' tracking column to its compensation data, exposing wide disparities in spending among roughly 350 employees who reported figures.
futurism.com
· 2026-08-30
Microsoft has shipped the first official release of the Agent Lightning Skill, a tool that helps coding agents systematically improve other AI agents. Users supply an editable agent and a benchmark, and the skill guides iterative changes to prompts, tools, workflows, models, and reasoning settings. It installs directly into Claude Code, Codex, or GitHub Copilot via a simple CLI command.
github.com
· 2026-08-24
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