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  1. · Society

    Microsoft: Nadella wants an emergency brake for AI

    Satya Nadella wants AIs to be stoppable mid-task by a human, and for them to be treated as compromised from the outset. What that changes.
  2. · Business

    Tech giants put their engineers on an AI diet

    Microsoft cuts its engineers' AI budget tenfold, Meta and Uber tighten the purse strings too. After the euphoria, companies are discovering the bill.
  3. · Society

    Thanks to AI, the pirates have gained the upper hand

    According to Microsoft, AI is currently giving the advantage to attackers: phishing on the rise, vulnerabilities exploited in under 24 hours. What has changed.
  4. · Explainers

    Copilot: humans see your photos. What about the rest?

    At Copilot, humans see your photos to grade edits. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude: who can read what, and the setting to check tonight.
  5. · Society

    The scam that went through Microsoft's real page

    Microsoft has dismantled EvilTokens, an AI-driven email scam. How it hacked 12,000 mailboxes, and how to protect yourself.
  6. · Society

    Microsoft joins the slowdown camp, while a standards body prepares behind the scenes

    Microsoft has published a code of conduct for its models and joined the leaders advocating a deliberate pace. Meanwhile, three labs are working on a private standards body. We analyse this convergence.
  7. · Models

    Transcription drops to ten cents an hour

    Microsoft has released a speech recognition model at $0.10 per hour of audio, down 72% in five months, covering sixty languages. We analyse what this collapse in costs makes possible.
  8. · Society

    One link was enough to leak your emails: the Copilot flaw that makes agentjacking a reality.

    Microsoft has patched a vulnerability that, via a simple malicious link, could automatically trigger instructions in Copilot and exfiltrate connected data. We break down the mechanism and the lessons to be learned.
  9. · Society

    Microsoft posts the biggest single-day market value gain in stock market history: is AI finally paying off?

    Microsoft posted record quarterly results driven by cloud growth, triggering one of the largest market-cap gains ever recorded in a single session. We analyse what these figures actually prove about AI profitability, and what they don't.
  10. · Society

    The "unlimited freemium" trap: how AI gets you hooked before presenting the bill

    Microsoft Designer, ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney: they all started by offering their services en masse, unlimited or nearly so, before cutting the quotas once their user base was hooked. This strategy has a name and it is everywhere in 2026. Here is how it works, and how not to fall into the trap.
  11. · Business

    AI's biggest failures: the billion-dollar products that crashed and burned

    For three years, AI was presented as the revolution that would transform everything. In 2026, the first major products are starting to die publicly: Sora abandoned by OpenAI, Apple hit with a $250 million judgment, Microsoft Designer buried, Humane Pin remotely deactivated. Here is what these five failures really teach us.

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