Has Microsoft Lost Its Mojo (Again)?

The LinkedIn co-founder was a key bridge to Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI, but he also came with some baggage.

GitHub is expanding Copilot beyond the IDE with a new desktop application and a new collaborative work surface called canvas as part of its broader efforts to pitch the AI-assisted coding tool as the control center for agent-native software development. The desktop application announced at Microsoft’s annual Build conference this week is designed to give developers a dedicated environment for working with AI agents throughout the software development lifecycle, rather than limiting those interactions to code-generation tasks inside an editor, the company wrote in a blog post. The application includes a collaborative workspace called canvas where developers can brainstorm ideas, refine requirements, generate plans, and iterate on projects alongside AI, it said. It also has new Agent Merge and code review features that enable developers to automate Copilot to combine tasks of different agents to complete a specific goal or conduct autonomous code reviews according to set standards, it sa

Microsoft has identified seven new failure modes in agentic AI systems, in addition to those it identified last year in its first Taxonomy of Failure Modes in Agentic AI Systems. Four things contributed to the growing list of ways agentic AI can go wrong: the speed at which the technology went mainstream, the growing maturity of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem, the rise of computer-use agents, and finally the gathering of more empirical evidence as researchers obtained more real-life findings. The seven new failure modes it has identified are: Agentic Supply Chain Compromise —agent behavior can be affected by natural language rather than malicious code; Goal Hijacking — adversarial instructions appear aligned with legitimate task completion, while silently redirecting the agent’s terminal goal; Inter-Agent Trust Escalation —a compromised agent asserts false identity or inflates claimed permissions to an orchestrator; Computer Use Agent (CUA) Visual Attack — agents operating

Projection, much? Microsoft’s head of AI has accused a rival’s AI service of being too pricey, just as the introduction of usage-based pricing for GitHub Copilot begins to hit developers using its own services. “Anthropic is extremely expensive and I think many people are urgently looking for alternatives,” Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, told Bloomberg News. The spotlight is on the cost of AI services at the moment, with so many different parts of the business using the technology while at the same time many businesses are finding it hard to report any meaningful ROI. This week, Microsoft at its annual Build conference looked to fight back against this when it announced seven new AI models, emphasizing the lower cost. The company hopes that cheaper AI models will mean more enterprises find that AI projects are viable. In 2025, Gartner reported that many such endeavors would be cancelled by 2027: cheaper implementations could be the way forward. Microsoft clearly sees its own AI

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What an incredible time it is now for legal AI! Palantir has just entered the legal tech room, joining OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft. So, four ...

Microsoft Build 2026 was about far more than new AI models – it revealed the company’s blueprint for a unified intelligence platform that connects agents, enterprise data, governance, and continuous learning into a single ecosystem. From MAI models and Frontier Tuning to Microsoft Scout and Azure Foundry, discover the key announcements shaping the future of enterprise AI.

Microsoft has announced Coreutils, a new Windows 11 feature that allows developers to run many popular Linux command line utilities natively on Windows from a single binary. Revealed at this week’s Build 2026 developer conference in Seattle, Coreutils is about reducing what Microsoft terms the “cognitive load” faced by developers when moving between Windows and other platforms. Currently, accessing the Linux command line utilities that are considered essential in many CI/CD development environments on Windows requires a kludge that involves either opening an emulation such as Git Bash, or a virtualized Windows Linux Subsystem (WSL) terminal. Both are time-consuming and inefficient. As Microsoft’s announcement puts it: “Developers constantly move between platforms, but familiar commands don’t work consistently, forcing workarounds, lost speed and context switching.” Coreutils removes the need for this back and forth, allowing developers to run most Linux commands straight from the Windo