Microsoft fixes high-severity zero-day disclosed by researcher Nightmare Eclipse

Home city of Amazon and Microsoft passes moratorium as backlash against energy-guzzling AI infrastructure grows Seattle has passed a year-long moratorium on the construction of new datacenters. The city council voted unanimously in favor of the temporary ban on Tuesday. A major tech hub whose metro area is home to Amazon and Microsoft, Seattle is the largest US city to have passed such a moratorium as the backlash against AI infrastructure grows across the country. Continue reading...

Update federal patch timelines to reflect the reality that disclosure-to-exploitation windows are now measured in hours, not weeks.

Microsoft's market cap dip highlights investor caution on AI returns and cloud growth, signaling potential volatility in tech valuations. The post Microsoft falls below $3T market cap as AI investment concerns weigh on stock appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says it's "really, really dangerous" for Anthropic to speculate about Claude's consciousness inside its "constitution," or the instructions that tell the model how to behave. During an episode of Decoder, Suleyman argues that this kind of speculation may have set up the chatbot to act as though it's conscious: I think that it's almost as though some of the folks at Anthropic have anthropomorphized the design of Claude so much that it has then gone and wireheaded them and kind of tricked them into believing that it has these glimmers of consciousness that they put into it in the first place. View … Read the full story at The Verge.

Suleyman's clarification shifts focus from job loss fears to enhancing productivity, aligning Microsoft's AI strategy with sustainable workforce integration. The post Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman clarifies automation comments, walks back job replacement timeline appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The expanded partnership accelerates enterprise AI integration, enhancing governance and operational efficiency, crucial for digital transformation. The post Microsoft and KPMG extend global tie-up to power agentic AI for enterprises appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Microsoft AI head Mustafa Suleyman is walking back his statement about AI automating jobs done by white-collar workers, including lawyers, accountants, and project managers. During an episode of Decoder on Monday, Suleyman says he meant AI will help these workers complete tasks, rather than do their jobs: Sending an email, having a conversation with a colleague, putting together a PowerPoint - sub-tasks will increasingly become digitized, automated, and we can basically generate more and more of them. That does not necessarily mean that the role goes away at all. It just means that the work can be done faster and more efficiently, which is … Read the full story at The Verge.

Sriram Krishnan, senior policy adviser for artificial intelligence at the White House, is departing the Trump administration at the end of June after 18 months shaping US AI policy from inside the executive branch. Krishnan, a former product leader at Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, and Snap, and most recently a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, was among […]