Microsoft warns crypto clipper now acts like backdoor

The EU probe could reshape cloud market dynamics, potentially enhancing competition and impacting AWS and Azure's strategic operations. The post Microsoft, Amazon Web Services face EU probe over cloud dominance appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Microsoft has quietly become the main supplier of OpenAI models in China, selling the technology to the country’s largest internet companies even as OpenAI and Anthropic keep their own models out of the market on intellectual-property and misuse grounds. The arrangement, detailed this week by Bloomberg, hands Microsoft a position no other American AI vendor holds: […] The post Microsoft sells OpenAI models in China. OpenAI and Anthropic won’t. appeared first on AI News.

We’ve had OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Palantir enter the legal vertical. Perplexity – which has dabbled in our field before – is now going into ...

Microsoft's AI expansion in China could face regulatory challenges, impacting global AI market dynamics and U.S.-China tech relations. The post Microsoft expands AI model business in China amid OpenAI, Anthropic concerns appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Microsoft's AI expansion in China highlights the tension between cost-effective innovation and geopolitical tech security concerns. The post Microsoft builds AI model business in China amid US concerns from OpenAI and Anthropic appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

A Microsoft and Huazhong University benchmark tested GPT-4o, GPT-5, Grok-3, and others on realistic enterprise data scenarios. Privacy violation rates hit 50.9%. More capable models made it worse, and the fix has nothing to do with model selection...

Microsoft has introduced usage-based billing for Copilot Cowork, which is now generally available.  Microsoft unveiled Copilot Cowork in March, pitching it as an AI agent that’s capable of independently performing long-running, multi-step tasks — even when a user’s computer is off.  It’s built on the same technology that underpins Anthropic’s Claude Cowork. Unlike Claude Cowork, which can interact directly with files and applications on a user’s computer, Copilot Cowork runs in Microsoft’s cloud environment and acts on documents held in a customer’s Microsoft 365 tenant. Copilot Cowork now comes with usage-based billing. Microsoft On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled pricing details for Copilot Cowork, which involves usage-based billing in addition to a Microsoft 365 Copilot license ($30 per user each month for large enterprises before discounts, and $20 for Microsoft 365 Copilot for Business).  The usage-based pricing is calculated from four components, according to Microsoft: “model

Despite best efforts by defenders, malicious emails continue to slip through the cybersecurity cracks, leading some enterprises to implement a layered “defense in depth” strategy that incorporates multiple tools. Microsoft seems to be challenging this idea, revealing that there are only nominal returns from adding integrated pre- and post-send partners to Defender for Office 365’s protections. According to its new quarterly benchmarking data, the tech giant catches the vast majority of malicious and spam emails before delivery, misses the fewest compared to competitors by a wide margin, and removes nearly 100% of dangerous emails that do reach the inbox. Collectively, its integrated partners improve that catch rate by less than .05%. While these numbers seem to tip the scales towards a one-vendor email security stack, experts urge enterprises to be skeptical and cautious of such vendor claims. Seva Ioussoufovitch, senior research analyst at Info-Tech Research Group, pointed out, “perce