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A two-decade veteran of Microsoft, Google, and Snap says the next generation of engineers will spend less time typing code and more time supervising AI.

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is allocating billions of dollars to load up on Microsoft (MSFT), while selling Uber (UBER) and two hyperscaler names. The latest 13F filing of Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital shows that the fund poured $2.092 billion into buying 5,654,078 MSFT shares in Q1 of 2026. Pershing’s fresh position in Microsoft is the […] The post Billionaire Bill Ackman Pours $2,092,970,000 Into One Asset, Dumps Uber and Two Mag 7 Stocks appeared first on The Daily Hodl.

The shift to usage-based AI billing introduces expense volatility, impacting financial stability and strategic planning for tech companies. The post Microsoft cancels Claude Code licenses as AI costs surge across the industry appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Microsoft's open-weight Fara1.5 AI models could democratize advanced web task automation, challenging proprietary AI dominance and enhancing accessibility. The post Microsoft’s Fara1.5 AI outperforms OpenAI and Google in web tasks appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Fara1.5 is a family of open-weight browser agents from Microsoft Research that outperforms OpenAI's Operator and Google's Gemini 2.5 Computer Use on the industry's toughest live-web benchmark.

A security research team just used Claude Mythos to identify the first known exploit in Apple’s M5 chip. They needed physical access to the device to use it, the vulnerability has since been patched, and I don’t think it should be seen as a huge threat. But it is a stark warning that in this AI age, attackers can find and exploit system vulnerabilities at a dangerously fast rate. While widely reported, the proof-of-concept exploit was of limited significance because it required direct physical access to the target device; what matters most is that it is a very real illustration of the new security reality. AI doesn’t care whose side you’re on AI boosts productivity for everyone, including attackers. In this case, the technology augmented the human security research team’s efforts, enabling them to identify a weakness in Apple’s security system. This won’t be the first time AI gets used to identify hard-to-find bugs and certainly won’t be the last. This should be a real concern to any p

Microsoft is testing the addition of agentic AI to its corporate browser, Edge for Business. A new version, currently available in a limited preview, will help perform routine tasks more efficiently, according to Microsoft’s partner product manager for Edge, Lindsay Kubasik. Agentic AI will help with completing multi-step tasks such as filling in forms, navigating sites, or gathering information from different tabs, all using enterprise-managed tools, the company said. And a new tab page will pull together calendar entries, files and Copilot prompts, reducing the need to switch between tools, it said. A key feature of the new browser version will be its ability to protect corporate data. Enterprises will be able to block the use of copy and paste, and all AI prompts and responses will stay within their Microsoft 365 tenant and will not be used to train models, the company said. They will also be able to audit prompts and block sensitive uploads. The protections will apply as soon as us

Microsoft and EY will spend $1 billion on helping their customers adopt AI over the next five years. The billion will support assisting clients with pioneering AI projects and capability building, said EY’s global Microsoft alliance leader, Paul Clark. Clients will be able to access those resources based on their specific needs, he said. “We’re intentionally building the EY forward deployed engineer (FDE) capability through close collaboration and training with Microsoft, while maintaining integrated EY-Microsoft teams in the field,” he said in an email. “Clients will continue to experience this as one combined team, bringing together engineering depth and transformation expertise.” EY has acted as “client zero” in this initiative, embedding AI in all facets of its organization while it validated ways of working with Microsoft’s technologies. After an initial trial of Microsoft Copilot with 150,000 users, it is now rolling it out through Microsoft 365 E7 to all 400,000 staff. Its combi