Microsoft has decided to end support for all Copilot features on TVs. A pop-up notification on LG TVs states that the feature is "scheduled to be discontinued in 2026," with the exact date depending on Microsoft's timeline. LG and Samsung announced at CES 2025 that their new smart TVs would integrate Copilot, allowing users to talk to it, ask about on-screen content, or get movie and TV recommendations. Previously, LG drew user complaints after a webOS update added a non-removable Copilot shortcut, and later allowed it to be deleted.
On October 26, 2026, Microsoft offered voluntary severance packages to employees at level 70 and below across teams in the United States, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom, covering up to approximately 60,000 people, or about 27% of its global workforce; employees must decide by early December, and those who accept will leave the company by the end of the year. The Verge AI reported that this scale far exceeds the retirement plan offered to about 9,000 people earlier this year; as of June 30, Microsoft had approximately 223,000 employees, a decrease of 5,000 from the previous year. On October 29, Microsoft announced its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027, with Azure revenue up 48% year over year; the company said demand for AI infrastructure has exceeded available capacity; a few days before the earnings release, Microsoft offered voluntary departure packages to approximately 60,000 employees.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the Saint-Gobain team is using Microsoft Discovery to accelerate the development of new, more efficient building materials. On October 20, 2026, Nadella met with the Saint-Gobain team in Paris to learn how they are advancing this work with Microsoft Discovery. Currently, this information consists only of Nadella's account of the meeting, with no further developments yet.
Microsoft disclosed in a regulatory filing that it earned $10 billion in revenue from its commercial arrangement with OpenAI in the quarter ended September 30, accounting for nearly 11% of its total quarterly revenue of $92.3 billion. The same disclosure shows that revenue from OpenAI for the full 2026 fiscal year was $24.1 billion, or roughly $40 billion annualized at the latest quarterly pace. As of the end of September, Microsoft's receivables from OpenAI stood at $7.2 billion, up from $6 billion at the end of June; Microsoft's stake fell from about 25% in June to 24% in September. This information currently comes from TechCrunch AI's reporting on the regulatory filing, with no further developments yet.
Microsoft disclosed in a regulatory filing that it earned $10 billion in revenue from its commercial arrangement with OpenAI in the quarter ended September 30, accounting for nearly 11% of its total quarterly revenue of $92.3 billion. The same disclosure shows that revenue from OpenAI for the full 2026 fiscal year was $24.1 billion, or roughly $40 billion annualized at the latest quarterly pace. As of the end of September, Microsoft's receivables from OpenAI stood at $7.2 billion, up from $6 bil
Microsoft disclosed in a regulatory filing that it earned $10 billion in revenue from its commercial arrangement with OpenAI in the quarter ended September 30, accounting for nearly 11% of its total quarterly revenue of $92.3 billion. The same disclosure shows that revenue from OpenAI for the full 2026 fiscal year was $24.1 billion, or roughly $40 billion annualized at the latest quarterly pace. As of the end of September, Microsoft's receivables from OpenAI stood at $7.2 billion, up from $6 billion at the end of June; Microsoft's stake fell from about 25% in June to 24% in September. This information currently comes from TechCrunch AI's reporting on the regulatory filing, with no further developments yet.
On October 27, 2026, Microsoft AI released the image editing model MAI Image 2.7, launching it in preview form. The Microsoft AI Blog said that the model ranks 3rd on Arena Edit and 2nd on the Artificial Analysis image editing leaderboard, making Microsoft AI the 2nd-ranked lab; the company also said that it outperforms 2.6 on all 10 use cases and 7 categories of editing actions evaluated by Artificial Analysis, and leads the next-best model by 24 Elo on scenes and styles. A subsequent IT Home report said that the model ranks 2nd on the AA-Image-Editing v2.1 leaderboard with 1193 Elo, second only to OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max). Users can currently try it on Arena, Artificial Analysis, and the MAI Playground, with text-to-image functionality coming soon; Microsoft has not yet announced a public API, pricing, or an official commercial launch date, and the model weights have not been released.
On October 27, 2026, Microsoft AI launched MAI Cyber 1.1 Flash. The model is now available to verified customers through MDASH; existing customers can use it by selecting the MAI Cyber 1.1 Flash profile when creating a new scan. According to the Microsoft AI blog, on the internal MDASH vulnerability scanning evaluation suite, its performance is comparable to MAI Cyber 1 Flash, with the cost per scan reduced by 18%. Microsoft also stated that MAI Cyber currently accounts for nearly 50% of all MDASH scans, and that after customers first use the MAI Cyber 1 Flash profile, nearly 90% of subsequent scans continue to use an MAI profile rather than a profile that uses only OpenAI models. The next day, Testing Catalog reported that the model had gone live on MDASH, and cited Mustafa Suleyman as saying that over the past 30 days, user adoption of MAI Cyber models among security tools had doubled to 50%.
On October 27, 2026, Microsoft AI launched MAI Cyber 1.1 Flash. The model is now available to verified customers through MDASH; existing customers can use it by selecting the MAI Cyber 1.1 Flash profile when creating a new scan. According to the Microsoft AI blog, on the internal MDASH vulnerability scanning evaluation suite, its performance is comparable to MAI Cyber 1 Flash, with the cost per scan reduced by 18%. Microsoft also stated that MAI Cyber currently accounts for nearly 50% of all MDASH scans, and that after customers first use the MAI Cyber 1 Flash profile, nearly 90% of subsequent scans continue to use an MAI profile rather than a profile that uses only OpenAI models. The next day, Testing Catalog reported that the model had gone live on MDASH, and cited Mustafa Suleyman as saying that over the past 30 days, user adoption of MAI Cyber models among security tools had doubled to 50%.
On October 27, 2026, Microsoft AI launched MAI Cyber 1.1 Flash. The model is now available to verified customers through MDASH; existing customers can use it by selecting the MAI Cyber 1.1 Flash profile when creating a new scan. According to the Microsoft AI blog, on the internal MDASH vulnerability scanning evaluation suite, its performance is comparable to MAI Cyber 1 Flash, with the cost per scan reduced by 18%. Microsoft also stated that MAI Cyber currently accounts for nearly 50% of all MDA
On October 23, 2026, Microsoft Research introduced Flint-interactive, an interactive data visualization language built on top of Flint, aimed at enabling agents to generate interactive charts. According to its introduction, the language allows charts generated by agents to support clicking, filtering, zooming, highlighting, and cross-chart linking; it uses the Flint compiler to parse raw triggers such as clicks and drags into semantic events, so users only need to describe update behaviors with high-level operators without writing low-level visualization code. The language is already usable in conversations through Flint-MCP and MCP Apps, and it also provides a programming API for developers to build dashboards and data stories. There are currently no subsequent development facts.
On October 23, 2026, Microsoft Research introduced Flint-interactive, an interactive data visualization language built on top of Flint, aimed at enabling agents to generate interactive charts. According to its introduction, the language allows charts generated by agents to support clicking, filtering, zooming, highlighting, and cross-chart linking; it uses the Flint compiler to parse raw triggers such as clicks and drags into semantic events, so users only need to describe update behaviors with
On October 23, 2026, Microsoft Research introduced Flint-interactive, an interactive data visualization language built on top of Flint, aimed at enabling agents to generate interactive charts. According to its introduction, the language allows charts generated by agents to support clicking, filtering, zooming, highlighting, and cross-chart linking; it uses the Flint compiler to parse raw triggers such as clicks and drags into semantic events, so users only need to describe update behaviors with high-level operators without writing low-level visualization code. The language is already usable in conversations through Flint-MCP and MCP Apps, and it also provides a programming API for developers to build dashboards and data stories. There are currently no subsequent development facts.
Microsoft Research researcher Xinzhi Zhang and co-authors proved the KLS conjecture proposed in 1995, giving a dimension-independent fixed bound; the previous best result only allowed the bound to grow slowly with dimension. According to Microsoft Research, the proof came from a human-guided agent search process, in which the team explored more than 100 candidate paths, which researchers evaluated, pruned, and redirected. An independent team also gave a complete proof around the same time, followed by Lean 4 formal verification. The authors state that previous unguided end-to-end attempts with multiple frontier models failed to achieve the goal. Another report states that AI agents explored about 100 research paths, the draft was about 140 pages, AI was responsible for exploring candidate methods, executing derivations, assisting in writing the manuscript, and performing internal proof checks, while the recursive method and error bounds that completed the proof are credited to the two researchers.
Microsoft Research researcher Xinzhi Zhang and co-authors proved the KLS conjecture proposed in 1995, giving a dimension-independent fixed bound; the previous best result only allowed the bound to grow slowly with dimension. According to Microsoft Research, the proof came from a human-guided agent search process, in which the team explored more than 100 candidate paths, which researchers evaluated, pruned, and redirected. An independent team also gave a complete proof around the same time, follo
Microsoft Research researcher Xinzhi Zhang and co-authors proved the KLS conjecture proposed in 1995, giving a dimension-independent fixed bound; the previous best result only allowed the bound to grow slowly with dimension. According to Microsoft Research, the proof came from a human-guided agent search process, in which the team explored more than 100 candidate paths, which researchers evaluated, pruned, and redirected. An independent team also gave a complete proof around the same time, followed by Lean 4 formal verification. The authors state that previous unguided end-to-end attempts with multiple frontier models failed to achieve the goal. Another report states that AI agents explored about 100 research paths, the draft was about 140 pages, AI was responsible for exploring candidate methods, executing derivations, assisting in writing the manuscript, and performing internal proof checks, while the recursive method and error bounds that completed the proof are credited to the two researchers.
On October 21, 2026, Microsoft expanded its sovereign cloud portfolio, adding security, governance, and AI capabilities. According to Computerworld, the expansion includes the launch of Sovereign Control Panel, general availability of Azure Managed HSM external key management, limited preview of Azure Confidential Clean Rooms, and Foundry Local becoming generally available at Ignite with support for local inference and agentic retrieval. For EU and EFTA customers, Microsoft also introduced Data Guardian, with remote access requests independently overseen by regional partners. The report also mentions analyst views: the three major US hyperscale cloud providers still account for about 70% of the European cloud market, and on-premises deployment cannot eliminate legal and technical dependencies. The expansion is currently in a released state, with no subsequent development facts yet.
On October 21, 2026, Microsoft expanded its sovereign cloud portfolio, adding security, governance, and AI capabilities. According to Computerworld, the expansion includes the launch of Sovereign Control Panel, general availability of Azure Managed HSM external key management, limited preview of Azure Confidential Clean Rooms, and Foundry Local becoming generally available at Ignite with support for local inference and agentic retrieval. For EU and EFTA customers, Microsoft also introduced Data
On October 21, 2026, Microsoft expanded its sovereign cloud portfolio, adding security, governance, and AI capabilities. According to Computerworld, the expansion includes the launch of Sovereign Control Panel, general availability of Azure Managed HSM external key management, limited preview of Azure Confidential Clean Rooms, and Foundry Local becoming generally available at Ignite with support for local inference and agentic retrieval. For EU and EFTA customers, Microsoft also introduced Data Guardian, with remote access requests independently overseen by regional partners. The report also mentions analyst views: the three major US hyperscale cloud providers still account for about 70% of the European cloud market, and on-premises deployment cannot eliminate legal and technical dependencies. The expansion is currently in a released state, with no subsequent development facts yet.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the Saint-Gobain team is using Microsoft Discovery to accelerate the development of new, more efficient building materials. On October 20, 2026, Nadella met with the Saint-Gobain team in Paris to learn how they are advancing this work with Microsoft Discovery. Currently, this information consists only of Nadella's account of the meeting, with no further developments yet.