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Sources: an internal OpenAI paper on AI stages is affecting Microsoft talks by complicating OpenAI's ability to declare AGI and block Microsoft from its tech (Kylie Robison/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-five-levels-agi-paper-microso…

OpenAI’s Unreleased AGI Paper Could Complicate Microsoft Negotiations
The partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft in many ways hinges on the definition of artificial general intelligence, creating a tension that has spilled over into OpenAI research that has not been made public.

Microsoft is now allowing developers to sign up for a private preview of what it calls the Windows Update orchestration platform, that will enable Windows Update to support any update for apps or drivers in the future.
https://www.theverge.com/news/675446/micro

Microsoft wants Windows Update to handle all apps
Microsoft is starting to open up Windows Update to third-party apps. A new preview is designed to let any app developer use Windows Update.

Direi algo meio besta, talvez, mas eu boicoto tudo o que envolve #IAs e essas novas tecnologias, tudo o que descarta pessoas.
E jš boicoto a #Microsoft hš mais de 10 anos.

Microsoft employee's wife who was laid off with 6000 others: 'Worked 25 years, laid off by a computer algorithm' - The Times of India
Social News: Microsoft's recent layoffs, impacting nearly 6000 employees, have sparked controversy. A Reddit post revealed a 25-year veteran, autistic and with mul

Microsoft is pushing for bulk email senders to use addresses that can be replied to. (ie not "no-reply@")

Strengthening Email Ecosystem: Outlook’s New Requirements for High‐Volume Senders | Microsoft Community Hub
April 29th Update - Changes have been made to the action take on messages that do not meet requirements, please see details below. Introduction In an era...

This is yet another reason why @… and I prefer Signal.
https://bark.lgbt/@morgann/114573458516732593

Sources: mass production of Microsoft's next AI chip is delayed to 2026 and is expected to underperform Nvidia's Blackwell chip, released in late 2024 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsofts-ai-chip-effort-falls-b…

Microsoft’s AI Chip Effort Falls Behind
Microsoft has spent years designing its own artificial intelligence chips, in part to reduce its dependence on Nvidia. It isn’t going so well. The software giant, which Nvidia employees say was its largest customer by revenue last year, is taking much longer than expected to design its ...

Every company or government should think about this, prepare exit and contingency plans. Also for other dependencies.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/cost_of_microsoft_dependency/

What if Microsoft just turned you off? Security pro counts the cost of dependency
Comment: Czech researcher lays out a business case for reducing reliance on Redmond

Saw this custom Mii character for Justin Timberlake that's at https://MiiCharacters.com, and I can't stop thinking about it.
The WORLD tour 😂

A year after the CrowdStrike incident spawned BSODs across the world, in July, Microsoft will roll out its Windows endpoint security platform to allow Windows solutions to run outside the kernel, hopefully eliminating the chance of such an incident again.
https://redmondmag.c…

Microsoft plans to replace the Blue Screen of Death in Windows 11 with a simplified black screen "providing better information" in an update "later this summer" (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/692648/micro

Windows is getting rid of the Blue Screen of Death after 40 years
Microsoft is changing its Blue Screen of Death to a black one. After decades, a simplified black error message will replace the traditional BSOD.