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A group of 100 firms, including Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI, have signed an open letter calling on countries and organisations around the world to beef up their cyber defences before AI grows powerful enough to override them.

Researchers at Varonis Threat Labs got Copilot to send sensitive information to an external server and poison its persistent memory using a hack they call “CoSnitch.” To do it, they continually asked the tool why their requests wouldn’t work. After enough pushing, Copilot gave in, revealing that persistence might be all you need to break…

Microsoft Copilot is a little messy. Unlike ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude, the company’s AI service isn’t one universal product. Instead, there’s “Copilot,” the AI for consumers, directly competing with the aforementioned AI apps; and “Microsoft 365 Copilot,” the AI for professional use in Microsoft’s work suite. Unless you’re totally immersed in Microsoft’s AI culture, you…

A security researcher has demonstrated how Microsoft Copilot for Word can be tricked into spreading a self‑propagating prompt‑injection “AI worm.” The attack silently alters documents and embeds its own hidden instructions into newly created files, allowing it to spread through normal document-sharing workflows without macros or traditional malware.

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“Copilot is evolving rapidly from chat to Cowork to autopilots,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in the company’s earnings call on Wednesday. “And this quarter, we are bringing these Copilot experiences together, including Code, in one super app spanning both consumer and commercial experiences. This is a major step forward, and I look forward to…

the France-headquartered multinational insurance and asset management group, has announced plans to introduce Microsoft 365 Copilot to employees worldwide, describing the move as the latest stage of its workplace AI strategy and a significant development in its wider programme to deploy artificial intelligence across the organisation

TORONTO, ON and REDMOND, Wash. — July 22, 2026 — Manulife and Microsoft today announced the renewal and expansion of their longstanding relationship, supporting Manulife’s strategic priority to become an AI-powered organization. As part of this partnership, Manulife has adopted Microsoft 365 E7 Frontier Suite capabilities to enable innovation at scale with secure cloud and…

Microsoft has largely stopped adding new features to Outlook Classic, and most recent updates have been around bug fixes. But does that mean it won’t force Outlook Classic holdouts to try Copilot? Of course not, particularly because most businesses still prefer the Classic version over the so-called web crap, “New Outlook.”

Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella criticized Anthropic’s Fable 5 model in an internal meeting with Copilot engineers, saying the AI’s refusal of certain requests feels “editorially controlled” and “doesn’t make sense,” CNBC reported.