… The move follows Sharma’s reorganization of the Xbox platform team earlier on Tuesday, which added executives from Microsoft’s CoreAI team — where Sharma worked before taking over Xbox — to the Xbox side of the company. …
… It’s also a lot of AI experience, which is bound to sound the alarm bells with some Xbox fans, but looking at the appointments there’s no clear AI push for Xbox here. …
… Windows adds guardrails for OpenClaw and other AI agents Image: OpenClaw on Windows. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/windows-11-openclaw.png?quality=90&strip=all Speaking of OpenClaw, Microsoft is trying to make the AI agents safer to run through something called Mi… …
… Instead of those concrete details, its blog post is amusingly filled with statements like these: “No walls. No compromises.” “Every micron matters and every choice is deliberate.” “This is Surface craft at its most considered.” “A machine like this should not sit still. It should be pushed. …
… Almost every major laptop vendor is accounted for, with eight specific laptops already confirmed for this fall: Image: Asus ProArt P14 and P16, Dell XPS 16, HP OmniBook X14 and Ultra 16, Lenovo Yoga Pro 9N, Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra, and MSI Prestige N16 Flip AI. https://platform.theverge.com/… …
… It feels hefty compared to the 15-inch Surface Laptop 7, but there’s clearly been a tradeoff of weight in favor of performance and battery life. “When we went through the priority order of what we’re going to design for, performance, performance, performance, battery life, battery life, battery lif… …
… Suleyman made sure to emphasize, again and again, Microsoft’s “humanist superintelligence” as an “AI that prioritizes humanity first” — part of AI companies’ recent rebrand of AGI to make it sound less frightening in an era when people are pushing back against AI more than ever before. …
… Microsoft is reportedly in discussions to end a clean-energy target to allow it to push ahead with more AI data centers. …
… You can sign up here. --- The idea here, as Canva says, is to move “from a design platform with AI tools to an AI platform with design tools.” I’ll let you all sit with that for a moment. …
… Microsoft will remain “OpenAI’s primary cloud partner” and ship OpenAI’s latest products first on Azure, but the lack of exclusivity now means OpenAI’s new models can ship minutes later to rival cloud platforms. …