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… Along with Microsoft, OpenAI recently revealed its new ChatGPT Work app, which combines ChatGPT and its AI coding tool Codex. Microsoft’s revenue jumped to $90 billion over the past quarter, with its AI and cloud businesses driving the increase.
… Sources tell me work is underway to build the app, but that the leaked screenshot that appeared on Friday is simply a mockup prepared for Microsoft’s Build demonstrations. The image also includes an early look at Microsoft Scout, which is reportedly a new AI agent based on Microsoft’s OpenClaw work. …
Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models at Build 2026, including a new “flagship” model: MAI-Thinking-1. It’s an ambitious step into model development for Microsoft, which introduced its initial in-house models last year — before then, it had relied on OpenAI’s models. …
… But what caught cyber security researcher Kevin Beaumont’s eye was how Microsoft has responded. Microsoft suggests it plans to bring a criminal case against Nightmare Eclipse for failing to follow “proper coordination” in disclosing vulnerabilities. …
… Perhaps it will be shown off at Microsoft Build next week? Link: Exclusive: Microsoft is building a super app that combines coding, chat, and other Copilot AI tools | Fortune | https://fortune.com/2026/05/29/microsoft-working-on-super-app/ | Fortune
… While Microsoft quickly rolled out Claude Fable 5 to its GitHub Copilot and Foundry customers, I’m told the model isn’t available in the model picker that Microsoft employees use for internal versions of GitHub Copilot. …
… Link: Copilot Health: Now in Preview | https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/blog/2026/05/29/copilot-health-now-in-preview/ | Microsoft Copilot Blog
… Microsoft is now releasing Discovery, the platform that helped improve its Majorana chips, to its customers today. Microsoft Discovery is designed to help apply agentic workflows to research and development programs. …
… The assistant, called Scout, works with Microsoft 365 apps including Outlook, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams. …
… Unlike Copilot that lives inside Microsoft 365 apps, Microsoft Scout can see and do a lot more. “This is a personal assistant, it’s the first real personal assistant we’ve offered customers,” explains Omar Shahine, corporate vice president of Microsoft Scout, in an interview with The Verge. “I thin… …
