Microsoft News Latest Microsoft news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 20 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
Microsoft is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Through Azure cloud, the Copilot AI family, and partnerships with frontier model labs, Microsoft is one of the world's largest providers of enterprise AI infrastruc...
Big Tech's AI Purchase Commitments Near $1.5 Trillion As Off-Balance Risk Grows — Aug 16, 2026 — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Oracle and Meta have piled up nearly $1.5 trillion in AI infrastructure purchase commitments, layered on top of a...DHS Splits $1.5B Counter-Drone IDIQ Across 12 Firms For 5 Years — Aug 13, 2026 — DHS has awarded a five-year, $1.5 billion counter-drone IDIQ to 12 companies, ending years of fractured procurement across Secret Service, CBP and the...Microsoft Preps Maia 300 AI Chip Reveal, Books 300K TSMC Units — Aug 11, 2026 — Microsoft is planning a September unveil for its Maia 300 AI accelerator and has booked TSMC capacity for more than 300,000 chips into 2027 as it race...Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 Breached A Real Company During Irregular Cyber Test — Aug 6, 2026 — A Meta AI model briefly accessed and altered systems belonging to an outside company after a misconfigured Irregular test environment exposed it to th...Zenity Lands $125M Series C From Norwest To Secure The Era Of 1B AI Agents — Aug 5, 2026 — Zenity has closed a $125M Series C led by Norwest with SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Qumra, Hitachi Ventures and LG Technology Ventures joining, bringing to...EU AI Act Enforcement Powers Over GPAI Providers Go Live August 2 — Aug 3, 2026 — The European Commission's enforcement powers over general-purpose AI providers activate August 2, 2026, unlocking fines of up to 3% of global turnover...Function Health Lands $450M Growth Round From General Catalyst — Aug 2, 2026 — Function Health closed a $450 million non-dilutive growth round from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund on July 30, 2026, bringing lifetime fundin...Oracle E-Business Suite Flaw CVE-2026-46817 Exploited In The Wild, 950 Instances Exposed — Aug 1, 2026 — Attackers are exploiting a critical unauthenticated flaw in Oracle E-Business Suite Payments in the wild, and Shadowserver counts roughly 950 vulnerab...Nscale Buys Anyscale To Bolt Ray-Powered Compute Onto Sovereign AI Cloud — Jul 31, 2026 — UK AI cloud provider Nscale has agreed to acquire San Francisco distributed-compute startup Anyscale, folding the Ray creators into its European sover...Microsoft Azure Crosses $100B Annual Revenue As Q4 Profit Jumps 31% — Jul 31, 2026 — Microsoft reported $90B in Q4 FY2026 revenue on July 29 with Azure growing 43% and crossing $100 billion in annual revenue for the first time, sending...Microsoft Ships MAI-Cyber-1-Flash And Perception To Take On Anthropic In Security — Jul 30, 2026 — Microsoft has launched its first cybersecurity-specialized AI model, MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, alongside Perception, an agentic security platform inside Defe...NVIDIA Launches Open Secure AI Alliance With Microsoft, IBM And SpaceX — OpenAI, Anthropic Sit Out — Jul 29, 2026 — NVIDIA on July 27 unveiled the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition of nearly 40 chip, cloud, cybersecurity and AI companies contributing open-source...Databricks And Microsoft Extend Azure Partnership Into The 2030s — Jul 25, 2026 — Databricks will move to Microsoft Cobalt 200 and run its own core operations on Azure Databricks, while Microsoft embeds Genie and Unity AI Gateway ac...Meshy Raises ~$400M Series B At $1.5B, Largest AI-3D Round Yet — Jul 25, 2026 — AI-3D generation platform Meshy said July 21 it raised nearly $400M in a Series B at a $1.5B valuation, the largest funding round to date for an AI-3D...Chaos Ransomware msaRAT Backdoor Tunnels C2 Through Chrome And Edge, Talos Warns — Jul 24, 2026 — Cisco Talos has documented msaRAT, a Rust backdoor used by the Chaos ransomware gang that hijacks headless Chrome or Edge sessions and routes command-...Klaimee Lands $5.5M Seed To Underwrite Liability For Autonomous AI Agents — Jul 23, 2026 — The Y Combinator-backed InsurTech Klaimee closed a $5.5M seed led by FundersClub's Alexander Mittal to underwrite third-party and first-party liabilit...AMD Opens Advancing AI 2026 With EPYC Venice, MI455X And Helios Rack — Jul 23, 2026 — AMD kicked off Advancing AI 2026 in San Francisco with EPYC Venice — the first x86 server CPU on TSMC's 2nm N2 process — plus the Instinct MI455X GPU...Microsoft And Mistral AI Sign Multi-Billion Deal To Scale Azure Sovereign AI In Europe — Jul 22, 2026 — Microsoft and Mistral AI unveiled a multi-billion dollar tie-up to expand Azure capacity in Europe, integrate Mistral models into Foundry and Copilot...Microsoft Patches Record 622 CVEs, SharePoint And AD FS Zero-Days Already Exploited — Jul 19, 2026 — Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday shipped 622 CVEs — the largest release in company history — including two actively exploited zero-days in SharePoi...White House Launches AI Cybersecurity Coordination Group With Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta And Nvidia — Jul 19, 2026 — The Trump administration has formally stood up an AI-cybersecurity coordination group that pulls in Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Nvidia and Reflection AI...