‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Big tech has spent $155bn on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more

Tech giants have spent more on AI than the US government has on education, jobs and social services in 2025 so far

Excelling in … Excel? Inside the high-stakes, secretive world of competitive spreadsheeting

New documentary Spreadsheet Champions follows six competitors as they head to the Microsoft Office Specialist world championship in Florida

Wall Street delighted with Microsoft as it spends $100bn on AI

Company’s second-quarter financial results showed a booming cloud business and enormous capital expenditures

The real winners from Trump’s ‘AI action plan’? Tech companies

Millions spent by Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and others appear to have paid off as president vows to cut red tape

US nuclear weapons agency ‘among 400 organisations breached by Chinese hackers’

Microsoft says vulnerabilities in its SharePoint servers exposed as reports point to wave of attacks

UK government urged to offer more transparency over OpenAI deal

Select committee chair says public need to be reassured about the use of their data after ‘major failures’ in the past

Nvidia becomes first company to reach $4tn in market value

Ongoing surge in demand for AI technology fueled stratospheric rise of chipmaker’s value

Microsoft says AI system better than doctors at diagnosing complex health conditions

Firm says results of research create ‘path to medical superintelligence’ but plays down job implications

Group of high-profile authors sue Microsoft over use of their books in AI training

Writers alleged that company used nearly 200,000 pirated books to train its Megatron artificial intelligence

Regulation ‘done properly’ can help with AI progress, says Microsoft chief scientist

Eric Horvitz’s comments come as Donald Trump plans to ban US states from AI regulation for 10 years

As big tech grows more involved in Gaza, Muslim workers are wrestling with a spiritual crisis

Is working in big tech halal? Muslim workers are reckoning with the possibility that their jobs go against their religious obligations

Surface Laptop 13in review: Microsoft’s cheaper, more compact Windows 11 machine

Cut-down version of top Windows 11 AI notebook offers premium experience in smaller and less expensive package

NSW education department caught unaware after Microsoft Teams began collecting students’ biometric data

Gathering of face and voice data went unnoticed for one month after it was automatically enabled for video conferencing app users in March

Microsoft employee interrupts CEO’s keynote with pro-Palestinian protest

Protester is engineer who worked on Azure software, which enabled Israeli surveillance of Palestinians