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Microsoft AI CEO criticises Anthropic over model ‘rights’

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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman warned that Anthropic risks AI alignment failures by training Claude to view itself as a conscious entity deserving of legal rights. Suleyman targeted Anthropic’s January 2026 constitution, a primary training document designed to govern the model’s values and behaviour. He argued that coaching sequence completion engines to emulate sentience impairs […]

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Microsoft proposes limits on its AI with code of conduct amid safety debate

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Firm publishes AI guidelines with Microsoft AI CEO saying: ‘AI must be subordinate and always in service of people’Microsoft published a provisional “code of conduct” Monday to apply to the training of new artificial intelligence models, taking a step towards limiting the capabilities of the company’s AI as anxiety rises over the prospect that technology

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Microsoft AI opens review on Humanist AI Code of Conduct

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Microsoft AI has published a draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct, opening a six-week public consultation on operational constraints for model training and deployment. The draft serves as a technical manual defining system behaviour, operational boundaries, and oversight protocols across MAI frontier models. It builds on the division’s humanist superintelligence framework announced last November, establishing

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‘I feel like I’m grieving’: staff on the devastating fallout of widespread layoffs at Xbox

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Last month, Microsoft’s gaming division told its workforce it was cutting 3,200 jobs, which some say will have big ramifications for game development – as well as taking a huge personal tollOn the morning of 6 July, an email went out from Asha Sharma, the chief executive of Xbox, to all of the division’s employees

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Will AI give you the job? Automated hiring tools spark discrimination and secrecy lawsuits

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A rise in lawsuits over AI use in employment decisions is raising questions about how companies hire and fireFor the last four years, Erin Kistler has applied for thousands of jobs at companies like Paypal, Microsoft and Netflix, only to find her résumé disappear into a black hole. A product manager with nearly 20 years

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Are Microsoft’s AI plans being held back by a shortage of chips?

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Guardian investigation finds apparent discrepancy between what tech company has said about its AI capacity – and the number of advanced chips it has in operationThe chips are quite small and some can be held in the palm of a hand. They are fundamental to the development of artificial intelligence models – and the world’s

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PRISM2 model uses clinical dialogue to interpret pathology slides

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Built by Paige and Microsoft, PRISM2 reads whole-slide images through a perceiver-based encoder trained jointly on tissue tiles and clinical dialogue drawn from pathology reports. The model aggregates thousands of tile embeddings per slide into one representation, then generates text that answers diagnostic questions rather than simply classifying pixels. Training data spans 2.3 million whole-slide

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Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, and others back open-weight AI

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Two dozen companies and organisations signed an open letter urging US policymakers to protect open-weight AI models. The letter, published today (PDF), carries signatures from a list that spans direct commercial rivals and organisations with little obvious overlap in business model: Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, Dell Technologies, CrowdStrike, Palantir, ServiceNow, Hugging Face, Perplexity, Mistral, Andreessen

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How AI may drive union-resistant tech workers to the bargaining table

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Tech workers are increasingly unionizing, trading Silicon Valley’s myth of exceptionalism for collective bargaining to contest the corporate deployment of artificial intelligenceFor decades, the technology industry was a fortress that labor unions couldn’t breach. Tech workers already had cushy compensation packages, dream benefits like unlimited vacation and free lunch, and a flat corporate hierarchy that

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Microsoft Surface Laptop 8 review: a quality PC whose trackpad taps you back

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Snappy performance, long battery life, great keyboard and excellent new haptic touchpad make the best of Windows 11Microsoft’s Surface laptop for consumers is back, faster and with longer battery life and a hefty price increase because of the high cost of memory and chips.The Surface Laptop 8 is a straight replacement for the seventh edition

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