Microsoft folded Copilot into Business Standard and Premium on July 1 at $23.50 to $32 a user monthly, as data shows most payers barely use it.
Mistral AI is chasing a valuation near $23 billion as Europe's sovereignty champion, though its own models still run on Microsoft Azure and AWS.
Wolf Haus Games delayed its doomsday cult sandbox Join Us to March 2027, betting a full Xbox Game Pass day one launch beats shipping early.
Microsoft's new Native Sync Engine for OneDrive on Mac doubles sync speed, drops the mirrored cache folder blamed since 2022, and starts with Insiders first.
KPMG is rolling out Microsoft Agent 365 and Copilot to 276,000 staff in 138 countries to govern AI agents, weeks after a Gartner governance warning.
8BitDo's licensed Forza Horizon 6 dock costs $34.99 and ships with a rechargeable battery, exposing a gap Microsoft's own Xbox hardware still hasn't filled.
Activision says Call of Duty's Ricochet anti-cheat is secure after CVE-2026-45642 let PCs spoof Secure Boot; Microsoft fixed it on its own servers.
Playground Games hand-built Fable's 1,000-plus NPCs and cast 100 actors, a bet that pushed the RPG's launch past Grand Theft Auto 6 into 2027.
Creative Assembly showed Alien: Isolation 2 hands on at Summer Game Fest, sending its single Xenomorph out of the space station and into a storm.
Microsoft's new Windows 11 26H1 Beta channel splits testing for Snapdragon X2 and RTX Spark laptops, which won't rejoin mainstream Windows until 2027.