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Microsoft AI CEO: My team is 'more concerned' about Anthropic, than Google, Meta and OpenAI

Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) chief, Mustafa Suleyman, has revealed that his team is more focused on beating rival AI lab Anthropic and not Google, Meta or even its close partner OpenAI. Speaking at Microsoft’s Build developer conference, Suleyman explained that Anthropic’s aggressive push into business software and coding tools poses a direct threat to Microsoft's core corporate empire when compared with consumer-centric giants. “We’re more focused on the Anthropic-style which is...

Microsoft Scout is a new AI personal assistant built on OpenClaw

Much like Google, Microsoft is launching its own version of OpenClaw. Microsoft Scout is an always-on assistant that integrates into Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams, allowing businesses to assign a virtual assistant to employees to help with organizing calendars, expense reporting, email drafts, and much more. Unlike Copilot that lives inside Microsoft 365 apps, Microsoft Scout can see and do a lot more.

Meet Microsoft Scout, Your AI Coworker That Never Logs Off

Soon, your coworkers in Microsoft Teams might not all be human. Scout, an always-on AI agent announced at Microsoft’s Build developer conference on Tuesday, can go through your work messages, calendar, and email inbox to automate tasks, reschedule meeting conflicts, and draft professional-sounding responses. Microsoft more or less built an enterprise agent on top of OpenClaw, the AI tool that riveted San Francisco’s early adopters at the start of 2026.

Meta took down over a million scam accounts in joint operation with Microsoft, SpaceX and DOJ

Meta took down over a million scam accounts in joint operation with Microsoft, SpaceX and DOJ The companies teamed up to fight against scam networks in Southeast Asia. Meta worked with the DOJ, along with Microsoft, Coinbase, Starlink and international law enforcement agencies to bust online scams and identify the criminal syndicates behind them. The company has been getting a lot of flak for letting scammers run rampant on its platforms and then reportedly making billions of dollars yearly...

Microsoft tells engineers to stop using Anthropic's Claude

Microsoft is canceling most internal Claude Code licenses by June 30, pushing engineers to its own GitHub Copilot CLI. Anthropic's tool got too popular, undercutting Microsoft's homegrown product. The official reason is toolchain unification, but The Verge reports the fiscal-year-end timing points to cost-cutting.

If you don't fall for these extortionists' calls, they'll show up with USB sticks

If they don't get you online, they'll try in person. A data-theft and extortion gang has targeted “dozens” of banks, law firms, and other professional services companies in the US from January through May, using fake help desk calls and other social-engineering techniques to gain access to corporate IT environments, according to Google’s Mandiant incident response team. And when those remote-deception methods don’t work, the criminals sometimes show up at victims’ physical offices, posing as...

Microsoft storms RAMPART, adds Clarity to agentic AI safety

The fake police scam stealing millions from Australia's Chinese community

Fake police scam targets Chinese diaspora with threats and forged documents Sat 6 Jun 2026 at 5:30am It's a warm evening in a small Australian town. A man dressed in a shirt and tie prepares to record a statement he believes will be used in court.

Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows

Steve Ballmer’s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself. At the company’s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft released coreutils, a Rust-built multi-call binary file for Windows that serves over 75 Unix commands directly in the Windows CMD and PowerShell command lines – including favorites such as cat, ls, grep, and head. They join Linux favorites curl and sudo which were earlier added to the Microsoft...

Microsoft HR head Amy Coleman to employees in memo: I want to be transparent about how things are feeling across Microsoft and what ...

Microsoft’s cheif poeple officer Amy Coleman has infromed the employees that the company is committed to greater transperancy as staff navigate ‘intense and exciting change.’ In an internal memo viewed by Business Insider, Coleman outlined both encouraging signals and areas of concern from Microsoft’s latest employee surveys. According to the twice-yearly Employee Signals survey, the Microsoft employees reported feeling more “energized” and “empowered” to do meaningful work.