Firefox wants to be the anti-Chrome browser for the AI era
Firefox chief Ajit Varma explains how Mozilla is betting on privacy, optional AI tools, and its nonprofit structure to compete against browsers from Google, Apple, and Microsoft.
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Many years ago, Microsoft created a handy hub for its Office suite: type office.com into your browser, and you’d see a web page where you could launch the various Office apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and so on — or access recently used documents in those apps. This hub’s appearance changed a bit over time as the Office suite was rebranded as Office 365 and then Microsoft 365, but it still served as a launch pad for your M365 files and apps. Now, however, Microsoft has deeply integrated its Copilot generative AI assistant throughout Microsoft 365, and the hub has been transformed. Currently called the M365 Copilot app, the page puts the Copilot Chat interface front and center. You can still get to your M365 files or apps by clicking Search or Apps in the sidebar on the left, but the main purpose of the hub these days is to let you chat with Copilot. The old Microsoft Office hub has been taken over by Copilot Chat. Howard Wen / Foundry With the rollout of new Word, Excel, and Pow
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Sprouts.ai, a US-based artificial intelligence startup founded in 2023, has secured $9 million in pre-Series A funding led by True Global Ventures and Accel, bringing its total raised to $14 million. The company builds AI-powered Revenue Agents that autonomously handle B2B sales tasks — including prospecting, contact enrichment, and multi-channel outreach — integrating with platforms such as Salesforce, Microsoft […]
A self-replicating worm that hijacks GitHub Actions pipelines to publish malicious npm packages has struck again, compromising AntV, echarts-for-react, and Microsoft’s durabletask SDK. Mini Shai-Hulud Exploits GitHub Actions to Hit 16 Million Weekly Downloads The Mini Shai-Hulud campaign, attributed to the threat group Team PCP, does not work the way most supply chain attacks do […]
A California jury of nine delivered a unanimous verdict against Elon Musk’s lawsuit targeting OpenAI, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Microsoft, finding that any harms Musk may have suffered predated the legal deadlines for filing his claims. The verdict ends one of the most high-profile legal challenges in AI history and removes a significant restructuring […]
“Something didn’t go as planned. Undoing changes.” That’s all the clue some Windows 11 users will get when Microsoft’s May Security Update fails to install because of insufficient free space on the EFI System Partition (ESP), leaving their systems unprotected by the dozens of patches it contained. This issue affects devices with limited free space available — typically 10MB or less — on the ESP. “On affected devices, the installation might proceed through the initial phases but fail during the reboot phase at approximately 35-36% completion,” Microsoft said in an advisory. It recommended changing a Windows registry setting to force the update, or to roll back changes and wait for a future update to fix the problem. Consultants said it was a potentially serious issue given the unexpected exposure and the time the destined-to-fail patch takes to fail to install. This is the kind of failure that keeps IT leaders up at night, said cybersecurity consultant Brian Levine, who serves as execut
May 18, 2026 — Open source is the foundation for AI and, as AI workloads scale, developers need that foundation to be more secure, more predictable, and easier to build apps […] The post Microsoft Backs Open Agentic AI Ecosystem with New Linux Releases, Governance Tools, and AAIF Push appeared first on AIwire.
Microsoft plans to retire “Together Mode” in Teams next month and is encouraging users to access its Gallery view for video calls instead. The company launched Together Mode in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, as Teams usage rocketed and businesses sought ways to connect staff when physical offices closed due to social distancing policies. Together Mode was positioned as a “shared virtual space” to enhance the feeling of connection while on a video call, with participants’ video feed cropped and placed in virtual scenes such as a conference room, coffee shop, or amphitheater. Microsoft claimed that Together Mode users were less likely to experience video meeting fatigue — a common complaint among remote workers as tools such as Teams and Zoom became the norm for office collaboration. The feature could be seen as part of a wider push for more engaging and immersive meeting experiences, a move that extended to Microsoft’s metaverse for work concept, with its Mesh 3D meeting p
The potential automation of white-collar jobs by AI could reshape workforce dynamics, necessitating rapid adaptation and policy responses. The post Microsoft AI CEO predicts automation of white-collar jobs by 2027 appeared first on Crypto Briefing.