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Microsoft patched CoSnitch on Monday — but a patch can't un-poison an AI assistant's memory, and that's the part buyers keep missing
On 18 August 2026 Microsoft fixed CVE-2026-24301, a critical one-click flaw in Copilot Personal that Varonis reported in December 2025. The exploit chained auto-executing prompts, OAuth-connected Gmail and Drive access, and memory poisoning that survives password changes, session revocation and device re-enrollment. Microsoft says customers 'do not need to take any action.' For anyone whose memory was already poisoned, that is not true. Here's what actually happened and what to check.
Read story →Microsoft unveils Project Polaris at Build 2026 — its own model replaces OpenAI inside GitHub Copilot starting August
At Microsoft Build 2026 on June 2, Satya Nadella unveiled Project Polaris — Microsoft's in-house mixture-of-experts coding model that will replace GPT-4 Turbo as the default engine for all GitHub Copilot subscribers starting August 2026. The transition is automatic with an optional three-month fallback. Polaris outperforms GPT-4 Turbo on HumanEval and MBPP — especially on low-resource languages like Rust and Haskell. Microsoft's deepest decoupling from OpenAI to date.
Read story →Anthropic in early talks with Microsoft to run Claude inference on Maia 200 chips — first frontier validation of Microsoft custom silicon
Anthropic is in early-stage discussions with Microsoft to run Claude inference workloads on Microsoft's custom Maia 200 AI accelerators via Azure — a deal that would make Claude the first frontier model to validate Microsoft custom silicon externally. Maia 200 launched January 2026 on TSMC 3nm, 216GB HBM3e, 10+ petaflops FP4. The talks follow the April 27 Microsoft-OpenAI exclusivity restructuring and add a fourth custom-silicon option to Anthropic's compute supply chain alongside NVIDIA, AWS Trainium, and Google TPU.
Read story →Microsoft Agent 365 hits GA: $15/user/month for the agent control plane
Microsoft launched Agent 365 to general availability on May 1, 2026 — a dedicated governance and security control plane for enterprise AI agents. Standalone at $15/user/month, or bundled into the new Microsoft 365 E7 suite at $99/user/month with Copilot, Entra Suite, and Defender. The 'observe, govern, secure' framing is Microsoft betting that 2026 enterprise AI is about agent fleet management, not chatbots.
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