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OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT's own office suite

OpenAI's newly announced suite of office features puts it into more direct competition with more traditional software companies.

OpenAI's reveals a new ChatGPT that looks less like a chatbot and more like an operating system

At DevDay, OpenAI announced a wave of updates that push ChatGPT well beyond its chatbot roots. The company is adding shared workspaces, collaborative documents and slides, an open plugin system with MCP event…

OpenAI launches always-on Dots agents to rival Meta's Muse

OpenAI's new Dots are always-on agents that run on their own cloud computers, where they fix bugs or send out forgotten invoices, sometimes before anyone asks. Users can reach them through ChatGPT, Slack, and Microsoft…

Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs

“Microsoft claims to want to be a good neighbor, but the jury is still out."

2026 in LLMs (so far)

On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything that happened in…

Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI

Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC"

Microsoft's new Surface laptops forgo Copilot+ PC branding.

From portal-hopping to instant answers: HEMA’s journey with MCP and Amazon Bedrock

HEMA, a 100-year-old Dutch retailer, turned developer portal-hopping into instant answers by building HAL, an internal AI assistant on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Using Model Context Protocol (MCP), HAL delivers governed…

Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts

EvilTokens provided an end-to-end platform that makes mass compromises faster and easier.