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Satya Nadella reinvented Microsoft with the cloud - now, can his AI strategy make it more valuable than Apple by 2027
Microsoft, under CEO Satya Nadella, is aiming to strengthen its AI growth story amidst rising competition. The company is moving from fixed subscription pricing to usage-based billing to better align with AI economics. While Microsoft's Copilot has gained users, its adoption is still below expectations compared to Office 365.
Before Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas built a Twitter search tool that changed his startup's direction
Aravind Srinivas and his co-founders experimented with a Twitter search tool before focusing on Perplexity's web search product. An unexpected response to a feature that summarised social media profiles helped shape their next move, eventually leading to a broader mission centred on knowledge and curiosity.
Former GitHub CEO launches GitHub rival Entire with India data hosting
Entire is a new developer platform designed to help developers and AI coding agents improve software development processes. The platform features automated code reviews and continuous memory for AI agents, which streamline coding sessions. Entire also offers faster code repository hosting, with speeds significantly exceeding those of GitHub.
From eMudhra to PHP: Breach spree hits tech infrastructure, AI emerges as threat multiplier
Recent cybersecurity incidents have raised concerns among companies and government agencies regarding digital certificates and critical software vulnerabilities. A security breach at eMudhra impacted its global digital certificate business but was managed promptly. Additionally, critical vulnerabilities in PHP temporarily led to the shutdown of various websites for security updates. A supply-chain attack compromised the LiteLLM Python package, affecting its users significantly.
Microsoft now treats AI agents as insiders risks that could go rogue
The company’s new security tools give every AI agent a risk score that keeps updating, and they cut back the agent’s access when that score rises. Microsoft says agents can make mistakes, be manipulated or be compromised, like any other insider.
Chinese AI tool pulled to prevent 'misuse' after South Korea hacks
In light of alarming bank hacks, the Chinese AI cybersecurity tool Artex has been taken offline. Major data breaches affecting tens of thousands of clients have been reported by South Korean banks. The developer has opted for a closed-source model. Investigations hint at a financially-driven individual in China being behind the attacks, raising concerns about the risks of open-source tools in the cybersecurity realm.
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Microsoft pushes AI vision with new, expensive Surface laptop
Microsoft is pushing a "hybrid intelligence" future with a new Surface Ultra laptop that runs on Nvidia artificial intelligence (AI) chips and will cost more than $2,500, the company announced Wednesday. The new Surface Ultra will use Nvidia's state-of-the-art AI chip, RTX Spark, which the semiconductor giant announced earlier this year.
OpenAI’s math breakthrough is here, but is it really helping mathematicians?
OpenAI says its AI model is helping push mathematics into new territory. But the results have also started a debate among mathematicians. They want to understand how the work was produced and how it can be used. There are also concerns about who gets access to powerful AI tools and enough computing power.
Lessons from Chinese AI Firms on Owning Customers’ Habits
As U.S. AI firms compete in an escalating race for superior models, bigger benchmarks, and more advanced features, Chinese companies are pursuing a fundamentally different strategy: embedding AI into users’ everyday habits. The authors argue that this “habit moat” approach may prove more durable than competing on raw capability alone. Whereas Western firms position AI as a destination consumers consciously visit, companies like Alibaba integrate AI into existing routines such as shopping, payments, food delivery, and travel booking, reducing friction until using AI becomes automatic behavior. Once AI capabilities become “good enough,” marginal technical improvements matter less than becoming the default path through recurring customer tasks. The authors outline four strategic imperatives for Western leaders: focus on behavioral cues rather than feature gaps, subsidize customer behavior instead of subscriptions, embed AI invisibly into existing workflows, and optimize for repeat usage rather than first-time adoption. The central warning is stark: AI may not replace employees first—it may instead capture the critical customer moments businesses currently own.
Microsoft integrates Word, Excel deeper into Copilot
On the billing side, a Copilot subscription for $30 per user per month provides access to basic AI features, such as data analysis or document drafting. "That is the AI that you should give to everyone" in your company, Andreou said.
Microsoft revamps Copilot with code generation, agentic AI tools
Microsoft is racing to expand Copilot beyond its chat-based roots to boost adoption as itcompetes with AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude.
India tops global AI adoption with highest share of ‘frontier professionals’: Microsoft
The India findings of the Microsoft Work Trend Index (WTI) 2026 paint a rosy picture about AI adoption in the country. However, it puts the onus on leaders to scale up the adoption for it to bear fruit at a larger scale.
Microsoft shares rise after Azure sales disclosure; AI cloud growth in focus
Microsoft has disclosed Azure’s quarterly and annual revenue for the first time, giving investors a clearer view of its position against Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud amid rising AI infrastructure demand. Azure reported $29.4 billion in quarterly sales and $101.9 billion for fiscal 2026, while Microsoft also unveiled a new two-segment reporting structure.
India accounts for 15% of GitHub’s global user base, with 27 million developers on the platform
Kyle Daigle, COO of GitHub, said in a post on X that India now accounts for one in seven new developers globally. India now makes up over 15% of GitHub’s global user base of over 180 million developers.
OpenAI is developing alternative to Microsoft's GitHub: The Information
OpenAI is developing a new code-hosting platform to rival GitHub after service disruptions. The early-stage project could be sold to customers, marking competition with Microsoft. A recent funding round valued OpenAI at $840 billion, showing strong AI investment interest.
Claude or Cursor won’t kill us, competition means we’re winning: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
Satya Nadella dismissed concerns about Copilot losing share, saying fresh rivals like Claude and Cursor show the market is growing. He stressed that GitHub’s huge developer base and new Agent HQ keep Microsoft well placed. Nadella said competition is healthy and that the sector is headed in the right direction.
AI agents are shaping the future of developer tooling: Satya Nadella
Nadella reflected on the history of developer tools from Assembly to Lex and YACC. “Back then, compilers helped us move from machine code to code as codegen. Now, we’re seeing agents generating code and the cognition around programming itself is shifting,” he said in a fireside chat at the GitHub Universe 2025 event in San Francisco, California.
GitHub projects 57.5 million developers in India by 2030, overtaking US
The country added over 5 million developers this year alone, accounting for more than 14% of all new accounts globally, and is on track to account for one in every three new developers on GitHub by 2030, according to the GitHub Octoverse 2025 report published Tuesday.
OpenAI launches GPT-5 in GitHub Copilot public preview —the biggest leap yet in AI coding assistants?
OpenAI GPT-5 is now available in public preview for GitHub Copilot, bringing a major upgrade to how developers code with AI. With smarter suggestions, faster responses, and deeper understanding, GPT-5 makes coding easier for professionals and beginners alike. This update is part of Microsoft’s broader rollout across Copilot tools in GitHub, Microsoft 365, and Azure. Whether you're building apps, debugging, or exploring new languages, GPT-5 now acts like a real coding partner—right inside your tools.
Coforge expands collaboration with Microsoft to drive developer productivity
Coforge expands its partnership with Microsoft, leveraging GitHub Copilot to modernize legacy applications, train over 10,000developers, and enhance AI-driven productivity across industries.
Economy and effects of Covid may delay India’s developer growth pace: GitHub CEO
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has deferred the forecast of India surpassing the US as the world’s largest software developer base to 2028, citing factors like economic conditions, US AI growth, and India’s education pipeline. India, with 17 million developers on GitHub, remains on track, growing 28% this year. GitHub plans to expand its AI-enabled CoEs in India, boosting engineering efficiency with tools like Copilot. Dohmke stressed upskilling amidst AI adoption, affirming AI’s transformative role in software development.
"India's rise as a global tech titan is inexorable," says Thomas Dohmke CEO GitHub
Dohmke in a social media post on X noted that Indian developers are embracing AI as a core tool and are driving advancements by building AI systems using AI itself. "Of course, I have to show some love to India. Now the fastest growing developer population on the planet, India's rise as a global tech titan is inexorable," Thomas Dohmke said in the post on X.
India to turn largest hub of software developers by 2027: Thomas Dohmke, CEO, GitHub
"Developers drive GDP growth and technological progress to the tune of trillions of US dollars. And the opportunity goes further because software developers are adopting AI faster than any other sector of the global workforce," Thomas Dohmke said.
GitHub’s AI chatbot now available to all users globally
Copilot Chat is now available as part of paid tiers and free for verified teachers, students and maintainers of certain open source projects, reports TechCrunch.
Microsoft’s GitHub slashes nearly half of its India workforce, lays off 140
The layoffs are part of a global retrenchment plan that the company had announced in February, a spokesperson told ET in response to queries.
Microsoft-owned GitHub appoints new CEO in Cloud-AI era
Thomas Dohmke, currently chief product officer, will replace Nat Friedman from November 15, who will move into the role of chairman emeritus.
India emerges as the fastest growing country in the world by open source contribution
The community has 5.8 million developers in India, with 1.8 million having joined in the past year and is projected to grow to 10 million by 2023.
GitHub expands operations with an India office
The idea behind opening an India office is to better serve the developer community and GitHub’s enterprise customers in the country. GitHub's community of developers in India is growing at a rate of 22% over the past year.
Microsoft’s GitHub deal triggers software coders’ trust issues
Their fear comes from a very real historical clash between open-source coders, who freely post and share their work, and Microsoft, which became one of the world’s largest companies by selling proprietary software and fiercely protecting its technology.
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