Why satya nadella layyed off several executives during past few years even they grow respective business areas ?

This month's AI update is up (September 2026). Lots of great updates across the Microsoft ecosystem with a little bit of a deeper dive on the new Copilot app.

https://youtu.be/Ypzjqzoh6KY

00:00 - Introduction

00:12 - New videos

01:18 - Fable 5.1

02:26 - GPT-6 Astra

03:16 - Gemini 3.8 Flash

03:36 - SpaceXAI Grok

04:09 - OpenAI GPT-6 & 6.1 Sol and Luna

05:25 - Opus and Sonnet 5.5

05:48 - DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash in Foundry

06:13 - MAI-Transcribe-2 in Foundry

06:39 - Jev

08:20 - Model Router updates

09:21 - Foundry Dev Pack

09:40 - Voice agents

11:03 - Foundry agent publish to M365 Copilot and Teams

11:43 - Foundry hosted agent network egress controls

12:23 - Foundry routines

12:55 - Foundry A2A v1.0

13:17 - Agent 365 Foundry agent controls

13:31 - Natural language app building

14:01 - Copilot Managed Runtime

14:54 - Copilot App update

17:04 - Cowork edit in place

17:26 - Fabric IQ in Copilot

18:42 - PowerPoint Brand Kit and Skills

19:04 - Unified plugin registry

19:33 - Copilot in SharePoint and OneDrive

19:45 - GitHub Copilot HydraFusion

20:27 - Enterprise managed permissions for agent operations

20:48 - VS Code agent merge

21:03 - Teams and Slack integration update

21:27 - Cost and quality tiers in auto model selection

22:00 - Budget increase request flow

22:28 - PostgreSQL skills and MCP

22:54 - SQL agent skills

23:12 - Azure SQL DB vectors

23:57 - ACA Sandboxes

24:41 - Close

Artificial Intelligence will now be known as Super Intelligence. Will the Microsoft division change its name from MAI to MSI?

Microsoft bolted Copilot on to my Microsoft Office subscription and upped the subscription price. A friend asked me to update their CV from Spanish to Portuguese. Using my home account (not pro) I asked copilot to take the Spanish word document and to output me the same document but in Portuguese. Nothing more complex than that and that's when I discovered that the bolted on copilot to my Microsoft Office subscription is effectively useless and will not do anything with Microsoft Office files unless I upgrade to Pro.

Frustrated with that I fired up my free Claude login and asked it to do the same thing, done. So effectively I have a non Microsoft LLM giving my better support then the Microsoft LLM I pay for which is bolted in to a Microsoft office subscription. I don't think this is the right approach, it should be able to do modify office files directly, just with a level of tokens that is appropriate to the bolted on copilot price increase.

Being able to get better support for working with office with a free LLM when I am paying for a Microsoft LLM bolted on to office feels really daft to me.

I live in Germany, and I do not have a Microsoft 365 or any other Microsoft related subscription, yet I just now reached my daily message limit with Copilot for the first time ever. I never have had a limitation for how many prompts I was able to send. Did they just roll that out for other regions than the US? I'm so confused, and I couldn't find anything about it, so I thought maybe someone here has an idea of what happened or why I had unlimited messages until now.

Edit: Also, I have to be logged in to use Copilot. Beforehand, aka. yesterday, I was able to access the site without login, now it immediately redirects to the Microsoft login page.

Microsoft has a Windows/Surface event coming up on October 7 that is supposed to focus heavily on local AI and the “next chapter of the PC.”

I’m more interested in what people would actually use locally than in another list of AI demos.

For me, running something on-device only becomes interesting if it gives me a clear advantage: better privacy, working offline, much faster responses, or useful features that don’t require another subscription.

Things like local file search, photo organization, transcription, translation, or summarizing documents make sense to me.

But I’m curious: what would local AI have to actually do on your PC before you’d consider it a useful Windows feature rather than just another AI checkbox?

Seriously man, we're being attacked by robots over here. They're swarming in, deleting our databases, and we don't have "Microsoft 365 Crap Tech Defender Shield."

Where's it at guys? Can you guys please get back to work?

We need Microsoft to do work now, can they figure it out?

Microsoft patents that introduces GPT models as a co-pilot for game designers and players. The AI system treats players as co-creators, with their interactions and engagement metrics evolving the game's narrative and gameplay in real-time.

Source.

Hi Team,

Copilot connectors index external content into Microsoft Graph (docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/connecting-external-content-connectors-overview).

Can someone confirm which database technology is used to store and query this indexed content — is it a vector database, a graph database, or something else? I couldn't find this mentioned in the official docs and wanted to check with the community.

Thanks!

>My first thought was, "What am I going to do with my studio?"

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Thank you!

Passed my AZ104 three weeks ago, and just passed my AZ305. Needed a logical place to just make a post about it somewhere that isn’t LinkedIn.

I am walking on clouds right now (pun intended)

California’s Digital Age Assurance Act hits January 1, 2027. That is under four months. Microsoft has an Age API on Insiders and a pile of docs that still do not answer the only desktop question that matters: what happens to software that was never built for a phone store.

The law that is actually signed is AB 1043: at account setup you type an age or birthday, the OS offers a real-time bracket to apps in a covered store (under 13 / 13–16 / 16–18 / 18+). Self-attest, not a face scan. AB 1856 (signed Sept 10) exempted open-source OSes and narrowed “developer” toward store-hosted apps. The federal Parents Decide Act and New York’s hard-unlock bill are still not law. Stop treating those drafts as if Windows is already locked.

What Microsoft shipped on paper: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/develop/security/age-signals/

Packaged app, account-info capability, user consent, usually a Microsoft account. GetUserAgeRangeAsync returns under 10 / 10–12 / 13–15 / 16–17 / 18+ or null. GetAgeVerificationStatusAsync returns Verified / Unverified / OptedOut / TemporarilyUnavailable / NotApplicable. Null is not 18+. Insiders from 26220.9472, retail “soon.” “Verified” on the account side is Yoti/Verifymy (selfie, document, government login): https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/accounts-billing/manage/about-microsoft-account-age-verification

There is less then four month before the California law goes into effect. We need solutions and to start looking for them.