Nonprofits tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges, from creating more affordable housing to alleviating poverty, often with limited resources. A new initiative, Microsoft Elevate for Changemakers, will help nonprofits do even more with AI. It will give them access to practical AI training, including guidance on responsible adoption, ways AI can streamline everyday work and how it can support fundraising, so they can drive even more change around the world.

In the traditional model of cyber security – built on siloed directories and disconnected access policies – cyberattacks don’t have to totally break digital defenses. They just move between them, in the gaps between different apps, resources and environments. As organizations manage growing numbers of human and AI agentic identities, the way they manage digital security has to evolve as well. Read more about the three critical layers that a modern identity security solution must unify.

Copilot doesn’t shorten your workday, KPMG Canada’s Christine Andrew says. It changes what you do with it. The AI executive says that previously, the mechanics of work took up most of her time. Now, with help from AI, she’s been able to strengthen her focus on “very high quality” execution and reallocate her attention toward deeper reflection on how the business is going.

The world is racing to meet a historic surge in power demand with an infrastructure pipeline built for the analog age. Driven by the exponential expansion of digital technologies and the reindustrialization of supply chains, the mandate for always-on, carbon-free power is urgent.

In a new blog post, Darryl Willis, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Worldwide Energy and Resources Industry, writes that nuclear energy is the essential key to powering the future, but the industry remains trapped in a delivery bottleneck. Willis announces Microsoft is working with Nvidia on an AI-for-nuclear collaboration that will break the infrastructure bottleneck and provide end-to-end tools that will optimize build-out and operations across the industry.

AI infrastructure is still in its chaotic phase. Early on, teams made their own choices, using different tools, different reasoning and so on to build out. Initially, it felt flexible…but at scale, it was revealed to be fragmented. When companies switched to Kubernetes — an open-source platform designed to automate deploying, scaling and managing containerized applications — it was an answer to how to run AI systems safely.

Now, as the industry looks to the future, Microsoft’s teams have continued investing across open-source AI infrastructure. Read more about what was announced today at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam.

Takayuki Hirayama founded ARUM Inc. 20 years ago from his kitchen table in Kanazawa, Japan. In that time, the company’s morphed from making precision parts to designing AI-driven manufacturing systems using Microsoft Azure. Now he wants to take this automation technology global.

ARUM Inc is turning decades of Japanese machining expertise into software, and fully automated machining centers. Precision parts can now be crafted by junior workers, thanks to AI. And more guidance will come from KAYA, a prototype conversational AI built with Azure AI Speech and Azure OpenAI in Microsoft Foundry.

Microsoft is adding a new pillar to its Zero Trust security approach by extending the model to AI. Zero Trust, which means building security systems that assume security breaches and check every access point, is now being applied across the entire AI lifecycle, from data ingestion and model training to deployment and agent behavior. Read more about the company’s answer to the question, “We’re adopting AI fast, how do we make sure our security keeps pace?”

Ever been asked to take on “just one more thing” and felt that sinking feeling? This prompt helps you gracefully say no — without burning any bridges.

During tax season, it’s not that unusual to get time-sensitive emails like refund notices, payroll forms and filing reminders. That makes this time of year peak cyberattack season.

Every year, there is an uptick in tax-themed phishing campaigns as Tax Day (April 15) approaches in the United States. Read more about the most common scam email campaigns going around this year.

Every time technology takes a leap forward, workers wonder what they will do next. Steam power, electricity and then computing each reshuffled how people made a living, producing genuine anxiety about what would be left on the other side.

“And each time, the answer turned out to be: more than before, but different than expected,” Jared Spataro, Microsoft’s CMO of AI at Work, writes in a new post. He says the future of the workplace will be defined by humans who can identify “what’s worth doing and how the work should run.”

Today, Microsoft announced a new, in-house text-to-image AI model: MAI-Image-2. The model is designed primarily for high-quality creative work, like photorealistic images and infographics. Read more about how it works.

As cyberattacks on water and wastewater utilities become more frequent and dangerous, the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence is warning that the critical infrastructure is an easy target for foreign adversaries because far too many have outdated software and poor password practices. Today, Microsoft is releasing a report that examines both the urgency of this challenge and what it will take to close the cyber readiness gap in the water sector. Read more for the three clear findings about what helps and what limits cybersecurity in the water sector.

Behind every computer or smartphone screen, there is a real network of cables flowing with data. Microsoft researchers have reimagined those connections, using energy‑saving MicroLEDs to move data between servers in a more efficient and reliable way. Another innovation called Hollow Core Fiber is complementary, passing data through air instead of fiber, increasing speed and cutting latency over longer distances. These innovations are a quiet revolution in the way our “digital plumbing” works.

Microsoft said it is expanding its partnership with Nvidia to help companies move artificial intelligence from experiments into real‑world use. At Nvidia’s GTC conference, the company announced new Microsoft Foundry tools for building and running production‑ready AI agents, alongside Azure infrastructure optimized for inference‑heavy, reasoning‑based workloads and deeper support for physical AI systems that connect software with real‑world operations.

When AI agents mess up, it can be hard to figure out where they first went wrong. AgentRx is a new open‑source tool from Microsoft Research that helps quickly pinpoint the exact step where an AI agent’s mistake became unavoidable — and explains why. Read more about how it works.

At some point, many of us have stared at a medical test result we didn’t understand or worn a device that tracked everything but revealed little. Sat down at a consultation and immediately forgot all of our questions for the doctor. Many people don’t really need more health information – they need help to make sense of what they already have. On Thursday, Microsoft launched Copilot Health, a separate, secure space within Copilot where medical intelligence makes sense of your information and delivers personalized health insights that you can act on. Read more about how it works and sign up for the waitlist.

Microsoft released new data showing how well its email defenses work after malicious messages slip through initial filters. In a new post, Jeff Pinkston, the vice president and general manager for Microsoft Defender for Office 365, writes that Microsoft Defender removes nearly 71% of harmful emails and that layering additional cloud email security tools can cut even more spam and promotional clutter. The goal, he says, is greater transparency into what actually stops cyberattacks.

Rajesh Jha, Executive Vice President, Experiences + Devices, is retiring from Microsoft after more than 35 years. He will stay on until the end of the fiscal year and continue as an advisor to Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella. Learn more on the Official Microsoft Blog.

The Xbox team is deep in development on its next generation Xbox console, now called Project Helix. In a speech at the 2026 Game Developer Conference, Jason Ronald, the vice president of Next Generation at Xbox, said his team is “pushing the boundaries of rendering and simulation” for the upcoming gaming system. Read more from Ronald, including the latest on Xbox mode and Xbox Play Anywhere.

As companies increasingly turn to open AI models to avoid getting stuck with one vendor, many struggle to run them efficiently and securely at scale. Microsoft is tackling the problem by bringing Fireworks AI into Microsoft Foundry, combining faster performance for open models with Azure tools for evaluation, deployment, governance and security.

AI agents don’t succeed in isolation; they depend on unified data, across the cloud and applications. Microsoft announced Tuesday a new season of “The Shift,” a podcast that will explore how agents can be catalysts for innovation across the entire work environment, performing best when layers of the proverbial stack work together.

The show will release eight episodes this spring — one each week — that bring engineering, product and strategy perspectives together as a team.

As AI continues to show up in health care – everywhere from exam rooms to security operations – one thing is becoming clear: some organizations are redesigning how work gets done while others are still doing trial runs.

Research that Microsoft conducted with senior health care executives in the United States, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, revealed a growing readiness divide. The result is that while some systems are building governance, security and workforce models to  scale AI safely, others are being left behind.

Read more about how some health care organizations are embedding AI into core workflows to move beyond pilots and deliver real impact.

It turns out many of us turn to Copilot late at night when we’re wondering about our health.

In an analysis of more than half a million health-related Copilot conversations, Microsoft found that users are increasingly turning to AI to interpret symptoms, understand test results, manage chronic conditions and navigate complex health systems, both for themselves and loved ones. At night, personal health question queries rise – presumably when clinicians are harder to reach. The findings underscore the growing gaps in healthcare access and the need for accurate, trusted and privacy-preserving AI guidance.

Kerry Group’s Shane McGibney is a firm believer in Microsoft 365 Copilot, saying that the tools have not only helped him use his time in a more effective manner but has also aided in capitalizing on the institutional knowledge of the wide-ranging company.

Microsoft on Monday announced a new push to move artificial intelligence into daily work. The company unveiled upgrades to Microsoft 365 Copilot, broader access to models from OpenAI and Anthropic and new tools to manage AI agents, alongside a bundled enterprise suite priced at $99 per user. The full announcement outlines how intelligence — and trust — will determine what comes next for AI at work.

Health care has never moved faster or asked more of clinicians. Today, ahead of next week’s health care technology conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft rolled out big updates to its Dragon Copilot, including Work IQ to bring the right work context alongside patient data, so there’s less administrative busywork and more focus on patients. Read more about the updates to the technology that more than 100,000 clinicians rely on as part of their daily practice.

The future of work isn’t just something that happens to us, Jared Spataro, Microsoft CMO of AI at Work, writes in a new blog post. It will be shaped by the choices we make about roles, incentives and standards. Spataro writes that amid all the uncertainty about how the AI era is unfolding, it’s important to maintain perspective. “While AI has extraordinary potential to improve our lives, it raises issues that require deliberate choices — exercising our human agency to shape the future,” he says. Read more about what Spataro believes will be the future of the workforce, and what he says everyone should be cautious about.

As the digital world gets increasingly complex, it’s never been more important to have a wide range of experiences and perspectives working on cybersecurity. This Women’s History Month, Vasu Jakkal, corporate vice president of Microsoft Security, is reflecting on how critical it is to have women on digital security teams. After all, if cybersecurity is fundamentally about understanding people, having a diversity of backgrounds and experiences is actually a security imperative. Read more on what steps Jakkal says everyone can take to not only widen the pipeline of women in the field but also to strengthen it, end to end.