Microsoft's newly announced AI tools for crafting dialogues and quests in games have sparked controversy in the gaming community. Concerns arise about potential declines in game quality, while voice actors fear job loss and view such automation as a threat to nurturing new talent.

Microsoft is set to upgrade all of its security systems. The initiative includes accelerating response times to security breaches, enhancing personal data protection, and automating two-factor authentication processes. These upgrades were prompted by a detailed and critical report from the U.S. Cybersecurity Board.

OpenAI and Microsoft are under fire in a class-action lawsuit over alleged web scraping to gather private data for training AI models like ChatGPT. The lawsuit, filed on Sept. 5 in San Francisco, accuses the companies of using stolen private info, including personal data from countless internet users, without consent. The plaintiffs argue that without this data theft, products like ChatGPT and DALL-E wouldn't be the billion-dollar businesses they are today. They seek damages and a halt to the alleged illegal data scraping.

Microsoft and Vodafone have jointly announced a landmark 10-year strategic partnership, with an investment of $1.5 billion dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence and cloud-based services.

GitHub, a Microsoft subsidiary, has just introduced an updated artificial intelligence tool for coding named Copilot Enterprise. This tool is now capable of not only continuing code sequences but also answering any questions related to any software base provided by the company.

Inflection AI's CEO and co-founder, Mustafa Suleyman, has transitioned to Microsoft to lead the newly formed Microsoft AI division, encompassing products like Copilot, Bing, and Edge. Karen Simonyan, another co-founder, is set to become the Chief Scientist of the team.

Coca-Cola and Microsoft have announced a five-year strategic partnership to advance the digital transformation of the beverage giant through Microsoft's cloud technologies and artificial intelligence innovations.

Microsoft has developed a generative AI model specifically for U.S. intelligence agencies, aimed at processing the large volumes of confidential data they receive daily. This AI operates independently of the internet and is managed via a dedicated cloud infrastructure.

The European Commission is deliberating an investigation into Microsoft's stake in the artificial intelligence developer, OpenAI. This stems from concerns around possible violations of competition and merger laws.