ZDNet
Your AI Chatbot Wants to Remember Everything: Here's How to Make It Forget
A comprehensive guide to locking down your AI chatbot privacy, because apparently, we all need to become privacy ninjas just to chat with a robot.
2026-08-03
ZDNet
2026-07-16
TechCrunch
Microsoft Tells Sales Team: 'Our AI Is Great, Theirs Is Trash - Please Don't Mention We Used to Rely on It'
Microsoft arms sales team with talking points to bash former BFFs OpenAI and Anthropic, because nothing says 'confidence in your own product' like a carefully crafted negative comparison.
2026-06-03
ZDNet
I Paid Microsoft $10 for Premium AI Agents That Were Confidently Wrong About Everything
A journalist pays $10 for Microsoft's premium Copilot agents, only to receive unusable sandbox links, confusion about its own product, and a 20-minute wild goose chase that ended with unchecking a single checkbox.
2026-05-14
BBC Business
Big Tech Tries to Make Itself Likeable, Deploys Cute Cartoons as Human Shields
Microsoft, Apple, and other tech giants are deploying cartoon mascots to make themselves seem friendlier, because nothing says 'trust us with your data' like a smiley blob.
2026-05-05
The Verge
Microsoft Finally Admits Nobody Wanted Their Junk MSN Feed in Windows
Microsoft finally admits its MSN feed in Windows widgets was about as welcome as a pop-up ad, so they're hiding it by default.
2026-04-23
The Verge
Microsoft Brings 'Vibe Working' to Office, Which Is Definitely a Real Phrase They Want Us to Use
Microsoft's Office AI graduates from passive chat partner to active agent, still insists on calling it 'vibe working.'
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