In October's edition of The Monthly Tech In, we take you behind the scenes of the infrastructure and imagination driving AI forward. From a small Norwegian town becoming Europe's next AI hub to a breakthrough in cooling AI chips, we explore how innovation meets sustainability. But it’s not just about machines, it's about the minds behind them. Meet the technologists who helped shape the internet and are now reimagining what AI can do at Microsoft.
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Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman is an Influencer Co-Founder, LinkedIn, Manas AI & Inflection AI. Founding Team, PayPal. Author of Superagency. Podcaster of Possible and Masters of Scale.
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Tim Bakke
Content Strategy Lead, AI Business Solutions at Microsoft
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Gabriel Coelho-Kostolny
Threat Intelligence Product Lead for Sentinel platform @ Microsoft | Security, Threat Intelligence, AI
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Leigh Huang
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Just wrapped our earnings call and wanted to share a few highlights from the quarter. Bottom line: We’ve got great momentum across our AI platform and our family of Copilots, fueling our increasing investments in both capital and talent. We’re building a planet-scale cloud and AI factory. We’ll increase our AI capacity by 80% this year, and nearly double our DC footprint over the next two. That includes Fairwater in Wisconsin, the world’s most powerful AI datacenter, which will scale to two gigawatts alone. We are building a fungible fleet that spans every stage of the AI lifecycle and is constantly optimized to deliver the best ROI and TCO for us and our customers. One example: during the quarter, we increased the token throughput for GPT-4.1 and GPT-5 by more than 30% per GPU. Our family of Copilots and agents also surpassed over 150 million monthly active users across high value domains: • Information work: 90 percent of the F500 now use Microsoft 365 Copilot – and we’re shipping updates very fast • Coding: GitHub Copilot now has 26 million-plus users • Security: 36+ agents integrated across Entra, Defender, Purview, Intune • Science & Health: We helped document 17 million-plus patient encounters, up 5X year over year • Consumer: Tons of new capabilities announced over the past two weeks, from Groups and Mico in Copilot, to "Hey Copilot" in Windows And this week, we signed a new agreement with OpenAI, a milestone for both companies. It’s been an incredible investment, with nearly 10X return and no carry. All the value goes straight to shareholders. Another thing I feel super proud about is that Microsoft is now behind two of the largest nonprofits in the world! You can read more about our results here: https://lnkd.in/gxtVeMk2
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I love how easy it’s becoming to learn on the go with podcasts in Copilot. I turned GitHub’s latest Octoverse report into a 5-minute pod — short, smart, and snappy. Packed with info on the seismic shifts happening in how people build software. Check it out!
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Together with our customers and partners, we have driven remarkable progress accelerating AI innovation over the past few years. We are achieving efficiency and productivity at scale to shape industries and markets around the world. It is time to demand more of AI to solve humanity’s biggest challenges by democratizing intelligence, obsolescing the mundane, and unlocking creativity. This is the notion of Becoming Frontier: to empower human ambition and find AI-first differentiation in everything we do to maximize an organization’s potential and our impact on society. I invite you to read my latest earnings blog sharing how Microsoft’s technology portfolio ensures our customers can go further with AI, using our AI Transformation success framework as a guide. I am also pleased to share several customer stories that exemplify the path to becoming Frontier firms. https://lnkd.in/eGfzVVnh
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The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership: http://aka.ms/AAyczj7
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Great to sit down with Ted Sarandos to explore how Netflix keeps reinventing at the intersection of tech and storytelling—where data informs, intuition inspires, and stories bring us together. Listen to our conversation on #ToolsAndWeapons. https://lnkd.in/ev4RpBPF
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So many new Copilot updates this month. Here are some I can't stop using.
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Leaders in business, art, fashion, and technology gathered in New York City Wednesday for a TIME100 Impact Dinner — discussing how AI could shape the future of fashion, particularly from a customer’s perspective. Shelley Bransten, corporate vice president of worldwide industry solutions at Microsoft, spoke on how the technology is already transforming the shopping experience. Read more about the event here: https://lnkd.in/eYcEnfkf In partnership with Ralph Lauren and Microsoft
TIME100 Impact Dinner, Leaders Discuss AI and the Future of Fashion
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Until now, browsers have required you to do all the work—type, click, juggle tabs. Today, Copilot Mode in Edge, your AI browser changes that. We’re taking the next step in browsing by introducing even more AI innovation—so your browser can anticipate, assist, and accelerate what you do online. Pick up where you left off with Journeys: Planning a trip? Researching a project? Journeys summarize your browsing and suggest next steps - no more digging through tabs. (Limited preview, US) Get things done with Copilot Actions: With your permission, Edge can book dinner, buy concert tickets, or shop for gifts - just say what you need by voice or chat. It handles the steps for you, even across multiple tabs. (Limited preview, US) You’re always in control of your AI browsing experience: You choose what to share, and you can turn it on or off anytime. All built with Microsoft's trusted privacy and security standards. Try Copilot Mode today and tell us what you think! 👉 https://msft.it/6046shg5Q