Chris Young, Microsoft executive vice president of business development, strategy, and ventures, at the GeekWire Summit in 2021. (GeekWire File Photo /

Microsoft's AI for Good Lab is offering a total of $5 million in cloud computing credits in its home state of Washington through a new grant program in conjunction with the company's 50th anniversary.

Microsoft on Tuesday said it has changed some key terms of a deal with OpenAI after the ChatGPT creator announced a joint venture with Oracle and Japan's SoftBank Group to build up to $500 billion of new AI data centers in the United States.

Microsoft is making some changes to the way you sign in to a Microsoft account next month. Starting in February, you will stay signed in to a Microsoft account automatically unless you sign out or use private browsing. It’s a change that people will need to be aware of, especially if they’re using a public computer.

A new threat called Sneaky 2FA targets Microsoft 365 account users and is invisible to many security protections—what you need to know.

When President Donald Trump touted a multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence project led in part by OpenAI, one question sprang to mind: Where's Microsoft?

The new agreement “includes changes to the exclusivity on new capacity, moving to a model where Microsoft has a right of first refusal (ROFR),” Microsoft says. “To further support OpenAI, Microsoft has approved OpenAI’s ability to build additional capacity, primarily for research and training of models.”

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND — The weather may have been teeth-chattering along the promenade in Davos, but that didn't stop Salesforce ( CRM) co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff from firing off a few new choice words on AI rival Microsoft ( MSFT ).

We’ve already covered Word 2024 and PowerPoint 2024 and how both are starting to lean into Microsoft’s AI tools, even on Mac, but at the moment Excel feels strangely free from that. Sure, it’s likely to come in the future, but for now, it’s a relatively old-school experience — and that’s no real bad thing for many of us.

Applications for the program are open through Feb. 17 and the winners of the grants will be announced in March.

Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the $500 billion Stargate AI project, the company's partnership with OpenAI, state of the AI technology race, U.S.-China chip war,