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  1. technology
    Sam Altman and OpenAI Are Victims of Their Own HypeThe reaction to his firing says more about the anxiety around artificial intelligence and whether it can actually make a profit.
    By John Herrman
  2. technology
    Sam Altman’s Job at Microsoft Will Be Harder Than EverWhat’s next after the tech coup of the century?
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  3. screen time
    The AI Chatbot Assistants Are Here. Do We Actually Want Them?Sometimes I just want to use my computer, not tell it what to do.
    By John Herrman
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    How AI Will Change the News Business: 3 TheoriesThe media industry is panicky. The tech companies are opaque. But some scenarios are starting to take shape.
    By John Herrman
  5. screen time
    Is ChatGPT Getting Dumber?Many early users say so. But maybe the AI bot is just done with them.
    By John Herrman
  6. screen time
    Why Bing Is Being CreepyIt’s doing what it was trained to do by reading our stories and absorbing our anxieties. (Not that Microsoft is happy about it.)
    By John Herrman
  7. screen time
    Why Artificial Intelligence Often Feels Like MagicThis is no ordinary next big thing for Silicon Valley.
    By John Herrman
  8. deals
    It’s All About the MetaverseWhat Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard means for the future of gaming.
    By Nicholas Quah
  9. gaming
    Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard for $68.7 Billion Amid Sexual-Harassment SuitIt’s the biggest video-game-industry deal ever.
    By Justin Curto
  10. bill gates
    The Dirt Piles on Bill Gates Following Divorce AnnouncementNew reports detail how Gates allegedly pursued women who worked for him at Microsoft and his foundation — and deeper ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
    By Matt Stieb
  11. pivot
    Microsoft Buying Discord Would Be 2021’s Best AcquisitionThe tech giant is canny about the companies it wants to snap up.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  12. video games
    The New Xbox Is Ready for a Netflix WorldMicrosoft’s latest console brings the on-demand streaming revolution to gaming.
    By Joshua Rivera
  13. tiktok
    Oracle to Partner With TikTok in the U.S. After Microsoft Deal Is RejectedThe partnership comes two days before Trump’s deadline for a deal to remove control of the video-sharing app from its Chinese-owned parent company.
    By Matt Stieb
  14. tiktok
    What’s Going on With Trump’s TikTok Ban and the Microsoft Deal?As TikTok users continue to hold their looped breath, Microsoft is again trying to acquire the app after dealing with some Trump-prompted confusion.
    By Chas Danner
  15. trailer mix
    Console Wars to Continue into 2020 with Xbox Series XMicrosoft promises backwards compatibility, Master Chief.
    By Bethy Squires
  16. the cloud
    Google’s Video-Game Platform Wants to Replace Your Console With the CloudThe company unveiled an aggressive push this week to demonstrate parity with more mature console systems.
    By Brian Feldman
  17. promises
    Microsoft Vows to Not Attempt April Fools’ Day Humor“I believe we have more to lose than gain by attempting to be funny on this one day.”
    By Megh Wright
  18. cloud chasing
    Are We Reaching ‘Peak Cloud’?Has the market reached the point where nearly everyone who needs a cloud computing solution already has it?
    By Jake Swearingen
  19. microsoft
    Paul Allen Turned Microsoft Into a ColossusAfter convincing high-school friend Bill Gates to drop out of college and start a software company called Micro-Soft, Allen helped change the world.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    Holy Crap, Am I a Microsoft Surface Fanboy?They’re the laptops that Apple should be making.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    Why Is This Man Going to Prison for Copying Free Repair Software?Eric Lundgren made 28,000 unauthorized copies of software you can legally download for free. Now he’s headed to federal prison for 15 months.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    I Had to Teach My Alexa That Eggplants Were FruitEgg-plant, egg-plahnt. Let’s call the whole thing off.
    By Renée Reizman
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    Jaron Lanier Q&A: ‘We Won, and We Turned Into Assholes’Tech pioneer Jaron Lanier discusses the sinking feeling you get when you’re quoted by Mark Zuckerberg, and everything else bad about the internet.
    By Noah Kulwin
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    We Need More Monopoly, Not LessJust let one tech giant win.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    How PlayerUnknown Created the Biggest Gaming Phenomenon of the YearThis year’s breakout hit arrives on console today.
    By Brian Feldman
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    U.S. v. Microsoft Proved That Antitrust Can Keep Tech Power in CheckRevisiting a definitive antitrust case.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Microsoft Has Got Deep Black Friday Discounts on Xbox One, Surface Pro, and MoreBlack Friday brings an Xbox One S for $189 and Surface Pro for $899. Not bad!
    By Jake Swearingen
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    Panos Panay Wants to Tell You a Story About ComputersTalking with the head of all of Microsoft’s devices about the company’s streak of innovative products.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    The Xbox One X Is the Best Console You Can Own. Should You Get It?Microsoft’s screamingly fast new machine comes with a whole bunch of hard questions for console gamers.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    Microsoft Mercy-Kills the KinectThe device was little-used and ahead of its time.
    By Brian Feldman
  31. Which Giant Tech Company Is Winning the Race to Be Skynet?Will Amazon, Facebook, or Google be the agent of our destruction?
    By Max Read
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    Microsoft Is Using Its Lawyers to Go After Fancy BearBut it still doesn’t know who Fancy Bear is.
    By Brian Feldman
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    All the Games and Memes You Need to Know About From Yesterday’s E3What Microsoft, EA, and Bethesda announced.
    By Brian Feldman
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    WannaCry’s Victims Were Overwhelmingly Using Windows 7It’s not entirely XP’s fault.
    By Brian Feldman
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    HoloLens Was Just the Beginning. Microsoft Wants to Own AR and VR.Working with Acer, Microsoft is putting out what will be the most affordable full-featured VR headset this holiday season.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    Microsoft’s New OS Wants to Take Back the Classroom From GoogleCan Microsoft claw back education market share from Google’s Chromebooks?
    By Jake Swearingen
  37. technology
    The Computer-Science Researcher Who Wants to Help Automate Your Work LifeTalking to a Microsoft scientist about the future of productivity and why 100 milliseconds make all the difference to a search engine.
    As told to Julie Meade
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    Holy Christ, Microsoft’s Plans for LinkedIn Sound AwfulLove LinkedIn? Who cares! Microsoft is gonna give you a lotta LinkedIn anyway.
    By Jake Swearingen
  39. Clippy Didn’t Just Annoy You — He Changed the WorldWhat we owe Clippy, Microsoft’s greatest shame.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Microsoft Looks a Lot Like Apple in 1997 — Which Should Scare AppleHow after almost 20 years, the two companies have traded places when it comes to PCs.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    Remembering Microsoft’s Horrible Windows Vista–Themed Springsteen Parody VideoMicrosoft’s internal video for Windows ranks among the worst of all time.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Microsoft: Squirt Gun Emoji? Nah, Let’s Make It an Actual RevolverThe company’s gun emoji used to look like something from a sci-fi movie.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  43. Like Clippy, Microsoft Is Watching YouIn a rare slip-up, one of the company’s journalist dossiers accidentally leaked out.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Like Clippy, Microsoft Is Watching YouIn a rare slip-up, one of the company’s journalist dossiers accidentally leaked out.
    By Brian Feldman
  45. Microsoft Calls on Bae Interns to Get Lit on a Monday NightExcellent recruiting strategy, team.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  46. Microsoft Is Getting Into the Marijuana GameBut it’s not quite like it sounds.
    By Lizzy Halberstadt and Cait Munro
  47. Microsoft Bought LinkedIn to Turn Work Into a Social NetworkLinkedIn’s not just for job-hunting anymore.
    By Brian Feldman
  48. Microsoft Just Bought LinkedIn for $26.2 BillionApparently Microsoft wasn’t deterred by all those hacks.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  49. Microsoft May Have Found a Way to Let You Talk With Your Plants And they can even talk back (sort of).
    By Eva Hill and Cait Munro
  50. Microsoft and Facebook Team Up to Lay New Transatlantic CableThe internet is a series of tubes.
    By Brian Feldman
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