Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for Microsoft for the week ending August 28, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Nano Banana 2.1.
Category Cover Image Prompt: A 16:9 mid-1980s murder-mystery movie poster of a wide gothic Victorian mansion rendered in high-contrast black-and-white pen-and-ink engraving on pure black, with warm amber windows containing campy costumed suspects (a bespectacled sweater-and-blazer tech executive holding a glowing pin, a hooded figure cradling a small sunburst token, a teal-suited engineer presenting a slim tablet) and still-life windows crowded with game controllers, server blades, paperclip figurines, and cat-shaped trophies as evidence, plus one window showing only a shadow of a four-pane colored square on the glass. At center the open front door glows warm, where an identical slim upright silver-haired butler in black tailcoat, gray waistcoat, white gloves and faint knowing smile holds a silver tray with an envelope sealed in wax bearing a tiny four-square window emblem. Above the roofline, fat rounded extra-heavy white sans-serif letters spell "Microsoft" like a movie title, no other text.
This Week in Microsoft News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
- Copilot app keeps widening its reach: Pierce Boggan's posts show the GitHub Copilot app picking up new abilities: building and testing iOS and Android apps, experimental WSL support, and planning or handing off coding tasks from Microsoft Teams. The common thread is meeting developers in more of the places they already work.
- Microsoft's own models and hardware: Mustafa Suleyman said MAI-Image-2.6 is the top image editing model on Artificial Analysis, with Microsoft holding 3 of the top 5 leaderboard spots. Separately, NVIDIA congratulated Microsoft on the first operational Vera Rubin NVL72 racks as the platform ramps into full production.
- AI policy and security discussion: Suleyman pointed readers to Bill Gates's new essay on AI's impact, naming a Token Tax and a protected 'nature reserve' for certain jobs. OpenAI also listed Microsoft among organizations backing a global effort to strengthen cyber defenses.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to Microsoft
You can now build and test iOS and Android apps directly in the GitHub Copilot app!
https://x.com/pierceboggan/status/2092747145984221381
Use @GitHub to plan changes, investigate problems, and hand off coding tasks directly from @MicrosoftTeams!
https://x.com/pierceboggan/status/2090860362514239531
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is now experimentally supported in the GitHub Copilot app!”
https://x.com/pierceboggan/status/2092658466301321650
Many important and bold ideas in @BillGates’s new essay on the impact of AI need to be discussed… Token Tax and a protected ‘nature reserve’ for certain jobs, are just two of them.”
https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/2092559789016395834
We have a limited window to strengthen cyber defenses, and together with organizations including @AnthropicAI, @awscloud, @Google, @Microsoft, and @Oracle, we’re calling for a global effort to give defenders the tools, resources, and support to protect the infrastructure we all”
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2093074192636018977
MAI-Image-2.6 is the best image editing model on AA. We now hold 3 of the top 5 leaderboard positions. Try it today here:”
https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/2092287421983441278
NVIDIA Vera Rubin is ramping into full production. Congrats to the teams at @Microsoft who made this exciting milestone happen.”
https://x.com/nvidia/status/2090944279103635481
NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 production racks are here. The compute tray is engineered for fast compute, assembly, and serviceability. Manufacturing is 100% automated, and every tray goes together in one minute. Congratulations to @Microsoft on the first operational Vera Rubin NVL72″
https://x.com/nvidia/status/2092337107108770116
One of the most important and inspiring quotes of all time: “The concern for man and his destiny must always be the chief interest of all technical effort… in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind.” (Albert Einstein, 1931)”
https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/2091915181576081575
[2309.05463] Textbooks Are All You Need II: phi-1.5 technical report
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05463
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