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AI news tagged Microsoft, with sources.

• Oct. 8, 20263 sources

  Microsoft opens pre-orders for a $5,999 developer PC that can run 120-billion-parameter models locally

  Microsoft opened pre-orders on October 7 for the $5,999 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, built on Nvidia’s RTX Spark superchip, with shipping starting in November.

• Sept. 27, 20262 sources

  Microsoft dismantled EvilTokens, which had compromised more than 12,000 inboxes

  Microsoft dismantled EvilTokens, a device-code phishing service that used AI at every step and was linked to over 12,000 compromised inboxes.

• Sept. 23, 20261 source

  GitHub moved the Copilot runtime to Rust using its own agents

  GitHub rewrote the Copilot agent runtime from TypeScript and Node.js into more than 800,000 lines of production Rust, with AI agents writing most of the code.

• Sept. 22, 20263 sources

  Nscale filed for a New York IPO with a $103 billion backlog

  London-based Nscale filed an S-1 to list on the NYSE as NSCL; of its $103.4 billion in active and contracted value, only $2.6 billion is active.

• Sept. 21, 20262 sources

  The Seattle Times and Newsday want the training data and the models destroyed

  The Seattle Times and Newsday want copyright law’s destruction remedy to cover the training datasets and models in their suit against OpenAI and Microsoft.