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🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Microsoft just told the world its own AI agents can’t be trusted — and the advice hidden inside that headline is the most useful security framing I’ve read this year. Satya Nadella’s warning: treat your agents like insider threats, the way you’d treat a rogue employee with keys to everything. As someone whose entire business runs on AI tools with no IT department between me and disaster, I took that seriously. I spent 20 minutes treating my agents like untrusted new hires. The checklist below is what came out of it. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Three years ago, Microsoft bet $13 billion that OpenAI would keep building the smartest AI on Earth, and that bet bought them exclusivity. At Build 2026, they ripped up the exclusivity part. Microsoft now runs seven frontier AI models it trained itself, on its own silicon, with its own data pipeline — and the deal with OpenAI still exists, just without the lock-in. If you’ve been following the Microsoft AI blog or any coverage of Copilot this year, you’ve already seen the fallout: GitHub Copilot quietly switching models mid-release, Azure pricing dropping, and Microsoft insisting it no longer needs OpenAI to compete. I’ve spent the last few weeks testing what actually changed for regular users, and the answer is more interesting than the press release suggests. ...