Microsoft cut Game Pass Ultimate from $29.99 to $22.99 and PC Game Pass from $16.49 to $13.99 on April 21. In exchange, future Call of Duty releases will no longer land on either plan at launch and will instead arrive around the following holiday season.
Kiki Wolfkill has left Microsoft after 28 years. Windows Central reports her last role centered on Xbox Film/TV and transmedia work, following earlier Halo leadership at 343 Industries.
Microsoft is moving AI shopping from chat suggestions toward structured transactions. UCP-ready feeds are now generally available in the U.S. Merchant Center, Shopify Catalog is feeding Copilot, and Copilot Checkout now reaches more than 500,000 merchants.
GeekWire reports that OpenAI is already calling AWS demand “frankly staggering” and blaming Microsoft for limiting enterprise reach. With Amazon’s $50 billion investment and a cloud deal worth more than $100 billion over eight years, this looks like a realignment, not a side partnership.
This is not background vulnerability noise. On April 13, CISA added seven in-the-wild flaws across Adobe, Fortinet, and Microsoft to the KEV catalog, and the fastest deadline in the batch lands on April 16.
According to a leaked internal memo obtained by The Verge, Xbox chief Asha Sharma told staff that Game Pass has become too expensive for players and needs a better value equation. No immediate change was announced, but Microsoft appears to be weighing a more flexible long-term model.
Microsoft announced a $10 billion Japan investment on April 3, 2026 spanning AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and workforce training. The plan combines in-country GPU access, public-private security partnerships, and AI skilling for more than one million engineers and developers by 2030.
Microsoft says AI is reshaping how the Microsoft Security Response Center discovers, validates, and remediates vulnerabilities. The April 7 post ties that work to Claude Mythos Preview testing, Project Glasswing, and eventual customer access through Microsoft Foundry.
Microsoft described a widespread device code phishing campaign that uses AI-driven automation to compromise organizational accounts at scale. The attack abuses legitimate OAuth device code flows, dynamic code generation, and backend polling infrastructure.
Microsoft said it will invest more than US$1 billion in Thailand’s cloud and AI infrastructure from 2026 to 2028. The company paired the infrastructure commitment with regulatory engagement, an e-commerce generative AI feasibility study, and workforce and startup collaboration.
Microsoft said it will invest $10 billion in Japan from 2026 through 2029 across AI infrastructure, cybersecurity partnerships, and workforce development. The plan includes in-country GPU options through domestic partners and training programs aimed at more than one million engineers, developers, and workers by 2030.
Microsoft detailed a new MicroLED-based datacenter networking system on March 17, 2026. The project matters because it tackles one of the less visible constraints on AI scaling: the energy, distance and reliability limits of the links connecting servers and GPUs.