{"id":35733,"topic":"ai","source":"The Register","title":"Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP - The Register","url":"https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/13/microsoft-chief-turns-hostile-on-frontier-ai-labs-warns-companies-to-guard-their-ip/5270628","url_hash":"cb210b17ed217ec77f674689b843e438d71e013f","author":"","summary":"Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP The Register","content":"MOST POPULAR\n- \n \n AI and ML The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costsCheap can be expensive \n- \n \n ai and ml Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IPLock it down, warns Satya Nadella, seemingly forgetting the billions Redmond chipped in to OpenAI back in the good old days \n- \n \n AI + ML Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of allThe RAMpocalypse may be the precursor to the AIpocalypse \n- \n \n AI + ML AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautifulOpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools \n- \n \n on-prem AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one yearFirm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone \n- \n \n Security Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more! \n- \n \n Security Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more \n- \n \n Black Hat and DEF CON DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included \n- \n \n Security EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified \n- \n \n Malware Month Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career \n- \n \n Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want itNext version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server \n- \n \n KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives6.7 is now current, and in 6.8 you're getting Wayland whether you like it or not \n- \n \n Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats upNow with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default \n- \n \n Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak formRetro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK \n- \n \n Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too \n- \n \n France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity wellNextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another","image_url":"https://image.theregister.com/5270652.jpg?imageId=5270652&x=0&y=0&cropw=100&croph=100&panox=0&panoy=0&panow=100&panoh=100&width=1200&height=683","lang":"en","published_at":"2026-07-13T17:20:00+00:00","fetched_at":"2026-07-13T21:15:05+00:00","status":"read","starred":0,"extract_state":"ok","summary_auto":"MOST POPULAR\n- \n \n AI and ML The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costsCheap can be expensive \n- \n \n ai and ml Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IPLock it down, warns Satya Nadella, seemingly forgetting the billions Redmond chipped in to OpenAI back in the good old days \n- \n \n AI + ML Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of allThe RAMpocalypse may be the precursor to the AIpocalypse \n- \n \n AI + ML AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautifulOpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools \n- \n \n on-prem AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one yearFirm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone \n- \n \n Security Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more! - \n \n Security Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more \n- \n \n Black Hat and DEF CON DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included \n- \n \n Security EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified \n- \n \n Malware Month Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career \n- \n \n Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want itNext version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server \n- \n \n KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives6.7 is now current, and in 6.8 you're getting Wayland whether you like it or not \n- \n \n Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats upNow with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default \n- \n \n Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak formRetro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK \n- \n \n Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too \n- \n \n France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity wellNextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another","cluster_id":null,"extract_retries":0,"extract_error":null,"contract_version":"news_item.v1","format_contract_version":"news_item_formats.v1","dedup_url":"https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/13/microsoft-chief-turns-hostile-on-frontier-ai-labs-warns-companies-to-guard-their-ip/5270628","quality_profile":{"profile_version":"extraction_quality.v2","bucket":"high","confidence":0.9,"failure_kind":"none","retryable":false,"retry_after_attempts":0,"reason":"High confidence: full text extraction produced 3608 characters.","operator_guidance":{"severity":"ok","recommended_action":"trust_full_text","next_step":"Use the extracted full text as the primary article source.","operator_label":"Ready","can_retry":false,"can_use_summary":false,"diagnostics_required":false},"content_depth":{"contract_version":"content_depth.v1","category":"full_text","label":"Full text","has_full_text":true,"has_summary":true,"content_length":3608,"summary_length":3607,"usable_text_length":3608,"source_field":"content"},"legacy_collapsed":false,"signals":{"extract_state":"ok","extract_error":null,"extract_retries":0,"content_length":3608,"summary_length":3607}},"news_item":{"id":35733,"canonical_url":"https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/13/microsoft-chief-turns-hostile-on-frontier-ai-labs-warns-companies-to-guard-their-ip/5270628","source_url":"https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/13/microsoft-chief-turns-hostile-on-frontier-ai-labs-warns-companies-to-guard-their-ip/5270628","title":"Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP - The Register","source_name":"The Register","author":null,"published_at":"2026-07-13T17:20:00+00:00","locale":"en","topic":"ai","tags":[],"rss_summary":"Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP The Register","full_text":"MOST POPULAR\n- \n \n AI and ML The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costsCheap can be expensive \n- \n \n ai and ml Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IPLock it down, warns Satya Nadella, seemingly forgetting the billions Redmond chipped in to OpenAI back in the good old days \n- \n \n AI + ML Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of allThe RAMpocalypse may be the precursor to the AIpocalypse \n- \n \n AI + ML AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautifulOpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools \n- \n \n on-prem AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one yearFirm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone \n- \n \n Security Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more! \n- \n \n Security Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more \n- \n \n Black Hat and DEF CON DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included \n- \n \n Security EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified \n- \n \n Malware Month Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career \n- \n \n Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want itNext version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server \n- \n \n KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives6.7 is now current, and in 6.8 you're getting Wayland whether you like it or not \n- \n \n Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats upNow with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default \n- \n \n Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak formRetro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK \n- \n \n Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too \n- \n \n France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity wellNextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another","excerpt":"MOST POPULAR\n- \n \n AI and ML The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costsCheap can be expensive \n- \n \n ai and ml Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IPLock it down, warns Satya Nadella, seemingly forgetting the billions Redmond chipped in to OpenAI back in the good old days \n- \n \n AI + ML Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of allThe RAMpocalypse may be the precursor to the AIpocalypse \n- \n \n AI + ML AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautifulOpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools \n- \n \n on-prem AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one yearFirm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone \n- \n \n Security Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more! - \n \n Security Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more \n- \n \n Black Hat and DEF CON DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included \n- \n \n Security EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified \n- \n \n Malware Month Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career \n- \n \n Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want itNext version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server \n- \n \n KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives6.7 is now current, and in 6.8 you're getting Wayland whether you like it or not \n- \n \n Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats upNow with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default \n- \n \n Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak formRetro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK \n- \n \n Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too \n- \n \n France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity wellNextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another","extraction":{"state":"ok","confidence":0.9,"error":null,"explanation":"High confidence: full text extraction produced 3608 characters.","diagnostics_url":"/api/diagnose?url=https%3A//www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/13/microsoft-chief-turns-hostile-on-frontier-ai-labs-warns-companies-to-guard-their-ip/5270628","quality_profile":{"profile_version":"extraction_quality.v2","bucket":"high","confidence":0.9,"failure_kind":"none","retryable":false,"retry_after_attempts":0,"reason":"High confidence: full text extraction produced 3608 characters.","operator_guidance":{"severity":"ok","recommended_action":"trust_full_text","next_step":"Use the extracted full text as the primary article source.","operator_label":"Ready","can_retry":false,"can_use_summary":false,"diagnostics_required":false},"content_depth":{"contract_version":"content_depth.v1","category":"full_text","label":"Full text","has_full_text":true,"has_summary":true,"content_length":3608,"summary_length":3607,"usable_text_length":3608,"source_field":"content"},"legacy_collapsed":false,"signals":{"extract_state":"ok","extract_error":null,"extract_retries":0,"content_length":3608,"summary_length":3607}}},"display_formats":["compact","card","full","digest_section","json"]},"daily_stack_record":{"title":"Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP - The Register","url":"https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/13/microsoft-chief-turns-hostile-on-frontier-ai-labs-warns-companies-to-guard-their-ip/5270628","summary":"MOST POPULAR\n- \n \n AI and ML The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costsCheap can be expensive \n- \n \n ai and ml Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IPLock it down, warns Satya Nadella, seemingly forgetting the billions Redmond chipped in to OpenAI back in the good old days \n- \n \n AI + ML Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of allThe RAMpocalypse may be the precursor to the AIpocalypse \n- \n \n AI + ML AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautifulOpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools \n- \n \n on-prem AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one yearFirm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone \n- \n \n Security Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more! - \n \n Security Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more \n- \n \n Black Hat and DEF CON DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included \n- \n \n Security EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified \n- \n \n Malware Month Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career \n- \n \n Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want itNext version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server \n- \n \n KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives6.7 is now current, and in 6.8 you're getting Wayland whether you like it or not \n- \n \n Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats upNow with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default \n- \n \n Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak formRetro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK \n- \n \n Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too \n- \n \n France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity wellNextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another","source":"The Register","date":"2026-07-13T17:20:00+00:00","content":"MOST POPULAR\n- \n \n AI and ML The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costsCheap can be expensive \n- \n \n ai and ml Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IPLock it down, warns Satya Nadella, seemingly forgetting the billions Redmond chipped in to OpenAI back in the good old days \n- \n \n AI + ML Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of allThe RAMpocalypse may be the precursor to the AIpocalypse \n- \n \n AI + ML AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautifulOpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools \n- \n \n on-prem AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one yearFirm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone \n- \n \n Security Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more! \n- \n \n Security Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more \n- \n \n Black Hat and DEF CON DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included \n- \n \n Security EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified \n- \n \n Malware Month Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career \n- \n \n Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want itNext version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server \n- \n \n KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives6.7 is now current, and in 6.8 you're getting Wayland whether you like it or not \n- \n \n Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats upNow with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default \n- \n \n Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak formRetro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK \n- \n \n Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too \n- \n \n France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity wellNextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another","confidence":0.9,"diagnostics_url":"/api/diagnose?url=https%3A//www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/13/microsoft-chief-turns-hostile-on-frontier-ai-labs-warns-companies-to-guard-their-ip/5270628","quality_bucket":"high","failure_kind":"none","retryable":false,"quality_reason":"High confidence: full text extraction produced 3608 characters.","quality_profile":{"profile_version":"extraction_quality.v2","bucket":"high","confidence":0.9,"failure_kind":"none","retryable":false,"retry_after_attempts":0,"reason":"High confidence: full text extraction produced 3608 characters.","operator_guidance":{"severity":"ok","recommended_action":"trust_full_text","next_step":"Use the extracted full text as the primary article source.","operator_label":"Ready","can_retry":false,"can_use_summary":false,"diagnostics_required":false},"content_depth":{"contract_version":"content_depth.v1","category":"full_text","label":"Full text","has_full_text":true,"has_summary":true,"content_length":3608,"summary_length":3607,"usable_text_length":3608,"source_field":"content"},"legacy_collapsed":false,"signals":{"extract_state":"ok","extract_error":null,"extract_retries":0,"content_length":3608,"summary_length":3607}},"tags":[]},"fallback_formats":["markdown","json","html"],"actions":{"read":"/item/35733","export_markdown":"/api/items/35733/export?format=markdown","export_json":"/api/items/35733/export?format=json","diagnose":"/api/diagnose?url=https%3A//www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/13/microsoft-chief-turns-hostile-on-frontier-ai-labs-warns-companies-to-guard-their-ip/5270628"},"formats":{"full":{"id":35733,"title":"Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP - The Register","url":"https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/13/microsoft-chief-turns-hostile-on-frontier-ai-labs-warns-companies-to-guard-their-ip/5270628","source":"The Register","author":null,"published_at":"2026-07-13T17:20:00+00:00","locale":"en","topic":"ai","tags":[],"excerpt":"MOST POPULAR\n- \n \n AI and ML The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costsCheap can be expensive \n- \n \n ai and ml Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IPLock it down, warns Satya Nadella, seemingly forgetting the billions Redmond chipped in to OpenAI back in the good old days \n- \n \n AI + ML Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of allThe RAMpocalypse may be the precursor to the AIpocalypse \n- \n \n AI + ML AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautifulOpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools \n- \n \n on-prem AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one yearFirm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone \n- \n \n Security Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more! - \n \n Security Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more \n- \n \n Black Hat and DEF CON DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included \n- \n \n Security EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified \n- \n \n Malware Month Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career \n- \n \n Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want itNext version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server \n- \n \n KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives6.7 is now current, and in 6.8 you're getting Wayland whether you like it or not \n- \n \n Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats upNow with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default \n- \n \n Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak formRetro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK \n- \n \n Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too \n- \n \n France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity wellNextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another","full_text":"MOST POPULAR\n- \n \n AI and ML The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costsCheap can be expensive \n- \n \n ai and ml Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IPLock it down, warns Satya Nadella, seemingly forgetting the billions Redmond chipped in to OpenAI back in the good old days \n- \n \n AI + ML Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of allThe RAMpocalypse may be the precursor to the AIpocalypse \n- \n \n AI + ML AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautifulOpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools \n- \n \n on-prem AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one yearFirm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone \n- \n \n Security Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more! \n- \n \n Security Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more \n- \n \n Black Hat and DEF CON DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included \n- \n \n Security EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified \n- \n \n Malware Month Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career \n- \n \n Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want itNext version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server \n- \n \n KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives6.7 is now current, and in 6.8 you're getting Wayland whether you like it or not \n- \n \n Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats upNow with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default \n- \n \n Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak formRetro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK \n- \n \n Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too \n- \n \n France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity wellNextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another","reading_time_min":2,"extraction":{"state":"ok","confidence":0.9,"error":null,"explanation":"High confidence: full text extraction produced 3608 characters.","diagnostics_url":"/api/diagnose?url=https%3A//www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/13/microsoft-chief-turns-hostile-on-frontier-ai-labs-warns-companies-to-guard-their-ip/5270628","quality_profile":{"profile_version":"extraction_quality.v2","bucket":"high","confidence":0.9,"failure_kind":"none","retryable":false,"retry_after_attempts":0,"reason":"High confidence: full text extraction produced 3608 characters.","operator_guidance":{"severity":"ok","recommended_action":"trust_full_text","next_step":"Use the extracted full text as the primary article source.","operator_label":"Ready","can_retry":false,"can_use_summary":false,"diagnostics_required":false},"content_depth":{"contract_version":"content_depth.v1","category":"full_text","label":"Full text","has_full_text":true,"has_summary":true,"content_length":3608,"summary_length":3607,"usable_text_length":3608,"source_field":"content"},"legacy_collapsed":false,"signals":{"extract_state":"ok","extract_error":null,"extract_retries":0,"content_length":3608,"summary_length":3607}}},"quality_profile":{"profile_version":"extraction_quality.v2","bucket":"high","confidence":0.9,"failure_kind":"none","retryable":false,"retry_after_attempts":0,"reason":"High confidence: full text extraction produced 3608 characters.","operator_guidance":{"severity":"ok","recommended_action":"trust_full_text","next_step":"Use the extracted full text as the primary article source.","operator_label":"Ready","can_retry":false,"can_use_summary":false,"diagnostics_required":false},"content_depth":{"contract_version":"content_depth.v1","category":"full_text","label":"Full text","has_full_text":true,"has_summary":true,"content_length":3608,"summary_length":3607,"usable_text_length":3608,"source_field":"content"},"legacy_collapsed":false,"signals":{"extract_state":"ok","extract_error":null,"extract_retries":0,"content_length":3608,"summary_length":3607}},"actions":{"read":"/item/35733","export_markdown":"/api/items/35733/export?format=markdown","export_json":"/api/items/35733/export?format=json","diagnose":"/api/diagnose?url=https%3A//www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/13/microsoft-chief-turns-hostile-on-frontier-ai-labs-warns-companies-to-guard-their-ip/5270628"}},"digest":{"id":35733,"title":"Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP - The Register","url":"https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/13/microsoft-chief-turns-hostile-on-frontier-ai-labs-warns-companies-to-guard-their-ip/5270628","source":"The Register","topic":"ai","published_at":"2026-07-13T17:20:00+00:00","excerpt":"MOST POPULAR - AI and ML The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costsCheap can be expensive - ai and ml Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IPLock it down, warns Satya Nadella,…","quality_bucket":"high","quality_reason":"High confidence: full text extraction produced 3608 characters.","reading_time_min":2,"cluster_id":null},"card":{"display_title":"Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP - The Register","subtitle":"The Register · 2026-07-13","summary":"MOST POPULAR - AI and ML The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costsCheap can be expensive - ai and ml Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns…","badges":["quality:high"],"links":{"read":"/item/35733","original":"https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/13/microsoft-chief-turns-hostile-on-frontier-ai-labs-warns-companies-to-guard-their-ip/5270628","diagnose":"/api/diagnose?url=https%3A//www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/13/microsoft-chief-turns-hostile-on-frontier-ai-labs-warns-companies-to-guard-their-ip/5270628"},"quality_warning":null},"export":{"title":"Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP - The Register","url":"https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/13/microsoft-chief-turns-hostile-on-frontier-ai-labs-warns-companies-to-guard-their-ip/5270628","summary":"MOST POPULAR\n- \n \n AI and ML The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costsCheap can be expensive \n- \n \n ai and ml Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IPLock it down, warns Satya Nadella, seemingly forgetting the billions Redmond chipped in to OpenAI back in the good old days \n- \n \n AI + ML Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of allThe RAMpocalypse may be the precursor to the AIpocalypse \n- \n \n AI + ML AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautifulOpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools \n- \n \n on-prem AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one yearFirm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone \n- \n \n Security Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more! - \n \n Security Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more \n- \n \n Black Hat and DEF CON DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included \n- \n \n Security EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified \n- \n \n Malware Month Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career \n- \n \n Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want itNext version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server \n- \n \n KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives6.7 is now current, and in 6.8 you're getting Wayland whether you like it or not \n- \n \n Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats upNow with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default \n- \n \n Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak formRetro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK \n- \n \n Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too \n- \n \n France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity wellNextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another","source":"The Register","date":"2026-07-13T17:20:00+00:00","content":"MOST POPULAR\n- \n \n AI and ML The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costsCheap can be expensive \n- \n \n ai and ml Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IPLock it down, warns Satya Nadella, seemingly forgetting the billions Redmond chipped in to OpenAI back in the good old days \n- \n \n AI + ML Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of allThe RAMpocalypse may be the precursor to the AIpocalypse \n- \n \n AI + ML AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautifulOpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools \n- \n \n on-prem AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one yearFirm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone \n- \n \n Security Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more! \n- \n \n Security Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more \n- \n \n Black Hat and DEF CON DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included \n- \n \n Security EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified \n- \n \n Malware Month Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career \n- \n \n Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want itNext version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server \n- \n \n KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives6.7 is now current, and in 6.8 you're getting Wayland whether you like it or not \n- \n \n Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats upNow with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default \n- \n \n Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak formRetro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK \n- \n \n Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too \n- \n \n France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity wellNextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another","confidence":0.9,"diagnostics_url":"/api/diagnose?url=https%3A//www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/13/microsoft-chief-turns-hostile-on-frontier-ai-labs-warns-companies-to-guard-their-ip/5270628","quality_bucket":"high","failure_kind":"none","retryable":false,"quality_reason":"High confidence: full text extraction produced 3608 characters.","quality_profile":{"profile_version":"extraction_quality.v2","bucket":"high","confidence":0.9,"failure_kind":"none","retryable":false,"retry_after_attempts":0,"reason":"High confidence: full text extraction produced 3608 characters.","operator_guidance":{"severity":"ok","recommended_action":"trust_full_text","next_step":"Use the extracted full text as the primary article source.","operator_label":"Ready","can_retry":false,"can_use_summary":false,"diagnostics_required":false},"content_depth":{"contract_version":"content_depth.v1","category":"full_text","label":"Full text","has_full_text":true,"has_summary":true,"content_length":3608,"summary_length":3607,"usable_text_length":3608,"source_field":"content"},"legacy_collapsed":false,"signals":{"extract_state":"ok","extract_error":null,"extract_retries":0,"content_length":3608,"summary_length":3607}},"tags":[],"format_contract_version":"news_item_formats.v1"}}}