As Microsoft’s Copilot AI family gears up for the big leagues with a dazzling Super Bowl LVIII ad campaign, the tech giant is unveiling some fancy upgrades. Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s chief marketing officer, spilled the digital beans on the official blog, celebrating a year of AI-powered delights. Copilot’s popularity has skyrocketed, boasting a whopping 5 […]
In a savvy strategic move, Microsoft partners with media start-up Semafor to utilize AI chatbots in journalism, unveiling their initiative with a weighty investment in a breaking news feed named ‘Signals’. The collaboration aims to offer multiple global perspectives on significant stories through human-written posts leveraging AI as a research tool. This bold move […]
Figure AI is aiming to secure $500 million in funding, with Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI leading the investment. The company’s aim is to develop humanoid robots that can eliminate unsafe and undesirable jobs, particularly in industries facing severe labor shortages such as manufacturing, shipping and logistics, warehousing, and retail. Robots are already being […]
Amazon’s $4 billion investment in Anthropic, a San Francisco-based start-up focusing on artificial intelligence, was driven by its interest in building specialized computer chips to compete with Nvidia, a dominant force in the A.I. chip market. The expansion of generative A.I. has revealed the heavy reliance of big tech companies such as Amazon, Google, […]
Microsoft’s graphic design app, Designer, includes the Image Creator, which leverages DALLE-3 to generate realistic images. However, recent incidents of AI-generated deepfakes sexualizing celebrities have prompted Microsoft to implement new protections, as loopholes allowed inappropriate content generation. The company has strengthened safety systems and prohibited the creation of adult or non-consensual intimate content to address […]
Microsoft has made its AI-powered tool, Reading Coach, available for free to anyone with a Microsoft account. The tool aims to provide personalized reading practice for learners, integrating with learning management systems in the near future. Reading Coach helps learners identify and practice challenging words, offers tools such as text-to-speech and picture dictionaries for […]
Legacy tech giants Microsoft and SAP are making moves in the retail industry’s AI adoption, introducing AI-powered capabilities to help retailers adapt to changing consumer behaviors and market volatility. Ahead of the National Retail Federation’s flagship conference, Microsoft and SAP unveiled new AI-powered capabilities for retailers, including predictive analytics, automated operations, and enhanced customer […]
Microsoft and Siemens have partnered to introduce Siemens Industrial Copilot, a generative AI-powered assistant designed to enhance human-machine collaboration and boost productivity in manufacturing and other industries. The integration between Siemens Teamcenter software for product lifecycle management and Microsoft Teams will enable virtual collaboration of design engineers, frontline workers, and other teams across business […]
A groundbreaking new substance with potential to reduce lithium use in batteries has been discovered through the collaboration of Microsoft and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), using artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) tools. The material, named N2116, has the potential to reduce lithium use by up to 70% and has already […]
The quest for the ultimate battery has advanced through Microsoft and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s new collaboration using artificial intelligence and cloud computing to accelerate sustainable energy research. Microsoft and PNNL’s innovative collaboration combines AI, cloud computing, and advanced research to transform materials science and accelerate scientific discovery, signaling the transformative impact of AI […]
Several AI companies, including Stability AI and Pika Labs, have been making waves in the video generation space. Microsoft AI has entered the arena with DragNUWA – a model that introduces trajectory-based generation to enhance control over video production. By open-sourcing the model, Microsoft is inviting the community to explore and experiment with it. […]
European Union regulators and other competition authorities are investigating Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI over concerns that Microsoft may be exerting control over OpenAI, potentially leading to distorted market dynamics and harmful competition behavior. The investigations are prompted by governance changes at OpenAI, including the brief ousting and reappointment of CEO Sam Altman, and Microsoft’s […]
In a twist of fate 30 years in the making, the new “Copilot” key is set to make its grand entrance onto Windows 11 keyboards. Named after Microsoft’s AI digital assistant, this key will give users easy access to AI-powered features and seamlessly integrate AI into their daily digital experiences. As part of Microsoft’s overarching […]
In a rapid move to expand its AI chatbot’s reach, Microsoft released standalone Android and iOS apps for Microsoft Copilot. The AI assistant, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4, offers quick responses to user queries in text format, and the iOS version includes a feature to convert speech into images using OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 technology. This mobile […]
Microsoft is planning to upgrade its Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 with new AI-enabled features, including a next-gen neural processing unit (NPU) and Intel and Arm-based options, as reported by Windows Central. The Surface Pro 10 will feature a brighter display with HDR support and an anti-glare coating, with options for different resolutions, […]
The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the companies’ AI tools infringe on copyrighted material, undermine the newspaper’s paywall, and damage its reputation by generating misinformation. The suit seeks the destruction of datasets used for training the AI, the erasure of any instances of the AI trained using […]
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