on tuesday, Microsoft patched A historically record number of security bugs occurred in its product line, due to the company’s use of AI to help it and external researchers find bugs. amid certain weaknesses there was one For a remastered version of the classic 25-year-old war strategy video game Age of Empires II. According to…
Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported this Microsoft was replacing some of OpenAI’s software with its own in-house models in an effort to cut costs. The outlet reported that the in-house models, known as MAI, are being used to power apps like Word and Excel. The story raises a common question about two companies that once…
Microsoft and Chevron on Monday announced plans to develop a 2.67-gigawatt natural gas power plant in West Texas to serve the tech company’s AI and cloud data centers. Under a 20-year power purchase agreement, the plant will provide dedicated power to a data center operated by Microsoft. Two large GE Vernova turbines will generate most…
Elon Musk spent most of three days On the witness stand this week In its lawsuit against OpenAI, and it’s already getting messy. Email, text, and his own tweets There are going to be a lot of witnesses coming forward in court. Musk’s argument against OpenAI? By converting the company to a for-profit model, Sam…
Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement buyouts for the first time in its 51-year history, according to reports cnbc And bloomberg. With a few exceptions, employees will be eligible if they are age 70 or older, according to their years of work at Microsoft, according to an internal memo. So if a 52-year-old has served 18…
Microsoft is shutting down outlook lite The company confirmed this to TechCrunch on Monday, May 26. Launched in 2022, Outlook Lite is a lightweight version of the regular Outlook app, designed for Android phones with limited storage and areas with slow internet connections. The app had already been scheduled for retirement – Microsoft announced last…
AI skeptics are not alone in warning users not to blindly trust the output of models – AI companies themselves say so in their terms of service. Take Microsoft, which is currently Focused on getting corporate customers to pay for Copilot. But it is also making waves on social media Copilot Terms of UseWhich appears…
Microsoft announced a major gaming shakeup on Friday, with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer leaving the company along with Xbox president Sarah Bond. Spencer will be replaced by former Instacart and Meta executive Asha Sharma. Combined with Sharma’s recent role as president of Microsoft’s CoreAI product, these moves suggest Microsoft may be doubling down on…
Microsoft has confirmed that a bug allowed its Copilot AI to summarize customers’ confidential emails for weeks without permission. Bug, first reported bleeping computerCopilot Chat was allowed to read and outline the contents of emails since January, even though customers had data loss prevention policies in place to prevent their sensitive information from being included…
With a view to attract more AI investments in the country, India is hosting a four-day AI summit this week that will be attended by officials from leading AI labs and Big Tech, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google and Cloudflare, as well as heads of state. The event, expected to attract 250,000 visitors, will…
