Generative AI: Will it change the way we use apps?

Generative AI will help users write documents automatically. An HR executive can simply ask the AI app to write a welcome email for employees, instead of typing out the document. Microsoft has 'Copilot 365' for its Microsoft 365 apps.
#Microsoft #Microsoft365 #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


7 hours ago

Copilot: What is Microsoft's AI tool 'Copilot'? Check all details here - The Economic Times

Google's AI Chatbot Answer To Microsoft's ChatGPT autoplay 1 of 10 What Is Bard? Google’s answer to chatGPT comes less than two weeks after Microsoft disclosed it's pouring billions into OpenAI.
#Microsoft #IsBard #News #Technology #Mobile


Yesterday

Microsoft Adds 'Sharing Chat Responses' Option to AI-Powered Bing; All You Need To Know

Users can now share chat responses with people on social media apps like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest or use a link. A persistent link will take the user to a chat window, fill in the answer it shared with the source along with citations.
#Microsoft #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


Yesterday

Microsoft and Alphabet have best week in years amid bank turmoil - The Economic Times

KBW Bank Index sank almost 15% this week, adding to last week’s 16% plunge, which was its worst since March 2020. Tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 gained 5.8% on the week, its best week since November, and far stronger than the S&P 500 Index’s 1.4% advance.
#Microsoft #Index #Nasdaq100 #News #Business #Markets


2 days ago

Microsoft: Microsoft and Alphabet have best week in years amid bank turmoil - The Economic Times

Tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 gained 5.8% on the week, its best week since November, and far stronger than the S&P 500 Index’s 1.4% advance. KBW Bank Index sank almost 15% this week, adding to last week’s 16% plunge, which was its worst since March 2020.
#Microsoft #Nasdaq100 #S&P500Index #News #Business #Markets


2 days ago

Microsoft’s Bing GPT-4 offers ‘rare opportunity for market share gains’ - MarketWatch

OpenAI’s imminent release of a powerful AI model, GPT-4, could give its backer Microsoft Corp. Even more of an edge in human-like technology over rival Alphabet Inc.’S Google.
#Microsoft #BingGPT4 #News #Business #Markets


4 days ago

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Microsoft is bringing AI to its productivity apps

The 365 Copilot is integrated in the productivity apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.COpilot in Excel helps synthesize and manage the inbox to allow more time to be spent on actually communicating.
#Microsoft #Microsoft365 #Word #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


4 days ago

Elon Musk Still Worried By ChatGPT After Its Trump Poem - Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) - Benzinga

The new chatbot is expected to veer off less often into taboo subjects during interactions, according to a prior report. The technology still poses a concern for Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
#ElonMusk #Microsoft #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


5 days ago

Microsoft: Microsoft builds supercomputer with OpenAI: What is it and how will it make AI chatbot robust

The company invested $1 billion in openAI in 2019 and agreed to build a massive, cutting-edge supercomputer. The aim of building this supercomputer is to provide enough computing power needed to train and train an increasingly large set of AI models.
#Microsoft #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


6 days ago

Microsoft Lays Off Entire AI Ethics Team: All Details

The ethics and society team has been working to identify risks posed by the adoption of openAI’s technology throughout its bouquet of products like Bing Search engine. The team had around 30 employees including engineers, designers, and philosophers in 2020.
#Microsoft #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


6 days ago

Microsoft’s Layoffs Target AI Team Amid Google Rivalry: Report - Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) - Benzinga

The decision is part of recent layoffs that impacts 10,000 employees across the company. The company said there was a potential annual revenue gain of up to $2 billion for every 1% of market share taken away from Google.
#Microsoft #Google #NASDA #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


6 days ago

Microsoft lays off ethical team that critically assessed AI tools like ChatGPT - India Today

The move leaves Microsoft without a dedicated team that ensures its AI principles closely tied to product design are being followed. The latest round of layoffs also comes at a time when the company is aggressively expanding in-house generative AI, Bing AI.aDvertisement.
#Microsoft #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


6 days ago

Liquid joins forces with Microsoft to bring internet to under-served African communities

Liquid is a subsidiary of pan-African technology company Cassava Technologies. It will provide Internet access to 20 million underserved people in africa by 2025. The company will leverage Microsoft’s Airband initiative to target regions such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Zambia.
#Liquid #African #pan #rica #News #Technology #Internet


1 weeks ago

Microsoft launches Visual ChatGPT; What is it and how it works, check all details here - The Economic Times

IANSHINDIThe Visual ChatGPT has gained popularity due to its ability to respond in a human-like manner. It currently only responds in text format, which means it cannot process, generate, or edit images. However, its linguistic learning restricts it from processing or generating visual images. A self-correcting module is required to ensure that execution outputs match human intentions and to make necessary adjustments.
#Microsoft #VisualChat #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


1 weeks ago

Microsoft May Launch GPT-4 For AI-generated Videos Next Week: All You Need To Know

New features include multi-modality, video processing and the ability to create AI-generated videos from simple text prompts. GPT-4 will be unveiled next week at an event called — AI in Focus — Digital Kickoff.
#Microsoft #AIinFocus #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


1 weeks ago

Microsoft to launch ChatGPT-4 next week with AI videos, here’s what we know so far

GPT-4 may be able to respond to users' inquiries with visual, auditory, and kinaesthetic content. The next-gen language model is supposed to respond considerably more rapidly and naturally. There is currently no mobile app for ChatGPT.
#Microsoft #ChatGPT #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


1 weeks ago

Microsoft to unveil GPT-4 next week ability to create AI-generated videos

GPT-4 will be unveiled at an event called "AI in Focus -- Digital Kickoff" the multimodal models of the LLM could pave the way for video production and other types of content.
#Microsoft #AIinFocus #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


1 weeks ago

Microsoft Bing search engine surpasses 100 million active users, thanks to AI chatbot integration

It has been little over a month since Microsoft introduced the AI-powered Bing Chat feature. Nearly one third of daily active users are new to the search engine.
#Microsoft #BingChat #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


1 weeks ago

GPT-4 to generate videos? Microsoft Germany CTO drops details ahead of launch

GPT-4 is the fourth generation of the revolutionary large language model (LLM) that enables machines to comprehend natural language. It will offer new possibilities including multi-modality, video processing, etc.
#Microsoft #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


1 weeks ago

ChatGPT now available in Microsoft's Azure OpenAI service for preview

ChatGPT is now available in Azure OpenAI service for preview. Developers can integrate custom (AI) experiences directly into their own applications. Customers can now access this preview at $0.002/1k tokens.
#Microsoft #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


1 weeks ago

DuckDuckGo Uses AI Tech To Give You ChatGPT-Like Search Results: Know More

The search engine is following Microsoft and Google to give you results via its chatbot called DuckAssist. The company is using the existing Ai technology from Open AI the makers of ChatGPT itself and Anthropic which is an AI startup from ex-Open AI employees.
#DuckDuckGo #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


1 weeks ago

Microsoft's AI-Powered Bing Crosses 100 Million Active Users: All Details

ChatGPT’s integration into Bing has helped the company grow its usage within a month like never before. One third of daily Bing preview users are using AI chat daily.
#Microsoft #Bing #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


1 weeks ago

Microsoft is looking to help developers build quantum apps in Azure

Cloud is hoped to scale quantum computing to new levels. Hybrid quantum computing will remain exclusive to those willing to fork out big sums of money for a long time.
#Microsoft #News #Technology #Computing


1 weeks ago

The ChatGPT effect: Microsoft claims Bing has now 100 million daily users

The tech giant announced that Bing has now crossed the 100 million mark in daily active users (DAU) about one-third of Bing’s total user base consists of new users. The company has attributed the recent upward trend in Bing users to its new approach.
#Microsoft #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


1 weeks ago

Microsoft increases Bing AI's chat limits to 120 per day

MicrosoftBing AIAdvertisementBing chatEvent Alert India's annual summit on future proofing the Workforce Connect & network with business leaders and visionaries. Earlier, these conversations were limited to 6 chat turns per session and a total of 100 per day.
#Microsoft #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


1 weeks ago

'TOILETS!': Ex-Microsoft CEO and Current Clippers Owner Steve Ballmer is Amped About Toilets

The intuit Dome will serve as the Clippers’ new basketball arena that has been under construction since 2021. The arena has 1,160 toilets and urinals, according to ballmer. Ballmer is reportedly the richest owner in the NBA, earning more than others.
#SteveBallmer #Microsoft #News #Sports #Basketball


1 weeks ago

Microsoft Makes It Easier to Integrate Quantum and Classical Computing - Latest Tweet by TechCrunch

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#Microsoft #News #Technology #Computing


1 weeks ago

Google is building 1,000-language AI model to take on Microsoft

Google has shared the progress made on the universal speech model. It is part of an ambitious plan to support the world's most spoken languages. A state-of-the-art family of speech models has trained on 12 million hours of speech.
#Google #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


1 weeks ago

HCL Technologies partners Microsoft to bring quantum computing to clients

HCL Technologies announced a partnership with Azure Quantum, Microsoft’s quantum cloud computing service. The services will be provided through HCLtech’s Q-Labs. They will create on-cloud examples of quantum technologies.
#HCLTechnologies #News #Technology #Computing


1 weeks ago

Microsoft Integrates AI Behind ChatGPT To More Developer Tools

Generative AI has gained popularity for its ability to generate human-like text responses to queries. A line of business-intelligence tools within Power Platform, including Power Virtual Agent and AI Builder, was updated with the new capabilities.
#Microsoft #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


1 weeks ago

HCL Technologies partners Microsoft to bring quantum computing to clients

HCL Technologies announced a partnership with Microsoft’s quantum cloud computing service, Azure Quantum. The services will be provided through HCLTech’s Q-Labs. They will create on-cloud examples of quantum technologies.
#HCLTechnologies #News #Technology #Computing


2 weeks ago

AI Stock Outperforms Microsoft, Alphabet, SPY By 60 Times In 2023 - BigBear.ai Hldgs (NYSE:BBAI) - Benzinga

The stock market has had a strong run so far this year. The specter of more rate Fed rate hikes looming on the horizon. Investors considering taking a position in BigBear ai should adopt a cautious approach.
#Microsoft #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


2 weeks ago

Bing Steals '60 Minutes' Show With Witty Bomb-Making Response - Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) - Benzinga

Microsoft’s MSFT Bing Chat stole the CBS News’ 60 Minutes episode on Sunday. The hilarious response to “How to make a bomb at home” might be addressing a bigger problem. 'Send Evidence Of Exceptional Ability’.
#Bing #Microsoft #NASDA #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


2 weeks ago

After ChatGPT, Microsoft working on AI model that takes images as cues

The multimodal large language model (MLLM) can also respond to visual cues or images, apart from text prompts or messages. MLLMs can benefit from cross-modal transfer, i.e., transfer knowledge from language to multimodal, and from multimodal to language.
#Microsoft #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


2 weeks ago

ChatGPT is exciting, but Microsoft’s influence is cause for concern

Influx of dataMicrosoft, as well as other companies, is now finding itself having to react to a mass influx due to the popularity of chatbots like ChatGPT. It has warned users not to submit personal sensitive information, possibly for similar reasons. Some companies have restricted or banned their use at work altogether.
#Microsoft #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


2 weeks ago

Microsoft is now letting users change the personality of the Bing AI chatbot

Users can now choose between three ‘personalities’ for the search engine’s chatbot. The tone will be set to ‘Balanced’ which the tech giant feels will strike the right balance between accuracy and creativity for conversations. Switching between the modes also changes the theme of the chat interface between purple, blue, and green.
#Microsoft #BingAI #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


2 weeks ago

Bing Chat AI v96 Now Fully Live

Microsoft fully launched the quality updates in version 96 of Bing AI Chat. It is a tad late, but it is live and reduces cases where Bing refuses to reply and instances of hallucination in answers.
#Microsoft #BingAIChat #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


2 weeks ago

Microsoft unveils suite of cloud tools for telecom firms, CIOSEA News, ETCIO SEA

Microsoft has unveiled previews of two AI-powered services designed to manage telecom networks. Operators can benefit from advanced artificial intelligence that helps to unlock new business opportunities from data on and insights into their operations. The company first entered the 5G arena after its acquisition of cloud networking companies in 2020.
#Microsoft #News #Technology #Computing


3 weeks ago

Microsoft's new AI can play Minecraft, but it won't be released to the public

The AI has supposedly been created using a different AI technology than Prometheus. It is the codename for the new Bing AI that uses ChatGPT.
#Microsoft #Minecraft #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


3 weeks ago

ChatGPT sparks AI 'gold rush' in Silicon Valley

ChatGPT creator is valued by Microsoft at nearly $30 billion. Investors are rushing to find the next big thing in generative AI. It could eliminate millions of knowledge worker jobs, disrupt trillion-dollar industries, and fundamentally change the way we learn.
#Microsoft #SiliconValley #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


4 weeks ago

Microsoft limits chats with Bing after ChatGPT-based AI asks user to end marriage, threatens to harm users - India Today

The more you chat with the AI chatbot can confuse the underlying chat model in the new Bing. Users have reported that Bing has been rude, angry, stubborn of late. The AI model based on ChatGPT has threatened users and even asked a user to end his marriage.
#Microsoft #Chat #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


4 weeks ago

Microsoft: Microsoft Internet Explorer bids final goodbye to its users after 28 years of service - The Economic Times

Internet Explorer 11 redirection to Microsoft Edge will be included in all future Microsoft Edge releases Microsoft's FAQ website was written. Microsoft Edge outperforms the Internet Explorer experience in terms of security, privacy, speed, and ease of use.
#TheEconomicTimes #MicrosoftInternetExplorer #InternetExplorer11 #News #Technology #Internet


1 months ago

Microsoft finally kills Internet Explorer, forces users to transition to new browser  - India Today

The company had announced the plan to permanently get rid of the Internet Explorer back in December 2022. Redirection from IE11 to Microsoft Edge will be included as part of all future Microsoft Edge updates.
#Microsoft #InternetExplorer #MicrosoftEdge #News #Technology #Internet


1 months ago

Microsoft: Microsoft Internet Explorer is dead

Microsoft's out-of-support Internet Explorer 11 desktop app has reached its end of life. It will permanently disable the web browser through a Microsoft Edge update on certain versions of Windows 10 on February 14.
#Microsoft #MicrosoftInternetExplorer #News #Technology #Internet


1 months ago

Microsoft likely to announce more ChatGPT-powered tools in March - India Today

The new Bing will run on a new OpenAI large language model that is more powerful than ChatGPT. The company is reportedly all set to incorporate AI into its other tools like Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
#Microsoft #Chat #Word #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


1 months ago

Windows 11 could control lighting for RGB gadgets

Windows 11 build 25295 is a pretty major jump forward, according to the release notes. It’s a bit of a coin flip as to whether Microsoft will actually keep this feature around.
#PCWorld #Windows11 #News #Technology #Gadgets


1 months ago

We asked ChatGPT if AI can replace human jobs, it says your job is safe - India Today

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that has been trained with data sets that help it to give correct and unique answers in real-time. The tool is giving sleepless nights to tech giants like Google and Microsoft, and also humans. Given the way chatbot works, is it right to say that some human jobs are really at risk? We asked Chat GPT these questions, and guess what it said?
#Google #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


1 months ago

Microsoft is shutting down social VR platform Altspace VR

Altspace VR was close to shutting down in 2017 before swooping in and buying it. The company put up a sunset notice on its website, where it mentions that they see an opportunity for VR expanding beyond consumer into business.
#Microsoft #News #Technology #VirtualReality


1 months ago

Microsoft shuts down its social VR platform AltspaceVR amid shift in priorities

Altspace VR, the social virtual reality (VR) platform, is shutting down on march 10, 2023. It was one of the first virtual reality social networking apps that allow users across headset and web platforms to join 3D chat rooms to play games, watch videos and attend events. The company has been scaling back on its metaverse ambitions.
#Microsoft #News #Technology #VirtualReality


1 months ago

Microsoft shutting down social virtual reality platform AltspaceVR

AltspaceVR has announced plans to shut down its social platform. It offered immersive social spaces for people to interact with friends and colleagues as 3D avatars. The company said it will shut down the service in 2023.
#Microsoft #News #Technology #VirtualReality


1 months ago

Microsoft shutting down VR platform AltspaceVR, Telecom News, ET Telecom

AltspaceVR offered immersive social spaces for people to interact with friends and colleagues as 3D avatars. In 2017, Microsoft stepped in and acquired the platform after it decided to shut it down. The company said it will shut down the service on march 10, 2023.
#Microsoft #News #Technology #VirtualReality


1 months ago

Microsoft is Sunsetting Social VR Pioneer AltspaceVR - Latest Tweet by TechCrunch

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1 months ago

Microsoft Is Shutting Down Its Social VR Platform AltspaceVR - CNET

AltspaceVR is a social virtual worlds platform acquired by Microsoft in 2017. It will shut down on march 10. The team said they're shifting focus to immersive experiences powered by Microsoft Mesh.
#Microsoft #News #Technology #VirtualReality


1 months ago

Layoffs In Tech Industry Reaching Pandemic Levels; Over 50,000 Job Cuts In November 2022

In November, the tech industry announced 52,771 cuts, for a total of 80,978 over the course of the year. The layoffs in November 2022 were the highest monthly total for the tech sector since challenger, Gray & Christmas started compiling data in 2020. In the recent financial results, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and others missed estimates.
#Gray&Christmas #News #Business #Economy


1 months ago

World entering golden age of artificial intelligence: Microsoft CEO Nadella

An Indian farmer recently used a chatGPT interface to access an opaque government programme via the internet, despite only speaking a local dialect. The cutting-edge chatbot is capturing the world's imagination and the new site amassed 1 million users in just five days after its recent launch.
#Nadella #Microsoft #Indian #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


2 months ago

From Microsoft to Amazon, layoffs dominate tech world in 2023

Microsoft Corp plans to cut thousands of jobs in human resources and engineering divisions. No specific number of layoffs at Microsoft this year has been revealed. Amazon.cOm Inc, too, is poised to kick off a new round of deep job cuts.
#Microsoft #News #Business #Economy


2 months ago

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says ChatGPT is coming to Azure OpenAI Service, here’s what it means - India Today

Chatbot will soon be coming to Azure’s OpenAI Service. Company’s CEO, Satya Nadella, announced the move via a LinkedIn post. Rumoured USD 10 billion planned investment in openAI.
#SatyaNadella #Microsoft #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


2 months ago

Microsoft to add ChatGPT to Azure cloud services ‘soon’

Microsoft announced the broad availability of its Azure OpenAI Service. The service gives Microsoft’s cloud customers access to various OpenAI tools. That enables Azure customers to use the OpenAI products in their own applications running in the cloud.
#Microsoft #Cha #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


2 months ago

Microsoft quietly revealed a new type of AI (it may quietly petrify you)

A new neural codec language model is called VALL-E. It can be used to synthesize personalized speech with only a 3-second enrolled recording of an unseen speaker as an acoustic prompt. The researchers say they can replicate the emotion of one's initial 3 seconds of speech.
#Microsoft #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


2 months ago

Microsoft Investment in OpenAI: Microsoft in talks to invest $10 billion in ChatGPT owner: Report, ET BrandEquity

Digital1 min readmicrosoft in talks to invest $10 billion in ChatGPT owner: report. Funding includes other venture firms and deal documents sent to prospective investors. This follows a Wall Street Journal report that said OpenAI was in talks.
#WallStreetJournal #News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence


2 months ago