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DECEMBER 27, 2023

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and its close collaborator (and investor), Microsoft, for allegedly violating copyright law by training generative AI models on Times’ content.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Days after Oracle missed Q1 2023 revenue expectations and gave a downbeat rest-of-year outlook, sending its share price to suffer the worst one-day performance in 21 years, the cloud provider announced a team-up with Microsoft to co-locate a portion of its infrastructure in the Azure cloud.

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

Microsoft is planning to appeal a claim of $28.9 The Notices of Proposed Adjustment were received on September 26, related to intercompany pricing or transfer pricing, Microsoft said in a regulatory filing. The IRS claims that Microsoft may have breached its prescribed regulations for transfer pricing. Microsoft

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JANUARY 9, 2024

Microsoft today announced that it has worked with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to use its Azure Quantum Elements service to whittle down millions of potential new battery materials to only a few — with one of them now in the prototype stage.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

Microsoft has released patches to fix zero-day vulnerabilities in two popular open source libraries that affect several Microsoft products, including Skype, Teams and its Edge browser. But Microsoft won’t say if those zero-days were exploited to target its products, or if the company knows either way.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

Microsoft says it has successfully dismantled the infrastructure of a cybercrime operation that sold access to fraudulent Outlook accounts to other hackers, including the notorious Scattered Spider gang.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In interviews on CNBC and Bloomberg TV tonight, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made it clear that it’s possible Sam Altman, who was fired from his role as CEO at OpenAI by the AI startup’s board of directors on Friday, could return to OpenAI in some capacity.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Microsoft is in talks with Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) to settle the trade body’s complaint about its cloud software licensing practices in the European Union (EU). It is really key for Microsoft to try to limit both economic and reputational damage from a possible investigation.”

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Research from Avanade , a technology expert that specialises in the Microsoft ecosystem and partner solutions, suggests that 92% of manufacturers aim to be AI-first within a year. Microsoft Copilot enables a range of game-changing use cases for manufacturers, such as its “ask-an-expert” capability. This can be a major challenge.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Emirates NBD has collaborated with Microsoft to successfully implement Microsoft Sustainability Manager, a Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability solution, to drive digital transformation in its sustainability operations.

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MARCH 28, 2023

As a part of its continued quest to inject generative AI into all its products, Microsoft today introduced Security Copilot , a new tool that aims to “summarize” and “make sense” of threat intelligence. ” Microsoft didn’t divulge exactly how Security Copilot incorporates GPT-4, oddly enough. .

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A series of unfortunate and cascading mistakes allowed a China-backed hacking group to steal one of the keys to Microsoft’s email kingdom that granted near unfettered access to U.S. Microsoft explained in a long-awaited blog post this week how the hackers pulled off the heist. government inboxes.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Microsoft answered the existential question today during a New York City Windows event. What is a Surface event without a Panos Panay? The company broke out the big guns in the absence of the longtime division head Panay (whose hasty exit from the company was announced earlier this week), as CEO Satya Nadella took the […]

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Microsoft’s Ignite 2023 event came with a lot of updates, and AI product reveals and expansions were front and center as the company laid out its updated vision for IT professionals. As our own Devin Coldewey wrote in October, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has made it clear that the company is all-in …

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

New research from Avanade, a technology company that specialises in the Microsoft platform, has revealed that 56% of healthcare and life-science professionals already use AI daily in their current roles. The research also demonstrates a willingness across the sector to use Microsoft Copilot to help reduce the workload placed on staff.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In case you weren’t sure how Microsoft felt about AI, CEO Satya Nadella is here to tell you: they like it. They like it a lot. In the company’s annual report, he pens a letter to shareholders bigging up AI in every way. And it’s not hard to see why: He clearly believes this is […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Snapchat has a new advertising partner in Microsoft for the ads it’s inserting into its AI product, My AI, an AI chatbot introduced earlier this year to the wider Snapchat user base. The company in May said it would begin testing Sponsored Links in My AI — link suggestions that are paired with the user’s […]

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APRIL 11, 2023

Many established banks are doing both—using the Microsoft Cloud to create a secure innovation bed as well as working with fintechs or buying some of their cutting edge technologies. Why is the Microsoft Cloud the right environment for both financial services companies and the fintechs that serve them?

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Microsoft has backed Wemade, a popular video game developer that has made aggressive bets on blockchain in recent years, the latest sign of tech giants’ showing growing interest in web3. South Korea’s Wemade said in a press release that it has raised $46 million from Microsoft, Shinhan Asset Management and Kiwoom Securities.

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APRIL 4, 2024

PwC and Microsoft are committed to developing local AI talent in Saudi Arabia with the launch of an artificial intelligence Centre of Excellence in Riyadh. In partnership with Microsoft, we are proud to launch a platform that nurtures and develops next-generation AI talent, carefully selected from the Kingdom’s premier universities.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

Microsoft has held conversations to invest in the Indian play-to-earn gaming platform Zupee in recent weeks and proposed to potentially lead a funding round of over $100 million, two people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, the latest in a series of bets from the cloud services giant to expand its business in the key overseas market.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

As the tech world watches Microsoft suck in top execs and AI engineering talent from OpenAI, the generative AI giant in which it already holds a minority stake worth several billion dollars, one question to consider is what, if anything, can competition regulators do about the visible flight of AI expertise and value into Microsoft’s […] (..)

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

Microsoft is always moving forward in the field of accessibility, especially in gaming, where its Xbox Adaptive Controller and other features help gamers with disabilities play however is comfortable for them.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

While Microsoft made headlines this week for its AI implementation, and Alphabet took a big stock hit for its slight cloud miss, Amazon growth has quietly settled into low double-digits growth. We’ve talked about the first to market advantage before, and it certainly applies when it comes to the cloud infrastructure market.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

Microsoft has signed a 10-year deal with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) that calls for the software giant to buy a 4% stake in the exchange in order to jointly develop new products and services for data and analytics. billion on cloud-related products with Microsoft. billion) in 2021.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. ” The Fungible team will join Microsoft’s data center infrastructure engineering teams, Bablani said. .

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APRIL 12, 2023

Danish company LMS365 , an online learning management system (LMS) built for use inside Microsoft products, has raised $20 million in its first institutional round of funding. LMS365: Course and content management Image Credits : LMS365 Managers can also track learner progress and present relevant data via Microsoft Power BI visuals.

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JULY 18, 2023

Microsoft unveiled a new incentive program on Tuesday to help enterprises still running its Dynamics ERP and CRM software on premises to move to the cloud. As many as nine-tenths of Microsoft’s Dynamics customers are still running the software on premises, according to one estimate. Enterprise Applications, SaaS

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The whirlwind management drama at OpenAI last month concluded with co-founder Sam Altman reinstated within a week of his surprise dismissal — and a much bigger role for Microsoft, which ended up with a seat on the board for the first time since investing billions into the startup earlier this year.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Two years ago, Microsoft debuted SharePoint Syntex, which leverages AI to automate the capture and classification of data from documents — building on SharePoint’s existing services. Today marks the expansion of the platform into Microsoft Syntex, a set of new products and capabilities including file annotation and data extraction.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For the past 18 years, Sun worked at Microsoft, most recently as VP of AI for its business and applications platform group. Sun has a PhD from MIT and continued to publish academic research papers during his time at Microsoft, in addition to teaching at Seattle and Washington universities.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

At its Ignite conference this week, Microsoft announced updates heading to Teams, its ever-evolving videoconferencing and workplace collaboration app. Microsoft says it expects it to cost $10 per user per month, with official pricing to come once Teams Premium is generally available. Image Credits: Microsoft. Teams Premium.

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MAY 11, 2023

It’s now landed a strategic collaboration with Microsoft, which includes an undisclosed equity investment in the startup. Microsoft’s Q2 results showed Teams has hit more than 280 million monthly active users. We see Builder.ai We see Builder.ai

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Microsoft has heard them loud and clear, and at its Ignite 2022 show in Seattle this week, it introduced a range of new governance capabilities and other enhancements for its Power automation platform. Power to the people. First previewed in July, it’s now generally available. Checks and balances. Environmental awareness.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

Microsoft announced today that it has acquired Ally.io , a software service that helps companies measure their progress against OKRs or objectives and key results, a common way the management measures both individual and company progress. Microsoft plans to incorporate Ally into its Viva family of employee experience products.

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