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Microsoft and NASA Built Earth Copilot to Democratize Access to Satellite Data

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Chris McKay• November 14, 2024 • 2 min read

The AI assistant could dramatically simplify access to NASA's vast collection of Earth science data - from wildfire patterns to climate change trends - making it available to people beyond just scientists and researchers

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You Can Now Generate Themes for Outlook with AI

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Chris McKay• November 8, 2024 • 1 min read

Microsoft is aiming to make digital workspaces feel more personal and welcoming, especially in apps used daily, like Outlook.

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Microsoft and a16z Propose Joint Public Policy Ideas for AI Startups

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Chris McKay• November 2, 2024 • 3 min read

The challenge lies in implementation. The choice isn't between regulation and no regulation – it's between smart, innovation-enabling oversight and bureaucratic obstacles that could cede America's technological leadership to competitors.

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Microsoft and OpenAI Launch $10M Program to Bring AI Tools to Local Newsrooms

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Chris McKay• October 22, 2024 • 1 min read

The first round of recipients includes Chicago Public Media, The Minnesota Star Tribune, Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Seattle Times.

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A First Look at Creating Autonomous AI Agents With Microsoft's Copilot Studio

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Chris McKay• October 21, 2024 • 2 min read

The company envisions organizations running on what it calls "AI-first business processes," where every department has multiple agents handling routine tasks while employees focus on strategic work.

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Microsoft Expands Collaboration with Be My Eyes to Improve Accessible AI

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Chris McKay• October 17, 2024 • 2 min read

Be My Eyes will provide Microsoft with a unique video dataset featuring real-world scenarios faced by blind and low-vision individuals, including challenging lighting conditions and uncommon objects.

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Microsoft AI Heavyweight Sebastien Bubeck Joins OpenAI

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Chris McKay• October 14, 2024 • 1 min read

A Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement that he had "decided to leave Microsoft to further his work toward developing" artificial general intelligence

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Microsoft Announces AI Agents for Healthcare in Copilot Studio to Ease Clinical Workloads

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Chris McKay• October 11, 2024 • 2 min read

These AI agents can handle a range of healthcare duties, from scheduling appointments to matching patients with clinical trials.

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Microsoft Adds 3 New Multimodal Medical Imaging AI Models to Azure

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Chris McKay• October 10, 2024 • 2 min read

These models, developed in collaboration with partners like Providence Healthcare and digital pathology company, Paige.ai, offer a range of functionalities to enhance medical imaging processes.

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Microsoft Unveils Major OneDrive Upgrades, Brings Copilot to All Commercial Users

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Chris McKay• October 8, 2024 • 1 min read

Copilot agents can now be created by users to automate repetitive tasks and provide quick access to information across multiple files and folders.

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Microsoft Unveils New Personal Copilot AI Companion

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Chris McKay• October 1, 2024 • 2 min read

You’ll notice a cleaner, simpler, and warmer user interface, designed to be more engaging and responsive. The focus is on giving you shorter, faster answers to keep you in the flow of your day.

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Microsoft Announced new AI-Powered Features for Copilot+ PCs and Windows 11

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Chris McKay• October 1, 2024 • 2 min read

The updates, available starting this holiday season, are all about making your PC smarter, faster, and more secure, putting the full power of AI right at your fingertips.

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Microsoft Expands Global Engineering Footprint to UAE

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Chris McKay• September 24, 2024 • 2 min read

The Abu Dhabi facility joins Microsoft's network of development centers worldwide, aiming to create cutting-edge technologies that will be integrated into the company's global solutions.

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Microsoft Launches New Correction Capability to Reduce AI Hallucinations

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Chris McKay• September 24, 2024 • 1 min read

The new correction feature works by first detecting ungrounded content using connected grounding documents. When an inaccuracy is identified, it triggers a request to the AI model for correction.

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Microsoft Commits $1.3 Billion to Invest in AI and Cloud in Mexico

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Chris McKay• September 24, 2024 • 2 min read

The company aims to reach five million Mexicans and support 30,000 SMBs within the three-year period.

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Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant to Reopen, Powering Microsoft Data Centers

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Chris McKay• September 20, 2024 • 2 min read

Microsoft has committed to a 20-year power purchase agreement, securing all of the plant's output to fuel its expanding data center operations across the Midwest and East Coast.

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Anduril and Microsoft Partner to Supercharge Army's Combat Goggles

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Chris McKay• September 19, 2024 • 2 min read

The Lattice software can alert soldiers to incoming threats detected by various systems, even when these threats are beyond visual range. This integration is designed to speed up early warning systems and increase soldier survival rates.

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BlackRock, Microsoft, and Partners Launch $100 Billion AI Infrastructure Initiative

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Chris McKay• September 17, 2024 • 2 min read

The partnership will focus on expanding and creating new data centers to meet the growing demand for computing power needed to drive AI innovation. Additionally, GAIIP will invest in energy infrastructure to power these facilities.

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Microsoft Introduces Copilot Pages for Collaborative AI Workflows

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Chris McKay• September 16, 2024 • 1 min read

Teams can work together on these pages, prompting Copilot collectively to refine and expand content, effectively creating a new workflow that Microsoft describes as "multiplayer, human-to-AI-to-human collaboration."

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Microsoft 365 Copilot is Now Generally Available

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Chris McKay• September 16, 2024 • 2 min read

By embedding advanced AI capabilities into widely-used tools like Excel, Word, and Outlook, Microsoft offers a compelling solution for businesses looking to harness AI without disrupting existing workflows.

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Microsoft Announces Copilot Agents for Microsoft 365

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Chris McKay• September 16, 2024 • 2 min read

These agents, built using Microsoft Copilot Studio, can automate and execute business processes by interacting with users and performing tasks on their behalf.

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Microsoft Partners with StopNCII to Combat Intimate Image Abuse

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Chris McKay• September 5, 2024 • 1 min read

The pilot program has already shown promising results. By the end of August, the company had taken action on 268,899 images flagged through the StopNCII database, preventing them from appearing in Bing image search results.

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Microsoft Unveils Phi-3.5: Powerful AI Models Punch Above Their Weight

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Chris McKay• August 20, 2024 • 2 min read

All three Phi-3.5 models are available on Hugging Face under a permissive, open-source MIT license. Developers can freely use, modify, and commercialize them.

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Microsoft to Use Consumer Data to Train AI, But You Can Opt-Out

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Richard Banfield• August 16, 2024 • 2 min read

By incorporating data from consumer interactions, including those with advertisements, the company hopes to build AI models that better understand and respond to user needs.

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Microsoft and Palantir Team Up to Bring AI to Classified U.S. Defense Networks

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Chris McKay• August 8, 2024 • 1 min read

Palantir will be the first industry partner to deploy Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service in classified environments.