Microsoft Commits $1.3 Billion to Invest in AI and Cloud in Mexico
The company aims to reach five million Mexicans and support 30,000 SMBs within the three-year period.
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Microsoft is an early investor and a long-term partner of OpenAI. Their diverse AI portfolio includes Copilot, an AI assistant integrated into offerings such as GitHub, Dynamics, Microsoft 365, Windows OS, and the Edge Browser. With Azure AI, users can build and deploy tailored AI solutions as well as construct their own machine learning models.
Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant to Reopen, Powering Microsoft Data Centers
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.
Anduril and Microsoft Partner to Supercharge Army's Combat Goggles
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.
BlackRock, Microsoft, and Partners Launch $100 Billion AI Infrastructure Initiative
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.
Microsoft Introduces Copilot Pages for Collaborative AI Workflows
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."
Microsoft 365 Copilot is Now Generally Available
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.
Microsoft Announces Copilot Agents for Microsoft 365
These agents, built using Microsoft Copilot Studio, can automate and execute business processes by interacting with users and performing tasks on their behalf.
Microsoft Partners with StopNCII to Combat Intimate Image Abuse
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.
Microsoft Unveils Phi-3.5: Powerful AI Models Punch Above Their Weight
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.
Microsoft to Use Consumer Data to Train AI, But You Can Opt-Out
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.
Microsoft and Palantir Team Up to Bring AI to Classified U.S. Defense Networks
Palantir will be the first industry partner to deploy Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service in classified environments.
Microsoft Lists OpenAI as Competitor: Strategic Move in AI Search Race
The filing specifically mentions OpenAI alongside Google as rivals in search, coinciding with OpenAI's launch of SearchGPT. But this competitive positioning doesn't tell the whole story.
GitHub Models Makes it Easier to Get Started With AI Engineering
You can access industry-leading AI models via a built-in playground that lets you test different prompts and model parameters, for free, right in GitHub.
Microsoft Urges Congress to Enact Federal Deepfake Fraud Statute
President Brad Smith is urging lawmakers to pass a comprehensive 'deepfake fraud statute' that would give law enforcement the necessary legal framework to prosecute deepfake-related crimes.
Microsoft Unveils Bing's New Generative Search Experience
When a user enters a query, Bing's generative search creates a bespoke and dynamic response. The system understands the search query, reviews millions of sources of information, dynamically matches content, and generates search results in an AI-generated layout.
Microsoft Designer Now Available for iOS and Android
Copilot Pro subscribers can now access Designer's capabilities directly within Word and PowerPoint, allowing for seamless image and design creation within documents and presentations.
Microsoft Departs OpenAI's Board
In a letter to OpenAI, Microsoft expressed its decision to step down from the observer role, effective immediately. The letter highlighted the significant progress made by OpenAI’s reconstituted board over the past eight months and Microsoft’s growing confidence in the company’s trajectory.
Microsoft Reveals 'Skeleton Key': A Powerful New AI Jailbreak Technique
The jailbreak allowed top models to comply fully with requests across various risk categories, including explosives, bioweapons, political content, self-harm, racism, drugs, graphic sex, and violence.
The Center for Investigative Reporting Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over Copyright Infringement
The lawsuit seeks to establish clear boundaries for the use of copyrighted material in AI training and to ensure that content creators are fairly compensated for their work.
OpenAI Earns More from Selling GPT Access than Microsoft
The startup's API business, which allows developers to use models like GPT-4, reached $1 billion in annual revenue back in March.
Microsoft Delays Controversial Recall Feature for Copilot+ PCs
The AI-powered Recall feature, which can screenshot everything on your PC, has been postponed until a later date.
Microsoft Retires GPT Builder, Shifts Focus to Commercial and Enterprise Offerings
Copilot Pro subscribers will no longer be able to create new GPTs as of July 10. Additionally, all existing GPTs and their data will be deleted between July 10 and July 14, 2024.
Apple's ChatGPT Integration Accelerates OpenAI's Need for More AI Infrastructure
Despite Microsoft's ongoing efforts to dedicate additional infrastructure to support OpenAI's needs, it has become evident that even the tech giant's resources alone are not sufficient to meet the demand.
SAP and Microsoft Are Integrating their Generative AI Copilots
The goal is to create a seamless workflow for users by providing access to information from both business applications in SAP and Microsoft 365, all without the need to switch platforms.
Microsoft's Aurora AI Makes Rapid Global Weather and Air Pollution Forecasts Possible
Its remarkable speed and accuracy could revolutionize decision-making in fields such as public health, agriculture, and transportation.