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Microsoft Unveils Copilot Studio, a Low-Code Tool for Businesses to Customize and Build Their Own AI Assistants

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Chris McKay• November 15, 2023 • 2 min read

The suite allows users to easily tailor Copilot for Microsoft 365 to their unique enterprise scenarios, quickly develop, test, and publish both standalone copilots and custom GPTs, and effectively manage and secure these customizations with appropriate access, data, user controls, and analytics.

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GitHub Brings Copilot Chat to Web and Mobile Platforms

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Chris McKay• November 8, 2023 • 1 min read

These integrations aim to make Copilot available throughout the software development lifecycle.

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GitHub Copilot Chat Coming in December with Powerful New Capabilities

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Chris McKay• November 8, 2023 • 1 min read

The new features aim to boost productivity, offering an unprecedented level of AI-powered support in the coding process.

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Microsoft Announces New Steps to Combat AI-Enabled Misinformation Ahead of Major Elections

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Chris McKay• November 8, 2023 • 2 min read

Through multi-pronged steps like content authentication and partnerships, Microsoft aims to promote secure and trustworthy elections.

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Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub Now Includes Free AI Chips

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Chris McKay• November 7, 2023 • 2 min read

Microsoft is strategically targeting startups focused on pioneering AI innovation, beginning with a private preview for companies in the Y Combinator accelerator program.

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Microsoft Taps Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Support the Explosive Growth of AI Services

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Chris McKay• November 7, 2023 • 2 min read

The partnership highlights how major cloud platforms are adapting to meet the exploding computational requirements of modern AI systems. Both Oracle and Microsoft have invested heavily in specialized hardware, interconnects, and services purpose-built for machine learning.

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Microsoft Partners with Inworld AI to Bring Generative AI to Xbox Game Creation

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Chris McKay• November 6, 2023 • 2 min read

Together, they will deliver an AI toolset for narrative and character design to be integrated into Xbox's creation engine.

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Microsoft Outlines Its Generative AI Roadmap for US Government

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Chris McKay• October 31, 2023 • 2 min read

Its new roadmap aims to bring cutting-edge generative AI to mission-critical workloads across the public sector.

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Siemens and Microsoft Unveil AI-Powered Industrial Copilot to Enhance Productivity

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Chris McKay• October 31, 2023 • 1 min read

The companies envision copilots for manufacturing, infrastructure, transportation and healthcare.

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Microsoft Commits $3.2 Billion to Expand Cloud and AI in Australia

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Chris McKay• October 23, 2023 • 1 min read

In addition to added data center capacity, the funds will support cybersecurity partnerships, digital skills training for 300,000 Australians, and the launch of a datacenter academy to develop technical talent.

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Microsoft Launches AI Bug Bounty Program for Bing Chat

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Chris McKay• October 16, 2023 • 2 min read

Researchers who provide qualified submissions demonstrating concrete security issues will receive bounties ranging from $2,000 to $15,000.

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Microsoft Unveils New Healthcare-Specific Data and AI Tools

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Chris McKay• October 10, 2023 • 3 min read

At the heart of these innovations is Microsoft Fabric. Introduced earlier this year as a comprehensive analytics platform, Microsoft has now imbued Fabric with healthcare-specific solutions.

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Microsoft to Unveil In-House AI Chip, Reducing Reliance on NVIDIA

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Chris McKay• October 6, 2023 • 2 min read

The chip reveal will likely occur at Microsoft's Ignite conference in Seattle starting November 14th.

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Microsoft's New Initiative to Accelerate Foundation AI Model Research

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Chris McKay• October 5, 2023 • 2 min read

A diverse research ecosystem is essential to realizing the promise of AI. AFMR aims to expand access to powerful models, engaging academics outside of computer science to pursue a broad range of important opportunities.

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LinkedIn Unveils New AI-Powered Products to Enhance Hiring, Learning, Marketing and Sales

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Chris McKay• October 3, 2023 • 3 min read

The new features leverage large language models, generative AI, and other innovations from Microsoft and OpenAI to add automation, insights, and intelligence to LinkedIn's offerings.

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DALL-E 3 Capabilities Are Now Available in Bing Chat and Bing Image Creator

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Chris McKay• October 3, 2023 • 3 min read

DALL-E 3 improves upon previous versions in several ways. The new model delivers higher overall image quality with greater detail, especially for human faces, hands, and text.

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Microsoft Rolls Out Major Windows 11 Update With AI Capabilities

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Chris McKay• September 26, 2023 • 2 min read

The company is focused on infusing AI throughout native Windows apps to enhance workflows. Updates to Paint, Snipping Tool, Photos, and Clipchamp introduce new intelligence-driven features.

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Microsoft to Bring Sponsored Links in Snapchat’s My AI chatbot

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Chris McKay• September 25, 2023 • 2 min read

The collaboration utilizes Microsoft's conversational Chat Ads API to serve relevant ads within Snapchat's highly engaging AI assistant.

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How to Block or Include Your Website Content in Microsoft Bing Chat

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Chris McKay• September 24, 2023 • 2 min read

Now, publishers can make informed decisions about how their content is utilized in Bing Chat and during the training phases of Microsoft's generative AI foundation models.

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Microsoft Unveils AI Assistant Microsoft Copilot, Adds New AI Features to Products

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Chris McKay• September 21, 2023 • 2 min read

The company announced the general availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot on November 1 for commercial users alongside a new AI chatbot dubbed Microsoft 365 Chat.

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GitHub Copilot Chat Beta Now Available to Copilot for Individual Users

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Chris McKay• September 20, 2023 • 2 min read

Copilot Chat does not merely assist in coding but also offers real-time guidance, code analysis, and troubleshooting options.

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Microsoft Proposes InstructDiffusion for Unified Computer Vision Modeling

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Chris McKay• September 9, 2023 • 4 min read

The model offers a promising concept for developing adaptable, generalist vision models. By mimicking how humans process images, it points towards more universal and flexible AI to handle diverse vision challenges.

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Paige and Microsoft are Building the World's Largest AI Model to Detect Cancer

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Chris McKay• September 9, 2023 • 2 min read

The companies believe the model will enable major leaps in accuracy as well as entirely new capabilities for cancer detection and diagnostics.

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Microsoft Pledges Legal Protection for Customers Against AI-Generated Copyright Claims

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Chris McKay• September 7, 2023 • 2 min read

Microsoft will provide legal protection to its commercial customers against third-party copyright infringement lawsuits, provided they adhere to Microsoft's established guardrails and content filters.

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How Amazon Missed Early Chances to Partner With OpenAI, Cohere and Anthropic

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Chris McKay• August 30, 2023 • 3 min read

In spite of AWS's predominance in cloud infrastructure services, accounting for 40% of global spending, its hiccups in AI development could become increasingly costly.