Microsoft Announces New Steps to Combat AI-Enabled Misinformation Ahead of Major Elections
Through multi-pronged steps like content authentication and partnerships, Microsoft aims to promote secure and trustworthy elections.
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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.
Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub Now Includes Free AI Chips
Microsoft is strategically targeting startups focused on pioneering AI innovation, beginning with a private preview for companies in the Y Combinator accelerator program.
Microsoft Taps Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Support the Explosive Growth of AI Services
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.
Microsoft Partners with Inworld AI to Bring Generative AI to Xbox Game Creation
Together, they will deliver an AI toolset for narrative and character design to be integrated into Xbox's creation engine.
Microsoft Outlines Its Generative AI Roadmap for US Government
Its new roadmap aims to bring cutting-edge generative AI to mission-critical workloads across the public sector.
Siemens and Microsoft Unveil AI-Powered Industrial Copilot to Enhance Productivity
The companies envision copilots for manufacturing, infrastructure, transportation and healthcare.
Microsoft Commits $3.2 Billion to Expand Cloud and AI in Australia
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.
Microsoft Launches AI Bug Bounty Program for Bing Chat
Researchers who provide qualified submissions demonstrating concrete security issues will receive bounties ranging from $2,000 to $15,000.
Microsoft Unveils New Healthcare-Specific Data and AI Tools
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.
Microsoft to Unveil In-House AI Chip, Reducing Reliance on NVIDIA
The chip reveal will likely occur at Microsoft's Ignite conference in Seattle starting November 14th.
Microsoft's New Initiative to Accelerate Foundation AI Model Research
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.
LinkedIn Unveils New AI-Powered Products to Enhance Hiring, Learning, Marketing and Sales
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.
DALL-E 3 Capabilities Are Now Available in Bing Chat and Bing Image Creator
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.
Microsoft Rolls Out Major Windows 11 Update With AI Capabilities
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.
Microsoft to Bring Sponsored Links in Snapchat’s My AI chatbot
The collaboration utilizes Microsoft's conversational Chat Ads API to serve relevant ads within Snapchat's highly engaging AI assistant.
How to Block or Include Your Website Content in Microsoft Bing Chat
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.
Microsoft Unveils AI Assistant Microsoft Copilot, Adds New AI Features to Products
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.
GitHub Copilot Chat Beta Now Available to Copilot for Individual Users
Copilot Chat does not merely assist in coding but also offers real-time guidance, code analysis, and troubleshooting options.
Microsoft Proposes InstructDiffusion for Unified Computer Vision Modeling
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.
Paige and Microsoft are Building the World's Largest AI Model to Detect Cancer
The companies believe the model will enable major leaps in accuracy as well as entirely new capabilities for cancer detection and diagnostics.
Microsoft Pledges Legal Protection for Customers Against AI-Generated Copyright Claims
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.
How Amazon Missed Early Chances to Partner With OpenAI, Cohere and Anthropic
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.
Microsoft Celebrates Six Months of AI-powered Bing
During this period, Bing has seen over 1 billion chats and over 750 million images.
London Stock Exchange Group is Partnering with Microsoft to Build Custom AI Models
By collaborating to develop bespoke models, LSEG and Microsoft hope to provide clients with AI solutions tailored to their specific needs and competitive interests.
Project Rumi: Augmenting AI Understanding Through Multimodal Paralinguistic Prompting
New research from Microsoft aims to help AI understand non-verbal cues like facial expressions, tone of voice, gestures, and more