Microsoft is prepared to abandon its high-stakes negotiations with OpenAI over the future of its alliance, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The tech giant has considered pausing discussions with the ChatGPT maker if the two sides remain unable to agree on critical issues such as the size of Microsoft’s future stake in OpenAI, the […]
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Indirect carbon emissions from the operations of four of the leading AI-focused tech companies rose on average by 150% from 2020-2023, due to the demands of power-hungry data centres, a United Nations report said on Thursday. The use of artificial intelligence by Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta drove up their global indirect emissions because of […]
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More than 184 million passwords may have been compromised in a new massive data leak. According to cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who first discovered and reported the massive data breach, an unsecured database that contained millions of emails, passwords and authorisation URLs for apps and websites, including Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Instagram, Snapchat and others, […]
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The debate over whether the use of artificial intelligence tools is leading to fewer roles for software engineers and coders has been ongoing for over a year. While some initially argued that AI would augment the average worker’s efficiency rather than replace them, it seems the latter is becoming a reality—at least in big tech. […]
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The debate over whether the use of artificial intelligence tools is leading to fewer roles for software engineers and coders has been ongoing for over a year. While some initially argued that AI would augment the average worker’s efficiency rather than replace them, it seems the latter is becoming a reality—at least in big tech. […]
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission dropped a case that sought to block Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard, saying on Thursday that pursuing the case against the long-closed deal was not in the public interest. FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson is seeking to use the agency’s resources for cases that fit […]
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OpenAI and Microsoft are rewriting terms of their multibillion-dollar partnership in a negotiation designed to allow the ChatGPT maker to launch a future IPO, while protecting the software giant’s access to cutting-edge AI models, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. A critical issue is how much equity in OpenAI’s new for-profit business Microsoft will receive […]
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Thousands of people swooned in a dark conference hall that felt more like a rock concert when a Microsoft product manager demonstrated the company’s latest feature: how to sum numbers in Excel, with the click of a button.“It was literally like Mick Jagger walked out,” said Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s consumer chief marketing officer, who started […]
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Microsoft-backed OpenAI has kept ChatGPT app off-limits to users in China but the app is attracting huge interest in the country. | Photo Credit: Reuters China’s Ministry of Science and Technology said on Friday said it saw the potential of ChatGPT-like tech and would be pushing for the integration of artificial intelligence into Chinese society […]
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Photo used for representational purpose only. | Photo Credit: Reuters Microsoft said on Monday that it intercepted over 1,200 password attacks every second and this number was only on the rise. There has been an increase in cyber threats, compounded by economic uncertainty, and to combat these threats, organisations need to step up their identity […]
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