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  • Microsoft 365 Services Back Up After Hours of Outage That Affected Thousands

    Microsoft said on Monday that it had restored its online services after an outage affected thousands of users of its 365 software suite, including Teams and Outlook, for more than two hours. Access to its productivity software such as Word and Excel was down for nearly 18,000 users at its peak before easing to 906 […] More

  • Elon Musk Threatens Lawsuit After Microsoft Removes Twitter From Ad Platform

    Twitter chief Elon Musk has threatened to sue Microsoft after the technology giant announced plans to drop his social media company from its advertising platform. “They trained illegally using Twitter data. Lawsuit time,” Musk tweeted. The tech giant earlier in a notice said that its advertising platform “will no longer support Twitter” from April 25. […] More

  • Elon Musk to Take on Google, Microsoft in AI Race; Will Create ‘Truth-Seeking’ AI

    Elon Musk to Take on Google, Microsoft in AI Race; Will Create 'Truth-Seeking' AI

    Elon Musk is out to counter Microsoft and Google artificial intelligence efforts with “truth-seeking AI” that shuns political correctness, he said during an interview aired late Monday. The billionaire boss of Twitter and Tesla voiced anew his concerns about the danger of AI, saying it has “the potential of civilizational destruction.” He said he was […] More

  • Amazon Releases New Cloud Tools to Help Build Chatbots as AI Competition With Microsoft, Google Heats Up

    Amazon Releases New Cloud Tools to Help Build Chatbots as AI Competition With Microsoft, Google Heats Up

    Amazon.com’s cloud computing division on Thursday released a suite of technologies aimed at helping other companies develop their own chatbots and image-generation services backed by artificial intelligence.  Microsoft and Alphabet are adding AI chatbots to consumer products like their search engines, but they are also eying another huge market: selling the underlying technology to other […] More

  • Microsoft Adds Bing AI Chatbot to SwiftKey Keyboard on Android and iOS: All Details

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    Microsoft Adds Bing AI Chatbot to SwiftKey Keyboard on Android and iOS: All Details

    Microsoft SwiftKey keyboard app is getting the new AI-powered Bing chat search engine based on the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) technology. With this latest integration, users can chat with the bot directly from their mobile keyboard, customise their texts and search for things without swapping between apps. Bing offers three new key features on SwiftKey […] More

  • Microsoft Adds Bing Chat AI to SwiftKey Keyboard for Android: All Details

    Microsoft Adds Bing Chat AI to SwiftKey Keyboard for Android: All Details

    Microsoft has now introduced the Bing chatbot to the SwiftKey keyboard on Android devices. This will let users chat with Bing on any app that uses SwiftKey. The new feature is rolling out to SwiftKey beta users. With the latest integration, users will be able to rewrite any text right within the keyboard as well […] More

  • India Among Top 3 Markets for ChatGPT-Powered Bing Search Engine, Says Microsoft

    India has emerged as one of the top three markets for Microsoft’s new Bing preview, which has ChatGPT incorporated into it, and is its biggest image creator market, a senior company official has said, asserting that the search engine is much better than its rival Google. Powered by ChatGPT, Microsoft launched the new Bing preview […] More

  • Microsoft, US Reach $3 Million Settlement for Over 1,300 Violations of Export Restrictions

    The United States and Microsoft reached a settlement on Thursday over the tech firm’s apparent violations of sanctions and export controls, which it disclosed voluntarily, the government and the company said. Microsoft has agreed to remit about $3 million (roughly Rs. 24 crore) to settle its potential civil liability for more than 1,300 apparent sanctions […] More

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    Microsoft Must Do More to Resolve Antitrust Complaints, Say Rivals, as EU Regulators Mull Investigation

    Microsoft’s initial offer to address EU antitrust complaints filed by rivals is insufficient and the US software giant needs to do more, German software provider Nextcloud said, as regulators consider whether to open a formal investigation. French cloud computing services provider and complainant OVHcloud is also waiting for a more concrete proposal from Microsoft, a person […] More

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    Microsoft Confirms It Is Utilising OpenAI’s GPT-4 on Bing Search Engine

    Microsoft, at an event in early February 2023, announced that it would integrate OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology into its search engine Bing. The new ChatGPT-powered Bing has now been confirmed to run on OpenAI’s latest multimodal large language model, GPT-4 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4), which is the fourth such model created by OpenAI in the GPT […] More