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Microsoft signs nearly $9.7 billion contract with IREN for Nvidia chips

The move is the latest attempt by Microsoft to boost AI and data center infrastructure at a time when AI demand is outstripping cloud capacity at Big Tech companies

Indian-origin techie who disrupted Microsoft event explains why she quit

Agrawal publicly resigned from the company during its 50th anniversary event last week, accusing Microsoft cloud and AI of enabling "the Israeli military to be more lethal and destructive in Gaza"

Microsoft removes employees from meeting for protesting AI deal with Israel

In October, Microsoft fired two employees for organising an unsanctioned lunchtime vigil for Palestinian refugees at its headquarters

Microsoft to invest $3.2 billion to expand AI, cloud infra in Sweden

The investment, Microsoft's biggest to date in Sweden, includes a pledge to help train some 250,000 people with AI skills

Windows 11 24H2: Microsoft's next big OS update is coming later this year

Windows 11 version 24H2 to be the annual feature update for Windows this year, announced Microsoft

Microsoft's OpenAI investment risks merger probe, say EU regulators

The U.S. software giant, which last year committed to invest over $10 billion into OpenAI with a non-voting position on the board, has said it does not own any portion of OpenAI

Microsoft to train 100,000 Indian developers in AI technologies, tools

The developers will be trained under Microsoft's AI Odyssey initiative. The month-long programme is open to all, without any experience or background preference required

Altman's firing and reinstatement; What does it mean for the future of AI?

It's been quite a week for ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and co-founder Sam Altman. Altman, who helped start OpenAI as a nonprofit research lab back in 2015, was removed as CEO Friday in a sudden and mostly unexplained exit that stunned the industry. And while his chief executive title was swiftly reinstated just days later, a lot of questions are still up in the air. If you're just catching up on the OpenAI saga and what's at stake for the artificial intelligence space as a whole, you've come to the right place. Here's a rundown of what you need to know. WHO IS SAM ALTMAN AND HOW DID HE RISE TO FAME? Altman is co-founder of OpenAI, the San Francisco-based company behind ChatGPT (yes, the chatbot that's seemingly everywhere today from schools to health care ). The explosion of ChatGPT since its arrival one year ago propelled Altman into the spotlight of the rapid commercialization of generative AI which can produce novel imagery, passages of text and other media. And as he became Silico

Satya and my top priority remains to ensure OpenAI thrives: Sam Altman

He said that the OpenAI and Microsoft partnership will make this very doable

Microsoft extends cloud lead over Alphabet, focuses on OpenAI, big clients

Gains in the shares of Microsoft were set to add about $90 billion to its market capitalization.

Windows 11: Microsoft rolls out September update packed with AI features

The September update to Windows 11 brings AI-powered Copilot, modern iterations of Microsoft apps such as Paint, and more

Google to launch ChatGPT competitor 'Bard', informs Sundar Pichai

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced that the tech giant will soon launch an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered chatbot called Bard', aimed at countering the popularity of the ChatGPT tool backed by Microsoft. According to a blog post by Pichai, the conversational AI service will be assessed by a group of trusted testers" before being rolled out to the public in the coming weeks. Bard can be an outlet for creativity, and a launchpad for curiosity," Pichai, the Indian-origin CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, said on Monday, adding that Google's chatbot will be able to explain complex subjects like new discoveries from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to a nine-year-old Google's announcement follows wide speculation that Microsoft is about to bring the AI chatbot ChatGPT to its search engine Bing, following a multi-billion dollar investment in the firm behind it, OpenAI, the BBC reported. ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer), which was launched in November

Microsoft's new AI tool 'VALL-E' can replicate any voice in just 3 seconds

The tool was trained on 60,000 hours of English speech data, reports Gizmochina

Microsoft extends updated AI research project to self-driving vehicles

AirSim provides realistic environments, vehicle dynamics and sensing for research into how autonomous vehicles that use AI that can operate safely in the open world