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US calls on Big Tech to help evade online censors in Russia, Iran

OTF's pitch to tech companies at the meeting was to help offer discounted or subsidized server bandwidth

Most Indian knowledge workers use AI at workplace, says Microsoft Report

AI is increasingly influencing the way people work as well as hire and India has one of the highest AI adoption rates among knowledge workers, says a report by Microsoft and LinkedIn. According to the India findings of the 2024 Annual Work Trend Index from Microsoft and LinkedIn, 92 per cent of knowledge workers in India use AI at work, as compared to the global figure of 75 per cent. However, a large majority, 91 per cent of leaders in India, also believe their companies need to adopt AI to stay competitive and 54 per cent worry their organisation lacks a plan and vision for implementation. The findings are based on a survey of 31,000 people in 31 countries, labour and hiring trends on LinkedIn, trillions of Microsoft 365 productivity signals and research with Fortune 500 customers. As per the report, AI skills are now a top priority when it comes to hiring, with 75 per cent stating they wouldn't hire someone lacking in AI skills, outpacing the global average of 66 per cent. "AI

Fuelled by AI, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet post better-than-expected sales

Many big customers have started spending again on cloud computing after pausing last year to cut costs, executives and analysts said

Microsoft set to invest $1.7 billion in cloud, AI in Indonesia: CEO Nadella

Microsoft will train 2.5 million people in Southeast Asia in AI use by 2025, Nadella said

Including evidence in question confuses ChatGPT, lowers accuracy: Study

Asking ChatGPT a health-related question that included evidence was seen to confuse the AI-powered bot and affect its ability to produce accurate answers, according to new research. Scientists were "not sure" why this happens, but they hypothesised that including the evidence in the question "adds too much noise", thereby lowering the chatbot's accuracy. They said that as large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT explode in popularity, there is potential risk to the growing number of people using online tools for key health information. LLMs are trained on massive amounts of textual data and hence are capable of producing content in the natural language. The researchers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia, investigated a hypothetical scenario of an average person asking ChatGPT if 'X' treatment has a positive effect on condition 'Y'. They looked at two question formats - either just a question

Still trying to evict elite Russian government hackers, says Microsoft

Microsoft said on Friday it's still trying to evict the elite Russian government hackers who broke into the email accounts of senior company executives in November and who it said have been trying to breach customer networks with stolen access data. The hackers from Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service used data obtained in the intrusion, which it disclosed in mid-January, to compromise some source-code repositories and internal systems, the software giant said in a blog and a regulatory filing. A company spokesman would not characterise what source code was accessed and what capability the hackers gained to further compromise customer and Microsoft systems. Microsoft said on Friday that the hackers stole secrets from email communications between the company and unspecified customers cryptographic secrets such as passwords, certificates and authentication keys and that it was reaching out to them to assist in taking mitigating measures. Cloud-computing company Hewlett Packard

83% Indians would delegate as much work as possible to AI: Microsoft report

More than three fourth of people in India surveyed are willing to delegate as much work as possible to artificial intelligence, a Microsoft report said on Thursday. According to Microsoft Work Trend Index 2023 report, 90 per cent of Indian leaders say employees they hire will need new skills to be prepared for the growth of AI (articial intelligence). The research based on a survey of 31,000 people across 31 countries, including about 1,000 from India found that 74 per cent of Indian workers say they're worried AI will replace their jobs. "Research shows 83 per cent of Indian employees are willing to delegate as much work as possible to AI to lessen their workload," the report said. More than 3 in 4 Indian leaders (84 per cent) said that they are concerned about lack of innovation. "The primary culprit disrupting productivity is inefficient meetings, as reported by 46 per cent of Indian workers who feel that their absence in half or more of their meetings would go unnoticed by ...

83% Indian employees willing to delegate work to AI to reduce workload

76% of Indian workers claim that they face a time crunch and are unable to get their work done in time

Microsoft rolls out Edge's AI image generator to everyone on desktop

Microsoft has announced that its OpenAI's DALL-E-powered AI image generator is now available on desktop for Edge users around the world.

Need a better reason to come to office, 80% of Indian employees say: Report

According to the 2022 Work Trend Index Pulse Report conducted by Microsoft, 91 per cent of the employees want to go to the office on the prospect of socialising with their co-workers

Hybrid work creating disconnect between employees, leaders: survey

Hybrid work environment is widening the gap between employees and leaders with 80 per cent employees looking for better reasons to go into office while 91 per cent leaders find it challenging to have confidence in employees productivity, a Microsoft survey report said on Thursday. The survey which covered over 20,000 full-time or self-employed people in 11 countries, including 2,000 in India, found that 91 per cent of Indian employees willing to work from office if they can socialize with co-workers. "93 per cent of leaders in India say getting employees back to the office in-person is a concern. The report finds that people are more likely to come in for each other than any other reason. 80 per cent of employees in India say they need a better reason to go into the office besides company expectations," the report said. The survey was conducted between July 7 and August 2. According to the survey 47 per cent of employees and 58 per cent of leaders in India report that they are alre

As managers, workers clash on WFH, companies resort to surveillance tools

A Microsoft survey revealed that 87 per cent of bosses say that the workers worked less efficiently from home as compared to the office, and 80 per cent of workers said otherwise

Teams feature now available through Microsoft Store on Windows 11, 10

Years after its launch, Microsoft's video collaboration tool Teams has finally made its way to the tech giant's Store on Windows 11 and Windows 10.

More young employees are quitting their jobs: Survey by Microsoft Corp

Among Gen Z and millennials, or workers under age 41, 52 per cent in Microsoft's poll said they might switch jobs

3 in 4 Indian workers keen on flexible remote work, says Microsoft report

While more than 3 in 4 Indian workers are keen on flexible remote work options, 57 per cent employees feel overworked as digital intensity increases in the country, a new Microsoft report showed

Religion, politics spark uncivil online conversations in India: Survey

According to a report by Microsoft, topics like sexual orientation (40 per cent), religion (39 per cent) and politics (37 per cent) drove incivility the most in online conversations in India

Microsoft survey: Indians are more likely to encounter online fake news

India also showed drop in positive actions taken following online risk exposure