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IIT alumnus Pavan Davuluri to take charge of Microsoft Windows, Surface

Davuluri will lead a team focused on developing silicon systems for Microsoft's Windows and Surface products

Battling the giants: The trustbuster who has Apple and Google in his sights

Kanter has become a lead architect of the most significant effort in decades to fight the concentration of power in corporate America

Microsoft unveils AI-powered Surface Pro 10, Laptop 6 business laptops

The Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 are powered by Intel Core Ultra processors and feature a dedicated Copilot button

DeepMind, Inflection AI to Microsoft AI CEO: Who is Mustafa Suleyman

Mustafa Suleyman has co-founded two AI firms, a global social impact company, and established a mental health support helpline. Here is everything you need to know about Microsoft AI's next CEO

Microsoft hires DeepMind Co-Founder Suleyman to run consumer AI business

Suleyman, who co-founded Google's DeepMind, will report to Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella and oversee a range of projects, such as integrating an AI Copilot into Windows

EU antitrust row: Microsoft says Google has a competitive edge in gen AI

Microsoft said that encouraging pro-competitive partnerships in the AI space is an effective way to prevent companies from gaining anticompetitive advantage

Global corporate dividends hit record $1.66 trn in 2023 amid bank payouts

The world's biggest dividend payers in 2023 were Microsoft , followed by Apple and Exxon Mobil

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

OpenAI's Sam Altman returns to company's board after probe clears him

Altman is rejoining the company's board following the findings

Microsoft schedules Copilot, Windows, and Surface event for Mar 21: Details

Microsoft is expected to launch Surface Pro 10 and Laptop 6 powered by Intel and Qualcomm Snapdragon X-series chips, respectively

With Microsoft ending support, Android apps will not work on Windows 11 PCs

Windows 11 users can no longer download and install Android apps on PCs through Windows Subsystem for Android service, but can access already installed apps until March 2025

Forced to change: Tech giants bow to global onslaught of regulations

Apple, Google, Meta operated unfettered for years. But new laws have compelled them to make major shifts to their businesses

Microsoft to integrate Copilot AI in OneDrive cloud storage: Details here

Microsoft Copilot in OneDrive will be available on the web client and in the file viewer on Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint with support for limited languages, including English

Microsoft Windows 11 update: Everything new coming to Windows PCs in March

Among the new features coming to Windows 11 are the updated Phone Link app with a feature to use connected smartphone's camera as PC webcam and new Copilot AI skills for controlling PC settings

Need for innovation to deal with challenges greater than ever: Bill Gates

The need for innovation to deal with different challenges is greater than ever, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates said Thursday, asserting that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the most transformative technology he has seen in his lifetime. Addressing students at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, he encouraged them to leverage the technology for social good and asserted that the AI advances will give them opportunities as well as force them to think through the new systems. "I am looking at India in a far broader way. I am lucky enough, through the work of the foundation, to look at innovators who can help with all kinds of problems -- starting with health, but also agriculture, gender, and climate. We need fantastic Indian innovation," Gates said during his keynote address on "Innovation for Public Good". "The need for innovation to deal with many different challenges is greater than ever. You are all lucky to be here and have gotten an incredible ...

Bill Gates visits Microsoft's India Development Center in Hyderabad

Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates visited the tech giant's India Development Center (IDC) in Hyderabad, the company said. Gates addressed some of India's brightest engineering minds at the IDC, Rajiv Kumar, Managing Director, Microsoft IDC, and CVP, Experiences + Devices India said as he shared Gates' "optimism over the opportunity for an AI-powered India". "History comes full circle as philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates paid a visit to the Microsoft India Development Center (IDC)...a center of innovation he envisioned in 1998," the company said in a note capturing Gates' Tuesday visit. The development centre is celebrating its 25th year of research, engineering, and development, marking its pivotal role in shaping world-class products such as Azure, Windows, Office, Bing, Copilot, and other AI applications, according to the company. "It was rewarding to watch Bill address some of India's brightest engineering minds at IDC, our biggest .

Soon, you could set Microsoft Copilot as default assistant on Android phone

Microsoft Copilot app for Android offers free access to OpenAI's GPT-4 language model and DALL-E3 image generation tool

Microsoft's GitHub offers companies souped-up premium AI coding tool

GitHub, which lets programmers collaborate on coding projects, has been infusing AI into products and services in an effort to attract more subscribers

Microsoft's new deal with France's Mistral AI comes under EU lens

The European Union is looking into Microsoft's partnership with French startup Mistral AI as part of its broader review of the booming generative artificial intelligence sector to see if it raises any competition concerns. The 27-nation bloc's executive commission said Tuesday in a brief statement that it's analyzing the agreement between the two companies announced a day earlier. Microsoft declined to comment. Mistral did not respond to a request for comment. Microsoft said Monday it was teaming up with Mistral through a 15 million euro ($16 million) investment in the French company, which emerged less than a year ago. The agreement could cut the US software giant's reliance on ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for supplying the next wave of chatbots and other generative AI products. The commission, the EU's top antitrust enforcer, said it's including the deal as part of its broader review of the generative AI market. It's examining agreements between digital tech giants and generative AI ...

Microsoft signs multi-year deal with OpenAI's French rival Mistral

The multi-year deal signals Microsoft's efforts to offer a variety of AI models beyond its biggest bet in OpenAI as the tech giant seeks to attract more customers for its Azure cloud services