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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

Microsoft brings 'Generative Erase' feature to Photos app on Windows 11, 10

Generative Erase is one of the first AI-powered image editing tool that will be available on Windows 10

Intel signs Microsoft as foundry customer, says on track to overtake TSMC

It said Microsoft will use its 18A technology to make an undisclosed chip and that it now expects $15 billion of foundry orders

Microsoft develops AI server gear to lessen reliance on Nvidia: Report

The new network card is similar to Nvidia's ConnectX-7 card, which the chip developer sells alongside its graphic processor units (GPUs), the report added

Nvidia market rally: What's behind the US-based company's bull run?

The market data shows that the Nvidia's shares have rallied over 250 per cent in the last one year

Xbox exclusive games set to roll out on other consoles, confirms Microsoft

The initial release will likely include video game titles such as Hi-Fi Rush and Pentiment. Sea of Thieves and Grounded to follow soon, according to reports

OpenAI introduces AI model 'Sora' that turns text into minute-long videos

Social media giant Meta Platforms beefed up its image generation model Emu last year to add two AI-based features that can edit and generate videos from text prompts

US rivals beginning to use genAI in offensive cyber operations: Microsoft

Microsoft said Wednesday that U.S. adversaries chiefly Iran and North Korea and to a lesser extent Russia and China are beginning to use generative artificial intelligence to mount or organize offensive cyber operations. The technology giant said it detected and disrupted, in collaboration with business partner OpenAI, threats that used or attempted to exploit AI technology they had developed. In a blog post, the Redmond, Washington, company said the techniques were early-stage and neither particularly novel or unique but that it was important to expose them publicly as U.S. rivals leverage large-language models to expand their ability to breach networks and conduct influence operations. Cybersecurity firms have long used machine-learning on defense, principally to detect anomalous behavior in networks. But criminals and offensive hackers use it as well, and the introduction of large-language models led by OpenAI's ChatGPT upped that game of cat-and-mouse. Microsoft has invested

EU's new technology law exempts Apple's iMessage, Microsoft's Bing

European Union's new Digital Markets Act takes effect in three weeks' time

Microsoft to bring Xbox-exclusive games to PS5, Switch, and more: Report

Upcoming Indiana Jones video game could be available on other gaming consoles such as Sony PS5, according to news report

CERT-in issues high severity warning related to ChromeOS and Edge browser

CERT-in recommends that Google ChromeOS and Microsoft Edge browser users should immediately update to the latest version or install security patches

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

OpenAI's Altman in talks to raise funds for chips, AI initiative: Report

The amounts Altman has discussed are outlandishly large by the standards of corporate fundraising, the report added. Investors have valued OpenAI at more than $80 billion

Microsoft, Amazon-backed trade body CISPE in talks over EU dispute

A representative for Microsoft said the company continues 'to work constructively with CISPE to resolve concerns raised by European cloud providers'

FTC dings Microsoft over Activision Blizzard's 1,900 jobs cuts in court

The FTC said the layoffs show that the merger created areas of overlap and the court should have paused Microsoft's integration of the two companies while the agency completes its in-house trial

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella caps decade of change, tremendous growth

Satya Nadella marks his tenth year as Microsoft CEO on Sunday, capping a decade of stunning growth as he pivoted the slow-moving software giant into a laser focus on cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Microsoft's stock has soared by more than 1,000% since Nadella took the helm in 2014, compared to the more gradual 185% growth of the broader S&P 500. Microsoft now has a market value of $3 trillion more than any U.S. publicly traded company, including its longtime rival Apple. "Nadella's had the biggest transformation of a tech company potentially ever," said Wedbush Securities analyst Daniel Ives. The only one that would rival it was (Steve) Jobs coming back to Apple and turning it around with the iPhone. Microsoft has created $2.8 trillion in shareholder wealth in the past decade, meaning an investor who bought a $10,000 stake in Microsoft at the time Nadella took over and did nothing with those shares, would have a stake worth about $113,000 now. Our industry does not .