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Amazon stock soars as AI and retail strength power revenue growth

The company joined Microsoft and other tech firms in starting to see results benefiting from their heavy AI investments, while also outlining more spending in 2024 to develop the much-hyped tech

Microsoft to add support for extensions on Edge browser for Android: Report

Extensions support would allow users to install add-ons for specific tasks on the Microsoft Edge browser for Android, similar to the desktop version

Microsoft, Google woo India programmers to win AI leadership in the country

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella will address developers and technologists on "discovering new opportunities with AI" during a visit next week in Bangalore

As AI shifts tech globally, it's India's time to shine: Microsoft's Chandok

India will be one of the biggest contributors and beneficiaries, according to Puneet Chandok, president of India and South Asia at Microsoft

Microsoft touts AI strength, but shares dip as market digests costs

There are now 53,000 Azure AI customers, a third of whom were new to the service in the past 12 months, Nadella told analysts on a conference call

Reliance Industries most valuable Indian company: Hurun Global 500 2023

The two companies that saw the highest valuation gain were Microsoft and Nvidia. Both of these are associated with the artificial intelligence software ChatGPT

AI robot startup Figure in talks for funding round led by Microsoft, OpenAI

Figure is a US-based AI Robotics company building the commercially viable autonomous humanoid robots

Microsoft, Alphabet stocks under pressure to show AI earnings boost

Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc., two of the biggest players in AI-related software, will report after the market close

Microsoft Xbox app for iOS and Android gets touch controls for select games

Touch controls would allow users to remote control their Xbox consoles and play games on their smartphones and tablets without necessitating a wireless controller

Microsoft Teams outage blocks access, limits features for some users

Microsoft Teams is experiencing an outage that has blocked access and limited features for some users. The issue began around 11 a.m. Eastern Time Friday and grew rapidly in scope, according to outage tracker DownDetector. Users have complained of an inability to access the service, delays in sending and receiving messages, and issues displaying graphics. Microsoft said in messages on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, that it has identified a networking issue impacting a portion of the Teams service and had moved the affected processes to a backup system.

US antitrust inquiry targets OpenAI, Anthropic's deals with big tech firms

In a statement, Microsoft said it would provide the FTC information to complete its review and that collaboration by American companies put the US ahead in AI

FTC launches inquiry into AI deals such as Microsoft's OpenAI partnership

US antitrust enforcers are opening an investigation into the relationships between leading artificial intelligence startups such as ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Anthropic and the tech giants that have invested billions of dollars into them. We're scrutinising whether these ties enable dominant firms to exert undue influence or gain privileged access in ways that could undermine fair competition, said Lina Khan, chair of the US Federal Trade Commission, in opening remarks at a Thursday AI forum. The FTC said it has issued compulsory orders to five companies requiring them to provide information regarding investments and partnerships. All of the leading cloud providers Amazon, Google and Microsoft have made huge investments into AI firms, most notably Microsoft's close partnership with OpenAI. Both Google and Amazon have made multibillion-dollar deals with Anthropic, another San Francisco-based AI startup formed by former leaders at OpenAI. The European Union and the United Kingdom hav

Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard, Xbox employees: Report

Blizzard President Mike Ybarra and Chief Design Officer Allen Adham are also leaving the company, while a previously announced survival game by Blizzard has been canceled, the report said

Microsoft Translator adds two new languages, Chhattisgarhi and Manipuri

Further, the company now claims to cover more than 95 per cent of the Indian population in terms of its language support options in Microsoft Translator

Microsoft adds two more Indian languages to Translator, total tally at 20

Microsoft India on Thursday said it has added two new Indian languages - Chhattisgarhi and Manipuri - in Microsoft translator. With the latest move, Microsoft Translator now supports a total of 20 official Indian languages. These include Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu, as well as two other vernacular languages - Bhojpuri, and Chhattisgarhi, covering more than 95 per cent of the country's population. "The expansion beyond official languages underscores Microsoft's dedication to democratising technology," according to a release. Microsoft said inclusion of Chhattisgarhi and Manipuri is a testament to the company's commitment of supporting and empowering the linguistic diversity of India through its innovative language technologies and solutions. "Azure AI Translator not only enhances computing accessibility in official languages but also broade

Microsoft hits $3 trillion market value, cementing strength of AI rally

The stock rose as much as 1.3% to $403.95, resulting in a market capitalization of $3 trillion. The threshold cements Microsoft's status as one of the largest public stocks

Microsoft, others making tools to help small businesses capitalise on AI

The influx of generative artificial intelligence software is transforming small businesses. Small business owners are using AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Bard and others to check grammar in emails, punch up marketing copy and research business plans. What's more, bigger companies are developing tools specifically to help small businesses integrate AI into their operations in more advanced ways. Microsoft's Copilot lets users ask software to perform tasks like summarize an email or a Teams meeting, come up with key themes in a document, or draft emails in a conversational tone in Outlook. The service, which costs USD 30-a-month per employee, was recently expanded from companies with at least 300 employees to all companies, so smaller businesses even solopreneurs with no employees can use Copilot for Microsoft 365. Meanwhile, MasterCard is piloting a product called MasterCard Small Business AI, aimed at helping small business owners analyze data and offer other resource

Microsoft Corp's Bing, Edge to avoid EU's digital dominance crackdown

European Commission officials are leaning toward the reprieve for the US software giant as part of a five-month market investigation ending in February

OpenAI bans developer for bot mimicking US lawmaker, says repor

'We recently removed a developer account that was knowingly violating our API usage policies which disallow political campaigning, or impersonating an individual without consent,' OpenAI said

MachineGames reveals first look of upcoming Indiana Jones video game

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will be mostly first-person with occasional third-person moments for a more cinematic feel