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Karnataka signs investment deals worth Rs 22,000 cr at Davos summit

Microsoft, Hitachi, Lulu Group among companies that commit projects in state

Microsoft Copilot Pro: What is on offer in a new subscription-based AI plan

The Microsoft Copilot Pro plan offers advanced capabilities to help individuals with writing, coding, designing and researching - compared to the free version of the AI chatbot

Microsoft introduces subscription based Copilot Pro AI to boost business

Microsoft now expects virtually all of its business customers to sign up, Corporate Vice President Jared Spataro said in an interview

Certainly important case: MoS IT on NYT lawsuit against OpenAI, Microsoft

Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said the NYT-OpenAI-Microsoft case is important and interesting one, and represents the broader issue of the nature of a relationship between those scraping internet and monetising from it versus the copyrighted content on the internet. Last Wednesday, New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright infringement, alleging that millions of its articles were used without consent to train chatbots and AI models, which now compete with it. "It is certainly a very important case. It is an issue that I have spoken about in the past in the context of social media and big tech platform versus Indian creators of content... "This is a broader issue of what is the relationship between those who scrape the internet and monetise from that scraping, versus the content that is on the internet that is copyrighted content," Chandrasekhar told PTI in a recent interview. He described the case as an "interesting" one. "We should all stay tuned... watch t

With $2.8 trn mcap Microsoft overtakes Apple as most valuable company

Shares of Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft rose 1.5%, giving it market valuation of $2.888 trillion as early lead in race to make money from generative artificial intelligence helped draw investors

Samsung teams up with Microsoft for AI features on Galaxy Book 4 laptops

Samsung announced the Galaxy Book4 series in December 2023. The series comprises the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra (16-inch), Galaxy Book 4 Pro (14-inch and 16-inch), and Galaxy Book 4 Pro 360 (16-inch)

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

Software giant Microsoft adds AI button to keyboards to summon chatbots

Pressing a button will be one way to summon an artificial intelligence agent as Microsoft wields its computer industry influence to reshape the next generation of keyboards. Starting this month, some new personal computers that run Microsoft's Windows operating system will have a special Copilot key that launches the software giant's AI chatbot. Getting third-party computer manufacturers to add an AI button to laptops is the latest move by Microsoft to capitalize on its close partnership with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and make itself a gateway for applications of generative AI technology. Although most people now connect to the internet and AI applications by phone rather than computer, it's a symbolic kickoff to what's expected to be an intensively competitive year as tech companies race to outdo each other in AI applications even as they haven't yet resolved all the ethical and legal ramifications. The New York Times last month sued both OpenAI and Microsoft alleging that tools like

After Android, Microsoft rolls Copilot app for Apple devices: Details here

The Copilot app is available for Apple iPhone and Apple iPads. OpenAI's GPT-4 model and DALL-E 3 power the Microsoft AI assistant for text responses and image generation capabilities

Microsoft rolls out major Copilot update on Edge for Android, iOS: Details

Microsoft Copilot for Edge browser can now summarise YouTube videos and PDF files opened in the browser

Microsoft's AI-focused Surface device with ARM chip is in the works: Report

Microsoft is expected to unveil the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 next year before the launch of the next Windows system, which is likely scheduled for late 2024

New York Times sues Microsoft, Open AI over copyright infringement

The technology firms relied on millions of copyrighted articles to train chatbots like ChatGPT and other features, allegedly causing billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages, the NYT said

Microsoft launches GPT4 and DALL-E powered Copilot app for Android: Details

Android is the first operating system outside Microsoft's own Windows to get its Copilot AI, which is a multi-modal AI powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 and DALL-E

Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 3 review: Portable laptop good for everyday use

The Copilot and GenAI features on the Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 3, though innovative, fall short of being strong selling points in their current experimental state

Coforge, Microsoft Azure join hands for new generative AI solution

The development comes after Coforge's recent launch of Coforge Quasar, a Gen AI Platform designed to build Enterprise AI capabilities

Adobe calls off $20 bn deal to acquire Figma after pushback from Europe

Adobe's planned $20 billion acquisition of online design company Figma is being called off due to pushback in Europe over antitrust concerns, the companies said Monday. The companies announced the cash-and-stock deal in September 2022, seeking a path with Figma's web-based, multi-player capabilities to accelerate the delivery of Adobe's creative cloud technologies on the web. Although both companies continue to believe in the merits and procompetitive benefits of the combination, Adobe and Figma mutually agreed to terminate the transaction based on a joint assessment that there is no clear path to receive necessary regulatory approvals from the European Commission and the UK Competition and Markets Authority, Adobe and Figma said in a prepared statement on Monday. US companies have regularly run into roadblocks in Europe over similar concerns of monopolies. Biotech giant Illumina on Sunday said that it will undo its $7.1 billion purchase of the cancer-screening company Grail after

Panic, hype: 2023, the year we played with artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence went mainstream in 2023 it was a long time coming yet has a long way to go for the technology to match people's science fiction fantasies of human-like machines. Catalysing a year of AI fanfare was ChatGPT. The chatbot gave the world a glimpse of recent advances in computer science even if not everyone figured out quite how it works or what to do with it. I would call this an inflection moment, pioneering AI scientist Fei-Fei Li said. 2023 is, in history, hopefully going to be remembered for the profound changes of the technology as well as the public awakening. It also shows how messy this technology is. It was a year for people to figure out what this is, how to use it, what's the impact all the good, the bad and the ugly," she said. PANIC OVER AI The first AI panic of 2023 set in soon after New Year's Day when classrooms reopened and schools from Seattle to Paris started blocking ChatGPT. Teenagers were already asking the chatbot released in late 2022

Top five companies account for 16% of India mcap, lower than DMs

Among the top 10 nations in terms of market value, Saudi Arabia has the largest concentration, with top five companies accounting for over 80 per cent of its market value

Microsoft reaches agreement on union contract terms governing its AI use

Microsoft has revamped almost its entire product lineup, including Office, Windows, search and security software, to add features based on OpenAI technology

Vaishali Kasture resigns as AWS India's interim country head in five months

Vaishali Kasture had taken over from the former president of commercial business, Puneet Chandok, in July this year