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Microsoft's $69 bn Activision takeover deal gets boost from UK regulators

The narrowing of the probe echoes a similar step at European Union level where the bloc is said to be only focusing on cloud gaming services.

OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT plugins that let chatbot browse internet

The company said that it will start providing access to plugins with a small set of users and plan to gradually roll out larger-scale access as they learn more

Microsoft GitHub launches AI-powered Copilot X, adopts GPT-4 model

Copilot X allows software developers to automatically complete comments and code, make personalisation

GitHub launches AI-powered Copilot X, adopts OpenAI's GPT-4 model

The company is bringing a chat interface -- 'Copilot chat' to the editor, which will be focused on developer scenarios and natively integrate with VS Code and Visual Studio

Microsoft introduces 'Bing Image Creator' powered by OpenAI's DALL-E

Bing Image Creator integrated into Bing chat has started to roll out to Bing preview users, also it is available in Microsoft Edge from the Image Creator icon in the sidebar

Google launches early access to its AI chatbot Bard for experiment

Google has announced that it is opening up access to its ChatGPT competitor "Bard" as an early experiment for users to collaborate with generative AI.

Neo to partner with OpenAI, Microsoft to give free software, advice to cos

The startups also will get access to researchers and mentors at Microsoft and OpenAI

Hackers targeted Microsoft, Google, Apple via zero-day exploitation in 2022

Researchers have tracked 55 zero-day vulnerabilities that were exploited in 2022 by the hackers, most targeting Microsoft, Google and Apple products, a new report has shown.

Microsoft to build its own mobile games store to compete Apple, Google

Last month, Microsoft formally received an antitrust warning from the European Union over its bid to acquire Activision Blizzard

Microsoft may integrate Crypto Wallet feature into its Edge browser

It comes secured by a password, along with a trusted recovery method if users ever lose their password, the report said

Microsoft AI Bing's new feature lets users share chat responses on Facebook

Tech giant Microsoft has introduced a new feature which allows users to share AI-powered Bing chat responses with others on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, email or using a persistent link

Apple, Microsoft dominance on stock indexes grows in benchmark overhaul

Tech will remain by far the largest of the 11 industries in the S&P 500. It accounts for 29% of the S&P 500, its highest in more than a year, and up from a January low of 25.3%

OpenAI announces its subscription service 'ChatGPT Plus' in India

A subscription enables a customer to use ChatGPT even during peak usage hours, as well as to receive faster responses and priority access to new features and improvements

Even Bing admits Google is better in a chat with the improved search engine

Microsoft launched its new and improved search engine Bing. Is the age of AI truly upon users? BS finds out.

Microsoft to bring OpenAI's chatbot tech to Outlook, Word, Power Point

AI-powered assistants called Copilots will be able to generate whole documents, emails and slide decks from knowledge the software has gained scanning corporate files and listening to conference calls

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Microsoft is bringing AI to its productivity apps

The Microsoft 365 Copilot is integrated in the productivity apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. Below is how it will work on each of these apps

Microsoft releasing early access version of Minecraft game on Chromebooks

Early access means that in this first stage, only specific Chromebook devices which meet the minimum requirements will receive the option to purchase Minecraft

Is Xi Jinping a good leader? Here is what Chinese chatbot answered

According to experts, censors on chatbots could strengthen ideological control and further separate China digitally from the rest of the world

How non-profit OpenAI became $30 bn profit-making firm, questions Musk

Elon Musk has also paused OpenAI access to Twitter database

It seems users can now sign up, try new AI Bing Chat without any waitlist

Microsoft appears to have removed the waitlist for its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered new Bing Chat, which means that now anyone can sign up and use the chatbot