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According to an enforcement notice from OFAC, Microsoft, Microsoft Ireland, and Microsoft Russia failed to oversee who was buying the company's software and services through third-party partners

Updated On: 08 Apr 2023 | 11:23 AM IST

India has emerged as one of the top three markets for Microsoft's new Bing preview, which has ChatGPT incorporated into it, and is its biggest image creator market, a senior company official has said, asserting that the search engine is much better than its rival Google. Powered by ChatGPT, Microsoft launched the new Bing preview on February 7. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in November 2022. "Search has changed and will change. It's not going away. Just like when television came into existence, radio didn't go away, but TV got a lot more excitement. Same will happen here. The new capabilities of AI of chat of answers are now increasingly exciting because they're helping answer questions that search didn't do. And with Bing, we are completely unique in that leadership today, Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president and consumer chief marketing officer of Microsoft told PTI. Microsoft, under its Indian-American CEO Satya Nadella, has a ...

Updated On: 07 Apr 2023 | 9:33 AM IST

To enable this feature users will need to navigate to edge://settings/content/mediaAutoplay in the address bar and select Block from the drop-down menu to try it

Updated On: 06 Apr 2023 | 12:39 PM IST

The green screen feature is available now for everyone in the public preview channel of Microsoft Teams

Updated On: 04 Apr 2023 | 4:21 PM IST

Tech giant Microsoft has introduced its new "Friends & Community Updates" channel for Xbox Insiders.

Updated On: 04 Apr 2023 | 11:51 AM IST

Microsoft-owned OpenAI has blocked access to its AI chatbot ChatGPT in Italy in response to an order from the local data protection authority to halt processing Italians' data for the ChatGPT service

Updated On: 02 Apr 2023 | 9:47 AM IST

Microsoft has announced that it is bringing ads to its AI-powered Bing chat, its new search agent powered by OpenAI's GPT-4

Updated On: 30 Mar 2023 | 12:49 PM IST

Tech giant Microsoft has launched its new Security Copilot for cyber defence which is based on Open AI's GPT-4 technology

Updated On: 29 Mar 2023 | 11:26 AM IST

Microsoft has laid off 559 employees from its Bellevue and Redmond in Washington state in the US, bringing the company's total to over 2,700 job cuts in the area

Updated On: 28 Mar 2023 | 12:12 PM IST

"Avatars for Teams gives you that much-needed camera break, while still allowing you to collaborate effectively"

Updated On: 28 Mar 2023 | 11:44 AM IST

To use, or not to use, Bard? That is the Shakespearean question an Associated Press reporter sought to answer while testing out Google's artificially intelligent chatbot. The recently rolled-out bot dubbed Bard is the internet search giant's answer to the ChatGPT tool that Microsoft has been melding into its Bing search engine and other software. During several hours of interaction, the AP learned Bard is quite forthcoming about its unreliability and other shortcomings, including its potential for mischief in next year's US presidential election. Even as it occasionally warned of the problems it could unleash, Bard repeatedly emphasized its belief that it will blossom into a force for good. At one point in its recurring soliloquies about its potential upsides, Bard dreamed about living up to the legacy of the English playwright that inspired its name. Bard explained that its creators at Google thought Shakespeare would be a good role model for me, as he was a master of language an

Updated On: 28 Mar 2023 | 9:59 AM IST

The company revealed that because of its services' integration with AI, the number of users of Edge Browser has shot up, and the queries' responses via Bing Search have also become more accurate

Updated On: 27 Mar 2023 | 5:27 PM IST

Microsoft has stopped its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscription platforms, which allowed users to try the service for $1 for the first month before upgrading to more expensive plans

Updated On: 27 Mar 2023 | 11:47 AM IST

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has hit back at Twitter CEO Elon Musk for criticising his for-profit company which is now owned by Microsoft

Updated On: 27 Mar 2023 | 9:31 AM IST

These search chatbots aim to combine the conversational skills of ChatGPT with the information provided by a conventional search engine

Updated On: 25 Mar 2023 | 1:58 PM IST

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.

Updated On: 24 Mar 2023 | 11:27 PM IST

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

Updated On: 24 Mar 2023 | 6:19 PM IST

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

Updated On: 23 Mar 2023 | 4:30 PM IST

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

Updated On: 23 Mar 2023 | 4:09 PM IST

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

Updated On: 22 Mar 2023 | 2:08 PM IST