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Microsoft fined $3 mn for selling software to sanctioned Russian firms

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

India among top 3 markets for AI-powered Bing preview: Microsoft official

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 ...

Microsoft to let users block unwanted autoplay videos in its browser

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

Microsoft adds green screen feature in teams to enhance virtual background

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

Microsoft brings 'Friends & Community Updates' channel for Xbox Insiders

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

Microsoft-owned OpenAI blocks access to ChatGPT for users in Italy

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

Microsoft to bring advertisements to its new AI-powered Bing chat

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

Microsoft launches GPT-4 based Security Copilot for cyber defence

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

Microsoft lays off 559 employees as Seattle-area job cuts top 2,700

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

Rolling out 'Avatars' for Teams in public preview, says Microsoft

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

Here's what Google's Artificial Intelligence-powered Bard can do

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

GPT-4: Bing to Word and Excel, AI is changing Microsoft platform experience

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

Microsoft halts Xbox Game Pass $1 trial offer, to consider new promotions

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

Musk attacking us as he is stressed about AI safety, alleges OpenAI CEO

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

Microsoft threatens to cut off access to data from rival AI search tools

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

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