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Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data
Microsoft and OpeAI are checking if data output from OpenAI’s technology was obtained in an unauthorised manner by a group linked to DeepSeek. David Sacks, President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence czar, said Tuesday there’s “substantial evidence” that DeepSeek leaned on the output of OpenAI’s models to help develop its own techn...
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Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership Raises Antitrust Concerns, FTC Says
The FTC has said Microsoft’s deal with OpenAI, as well as Amazon.com and Google’s partnerships with AI company Anthropic, raise the risk that AI developers could be “fully acquired” by the tech giants in the future.
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Microsoft Employee Emails Hacked by Russia-Linked 'Midnight Blizzard' Group, Company Says
Microsoft employee's email accounts were recently accessed by a Russian-linked hacking group, according to the company. The hackers managed to gain access to a “small number” of email accounts. Impacted employees included senior leadership and workers in cybersecurity and legal departments. The company expects some disruption as it fixes older ...
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What Mira Murati Told OpenAI Staff After Replacing Sam Altman
OpenAI Interim Chief Executive Officer Mira Murati was "honored and humbled" to step into the leadership role at the company following the ouster of Sam Altman, according to a memo she sent to staff reviewed by Bloomberg.
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ChatGPT Can Fool Humans Even When It's Wrong, Backs Up Assertions With Fake Quotes
ChatGPT, OpenAI's powerful chatbot that can generate sentences to mimic human-written text, is capable of fooling users, even when it is wrong, according to experts. The chatbot was able to generate a news story on Microsoft's earnings for 2021, and while the earnings figures were not accurate, it also generated a fake quote from CEO Satya Nadella ...
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5 Reasons Microsoft Is Making Activision Blizzard Its Biggest Deal Ever
Microsoft Corp. is buying Activision Blizzard Inc. in a $68.7 billion all-cash acquisition, uniting two of the biggest forces in video games. It's the software maker's biggest deal ever, almost three times as large as the 2016 purchase of LinkedIn.
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Microsoft Becomes Second US Public Company After Apple to Join $2 Trillion Club
Microsoft took its place in the history books as just the second US public company to reach a $2-trillion (roughly Rs. 1,48,50,100 crores) market value, buoyed by bets its dominance in cloud computing and enterprise software will expand further in a post-coronavirus world.
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Bill Gates Quit Board As Microsoft Investigated His Affair With Employee
Microsoft Corp. conducted an investigation into co-founder Bill Gates's involvement with an employee almost two decades ago after it was informed in 2019 of his attempt to start a romantic relationship with that person.
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Google AI Chief Apologises for Timnit Gebru’s Acrimonious Exit in Email to Staff
Google CEO Sundar Pichai in an email to staff acknowledged the fault in Timnit Gebru’s acrimonious exit and said Google will start grading executives based on workforce diversity goals and increase human resources staffing. The email included comments by Jeff Dean, who leads the company’s AI and research efforts, saying he was sorry for how he ...
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Google Revamps AI Teams in Wake of Researcher Timnit Gebru’s Departure
Google restructured its responsible artificial intelligence efforts to centralise teams under a single executive, Marian Croak, in a move by the Internet giant to stabilise groups working on ethics research and products after months of chaos.
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Microsoft Tries To Salvage TikTok Deal, Says Satya Nadella Spoke To Trump
In a bid to salvage a deal for the U.S. operations of TikTok, Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella spoke with President Donald Trump by phone about how to secure the administration's blessing to buy the wildly popular, but besieged, music video app.
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IBM's Rometty Stakes Legacy on Risky $33-Billion Red Hat Deal
The $33-billion acquisition is designed to save the century-old company from irrelevancy in a business led by younger tech giants like Amazon.
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Microsoft Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub
GitHub was valued at $2 billion in 2015, and said to have chosen Microsoft partially because it was impressed by CEO Satya Nadella.
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Black AI Workshop Becomes Latest Flashpoint in Tech Culture War
An event designed to encourage greater participation by black researchers in artificial intelligence has become the latest flashpoint in the debate over diversity.
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Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Platform Gets New Security Features
Called Azure confidential computing, the technology encrypts data while it is in use - which is when most security breaches occur.
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Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data
Microsoft and OpeAI are checking if data output from OpenAI’s technology was obtained in an unauthorised manner by a group linked to DeepSeek. David Sacks, President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence czar, said Tuesday there’s “substantial evidence” that DeepSeek leaned on the output of OpenAI’s models to help develop its own techn...
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Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership Raises Antitrust Concerns, FTC Says
The FTC has said Microsoft’s deal with OpenAI, as well as Amazon.com and Google’s partnerships with AI company Anthropic, raise the risk that AI developers could be “fully acquired” by the tech giants in the future.
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Microsoft Employee Emails Hacked by Russia-Linked 'Midnight Blizzard' Group, Company Says
Microsoft employee's email accounts were recently accessed by a Russian-linked hacking group, according to the company. The hackers managed to gain access to a “small number” of email accounts. Impacted employees included senior leadership and workers in cybersecurity and legal departments. The company expects some disruption as it fixes older ...
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What Mira Murati Told OpenAI Staff After Replacing Sam Altman
OpenAI Interim Chief Executive Officer Mira Murati was "honored and humbled" to step into the leadership role at the company following the ouster of Sam Altman, according to a memo she sent to staff reviewed by Bloomberg.
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ChatGPT Can Fool Humans Even When It's Wrong, Backs Up Assertions With Fake Quotes
ChatGPT, OpenAI's powerful chatbot that can generate sentences to mimic human-written text, is capable of fooling users, even when it is wrong, according to experts. The chatbot was able to generate a news story on Microsoft's earnings for 2021, and while the earnings figures were not accurate, it also generated a fake quote from CEO Satya Nadella ...
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5 Reasons Microsoft Is Making Activision Blizzard Its Biggest Deal Ever
Microsoft Corp. is buying Activision Blizzard Inc. in a $68.7 billion all-cash acquisition, uniting two of the biggest forces in video games. It's the software maker's biggest deal ever, almost three times as large as the 2016 purchase of LinkedIn.
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Microsoft Becomes Second US Public Company After Apple to Join $2 Trillion Club
Microsoft took its place in the history books as just the second US public company to reach a $2-trillion (roughly Rs. 1,48,50,100 crores) market value, buoyed by bets its dominance in cloud computing and enterprise software will expand further in a post-coronavirus world.
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Bill Gates Quit Board As Microsoft Investigated His Affair With Employee
Microsoft Corp. conducted an investigation into co-founder Bill Gates's involvement with an employee almost two decades ago after it was informed in 2019 of his attempt to start a romantic relationship with that person.
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Google AI Chief Apologises for Timnit Gebru’s Acrimonious Exit in Email to Staff
Google CEO Sundar Pichai in an email to staff acknowledged the fault in Timnit Gebru’s acrimonious exit and said Google will start grading executives based on workforce diversity goals and increase human resources staffing. The email included comments by Jeff Dean, who leads the company’s AI and research efforts, saying he was sorry for how he ...
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Google Revamps AI Teams in Wake of Researcher Timnit Gebru’s Departure
Google restructured its responsible artificial intelligence efforts to centralise teams under a single executive, Marian Croak, in a move by the Internet giant to stabilise groups working on ethics research and products after months of chaos.
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Microsoft Tries To Salvage TikTok Deal, Says Satya Nadella Spoke To Trump
In a bid to salvage a deal for the U.S. operations of TikTok, Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella spoke with President Donald Trump by phone about how to secure the administration's blessing to buy the wildly popular, but besieged, music video app.
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IBM's Rometty Stakes Legacy on Risky $33-Billion Red Hat Deal
The $33-billion acquisition is designed to save the century-old company from irrelevancy in a business led by younger tech giants like Amazon.
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Microsoft Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub
GitHub was valued at $2 billion in 2015, and said to have chosen Microsoft partially because it was impressed by CEO Satya Nadella.
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Black AI Workshop Becomes Latest Flashpoint in Tech Culture War
An event designed to encourage greater participation by black researchers in artificial intelligence has become the latest flashpoint in the debate over diversity.
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Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Platform Gets New Security Features
Called Azure confidential computing, the technology encrypts data while it is in use - which is when most security breaches occur.
