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Microsoft Project Silica Can Preserve Terabytes of Data in Glass for 10,000 Years Without Power
Microsoft’s Project Silica demonstrates that digital data can be stored in ordinary borosilicate glass for over 10,000 years. Using femtosecond lasers, researchers encode information as microscopic 3D voxels, achieving densities of 4.8 terabytes on a 2mm sheet. Unlike magnetic tapes or hard drives that degrade within decades, glass resists heat, ...
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Fact Check: Is Microsoft Really Planning to Rewrite Windows 11 in Rust Using AI?
Microsoft engineer Galen Hunt clarified that Microsoft is not rewriting Windows in Rust using AI, despite earlier speculation sparked by his post about migrating large codebases from C++ to Rust. Hunt said his comments referred to a multi-year research effort to improve language-migration tooling, and hiring engineers to explore safer, scalable tra...
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From Apple To Microsoft To Meta: Bengaluru Gen Z Techie Goes Viral With Epic Year In AI
A 22-year-old Indian AI researcher, Adithya S Kolavi, has gone viral after sharing an impressive list of internships, grants, research papers, and hackathon wins, capturing global attention across LinkedIn and tech circles.
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Who Is Amar Subramanya? Indian-Origin Researcher Taking Reigns of Apple’s AI Division
Apple has appointed AI researcher Amar Subramanya as its new Vice President of AI, replacing John Giannandrea. Subramanya, who previously led Google’s Gemini Assistant and briefly worked at Microsoft, will report to Craig Federighi. Apple says his expertise will support upcoming Apple Intelligence features as the company works to catch up in the ...
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Microsoft 365 Personal With Copilot Is Now Free for Students for One Year
Microsoft is giving college students free access to the Microsoft 365 Personal plan with Copilot for 12 months, expanding its usual three-month trial. Eligible undergraduate and postgraduate students can claim the offer until November 30. The plan supports up to five devices and includes premium Office apps, Copilot features such as Deep Research a...
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Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman Highlights the Need to be Self-Sufficient in AI: Report
Microsoft’s AI chief, Mustafa Suleyman, said the company must become self-sufficient in AI, training frontier models using its own data and compute. In an interview, he highlighted Microsoft’s goal to build end-to-end AI systems under its new Superintelligence team. The move follows a revised deal with OpenAI that now allows Microsoft to indepe...
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Microsoft AI Chief Mustafa Suleyman Calls the Idea of Conscious AI ‘Absurd’: Report
Microsoft’s AI chief, Mustafa Suleyman, has dismissed the idea that artificial intelligence can ever be conscious, calling such research “the wrong question.” Speaking at the AfroTech Conference, he said AI cannot experience pain or emotions, and only simulates them. Suleyman, a long-time advocate for “humanist AI,” argued that since AI l...
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Who Coined the Term 'AGI'? The Real Inventor Finally Identified
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), often seen as the holy grail of AI, was first popularised in 2005 by Ben Goertzel and Cassio Pennachin through their book Artificial General Intelligence. However, the phrase originated in 1997, when researcher Mark Gubrud used it in a paper describing AI systems capable of human-like reasoning and problem-sol...
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Anthropic Releases Microsoft Excel Support in Claude, Adds New Agentic Skills for Financial Tasks
Anthropic has introduced Claude for Excel, a new integration that lets users analyse and automate spreadsheet tasks directly through a Claude sidebar. The update also adds six finance-focused agentic skills and new data connectors for real-time access to sources like LSEG, Moody’s, and MT Newswires. These are currently available as research previ...
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Microsoft Warns Russia, China And Iran Using AI As Cyber Weapon Against US
Russia, China, Iran and North Korea have sharply increased their use of artificial intelligence to deceive people online and mount cyberattacks against the United States, according to new research from Microsoft.
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Microsoft Project Silica Can Preserve Terabytes of Data in Glass for 10,000 Years Without Power
Microsoft’s Project Silica demonstrates that digital data can be stored in ordinary borosilicate glass for over 10,000 years. Using femtosecond lasers, researchers encode information as microscopic 3D voxels, achieving densities of 4.8 terabytes on a 2mm sheet. Unlike magnetic tapes or hard drives that degrade within decades, glass resists heat, ...
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Fact Check: Is Microsoft Really Planning to Rewrite Windows 11 in Rust Using AI?
Microsoft engineer Galen Hunt clarified that Microsoft is not rewriting Windows in Rust using AI, despite earlier speculation sparked by his post about migrating large codebases from C++ to Rust. Hunt said his comments referred to a multi-year research effort to improve language-migration tooling, and hiring engineers to explore safer, scalable tra...
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From Apple To Microsoft To Meta: Bengaluru Gen Z Techie Goes Viral With Epic Year In AI
A 22-year-old Indian AI researcher, Adithya S Kolavi, has gone viral after sharing an impressive list of internships, grants, research papers, and hackathon wins, capturing global attention across LinkedIn and tech circles.
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Who Is Amar Subramanya? Indian-Origin Researcher Taking Reigns of Apple’s AI Division
Apple has appointed AI researcher Amar Subramanya as its new Vice President of AI, replacing John Giannandrea. Subramanya, who previously led Google’s Gemini Assistant and briefly worked at Microsoft, will report to Craig Federighi. Apple says his expertise will support upcoming Apple Intelligence features as the company works to catch up in the ...
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Microsoft 365 Personal With Copilot Is Now Free for Students for One Year
Microsoft is giving college students free access to the Microsoft 365 Personal plan with Copilot for 12 months, expanding its usual three-month trial. Eligible undergraduate and postgraduate students can claim the offer until November 30. The plan supports up to five devices and includes premium Office apps, Copilot features such as Deep Research a...
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Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman Highlights the Need to be Self-Sufficient in AI: Report
Microsoft’s AI chief, Mustafa Suleyman, said the company must become self-sufficient in AI, training frontier models using its own data and compute. In an interview, he highlighted Microsoft’s goal to build end-to-end AI systems under its new Superintelligence team. The move follows a revised deal with OpenAI that now allows Microsoft to indepe...
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Microsoft AI Chief Mustafa Suleyman Calls the Idea of Conscious AI ‘Absurd’: Report
Microsoft’s AI chief, Mustafa Suleyman, has dismissed the idea that artificial intelligence can ever be conscious, calling such research “the wrong question.” Speaking at the AfroTech Conference, he said AI cannot experience pain or emotions, and only simulates them. Suleyman, a long-time advocate for “humanist AI,” argued that since AI l...
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Who Coined the Term 'AGI'? The Real Inventor Finally Identified
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), often seen as the holy grail of AI, was first popularised in 2005 by Ben Goertzel and Cassio Pennachin through their book Artificial General Intelligence. However, the phrase originated in 1997, when researcher Mark Gubrud used it in a paper describing AI systems capable of human-like reasoning and problem-sol...
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Anthropic Releases Microsoft Excel Support in Claude, Adds New Agentic Skills for Financial Tasks
Anthropic has introduced Claude for Excel, a new integration that lets users analyse and automate spreadsheet tasks directly through a Claude sidebar. The update also adds six finance-focused agentic skills and new data connectors for real-time access to sources like LSEG, Moody’s, and MT Newswires. These are currently available as research previ...
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Microsoft Warns Russia, China And Iran Using AI As Cyber Weapon Against US
Russia, China, Iran and North Korea have sharply increased their use of artificial intelligence to deceive people online and mount cyberattacks against the United States, according to new research from Microsoft.
