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Microsoft Corporation is one of the world’s biggest software makers and manufactures and licenses a range of products and services related to computing. Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the company is probably best known for its Windows software, although it has begun an aggressive drive into the mobile sector seeking to make inroads on market share held by Google and Apple. It paid 5.44 billion euros for the handset business of Nokia in September 2013.
World leaders agree artificial intelligence in the wrong hands could be a threat to humanity and have taken steps to avoid such a scenario.
- The start-up, a rival to ChatGPT creator OpenAI, has been marketed to a range of Silicon Valley investors
- In an interview at the Viva Technology conference in Paris, Musk said xAI’s goal is to be ‘as truth-seeking as possible’ and to be ‘the funniest AI’
They might have to meet lofty goals and answer to shareholders, but running some of the US’s top companies comes with big paycheques, as the CEOs of Apple, Microsoft and Adobe prove
The computers, which run chips from Qualcomm, are 58 per cent faster than Apple’s top-of-the-line MacBook Air M3, according to Microsoft.
Microsoft is asking employees to move to several designated locations, including those in the US and Australia, as AI becomes a flashpoint in the US-China tech war.
The US start-up on Monday announces a new AI model called GPT-4o, in a series of demonstrations that verged on science-fiction.
The Tokyo-based company earned a better-than-expected net income in the March quarter, helped by investment gains.
Microsoft will launch its own online store for mobile-game consumables in July, creating an alternative to Apple and Google’s app stores and their fees.
Data centre deals in the Asia-Pacific this year are expected to surpass the region’s record tally of US$3.45 billion in 2023.
The outlay, to be done over the next four years, doubles the investment of subsidiary Amazon Web Services in the city state.
The MAI-1 model is being overseen by Mustafa Suleyman, the Google DeepMind co-founder and former CEO of AI start-up Inflection, The Information reported.
Silicon Valley giants including Microsoft, Amazon and Google, along with Chinese tech conglomerates such as Alibaba, are making a big push to grow in Southeast Asia.
Eight US newspapers are suing ChatGPT creator OpenAI and Microsoft for alleging ‘purloining millions’ of copyrighted news articles without permission or payment to train their artificial intelligence chatbot.
Indonesia has offered the island of Bali and the nation’s new capital Nusantara as potential locations for Microsoft’s new research facility and data centre.
The world’s largest memory chip maker posted better-than-expected net income that is more than four times the company’s earnings a year earlier.
‘Obvious gaps’ exist in the code-writing and operative abilities between domestic and first-class foreign models, an assessment by Tsinghua University found.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced changes to Google’s workplace teams structure, saying the moves will help the company develop AI products and services faster and more efficiently.
The first global standards specifically covering GenAI and LLM released on Tuesday are a joint effort between Ant Group, Baidu, Tencent, OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia and others.
Microsoft will invest US$1.5 billion in the UAE’s top artificial intelligence firm, G42, after the Abu Dhabi-based company worked out an unusual deal with the US government to end any cooperation with China.
Japan must embrace rapid innovation to be a convincing alternative to China in the industry, experts say.
Switzerland on Wednesday announced that a high-level conference on the Ukraine conflict would be held on June 15-16, but without Russia.
Generative AI can be used to find new types of attacks, but companies are also using the tech to assess these threats, Microsoft’s head of Responsible AI said at HSBC’s Global Investment Summit.
Blizzard Entertainment is resuming its partnership with NetEase under its new owner Microsoft, marking a revival of a long running US-China video game pact that had an acrimonious break-up over a year ago.
Fumio Kishida says that in areas like semiconductors, AI, quantum computing and biotech, it is ‘increasingly important for the two countries to build resilience’ as the two allies work to counterbalance China.
A government cyber review board said the company did not prioritise risk management that allowed hackers to steal emails from senior US officials.
The law, effective from March 7, aims to make it easier for people to move between competing online services.
Apple is in talks with Baidu to bring AI on to iPhones in China, The Wall Street Journal reported. In China, AI tech must be vetted by regulators.
Microsoft will pay US$620 million to license Inflection’s AI models and around US$30 million for waiving any legal rights related to its mass hiring of the start-up’s employees.
One of DarwinAI’s core technologies is making artificial intelligence systems smaller and faster, which could help Apple run AI on devices.
