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Innovation

Microsoft introduces Surface PCs featuring a specialized Copilot button

23 March 202424 March 2024

Microsoft has unveiled two new Surface laptops featuring a dedicated "Assistant" button for quick access to its chatbot helper. The Surface Pro 10 for Business...

Microsoft recruits founders from Inflection to lead a fresh consumer AI division

Pooja Prajapati

20 March 2024

Microsoft has recruited Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan, who co-founded the renowned AI startup Inflection AI, along with several of their colleagues, in a notable...

Chatbots developed by Google and Microsoft are fabricating Super Bowl statistics

Pooja Prajapati

12 February 202412 February 2024

More evidence of GenAI's tendency to fabricate information comes from Google's Gemini chatbot, formerly known as Bard, which believes that the 2024 Super Bowl has...

Technology

There are plans for Microsoft to introduce AI Copilot to the Windows 10 platform

Editorial Team

10 November 202310 November 2023

The potential integration of AI Copilot into Windows 10 by Microsoft could encourage developers to create additional plug-ins, especially considering the significant number of users...

Technology

Microsoft to drop WordPad in Windows 12. Details below

Editorial Team

4 September 20234 September 2023

Microsoft is phasing out WordPad, a software in use for three decades, and encouraging the use of Microsoft Word and Notepad. In the next Windows...

Technology

Microsoft is saying goodbye to Cortana in Windows to work on even better AI for the future

Editorial Team

4 August 2023

Microsoft is closing down its digital assistant app, Cortana, this month. The company is now concentrating on modern AI advancements, such as Bing Chat, which...

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic collaborate to oversee safe ‘frontier AI’ development

Editorial Team

28 July 202328 July 2023

Four leading AI players are uniting to create the Frontier Model Forum, a new industry body aimed at ensuring the "safe and responsible development" of...

Innovation

Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon collaborate on an open-source mapping project

Pooja Prajapati

27 July 202327 August 2023

The Overture Maps Foundation data empowers third-party developers to utilize maps independent of Google and Apple's platforms. Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and TomTom have joined forces...

Microsoft emerges victorious in court against the FTC in the battle over the acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

Editorial Team

11 July 202320 July 2023

There's a big fight happening in court between the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Microsoft. They're arguing about whether Microsoft should be allowed to...