Risk highlighted as Chinese hackers hit Microsoft
Software giant Microsoft is at the centre of cybersecurity storm after China-linked hackers exploited flaws in SharePoint servers to target hundreds of organisations.
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Microsoft looks to boost AI performance in European languages
US tech behemoth Microsoft is investing millions of dollars to funnel more European-language data into AI development, company president Brad Smith told AFP Monday...
Microsoft halts China-based tech support for Pentagon systems
Microsoft said Friday it is making sure that personnel based in China are not providing technical support for US Defense Department systems, after investigative news site ProPublica revealed the practice earlier this week...
Bill Gates says AI key for health, education innovation
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said artificial intelligence will play a key role in unlocking new tools for health, education and agriculture at a meeting with Indonesia鈥檚 president on Wednesday...
Computer pioneer Microsoft turns 50 in the age of AI
Microsoft has been at the heart of computing for half a century, becoming a tech stalwart almost taken for granted as lifestyles embraced the internet....
Microsoft retires Skype in favour of Teams
Microsoft on Friday announced it was retiring Skype, the online voice and video call pioneer that the tech titan acquired in 2011.
Microsoft expects to spend $80b on AI this fiscal year
Microsoft president Brad Smith on Friday said the company is on track to pump about $80 billion into artificial intelligence (AI) this fiscal year...
AI chatbots must learn to say 鈥榟elp鈥� says Microsoft exec
Generative AI tools will save companies lots of time and money, promises Vik Singh, a Microsoft vice-president, even if the models must learn to admit when they just don鈥檛 know what to do...
Microsoft drops OpenAI board seat as scrunity increases
Microsoft has ditched plans to take up a non-voting position on the board of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, according to a letter seen by AFP on Wednesday, as regulators step up scrutiny of deals involving AI companies...
Microsoft to invest 2.2b euros in Spain data centres
Microsoft is to invest 2.2 billion euros ($2.4 billion) in a huge data centre project in northeastern Spain, regional authorities said Wednesday as the area seeks to establish itself as a cloud storage hotspot...
Microsoft faces heat from US Congress over cybersecurity
Members of US Congress on Thursday pressed Microsoft to explain a 鈥榗ascade of avoidable errors鈥� that allowed a Chinese hacking group to breach emails of senior US officials.
US newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over AI chatbots
Eight US newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft in a New York federal court Tuesday for violating their copyright to train the technology behind the ChatGPT and Copilot chatbots.
Microsoft CEO pledges $1.7b AI, cloud investment in Indonesia
Microsoft鈥檚 chief executive officer pledged a $1.7 billion investment in artificial intelligence and cloud computing to help develop Indonesia鈥檚 AI infrastructure after a meeting with the archipelago鈥檚 president on Tuesday...