Microsoft Recall, Johansson-Like AI Voice Overshadow Google Sandbox Concerns by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, May 22, 2024 Privacy is the topic of the day in my email inbox. Earlier this week Microsoft released a feature called Recall that takes screenshots of a user’s laptop every few seconds. The images are stored on the PC. … Continue reading Microsoft Recall, Johansson-Like AI Voice Overshadow Google Sandbox Concerns
May 01, 2024 Antitrust lawyers argue that Google and Apple’s innovations are thanks to epic 1998 Microsoft trial DOJ: ‘Thank us later.’ BY Associated Press The U.S. Justice Department’s double-barreled antitrust attack on Google’s dominant search and Apple’s trendsetting iPhone is reviving memories of the epic battle that hobbled Microsoft before it roared back to yet … Continue reading Antitrust lawyers argue that Google and Apple’s innovations are thanks to epic 1998 Microsoft trial
Microsoft Pilots A Feature Summarizing Campaign Performance From Conversational Chat by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, April 29, 2024 Microsoft on Monday announced the general availability of Copilot in the Microsoft Advertising Platform and said it will soon unveil ways to gain additional insights to help advertisers tackle reporting more quickly and easily. The company said … Continue reading Microsoft Pilots A Feature Summarizing Campaign Performance From Conversational Chat
Plenty of talk about LLMs, but Microsoft is bringing its small language model initiative to market. Kim Davis on April 26, 2024 Phi-3-Mini is the first in a family of small language models Microsoft plans to release over the coming weeks. Phi-3-Small and Phi-3-Medium are in the works. In contrast to large language models … Continue reading Microsoft unveils a new small language model
April 26, 2024 Tech earnings week turns around after Google, Microsoft, and Snap delight Wall Street After a weak start to earnings season from Netflix and Meta, tech companies saw their fortunes reverse to close out the week on a high note. BY Michael Grothaus Until late (May 15, 2024), major tech stocks were having a … Continue reading Tech earnings week turns around after Google, Microsoft, and Snap delight Wall Street
April 25, 2024 Alphabet and Microsoft earnings show AI is still Wall Street gold Investors have pummeled Meta for its AI spending, but are rewarding Alphabet, Microsoft, and Snap for doing the same. Here’s why. BY Chris Morris After Meta’s stock meltdown late Wednesday afternoon and Thursday, the tech sector is roaring back in after-hours trading … Continue reading Alphabet and Microsoft earnings show AI is still Wall Street gold
April 18, 2024 Microsoft is riding on geopolitics to extend its AI footprint The legacy tech company seems to have found new life as the most powerful player in the AI space. BY Mark Sullivan Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign … Continue reading Microsoft is riding on geopolitics to extend its AI footprint
Will Microsoft Drop Bing Brand For A More Integrated Copilot Search? by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, March 26, 2024 Microsoft has been pushing to integrate generative artificial intelligence (GAI) into all of its products. It reintroduced Bing Search with AI-powered features in February 2023, adding a Bing Search and Copilot option in the header of its … Continue reading Will Microsoft Drop Bing Brand For A More Integrated Copilot Search?
How Far Will Google And Microsoft Go To Collaborate? by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, March 21, 2024 Microsoft and Google have a complex relationship. The two companies are rivals, but on occasion support each other’s projects. If Microsoft Advertising could provide a Performance Max product with capabilities similar to Google Performance Max in Google … Continue reading How Far Will Google And Microsoft Go To Collaborate?
Microsoft hires DeepMind cofounder to lead its new consumer AI division Mustafa Suleyman will lead Microsoft’s Copilot efforts, with Karén Simonyan joining as chief scientist. Will Shanklin Updated Tue, Mar 19, 2024 REUTERS / Reuters Microsoft now has a lone leader overseeing consumer AI for the first time. DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman is joining … Continue reading Microsoft hires DeepMind cofounder to lead its new consumer AI division
