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Microsoft debuts Phi-4, a new generative AI model, in research preview

Microsoft has announced the newest addition to its Phi family of generative AI models. Called Phi-4, the model is improved in several areas over its predecessors, Microsoft claims — in particular math problem solving. That’s partly the result of improved training data quality. Phi-4 is available in very limited access as of Thursday night: only […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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Microsoft anchors $9B renewable energy coalition

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Microsoft quietly axes Skype credit and phone number sales to push subscriptions

Bad news for anyone out there who still uses Skype: the Microsoft-owned phone and messaging platform has quietly stopped letting users top-up accounts with credit and buy Skype phone numbers. Instead, Skype is locking into SaaS mode: it’s pushing users to take monthly subscriptions for regional and global Skype-to-phone plans, for a set monthly fee, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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03:24 12.12.2024

Microsoft will take an $800M hit over Cruise robotaxi shutdown

GM’s decision to shut down its Cruise robotaxi program continues to ripple through the market, extending to the self-driving car company’s minority investors. Microsoft, which in 2021 made an investment into Cruise, will take $800 million impairment charge as a result of GM’s actions, according to a regulatory filing. Microsoft said the charge will be […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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22:35 11.12.2024

Microsoft’s M12 invests another $22.5M into NeuBird, months after its $22M seed round

Late last year, Gou Rao and Vinod Jayaraman founded NeuBird to automate IT site reliability operations tasks with generative AI. Having sold their previous cloud-native storage startup, Portworx, to PureStorage for $370 million, the pair was well-versed in the IT challenges faced by today’s enterprises. “It’s very hard to find good site reliability engineers. There’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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22:35 11.12.2024

Microsoft’s M12 invests another $22.5M into NueBird, months after its $100M valuation seed round

Late last year, Goutham Rao and Vinod Jayaraman founded NueBird to automate IT site reliability operations tasks with generative AI. Having sold their previous cloud-native storage startup, Portworx, to PureStorage for $370 million, the pair was well-versed in the IT challenges faced by today’s enterprises. “It’s very hard to find good site reliability engineers. There’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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22:03 11.12.2024

Microsoft begins testing the ability to share files between iPhones and Windows PCs

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it’s starting to roll out a way for users to share files between their iPhone and Windows 11 or Windows 10 PCs via the company’s Phone Link app and Link to Windows app. The capability is rolling out now to Windows Insiders. Windows Insiders can now download the latest Phone […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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15:31 10.12.2024

Copilot Beta Now Bing Webmaster Tools For 10,000 Users

In October, Microsoft announced it was testing adding Copilot features to Bing Webmaster Tools. This is not showing Copilot data in the performance reports, but rather using Copilot to ask questions about your data and website in Bing Webmaster Tools. Well, now it is officially in beta and Microsoft said 10,000 users now have access to it.... →

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14:18 10.12.2024

EU’s data protection supervisor reviewing Microsoft 365 report

Back in March, the European Commission’s use of Microsoft 365 was found to have broken the bloc’s data protection rules. Since then, we haven’t heard much about this awkward situation. But Monday was the deadline for the EU’s executive to respond to the European Data Protection Supervisor’s (EDPS) order requiring it to suspend any infringing […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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19:02 06.12.2024

OpenAI considers ditching provision that would prevent AGI from being used for commercial gain

According to the Financial Times, OpenAI is considering ditching a provision that would shut Microsoft, a major partner and investor, out of its most advanced technology when OpenAI achieves artificial general intelligence (AGI). Exactly when OpenAI creates AGI, which the startup defines as “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work,” is […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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20:00 05.12.2024

Copilot Vision, Microsoft’s AI tool that can read your screen, launches in preview

Microsoft’s AI can now read your screen — or rather, the websites you’re browsing. On Thursday, the company began rolling out a limited, U.S.-only preview of Copilot Vision, a tool that can understand and respond to questions about sites you’re visiting using Microsoft Edge. Gated behind Copilot Labs, an opt-in program for experimental AI capabilities, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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17:43 28.11.2024

Власти США проводят антимонопольное расследование в отношении Microsoft

Компания привлекла внимание Федеральной торговой комиссии после серии инцидентов в области кибербезопасности... →

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06:40 28.11.2024

FTC reportedly opens antitrust investigation into Microsoft

The FTC has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft, according to multiple reports that corroborate earlier reporting by the Financial Times. The agency is said to be looking into whether Microsoft violated antitrust law in multiple segments of its business, including its public cloud, AI, and cybersecurity product lines. Of particular interest to the FTC […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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19:41 21.11.2024

Crusoe, a rumored OpenAI data center supplier, has secured $686M in new funds, filing shows

Crusoe Energy, a startup building data centers reportedly to be leased Oracle, Microsoft, and OpenAI, is in the process of raising $818 million, according to an SEC filing. The filing indicates that Crusoe has secured $686 million of the $818 million total that it hopes to raise. Seventy investors have contributed to the tranche so […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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15:11 20.11.2024

Bing Video Search Tests Categorizing Videos

Microsoft is testing categorizing the videos within its Bing video search results. Bing's video search interface can show at the top a featured video for the query, then trending videos related to the query, then short videos, then a related category of videos, followed by the normal video thumbnails.... →

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18:44 19.11.2024

Minecraft is entering the real world

Minecraft is entering the real world — sort of. The Guardian reports that Microsoft, the owner of the Minecraft video game franchise, has struck a deal with European theme park operator Merlin Entertainments to open Minecraft-themed attractions, including rides, retail outlets, and hotel rooms. Merlin plans to invest more than $110 million in the first […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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16:30 19.11.2024

Microsoft built a PC that can’t run local apps

Prefer to offload all your Windows tasks to the cloud? Microsoft may just have the compact, desk-bound computer for you. On Tuesday at Microsoft Ignite 2024, the tech giant unveiled Windows 365 Link, a fanless, lightweight PC that connects to Windows 365. Windows 365 is a cloud-hosted, virtual Windows machine — like a typical Windows […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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16:30 19.11.2024

Microsoft will soon let you clone your voice for Teams meetings

Microsoft plans to let Teams users clone their voices so they can have their sound-alikes speak to others in meetings in different languages. At Microsoft Ignite 2024 on Tuesday, the company revealed Interpreter in Teams, a tool for Microsoft Teams that delivers “real-time, speech-to-speech” interpretation capabilities. Starting in early 2025, people using Teams for meetings […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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16:30 19.11.2024

Windows comes to the Meta Quest

If Windows in mixed reality sounds like your idea of a good time, rejoice. Microsoft said on Tuesday at Microsoft Ignite 2024 it’s bringing the “full capabilities” of Windows 11 to the Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S in December as part of a public preview. “Full capabilities,” in this context, means that you’ll be […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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16:30 19.11.2024

Microsoft to launch new custom chips for data processing, security

Microsoft on Tuesday revealed new custom chips aimed at powering workloads on its Azure cloud and bolstering security, particularly a new hardware accelerator that can manage data processing, networking and storage-related tasks. The Azure Boost DPU is Microsoft’s first data processing unit, designed for “data-centric workloads with high efficiency and low power,” the company said. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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