Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Microsoft Advertising sent out emails to its advertisers about changes to its advertising policies that start off next week on July 1st.... →

Microsoft today announced its roadmap for building its own quantum supercomputer, using the topological qubits the company’s researchers have been working on for quite a few years now.  There are still plenty of intermediary milestones to be reached, but Krysta Svore, Microsoft’s VP of advanced quantum development, told us that the company believes that it […] Microsoft expects to build a quantum supercomputer within 10 years by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

Bing Image Creator will get some big improvements in about a month. Microsoft Bing CEO, Mikhail Parakhin said this on Twitter the other day, saying the language model for Bing Image Creator will get a big update. He said...... →

Microsoft is testing showing larger favicons that also animate in the Bing Search results. The favicons look a lot larger in this test, here are side by side comparisons so you can see yourself.... →

Microsoft's Bing CEO, Mikhail Parakhin, said that Bing Chat has received significant performance improvements last week that makes Bing Chat more responsive and faster. Bing also reworked voice SDK in both the iOS and Android Bing apps to make it more reliable and lower latency.... →

While the U.K. and U.S. try to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision over concerns it will kill competition in games distribution,  competition appears to be alive and well in another (smaller) area of gaming: modding and analytics. Wargraphs, a one-man-band startup behind a popular companion app for League of Legends called Porofessor, which helps players […] Wargraphs, a gaming startup with only one employee and no outside funding, sells for $54M by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

Microsoft is testing image recognition and visual search features in Bing Chat. This is where you can upload an image and ask Bing Chat questions around that image.... →

Generative AI has undoubtedly been the big buzzword of the past year, driven in large part by Microsoft-backed OpenAI and ChatGPT. But while the ability to create all manner of fresh content from a simple prompt raises various societal and ethical questions, it also opens the door to myriad businesses that simply would not have […] Backed by Google’s Gradient, Versed wants to help storytellers create video games using generative AI by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Корпорация уже более года пытается купить разработчика... →

Did you know you can quickly access Bing Chat by going to chat.bing.com? I didn't know that until Mikhail Parakhin from Microsoft mentioned it on Twitter.... →

Microsoft’s proposed $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard has received a mixed response from regulators around the world, but the Federal Trade Commission may be its biggest critic. The agency has reportedly applied for an injunction to prevent the deal going ahead before its own official judgment on the situation later this year. Microsoft announced its […] FTC reportedly seeks injunction to stop Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch... →

Paris-based startup Pigment has raised a Series C round of $88 million — the investment was led by Iconiq Growth. Pigment wants to take on Microsoft Excel and offer a business planning platform that works better than products from enterprise software behemoths, such as Oracle or SAP. It’s a new take on a critical product for […] Pigment secures $88 million for its business planning tool that will make you forget about Excel by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch... →

OpenAI is still not training GPT-5, the likely successor to the current generation GPT-4, months after the Microsoft-backed startup pledged to not work on it “for some time” after many industry executives and academics expressed concerns about the fast-rate of advancements by Sam Altman’s large language models. “We have a lot of work to do […] OpenAI still not training GPT-5, says Sam Altman by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

Microsoft Bing Search is testing showing fewer options in the search bar menu below the search box. We saw this with Bing Image search before and now we are seeing this with Bing web search.... →

Microsoft has temporarily disabled the share feature in Bing Chat where you can share your chats with friends over email, social, etc. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing said on Twitter when asked about the share button not showing up yesterday, "There were some issues with it, temporarily disabled, coming back soon."... →

Microsoft will pay $20 million to settle charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission accusing the tech giant of illegally collecting the personal information of children without their parents’ consent — and in some cases retaining it “for years.” The federal consumer watchdog said Microsoft violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the federal […] Microsoft to pay $20M settlement for illegally collecting children’s personal data by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch... →

Security researchers have linked a new wave of mass-hacks targeting a popular file transfer tool to the notorious Clop ransomware gang, as the first victims of the attacks begin to come forward. It was revealed last week that hackers are exploiting a newly discovered vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer, a file-transfer tool widely used by enterprises […] Microsoft says Clop ransomware gang is behind MOVEit mass-hacks, as first victims come forward by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch... →

Look. We’re all interested in one. I know it, you know it, Apple certainly knows it. Much as AI was Google’s primary focus at I/O and … I don’t know — Windows 11, I guess — was Microsoft’s centerpiece at Build, we’re all going into and leaving WWDC 2023 with one thing in mind: XR. […] Apple WWDC 2023: Headset rumors, iOS 17 and everything else to expect by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch... →

Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. In 2023, layoffs have yet again cost tens of thousands of tech workers their jobs; this time, the workforce reductions have been driven by the biggest names in tech like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Meta and Zoom. Startups, too, have announced cuts across all sectors, from crypto to enterprise SaaS.  […] A comprehensive list of 2023 tech layoffs by Alyssa Stringer originally published on TechCrunch... →

Microsoft will bring Bing Chat to all browsers and not force you to use Microsoft Edge to use Bing Chat, in the near future. When exactly, we are not sure, but Bing's CEO, Mikhail Parakhin, has been saying that on Twitter for numerous weeks now.... →