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Microsoft and Palantir partner to sell AI to government agencies
Microsoft is teaming up with secretive data analytics company Palantir, which has been accused of enabling ICE to operate “as a domestic surveillance agency.” Palantir will reportedly integrate its products with Microsoft’s government cloud tools, including the Azure OpenAI service.
Microsoft expands its pact with OpenAI in 'multibillion dollar' deal
Microsoft is pouring billions of dollars into OpenAI to expact their pact.
Microsoft will add ChatGPT to its cloud-based Azure OpenAI service 'soon'
Microsoft is making the Azure OpenAI Service generally available after giving a limited number of enterprise customers access to it when it debuted in November 2021.
Microsoft helps speed up work on AI for autonomous drones and flying taxis
Microsoft has unveiled a platform that helps prep autonomous drones and flying taxis for the real world.
Amazon re-awarded $10 billion NSA cloud contract after Microsoft dispute
Amazon has been re-awarded a $10 billion cloud contract with the NSA after a fight with Microsoft.
Microsoft halts all sales in Russia
Microsoft is 'suspending' all sales in Russia in response to that country's invasion of Ukraine.
NASA hopes to speed up mission scheduling with help from Microsoft's Quantum division
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is partnering with Microsoft’s Azure Quantum team to explore ways to communicate more efficiently with spacecraft.
Sega partners with Microsoft on its 'Super Game' project
Sega is partnering with Microsoft to use the company’s Azure cloud platform to produce “large-scale, global games” as part of its recently announced Super Game project.
Microsoft Azure flaw left thousands of cloud customers' data vulnerable
A vulnerability in Microsoft's Azure cloud computing service left several thousand customers susceptible to cyberattacks.
Microsoft's profits skyrocketed by 47 percent in Q4
Microsoft's business continues to boom thanks to its leadership in cloud computing and productivity apps.
Microsoft is officially making Xbox video game streaming sticks
The Xbox experience is getting baked into smart TVs, too.
Microsoft used AI to generate a never-ending remix of Warren Hue's new song
Microsoft teamed up with Asian record label 88rising on an AI-generated never-ending remix of Warren Hue's latest track "Too Many Tears."
What did the pandemic mean for Microsoft? A 44 percent jump in profits.
One thing we've learned over the past year: the COVID-19 pandemic has been awful for humanity, but a boon to all of the tech company's we're relying on. That's truer than ever for Microsoft, which announced a 19 percent increase in revenues for the third quarter ($41.7 billion), compared to last year.
Microsoft’s online-only Build conference starts on May 25th
Microsoft confirmed today that its online-only Build developer conference will run between May 25th and May 27th, though there’s still no word on when registration will open. (If last year is any indication, our money is on “the end of April.”) “Microsoft Build is where developers, architects, start-ups, and students learn, connect, and code together, sharing knowledge and expanding their skillset, while exploring new ways of innovating for tomorrow,” the company’s events page explains.
Microsoft's cloud services are down again, possible DNS issue
Having Xbox problems? Microsoft's cloud outage could be causing sign-in problems.
Microsoft wins 10-year contract supplying AR tech to the US Army
America's ground-pounders of tomorrow will soon be equipped with custom-built HoloLens headsets as part of a decade-long contract worth nearly $22 billion between the Department of Defense and Microsoft, the Pentagon announced Wednesday.
Microsoft outage affects Teams, Azure and Xbox Live
An Azure problem took down several Microsoft online services, but they should be back up soon.
Volkswagen partners with Microsoft on automated cars
Volkswagen Group is enlisting Microsoft’s help to speed up the development of autonomous driving systems.
Microsoft opens limited access to its neural text-to-speech AI
AT&T and Warner Bros. used the tech to create an interactive version of Bugs Bunny.
Microsoft teams up with Cruise and GM on self-driving cars
Cruise, GM and Microsoft have entered a partnership to speed up the arrival of self-driving cars.
