" KUALA LAMPUR: Microsoft pledged a $2.2 billion investment in artificial intelligence and cloud computing in Malaysia on Thursday to help develop the country’s AI infrastructure.
The tech giant’s chief executive Satya Nadella is on a three-nation tour of Southeast Asia — Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia — to announce a range of investments in data…
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Alphabet and Microsoft ignited a rally in technology stocks on Friday with earnings that showed big AI investments were driving growth, allaying doubts that their costly bets would take time to pay off after a soft forecast from Meta Platforms.
After pouring billions of dollars into the infrastructure needed to support AI applications, both…
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Microsoft on Tuesday launched a lightweight artificial intelligence model, as it looks to attract a wider client base with cost-effective options.
The new version called Phi-3-mini is the first of the three small language models (SLM) to be released by the company, as it stakes its future on a technology that is expected…
" Microsoft will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the US tech giant said on Monday, six months after it unbundled the two products in Europe in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine.
The European Commission has been investigating Microsoft’s tying of Office and Teams…
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Microsoft and OpenAI are working on plans for a data center project that could cost as much as $100 billion and include an artificial intelligence supercomputer called "Stargate" set to launch in 2028, The Information reported on Friday.
OpenAI did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.
Rapid adoption of generative artificial intelligence technology…
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Microsoft has finally decided to bring keyboard and mouse support (KBM) to select Cloud Gaming titles. The company has already started testing out the Alpha Skip-Ahead ring Check out KBM functions on web browsers (Edge and Chrome) and the Xbox PC app.
To try out KBM support, users will need to be a Game…
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The European Commission's use of Microsoft software breached EU privacy rules and the bloc's executive also failed to implement adequate safeguards for personal data transferred to non-EU countries, the EU privacy watchdog said on Monday.
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) ordered the Commission to take measures to comply with privacy rules and to halt…
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Microsoft said on Friday that Russian state-sponsored hacking group Midnight Blizzard was trying to breach its systems again using information it stole by hacking into the tech giant's corporate emails in January.
In the January attack, the hacking group that is also known as Nobelium had breached Microsoft's corporate email systems and stolen emails…
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Microsoft said on Friday that hackers linked to Russia's foreign intelligence were trying again to break into its systems, using data stolen from corporate emails in January to gain new access to the tech giant whose products are widely used across the US national security establishment.
The disclosure alarmed some analysts who cited concerns about…