Microsoft challenges UK’s CMA decision on Call of Duty deal. Here’s what it said

Microsoft challenges UK’s CMA decision on Call of Duty deal. Here’s what it said

Last week, Microsoft lodged an appeal against the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) ruling that blocked its $69 billion agreement with Activision Blizzard, the creator of Call of Duty. Microsoft has subsequently submitted a summarized argument to the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), contesting the CMA’s evaluation of the merger. Microsoft has presented its case […]

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British Council, Microsoft signs MoU to enhance job prospects of Indian youths

British Council, Microsoft signs MoU to enhance job prospects of Indian youths

British Council and Microsoft have come together to enhance the employment prospects of 4 lakh Indian youths, majorly women. Both the organisations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a co-developed three-year partnership programme, ‘English Skills for Youth’. British Council, Microsoft signs MoU to enhance job prospects of Indian youths The newly launched programme aims […]

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Microsoft’s Brad Smith raises concern about deep fakes generated by AI

Microsoft’s Brad Smith raises concern about deep fakes generated by AI

While addressing the issue of how to regulate artificial intelligence, Microsoft President Brad Smith has raised a concern about deep fakes, realistic looking but false content, generated by AI. Smith stressed on a need to take steps to protect against the alteration of legitimate content. “We’re going have to address the issues around deep fakes. […]

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Chinese hackers targeting critical US infrastructure, says Microsoft

Chinese hackers targeting critical US infrastructure, says Microsoft

Microsoft Corp. said it’s found malicious activity by a Chinese-state sponsored hacking group that has stealthily gained access into critical infrastructure organizations in Guam and elsewhere in the US, with the likely aim of disrupting critical communications in the event of a crisis.  In a report published Wednesday, Microsoft said the group, named Volt Typhoon, […]

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Microsoft and OpenAI forge alliance, Bing integration powers ChatGPT in battle against Google

Microsoft and OpenAI forge alliance, Bing integration powers ChatGPT in battle against Google

Microsoft strengthens partnership with OpenAI by integrating Bing search engine into ChatGPT, aiming to rival Google. The inclusion of Bing will be available in the premium ChatGPT Plus service initially, with plans to expand it to the regular version of the chatbot in the near future. This integration allows users to access real-time information, contrasting […]

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Microsoft Build 2023, day 2: Important sessions that you can attend

Microsoft Build 2023, day 2: Important sessions that you can attend

Microsoft’s annual developer conference Build 2023 is being organized from May 23 to May 25. On day 1 of the conference, the company made some major announcements like integration of ChatGPT into Bing, Copilot on Windows 11, new data and analytical tool Fabric among others.  The event continues on day 2. Here, we bring you […]

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Microsoft Build 2023: Microsoft launches Fabric – a unified analytics tool

Microsoft Build 2023: Microsoft launches Fabric – a unified analytics tool

At the ongoing Build 2023 event, Microsoft has launched a new data and analytical tool called the Microsoft Fabric. It comes with built-in SaaS, multi-cloud data lake called OneLake. All Fabric workloads are automatically wired into OneLake, just like all Microsoft 365 applications are wired into OneDrive.  Fabric is an end-to-end analytics product that addresses […]

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Microsoft Build 2023: Key highlights from tech giant’s event

Microsoft Build 2023: Key highlights from tech giant’s event

Microsoft Corp on Tuesday started making available to users a host of AI upgrades, including to ChatGPT, its search engine Bing as well as to cloud services – an expansive launch that seeks to narrow the gap with Alphabet Inc’s Google. Microsoft Build 2023 keynote session witnessed CEO Satya Nadella announcing the AI copilot stack, […]

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Blackstone platform bets on Indian data binge, in talks with Microsoft, Amazon

Blackstone platform bets on Indian data binge, in talks with Microsoft, Amazon

Blackstone is in talks with companies including Microsoft and Amazon to build Indian data centres for them to meet growing storage and processing demand, the CEO of its Lumina CloudInfra data centre platform told Reuters. COVID-19 created a shift in data consumption habits with more people working remotely and a spike in the use of […]

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Europe has led the global charge against big tech. But does it need a new approach?

Europe has led the global charge against big tech. But does it need a new approach?

In the past couple of decades, Europe and America have taken different paths in how they regulate large firms. American watchdogs largely sat back as big business got bigger, most notably the tech mastodons like Google, Apple and Facebook. Europe, in contrast, felt mega-corporations needed to be kept in check. Its regulators became the world’s […]

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