Microsoft Advertiser Identity Verification Takes On New Policy by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, August 15, 2023 Microsoft has reversed its decision to ban ads from unverified marketers. The company on Tuesday announced that it will pause ads for several reasons as the advertiser completes the Advertiser Identity Verification (AIV) process for new accounts. “After additional review … Continue reading Microsoft Advertiser Identity Verification Takes On New Policy
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI To Help Developers Use AI To Find, Fix Software Vulnerabilities by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, August 9, 2023 Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI will collaborate with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a research and development agency within the Department of Defense (DOD), to enable competitors to develop state-of-the-art cybersecurity systems. The … Continue reading Google, Microsoft, OpenAI To Help Developers Use AI To Find, Fix Software Vulnerabilities
Microsoft Bing To Offer AI-Powered Third-Party Browser Support by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, August 7, 2023 Microsoft Bing announced Monday that it soon will begin to support AI-powered Bing in third-party browsers on web and mobile. The company, which estimates that today it supports more than 1 billion chats, in late July confirmed that Bing Chat was … Continue reading Microsoft Bing To Offer AI-Powered Third-Party Browser Support
Microsoft Advertising Goes Through ‘Transformation,’ Rebrands Xandr, PromoteIQ by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, July 27, 2023 Microsoft Advertising is rebranding its products, strategy and services, combining and renaming the technology from its recent acquisitions of Xandr and PromoteIQ, and changing some of the processes across its product line. The shift officially begins in August. The new … Continue reading Microsoft Advertising Goes Through ‘Transformation,’ Rebrands Xandr, PromoteIQ
Indonesia is blocking Elon Musk’s X domain for its gambling and porn history Jon Fingas @jonfingas Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter as X is… not going according to plan. Indonesia has temporarily blocked X.com due to the country’s laws forbidding gambling and porn. Officials don’t think the site is suddenly going downhill, though. … Continue reading Twitter’s rebrand to X is causing scam alerts on Microsoft Edge
Microsoft, Dentsu Strengthen AI Innovation Partnership by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, July 26, 2023 Dentsu Group has launched enterprise-wide access to Microsoft Azure OpenAI technologies. The deal, announced Wednesday, will allow employees to develop solutions for clients based on artificial intelligence (AI). The news comes one day after Microsoft reported that revenue rose 8% year-over-year in … Continue reading Microsoft, Dentsu Strengthen AI Innovation Partnership
Analyst Sees Microsoft Bing Search Outpacing Google Search Revenue Within 3 Years by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, July 21, 2023 Microsoft’s development of its own version of Google’s Performance Max platform, as well as rebranding the PromoteIQ retail media platform and Xandr ad tech into a suite of applications under the Microsoft Advertising banner, has prompted … Continue reading Analyst Sees Microsoft Bing Search Outpacing Google Search Revenue Within 3 Years
Meta, Microsoft Expand AI Partnership by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, July 19, 2023 Meta and Microsoft announced an expanded artificial intelligence (AI) partnership with the release of the new large language model (LLM), Llama 2, free for research and commercial use. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced the news at the Microsoft Inspire event. It shows a growing … Continue reading Meta, Microsoft Expand AI Partnership
Microsoft Launches Vector Search In Preview by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, July 18, 2023 Microsoft at its annual Inspire conference announced the availability of Vector search, a technique for finding related objects. In preview through Azure Cognitive search, Vector Search uses machine learning to capture the meaning and context of unstructured data, such as images and … Continue reading Microsoft Launches Vector Search In Preview
Appeals court rejects the FTC’s last-ditch attempt to stop Microsoft from buying Activision Kris Holt @krisholt The Federal Trade Commission has been unsuccessful in its last-ditch effort to pump the brakes on Microsoft’s $68.7 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declined to grant the agency an emergency stay … Continue reading Appeals court rejects the FTC’s last-ditch attempt to stop Microsoft from buying Activision
