Tag Archives: Microsoft

Microsoft is already reversing some of the limits it put on Bing’s AI chat tools

Cherlynn Low @cherlynnlow The age of generative AI is upon us, and this week alone Google and Microsoft made major announcements around their respective products for the masses. While Google unveiled an “experimental conversational AI service” called Bard (March 16, 2023), Microsoft had a fuller slate of news to share at its event in … Continue reading Microsoft is already reversing some of the limits it put on Bing’s AI chat tools →

Gmail Users Are Not Receiving Emails Synching With Microsoft Servers: Report

Google Gmail

Gmail Users Are Not Receiving Emails Synching With Microsoft Servers: Report February 22, 2023 By Sergiu Gatlan Google is investigating a service outage caused when Gmail accounts are syncing with Microsoft servers. Gmail users on affected devices say they are not receiving emails. Hotmail accounts are also affected. Google is investigating a service outage … Continue reading Gmail Users Are Not Receiving Emails Synching With Microsoft Servers: Report →

We need to talk about Microsoft and Google’s underwhelming chatbot debuts

Career Evolution

By Mark Sullivan February 13, 2023 In the world of generative AI, last week began with a fire drill. A rather harried-sounding member of Google’s communications staff was on the phone Monday morning explaining that her company would be announcing a new ChatGPT-like chatbot within the next couple of hours. This was the first … Continue reading We need to talk about Microsoft and Google’s underwhelming chatbot debuts →

New TOS for AI-powered Bing poses legal issues for Microsoft and users

Microsoft

Under the new Bing terms of service Microsoft claims rights over inputs and outputs that may conflict with copyright law. Constantine von Hoffman on February 9, 2023 On Tuesday Microsoft loudly announced the new AI-fueled version of Bing. At the same time it quietly published a new version of the search engine’s terms of service, … Continue reading New TOS for AI-powered Bing poses legal issues for Microsoft and users →

Microsoft Leans Into A New Era Of Search With AI-Powered Bing Browser

Microsoft Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Leans Into A New Era Of Search With AI-Powered Bing Browser by Colin Kirkland , February 7, 2023 At a live event on Tuesday afternoon, Microsoft announced a new version of its search engine Bing, which will now be powered by OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology that powers the popular and controversial chatbot ChatGPT, … Continue reading Microsoft Leans Into A New Era Of Search With AI-Powered Bing Browser →

Halo developer says franchise is ‘here to stay’ after studio ‘hit hard’ by Microsoft layoffs

Gadgets

Jessica Conditt @JessConditt The best thing I can say about Halo: Infinite is that it gets better as it goes. The single-player campaign starts out as a basic first-person shooter dripping in nostalgia juice, and it ends up as a rudimentary open-world shooter swimming in sci-fi tropes, starring everyone’s favorite emotionless space soldier and his … Continue reading Halo developer says franchise is ‘here to stay’ after studio ‘hit hard’ by Microsoft layoffs →

Microsoft Bing Relying More On Tags To Identify Last Updates To Website

Microsoft Bing

Microsoft Bing Relying More On Tags To Identify Last Updates To Website by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, February 1, 2023 Microsoft Bing will soon rely much more on the date specified in the “lastmod” field in the XML sitemap for crawling. The “lastmod” field is the date the page was last modified, which appears … Continue reading Microsoft Bing Relying More On Tags To Identify Last Updates To Website →

Microsoft Cloud Fuels Earnings And Future In AI, But Computer Services Decline

AI Development

Microsoft Cloud Fuels Earnings And Future In AI, But Computer Services Decline by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, January 24, 2023 Microsoft on Tuesday reported revenue declines from its Windows Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Operations and from Xbox content and online services. The company earned an adjusted $2.32 a share on sales of $52.7 billion in the … Continue reading Microsoft Cloud Fuels Earnings And Future In AI, But Computer Services Decline →

Microsoft could lay off as many as 11,000 employees this week

Microsoft Employees

Meta is laying off more than 11,000 employees Karissa Bell @karissabe Meta is reducing the size of its workforce by about 13 percent and letting more than 11,000 of its employees go in the first mass layoffs in the company’s history. Mark Zuckerberg has announced the move in a message to employees, which Meta … Continue reading Microsoft could lay off as many as 11,000 employees this week →

Microsoft Makes Last-Touch Attribution For Automated Bidding Generally Available

Marketing Attribution

Microsoft Makes Last-Touch Attribution For Automated Bidding Generally Available by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, January 20, 2023 Microsoft Advertising released a model into general availability that it calls “last-touch attribution for automated bidding” on the Microsoft Audience Network this week. Daniel Godoy, evangelist at Microsoft Advertising, provided this update during a presentation. He said enabling the feature when … Continue reading Microsoft Makes Last-Touch Attribution For Automated Bidding Generally Available →