Microsoft Moves Into New Era Of Advertising, Automation by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, March 16, 2023 Microsoft will integrate the technology behind ChatGPT into its workplace software, upgrading PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Outlook with new capabilities in its latest move to win the race toward automation and artificial intelligence across business products and advertising. The company … Continue reading Microsoft Moves Into New Era Of Advertising, Automation
Microsoft is holding a ‘future of work’ AI event on March 16th Jon Fingas @jonfingas Now that Microsoft has outlined how AI will reshape Bing search, it’s ready to detail how the technology will influence your workplace. The company is holding a “Future of Work with AI” event on March 16th at 11AM Eastern. … Continue reading Microsoft 365 ‘Copilot’ uses AI to automate everyday tasks in multiple apps
15% Of Bing AI Chatbot Sessions Intended To Generate New Content: Microsoft by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, March 9, 2023 Microsoft has released a progress update, a month after it launched its Bing AI chatbot. The technology now has more than 100 million daily active users in a little over a month following the launch, as Microsoft … Continue reading Microsoft Identifies Creative Search Behavior As More People Adopt Bing AI Chatbot
Microsoft makes Outlook free to use for Mac Jon Fingas @jonfingas You now have another major alternative to the built-in Mail app on your Mac. Microsoft has made Outlook for Mac free to use. You previously needed either a Microsoft 365 subscription or an Office purchase to use the email client. It’s available now … Continue reading Microsoft makes Outlook free to use for Mac
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 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
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
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 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
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
