Big Tech earnings season begins next week with Google, but the most important number won’t be profits or revenue. It will be how much these companies say they will spend on AI data centers. Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta have already laid out plans to spend more than $700 billion this year. Investors know that
Microsoft appears to be preparing its sales team to be more competitive with the other major players in the artificial intelligence industry. In an internal meeting on Tuesday, company executives outlined a plan for vendors to negatively compare artificial intelligence products from companies like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic to their own, according to a new
On Tuesday, Microsoft fixed an all-time high number of security bugs across its product lines, largely due to using AI to help the company and outside researchers discover bugs. Among the vulnerabilities fixed was one for the remastered version of the classic 25-year-old war strategy video game Age of Empires II. According to security researchers,
A year ago, OpenAI seemed to have an untouchable lead in the AI race. It was by far the dominant AI platform for consumers. Competitors like Meta were struggling (and spending millions of dollars on new hires) to catch up. Sam Altman had enough money and influence to hire famed Apple designer Jony Ive to
Of all the debates out there about the potential downsides of AI, there is one concern that is causing the most concern among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley. Their fear is that the giant artificial intelligence labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting as Trojan horses. The concern is that as startups and enterprises
Satya Nadella quietly criticized AI labs like Anthropic for the way they train their models. In an X post on Sunday, Microsoft’s CEO said that model makers complaining about distillation are hypocritical. Distillation is the process of training a less powerful model based on the results of a stronger one. “While the great innovation that