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,
Microsoft this week released a record number of security patches for Windows, Office and other technology product lines, citing the use of artificial intelligence to help discover code vulnerabilities. The technology and cloud giant issued patches for 570 security flaws on Tuesday as part of its scheduled monthly release of fixes, which security researchers have
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
Microsoft’s greenhouse gas pollution increased about 25 percent last year, the company says in its new sustainability report released Thursday. The report follows similar ones published by Google and Amazon last week. Together, they show a worrying trend of rising emissions from technology companies, driven by the global race to build energy-intensive data centers. In
Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that Microsoft was replacing some of OpenAI’s software with its own internal models in an effort to reduce costs. Those internal models, known as MAI, were increasingly used to power applications like Word and Excel, the outlet noted. The story raised an increasingly common question about the two companies, which