Microsoft sums up its AI code of conduct in five words: “People matter more than AI.” As the debate over whether AI could destroy humanity rages on, Microsoft AI on Monday released a draft of its 37-page code of conduct for its “humanist” AI models. It includes basic principles for how the AI should think,
Blizzard originally tried to bring the StarCraft universe to the world of 3D shooters way back in 2002 with StarCraft: Ghost. It sat in development hell for years until Blizzard president Mike Morhaime confirmed that it had been canceled in 2014. Now Blizzard is giving it another go with the simply titled StarCraft. Dan Hay,
Frank X. Shaw, Microsoft’s chief communications officer, is leaving the software giant after nearly 30 years of playing a vital role in shaping the company’s public messaging, according to a memo he sent to staff viewed by Fortune. Shaw said he’s decided it is time to move on and try new ventures, though he has
Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI. A lawsuit filed by The Seattle Times and Newsday argued that with the advent of AI, the journalism industry could become “broken beyond repair.” The lawsuit described generative AI as “a snake eating its own tail”
Lambda, an AI cloud company that buys computing chips and rents them out to businesses, has raised $1 billion in private, short-dated debt to buy Nvidia’s AI chips that it will lease to Microsoft, Bloomberg reports. The terms of the deal, which Bloomberg says was arranged by JP Morgan Chase, signal that Lambda is betting
On Chinese social media, people have also reported experiencing variations of the scam involving other corporate software apps, including Webex, a video conferencing platform owned by Cisco, and Cliq, a workplace communication app owned by the Indian software giant Zoho. Since February 2025, 71 percent of the over 150 reviews of Webex on Apple’s Chinese
