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Meta is not done with the metaverse after it unveiled a new AI model designed to control the behaviour of digital agents in virtual experiences.
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Microsoft has revealed plans to extend its global data centre footprint to Perth, Western Australia, with an Azure Extended Zone set to launch by mid-2025.
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In the latest twist in Elon Musk’s existential legal battle with OpenAI, lawyers for the Tesla billionaire have filed an injunction aimed at preventing OpenAI and backer Microsoft from engaging in “anticompetitive conduct.”
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What does it truly mean to be a leader? Influencer, thought leader, and leading expert: Tags like these are applied throughout the tech industry, and beyond, almost like stickers, with businesses looking to wheel out what they perceive to be one of their true stars to showcase to the public.
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Microsoft has unveiled its first in-house developed DPU, or data processing unit, to equip its cloud servers with an extra performance boost.
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Microsoft AI, the newly launched Microsoft organisation that is tasked with helping the company advance its consumer AI products has announced it is opening an AI hub in London.
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Microsoft has scored a substantial victory in the quest to dominate the AI marketplace by recruiting Suleyman, who brings with him his Inflection co-founder, Karén Simonyan and other key team members.
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At Nvidia’s GTC event yesterday, Microsoft and Nvidia announced an expansion to their technology partnership that will see integrations leveraging the latest Nvidia generative AI and Omniverse technologies across Microsoft Azure, Azure AI services, Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft 365.
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Microsoft is set to expand its AI and cloud infrastructure in Spain, with an investment of US$2.1 billion over the next two years.
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Nokia and A1 Austria (A1) have completed the industry’s first 5G edge cloud network slicing with Microsoft.
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Cisco has transmitted 800Gbps on the Amitié trans-Atlantic subsea cable, which spans 6,234km from Boston, Massachusetts to Bordeaux, France.
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Vodafone and Microsoft have inked a 10-year strategic partnership to bring generative AI, digital services and the cloud to more than 300 million businesses and customers across Europe and Africa.
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OpenAI and Microsoft, its chief financial backer, have been hit with another lawsuit by a pair of nonfiction authors, Reuters reports.
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has opened an early opportunity for parties to comment on the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI.
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OpenAI has been at the centre of much drama over the past few days after co-founder and CEO Sam Altman was ousted from the company.
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Sam Altman, the co-founder and former CEO of OpenAI is heading to Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team.
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The Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) is set to announce its decision on the updated US$75 billion merger between Microsoft and Activision.
