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Microsoft pushes US lawmakers to crack down on deepfakes
MICROSOFT is calling on Congress to pass a comprehensive law to crack down on images and audio created with artificial intelligence – known as deepfakes – that aim to...
U.S., UK and EU Make Joint Statement on Fostering AI Competition
Four regulatory bodies from the EU, U.K. and U.S. have released a statement of combined intent to study whether the AI industry allows for sufficient competition. The four groups...
Microsoft aims to boost AI workload capacity with Lumen partnership
MICROSOFT will use Lumen Technologies’ network equipment to expand its capacity for AI workloads, the companies said on Wednesday (Jul 24), as the technology giant looks to meet growing...
Get paid or sue? How the news business is combating the threat of AI
Journalist Javier Cabral wanted to test Google’s much-hyped, experimental artificial intelligence-powered search results. So he typed out a question about a topic he knew intimately: the Long Beach bakery...
Microsoft cloud service issues disrupt air travel operations
MICROSOFT is investigating a cloud services outage that grounded planes and disrupted flight operations in the US on Thursday (Jul 18) night, though some of the affected airlines said...
Microsoft gives up OpenAI board seat amid regulator scrutiny
Microsoft has ditched plans to take up an observer seat on the board of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, according to a letter seen by AFP on Wednesday (Jul 10), as...
Occidental clinches record carbon-removal deal with mega-buyer Microsoft
OIL giant Occidental Petroleum clinched a record carbon removal deal with Microsoft amid the software titan’s push to reduce its expanding emissions.Occidental, which is building a carbon-capture portfolio through...
Microsoft to offer Apple devices to employees in China, cites absence of Android services
MICROSOFT intends to offer Apple’s iOS-based devices to its employees in China to access authentication apps, a company spokesperson said on Monday (Jul 8), citing the absence of Google’s...
