US news organisation the New York Times is suing ChatGPT-owner OpenAI over claims its copyright was infringed to train the system. The lawsuit, which also names Microsoft as a defendant, says the firms should be held responsible for...
The recent chaos at artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI was not due to a disagreement over safety, the president of Microsoft has said. There were fears the sacking of OpenAI boss Sam Altman followed a "dangerous" discov...
Microsoft has completed its $69bn (£56bn) takeover of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard in the gaming industry's biggest ever deal. It comes as Microsoft, which owns the Xbox gaming console, was given the green light for the gl...
Amazon will invest up to $4bn (£3.3bn) in San Francisco-based AI firm Anthropic, mirroring the earlier tie-up between Microsoft and OpenAI. It is the latest multi-billion dollar investment in a race among the big tech firms to explo...
The technology behind the world's most talked about artificial intelligence (AI) system, ChatGPT, is being added to its most ubiquitous work software, Microsoft 365. Microsoft is calling the system Copilot and says it will be embedded int...
Sales at the tech giants Alphabet and Microsoft have slowed sharply, adding to fears of a downturn in the economy. Alphabet, which owns Google and YouTube, said sales rose just 6% in the three months to September, to $69bn, as firms cut t...
Microsoft is finally retiring the consumer version of Internet Explorer. It announced the plan last year, making Internet Explorer 11 its final version. Internet Explorer debuted on Windows desktop computers in 1995 and by 2004...
Microsoft mandates vaccines for workers...
President Trump said that he had a great conversation with the Microsoft CEO about the purchase of TikTok....
Microsoft has become the latest US company to limit the use of its facial recognition technology by police. The firm said it would not start sales to US police departments until the country approves national regulation of the technology, whi...
The mobile phone unit of Japanese tech giant Softbank had a disappointing debut on the Tokyo stock market. The firm raised as much as 2.6 trillion yen ($23bn; £18bn) by selling shares at 1,500 yen each in one of the world's largest eve...
A US federal judge in Seattle has blocked the release of software that allows consumers to 3D-print firearms. Gun access advocacy group Defense Distributed published downloadable gun blueprints five days early on Friday. The firm had reached a sett...
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A cyber-attack that has hit 150 countries since Friday should be treated by governments around the world as a "wake-up call", Microsoft says. It blamed governments for storing data on software vulnerabilities which could then be ac...
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RANCHO PALOS VERDES, California — Microsoft's new CEO, Satya Nadella, just steered the company into exciting and relatively uncharted territory: near real-time speech-to-speech translation. \\"It’s been a dream of humanity ever since ...
SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. notched(刻凹痕，赢得) its best ever month for the Xbox in December 2010, selling 1.9 million of the game consoles(控制台，操纵台), helped by its new Kinect hands-free system and the latest in the blockbuster(重磅炸...
updated 1:14 p.m. ET May 11, 2009 SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. says the next version(版本) of Windows will go on sale in time for the holiday shopping season. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture(合资公司) of Microsoft and NBC Universal.) The software mak...
A single check box deep in the guts of the next version of Windows is giving Microsoft Corp. watchers a peek at how the software maker plans to keep European antitrust regulators from marring a crucial software launch. Windows 7, the succes...
Microsoft Acknowledges Critical SQL (Structured Query Language, 结构化查询语言) Server Flaw Jennifer Leclaire, newsfactor.com – Tue Dec 23, 3:42 pm ET Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability that could allow r...