GeekWire

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Microsoft’s Krysta Svore discusses quantum computing at a 2020 conference. Microsoft has an app for that — and now developers around the world can have it, too. It’s a software tool that was originally developed for Microsoft’s internal use. GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle).

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GeekWire

MAY 22, 2024

Ella Maru Studio via Providence / Microsoft) Researchers at Microsoft, Providence Health System and the University of Washington say they’ve developed a new generative-AI model for diagnosing cancer, based on an analysis of more than a billion images of tissue samples from more than 30,000 patients.

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GeekWire

MARCH 14, 2022

(Photo by John Brecher for Microsoft). Microsoft says its researchers have found evidence of an exotic phenomenon that’s key to its plans to build general-purpose quantum computers. Microsoft has chosen a particularly exotic technological strategy, which involves inducing quantum states on topological superconducting wires.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This year’s Microsoft Ignite developer conference might as well be called AIgnite, with over half of the almost 600 sessions featuring artificial intelligence in some shape or form. Here’s some of the top AI news CIOs will want to take away from Microsoft Ignite 2023. The new Copilot will be generally available from Dec.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 14, 2021

What has happened is that there is a growing demand for software and this has given rise to pseudo-programmers who, though not professional developers, build applications that help their business lines. What are we supposed to do about this new army of developers who don’t work for us? Clearly this is an issue for a CIO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2023

The financial services sector is undergoing rapid change as fintechs develop convenient, consumer-focused services that were once the province of traditional banks. These organizations have two choices: They can modernize their architecture and develop the technology they need in-house or collaborate with fintechs to do it for them.

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GeekWire

MARCH 20, 2023

Nuance Communications Photo) Microsoft-owned AI company Nuance is leveraging GPT-4 to power new software designed to ease the burden of clinical documentation for physicians. Nuance, acquired last year by Microsoft for $19.7 Nuance, acquired last year by Microsoft for $19.7 Nuance Conversational AI in use by a radiology doctor.

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Tech Republic Cloud

JUNE 10, 2020

Applications are now open for the nanodegree program, which will help Udacity train developers on the Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Microsoft will invest €3.2 Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft, said the aim is to enable the German economy to benefit from AI in order to continue to expand its leading global position in terms of competitiveness. The company also wants to train more than 1.2 million people in digital skills.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 9, 2024

A prototype battery developed by Microsoft and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory uses a combination of lithium and sodium to reduce the overall lithium content. The AI tools reduced the number of candidates from 32 million to 23, of which 18 were new and previously unknown, Microsoft and PNNL say.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

When Microsoft posted its quarterly earnings last week, its CFO Amy Hood said that customers wanted more cloud compute for their AI workloads than the company could supply. Microsoft posted revenue of $61.9 Many features have been developed for Windows and Office copilots without having been deployed due to the lack of compute.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 23, 2024

(AI image made with Microsoft’s Image Creator) Software development is one of the early use cases for generative AI. Thousands of companies big and small are already using tools such as GitHub Copilot to speed up how they build new applications and services.

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GeekWire

APRIL 11, 2023

Microsoft Azure Space recently showed the U.S. military how an application beefed up with AI could do just that. “Azure Space has been committed to enabling people to achieve more, both on and off the planet,” Stephen Kitay, senior director of Microsoft Azure Space, told GeekWire.

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2020

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discusses third-party apps in Microsoft Teams during the keynote for the company’s Build developer conference Tuesday morning. Developers previously made Teams apps manually, or using the App Studio inside Microsoft Teams. Screenshot via webcast.).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Microsoft will work with several news organizations to explore and implement new applications of generative artificial intelligence in newsrooms and business operations. Microsoft declined to disclose the amount of funding it’s providing for any of the projects. “That’s one thing.

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TechSpot

MAY 6, 2024

A Windows "debloat" application previously known as Bloatynosy has been rebranded as Winpilot. It now features a completely new section aimed at removing all "promotions" and advertising that Microsoft has integrated into the OS interface. According to the app's developer, Winpilot is the "manic cousin" of Microsoft Copilot and was.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 10, 2022

Meanwhile, IBM has yet to announce any end to sales or support of its Z Series machines, and like Fujitsu, it too continues to develop its mainframe product line. Wazi is a suite of tools IBM introduced back in 2020 with which developers can write z/OS applications and then test them in a z/OS sandbox on their own x86 hardware.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

The apps rely on Apple and Google’s co-developed exposure notification platform, using Bluetooth to help determine whether users have come into close contact with others who have tested positive for COVID-19. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Japan’s government today released its coronavirus contact tracing app for iOS and Android.

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The Verge

JUNE 2, 2020

Microsoft is crediting a developer after he accused the company of copying the core mechanics of its new Windows Package Manager. Microsoft only briefly mentioned AppGet once in its announcement, in a throwaway line that lists other Windows package managers. Microsoft doesn’t dispute the claims.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 16, 2024

Photo) — Vahé Torossian , a longtime former corporate vice president at Microsoft , joined software development startup Builder.ai with the same thrill and excitement to be part of something bigger than myself as I experienced when I joined Microsoft in 1992,” Torossian wrote on LinkedIn. . Vahé Torossian.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

(Temporal Image) The news: Temporal , a Seattle startup that helps companies write and run cloud applications, raised $75 million. The details: The complexity of maintaining code becomes harder as more software development moves to the cloud, particularly with the use of microservices. Abbas also worked at Microsoft and Amazon.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A few months after releasing.NET 7, Microsoft is already working on the next version of its open-source, managed framework for software and app development.NET 8 will be finalized at the end of 2023, so there's still plenty of time for developers to adapt and digest all the changes. Read Entire Article

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Venture Beast

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

IBM predicts commercial applications for quantum computing within the next 5 years as hardware continues to advance. Read More.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 17, 2024

The latest Windows update has introduced a significant change, transforming the previously integrated Microsoft Copilot feature into a standalone app to enhance user engagement with AI-driven tools. Why are users seeing Microsoft Copilot now? How did Microsoft implement this change? Will there be a fix?

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Forrester IT

MARCH 15, 2021

With the recent announcement that Dapr has reached its first production-ready release, we finally see a viable response to Istio and perhaps the rest of the service mesh industry from Microsoft. If you’re not familiar, Dapr is a coding framework intended to solve the challenges of modern distributed applications.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

(GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Reporting from Las Vegas … Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky doubled down on the new era of artificial intelligence with a series of product announcements and thinly veiled but repeated criticism of Microsoft and OpenAI. ” AWS CEO Adam Selipsky and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at AWS re:Invent.

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GeekWire

MAY 4, 2023

Microsoft Image) Microsoft is updating its OpenAI-powered Bing search chatbot with several new features, and expanding its availability beyond the initial limited preview, looking to build on its momentum three months after the initial launch. Microsoft says Bing chat in Edge will get better at summarizing long documents.

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Dataconomy

MAY 22, 2024

At the Microsoft Build 2024 keynote, the tech giant discussed numerous advancements in Windows and AI, briefly touching on custom emoji as well. What’s announced at Microsoft Build 2024? Below, you’ll find a comprehensive overview of all the key highlights from Microsoft Build 2024. Let’s dive in!

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Lockheed Martin and Microsoft say they’re deepening their strategic relationship to help power the next generation of computing and communications technology for the Department of Defense. Future military communications may rely on secure cloud computing services. Lockheed Martin Illustration).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2024

Developers of risky generative AI models are now free to release them without government approval, but are being encouraged to self-regulate by adding labels to the output of their models warning of their potential unreliability. The new advisory gives developers more freedom to innovate, while placing guardrails on usage. “As

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Today, Microsoft announced the general availability of Microsoft SharePoint Syntex as of October 1, 2020. Project Cortex reflects Microsoft’s ongoing investment in intelligent content services and graph APIs to proactively explore and categorize digital assets […].

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2024

The news coming out of the annual conference from Seattle this week was summarized by Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella at the beginning of his keynote address on Tuesday, wherein he said the company was focusing on three platforms — Copilot, Copilot Stack, and Copilot+ PCs. At least that’s what analysts say.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

That was a question posed by a group of Microsoft researchers in a February paper exploring different ways OpenAI’s ChatGPT could create technical instructions for robotic tasks through simple prompts. Kapoor brought on former Microsoft colleagues Sai Vemprala and Shuhang Chen ; both were part of the Redmond, Wash.-based

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Microsoft is celebrating a year of AI advances with a sneak peek at Microsoft Copilot features it’s currently testing for its AI platform. So what are the new Microsoft Copilot features and why are we drawing a parallel to OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo? Let us explain. Here is a quick rundown of what’s new on Copilot.

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Network World

MAY 20, 2024

Proprietary AI chips To counteract this trend, genAI companies – including not only Google and Amazon but also Meta and Microsoft – are charging to market with significant investments in their own proprietary chip technologies to run genAI-driven workloads, Valle said.

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GeekWire

JUNE 1, 2024

1,250 prize) MyPath: An AI-driven college counseling bot providing personalized feedback and detailed application analysis for high school students. 1,000 prize) Ten other teams won $250 awards (two in each category) for best teamwork, execution, customer validation, elevator pitch and business model. .

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2023

Pablo Castro, distinguished engineer on Microsoft Azure’s AI team, demonstrates the Azure OpenAI Service. Microsoft has a solution. The service is designed for business and developers using Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to integrate OpenAI technologies into their applications. 7 by The Information.

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