Category: Microsoft
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Microsoft Confirms 10-Year Deal with Nintendo for Call of Duty
Announcement made as Microsoft’s case is presented to EU regulators In a tweet this morning, Microsoft President Brad Smith announced that the tech giant has signed a “binding” 10-year legal agreement with Nintendo, bringing Call of Duty to the Nintendo platform with “full feature and content parity” with Xbox. This follows Microsoft’s commitment last year…
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PSA: Bing Chat Cannot Delete Your Chat History
Be careful what you ask for Bing Chat is a new feature that allows users to interact with Bing’s artificial intelligence (AI) in a conversational way. It is currently in beta to a select group of users while Microsoft irons out the initial kinks with the software and prepares it for prime time. Users on…
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Google Shows off New AI Search Features
Shares Take a Nosedive After AI Response Blunder Google has demonstrated its latest artificial intelligence (AI) search advancements at a live event in Paris, but its features were lacking when compared to Microsoft’s announcement of its “new Bing” yesterday. Google showed how it will utilize AI to summarize information from the web. The demo was…
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Microsoft Unveils Next-Generation AI-Powered Bing Search and Edge Web Browser to Compete with Google
In a move designed to take on long-time rival Google, Microsoft has unveiled new versions of its Bing search engine and Edge web browser that leverage the latest artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI. Speaking at an event at the company headquarters, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella proclaimed, “It’s a new day for search.” The “new…
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Microsoft and OpenAI Partnership: Surprise Event Announced
Microsoft has scheduled a major news event for tomorrow, February 7th, which is expected to bring some major announcements to the tech industry. The event, to be held at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, was first teased through mail invites last week and has now been officially confirmed. Starting at 10AM PT / 1PM…
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Google Backs Anthropic’s Chatbot Claude in Race for AI Dominance
The race for AI dominance between Google and Microsoft is continuing with almost daily AI news updates on this site. Recently, Microsoft formed a partnership with OpenAI, creators of the popular chatbot, ChatGPT, and Google now potentially turning to a company founded by former OpenAI employees, Anthropic. The Financial Times are reporting that Google invested…
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ChatGPT Could Soon Revolutionize Search with Microsoft Bing Integration
Microsoft’s Bing may become the first search engine powered by generative algorithms, thanks to ChatGPT, a recently launched AI tool from OpenAI. The integration between Bing and ChatGPT’s chatbot capabilities is rumoured to arrive in the coming weeks, with Microsoft employing OpenAI’s GPT-4 language model, which is a faster version of the GPT-3.x machine learning…
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New Xbox Game Pass Releases for January and Early February: Hi-Fi Rush, GoldenEye 007, Roboquest, Age of Empires II and More
Microsoft have finally announced the latest releases coming to Xbox Game Pass for the remainder of January and the beginning of February. Here’s a quick rundown of what to expect:
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GoldenEye 007: Relive the Classic on Switch and Xbox on January 27th
Nintendo and Xbox fans will soon be able to revisit a classic game with the release of GoldenEye 007 on Switch Online and Xbox Game Pass. Both Nintendo and Xbox announced in September that the game would be coming to their services, and it will be released on January 27th for Switch and Xbox consoles.…
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Microsoft 365 Services Experience Widespread Outage: Company Investigates Networking Configuration Issue
On January 25th, a widespread Microsoft 365 outage left thousands of users around the world unable to access several of the company’s products. In the early morning hours, Microsoft announced that users were experiencing difficulties with services such as Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, Outlook, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Graph, PowerBi, and the Microsoft…