According to data from companies like Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft, the largest cloud players, Microsoft and Amazon, have hundreds of data centers to meet growing commercial needs. The Big Tech firms are frequently pitted against one another in a variety of ways, including revenue, market capitalization, and the newest addition—generative
Elon Musk hits OpenAI with a breach of contract lawsuit, claiming it engages in unfair business tactics and breaches fiduciary duties. In a lawsuit that was submitted on Thursday night to the San Francisco Superior Court, Elon Musk alleges that OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT, and its CEO, Sam
According to a Monday filing by OpenAI in Manhattan federal court, Microsoft and OpenAI allege that the NY Times hacked ChatGPT to replicate its content. In an attempt to discredit the New York Times, OpenAI has requested a federal judge to throw out some of the newspaper’s copyright lawsuits against
A BlackRock recruiter named Serge Varlay said that some of the companies that BlackRock controls are “From Merck to Microsoft.” A week after an employee of the world’s largest asset management company, BlackRock, described how the company attempts to stay out of the media spotlight while buying politicians and profiting
According to a June 4 blog post on Medium, Amazon locked a Microsoft engineer, Brandon Jackson, out of his smart home devices over false racism claims. Amazon locked a Microsoft engineer out of his smart home devices for nearly a week after a delivery driver accused him of uttering a racial slur.
A complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington has led to Microsoft being fined $20 million for violating child privacy laws. The Justice Department, together with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), announced today that the United States has resolved a case against Microsoft Corp.
Microsoft was the first to identify a Chinese hacking group named Volt Typhoon, which targeted the US Navy. This finding has been subsequently confirmed by authorities in the US, UK, and other allied nations. An alleged campaign by Chinese state-sponsored hackers on targets in the US and Guam has raised
Microsoft President Brad Smith gave a speech about AI regulation and his concerns in Washington, where he issued a new warning about deep fakes spreading misinformation. Brad Smith gave a speech in Washington on May 25 which discussed how AI could be regulated. Smith’s biggest concern is deep fakes made by AI that end
Microsoft researchers published a 155-page research paper arguing that the new AI shows signs of human reasoning and represents a step towards artificial general intelligence. When computer scientists at Microsoft started to experiment with a new artificial intelligence system last year, they asked it to solve a puzzle that should