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Biden Announces $3.3 Billion Microsoft AI Center at Trump’s Failed Foxconn Site

8 May 2024 at 16:27
The president’s visit to Wisconsin celebrated the investment by Microsoft in a center to be built on the site of a failed Foxconn project negotiated by his predecessor.

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President Biden at the Intel campus in Chandler, Ariz., in March. His “Investing in America” agenda has focused on bringing billions of private-sector dollars into manufacturing and industries such as clean energy and artificial intelligence.

8 Daily Newspapers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I.

30 April 2024 at 10:51
The suit, which accuses the tech companies of copyright infringement, adds to the fight over the online data used to power artificial intelligence.

© Taylor Glascock for The New York Times

The firm behind the lawsuit, Alden Global Capital, bought Tribune Publishing, which operated metropolitan dailies including The Chicago Tribune, in 2021.

Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech’s A.I. Race

29 April 2024 at 00:01
Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.

© Left, Enric Fontcuberta/EPA, via Shutterstock; right, Clara Mokri for The New York Times

Demis Hassabis, left, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, and Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft AI, were longtime friends from London.

Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech’s A.I. Race

29 April 2024 at 00:01
Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.

© Left, Enric Fontcuberta/EPA, via Shutterstock; right, Clara Mokri for The New York Times

Demis Hassabis, left, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, and Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft AI, were longtime friends from London.

In Race to Build A.I., Tech Plans a Big Plumbing Upgrade

27 April 2024 at 05:05
The spending that the industry’s giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly large.

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Microsoft said generative A.I. had contributed to more than a fifth of the growth of its cloud computing business.

Microsoft Reports Rising Revenues as A.I. Investments Bear Fruit

25 April 2024 at 18:48
The tech giant’s quarterly results included strong growth in cloud computing, fueled by its services in generative artificial intelligence.

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In recent quarters, Microsoft’s A.I. push has helped it gain market share from Amazon, the leading cloud services provider.

Microsoft Makes a New Push Into Smaller A.I. Systems

23 April 2024 at 01:18
The company that has invested billions in generative A.I. pioneers like OpenAI says giant systems aren’t necessarily what everyone needs.

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The smallest Microsoft Phi-3 model can fit on a smartphone, and it runs on the kinds of chips that power regular computers.

Andres Freund, el ingeniero que previno un posible ciberataque global

5 April 2024 at 03:00
Un ingeniero de Microsoft notó que algo andaba mal en un software en el que había trabajado. Pronto descubrió que probablemente alguien intentaba acceder a computadoras en todo el mundo.

© Jon Han

Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?

3 April 2024 at 16:09
A Microsoft engineer noticed something was off on a piece of software he worked on. He soon discovered someone was probably trying to gain access to computers all over the world.

© Jon Han

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