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Microsoft threatens to restrict data from rival AI search tools, says Bloomberg report

The company has told 2 customers that using its Bing search index-a map of the internet that can be scanned in real time- to feed AI chat tools, violates terms of their contract.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT kickstarted AI revolution. Get ready for a new arms race with GPT-4

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spent 15+ years working on search technology to catch up with Google. Now he is making Google dance with the use of OpenAI technology.

Microsoft unveils suite of cloud tools for telecom firms

Operators can benefit from advanced AI that helps to unlock new business opportunities from data on & insights into their operations, including the rollout of high-speed 5G networks.

ChatGPT vs Bard: Microsoft, Google’s growing chatbot rivalry and its lurking dangers

After ChatGPT’s entry into the market, major tech giants added to the competition with their own generative AI tools. But the concern is how accurate and bias-free these tools are.

Microsoft revamps Bing search engine, Edge browser with AI in big challenge to Google

The power of so-called generative AI that can create virtually any text or image dawned on the public last year with the release of ChatGPT, the chatbot sensation from OpenAI.

Teams, Outlook down for thousands, including Indian users, Microsoft probes outage issues

Microsoft did not disclose the number of users affected by the disruption, but data from outage tracking website showed more than 3,900 incidents in India and over 900 in Japan.

Microsoft to cut 10,000 jobs as tech layoffs intensify

The layoffs will result in a charge of $1.2 billion in the second quarter of fiscal 2023, representing a negative impact of 12 cents on per share profit, the US tech firm said.

Microsoft to cut thousands of jobs across divisions

The company plans to cut jobs in a number of engineering divisions on Wednesday, Bloomberg News reported. The cuts will be significantly larger than other rounds in the past year.

Pentagon awards $9 billion cloud computing contracts to Google, Amazon, Microsoft & Oracle

The contracts will run until 2028 and provide the Department of Defense with enterprise-wide, globally available cloud services across all security domains and classification levels.

Tencent rose when Microsoft joined the list of foreign tech titans felled by Chinese rivals

In ‘Influence Empire’, Lulu Yilun Chen tells the much-awaited story of Tencent, the Chinese tech giant behind WeChat.

On Camera

Congress in Telangana gave award to Razkar—a propaganda film that demonises Muslims

“They’ve been blaming our party—blaming Nehru—for the delay in Hyderabad’s annexation. By giving Razakar an award, what message are we sending out?” a senior Muslim leader of Telangana Congress said.

Three yrs since launch, govt-backed e-commerce network ONDC is a tortoise running with the hares

Built as a novel concept to ‘democratise’ e-commerce in India, ONDC has seen limited success in specific pockets. But it’s still an emerging player in a highly competitive market.

India’s 1st-of-its-kind INS Arnala set to guard coastal waters against submarine intrusions

New Delhi: The Indian Navy is set to commission INS Arnala, the country’s first Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW-SWC), at Visakhapatnam dockyard on...

India-Pakistan terms of engagement: H-word, M-word & the Trump hyphenation

Return to hyphenation is dreaded because our successive govts have laboured for three decades to rid us of what we see as the equivalence big powers used to draw between us and Pakistan. Three things follow.