Enlarge / The OpenAI logo superimposed over the Microsoft logo. Ars Technica reader comments 37 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Monday, AI tech darling OpenAI announced that it received a “multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment” from Microsoft, following previous investments in 2019 and 2021. While the two companies have not officially announced a… Read More »
reader comments 89 with 0 posters participating Share this story Microsoft is laying off about 10,000 employees by the end of Q3 of its 2023 fiscal year, the company confirmed today. Microsoft’s Securities and Exchange Commission filing (PDF) described the move as a “response to macroeconomic conditions and changing customer priorities.” Microsoft says it has… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a person’s silhouette. Ars Technica reader comments 67 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Thursday, Microsoft researchers announced a new text-to-speech AI model called VALL-E that can closely simulate a person’s voice when given a three-second audio sample. Once it learns a specific voice, VALL-E can synthesize… Read More »
The new year is almost here, and Xbox is ready to celebrate it with a new batch of Games with Gold titles, as the company has revealed the Xbox Games With Gold January 2023 lineup. This month, two games will headline the service: Iris Fall and Autonauts. First up, Iris Fall is a single-player adventure… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 19 with 0 posters participating Share this story Microsoft has once again been caught allowing its legitimate digital certificates to sign malware in the wild, a lapse that allows the malicious files to pass strict security checks designed to prevent them from running on the Windows operating system. Multiple threat actors… Read More »
Enlarge / APT37, a group believed to be backed by the North Korean government, has found success exploiting the bits of Internet Explorer still present in various Windows-based apps. Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 22 with 0 posters participating Share this story Microsoft’s Edge browser has replaced Internet Explorer in almost every regard,… Read More »
Enlarge / Nvidia and Microsoft are teaming up on an AI cloud supercomputer. reader comments 14 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Wednesday, Nvidia announced a collaboration with Microsoft to build a “massive” cloud computer focused on AI. It will reportedly use tens of thousands of high-end Nvidia GPUs for applications like deep… Read More »
Microsoft Account sign-up prompts, now in the sign-in menu. reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Microsoft is always adding new stuff to Windows 11, but some of those changes are more positive than others. Case in point: Twitter user Albacore has spotted new prompts in Windows 11 nudging users toward using Microsoft… Read More »
reader comments 3 with 3 posters participating Share this story It’s the second Tuesday of the month, and that means it’s Update Tuesday, the monthly release of security patches available for nearly all software Microsoft supports. This time around, the software maker has fixed six zero-days under active exploit in the wild, along with a… Read More »
Enlarge / Variations of “a photo of a happy corgi puppy with fancy sunglasses on sitting and facing forward, studio light, longshot” generated by OpenAI’s DALL-E. reader comments 24 with 22 posters participating Share this story On Thursday, OpenAI announced the introduction of an API for its DALL-E image synthesis model that will allow developers… Read More »