Microsoft: News

Microsoft is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Washington, US. It produces consumer electronics, personal computers, computer software, and other related products and services. The company was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. It released the Microsoft Windows in 1985 and in 1990 it introduced the Microsoft Office Suit. Other popular software systems include the Internet Explorer, Microsoft Vista, and Edge Web browser. Its product-line includes Surface series laptops and tablets as well as Xbox video game consoles.

14 Feb 2025

Bill Gates

Trump appoints Usha Vance as trustee of Kennedy Center

United States President Donald Trump has appointed Vice President JD Vance's wife, Usha Vance, as a trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

12 Feb 2025

US Army

Anduril takes over Microsoft's $22B headset project for US Army

Anduril, a defense tech start-up co-founded by Palmer Luckey, has taken over the development and production of Microsoft's headset program for the US Army.

12 Feb 2025

Meta, Google, Microsoft partner to combat cyber threats in India

Tech giants such as Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Airtel have come together with New Delhi-based policy advocacy group Safer Internet India (SII) to form the coalition.

11 Feb 2025

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

65% Indians use AI, double the global average: Microsoft

A recent Microsoft study, titled the Global Online Safety Survey, has revealed that 65% of Indians have used artificial intelligence (AI).

10 Feb 2025

DeepSeek

DeepSeek hired employees from Microsoft's AI labs in China

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI start-up that recently sparked a $1 trillion selloff in US tech stocks, has a number of former Microsoft employees from the company's controversial AI labs in China.

09 Feb 2025

Elon Musk

DOGE using Microsoft Azure's AI bots for sensitive data analysis

Elon Musk's team at DOGE is using Microsoft's Azure cloud platform to analyze highly sensitive data, including personal details and internal financial records from the US Department of Education.

08 Feb 2025

Anthropic

DeepSeek the 'worst' performer on bioweapon data safety test: Anthropic

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has voiced grave concerns over DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm that has recently taken the world by storm with its R1 model.

07 Feb 2025

Amazon

Amazon to invest over $100B in AI this year

Amazon has announced plans to invest more than $100 billion in artificial intelligence (AI) this year.

06 Feb 2025

Google

Google unveils its latest AI model to compete with DeepSeek

Google has unveiled its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model, the Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental.

05 Feb 2025

Bill Gates

Bill Gates and Paula Hurd—Closer look at their 'serious' relationship

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, Bill Gates, finally spoke about his relationship with philanthropist Paula Hurd for the first time.

02 Feb 2025

Satya Nadella

Microsoft sets up new division to explore AI's societal impact

Microsoft has announced the creation of a new division, the Advanced Planning Unit (APU), within its Microsoft AI business vertical.

01 Feb 2025

LinkedIn lawsuit over use of customer-data for AI training dismissed

A proposed class action lawsuit against LinkedIn has been thrown out.

30 Jan 2025

Amazon

How this ex-Microsoft techie retired at 39 with ₹30 crore

Former techie Jamal Robinson has set an inspiring example of financial discipline.

28 Jan 2025

Donald Trump

Microsoft is in talks to buy TikTok, confirms Trump

US President Donald Trump has confirmed that tech giant Microsoft is in talks to buy the popular social media platform, TikTok.

27 Jan 2025

Bill Gates

'I was foolish': Bill Gates addresses friendship with Jeffrey Epstein

In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates expressed regret over his past interactions with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

26 Jan 2025

Donald Trump

Oracle, Microsoft in talks to acquire TikTok's global operations: Report

Oracle and a consortium of investors, including Microsoft, are said to be in talks to take over TikTok's global operations.

25 Jan 2025

Windows 11

Why Microsoft is bringing color-coded battery icons to Windows 11

Microsoft is all set to make the experience of its latest operating system, Windows 11, even better with a new Insider Preview Build.

23 Jan 2025

LinkedIn sued for using private messages to train AI

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is facing a class-action lawsuit, courtesy of its Premium subscribers.

22 Jan 2025

OpenAI

Why Microsoft has ended exclusive cloud partnership with OpenAI

Microsoft has ended its exclusive partnership with OpenAI as the sole provider of data center infrastructure.

22 Jan 2025

NVIDIA

OpenAI announces Stargate, a $500B project to build data centers

OpenAI has announced a partnership with Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and tech giant Oracle to build several AI-focused data centers in the US.

21 Jan 2025

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

ByteDance reveals AI-powered code editor 'Trae' to take on Microsoft

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has launched an AI-powered code editor called Trae.

19 Jan 2025

OpenAI

FTC flags Microsoft-OpenAI deal over potential AI market dominance

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the US has raised concerns over Microsoft's $13 billion investment in OpenAI.

19 Jan 2025

Windows 11

Use Windows 11? You can now test AI-powered search feature

US tech giant Microsoft is testing an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered search feature for Windows 11.

16 Jan 2025

Gmail

Google makes Gemini AI free to use in Gmail, Docs

Google has announced that its Workspace suite users can now access Gemini-powered AI experiences directly from Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Meet at no extra cost.

15 Jan 2025

Bing

Microsoft removes UI that mimicked Google's look on Bing

Microsoft has quietly removed a deceptive user interface (UI) that mimicked Google's look on its search engine, Bing.

15 Jan 2025

Windows 10

Microsoft Office apps will soon stop working on Windows 10

Microsoft has announced that it will end support for its Office apps, aka Microsoft 365 apps, on Windows 10 later this year.

15 Jan 2025

ChatGPT

Could ChatGPT go down? NYT's lawsuit against OpenAI raises questions

The New York Times and other news organizations have sued OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.

14 Jan 2025

Satya Nadella

Indian-origin techie Jay Parikh to lead Microsoft's new AI division

Microsoft has announced the formation of a new engineering group, the CoreAI - Platform and Tools division.

11 Jan 2025

OpenAI

Microsoft sues group for creating tool to exploit its AI

Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against a group of 10 unknown individuals, accusing them of abusing its cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) products.

09 Jan 2025

Elon Musk

Real-world data for AI training exhausted? Elon Musk thinks so

Elon Musk, owner of AI firm xAI, has agreed with other AI experts that the pool of real-world data to train AI models is almost empty.

09 Jan 2025

OpenAI

Microsoft rolls back Bing Image Creator update following quality complaints

Microsoft is rolling back an update it pushed on the AI model of Bing Image Creator, its image-editing tool.

08 Jan 2025

Satya Nadella

Microsoft to lay off underperforming employees in workforce restructuring move

Microsoft is planning to lay off a bunch of its underperforming employees, according to Business Insider.

07 Jan 2025

Satya Nadella

Microsoft aims to train 10M Indians in AI by 2030

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has announced the company's ambitious plan to train 10 million Indians in artificial intelligence (AI) skills by 2030.

07 Jan 2025

Narendra Modi

Microsoft announces $3B investment in India's AI and cloud ecosystem

Microsoft's chairman and CEO, Satya Nadella, has announced a massive $3 billion investment into India's artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud ecosystem.

06 Jan 2025

Bing

Microsoft Bing is mimicking Google's interface to retain users

Microsoft has a new trick up its sleeve to promote its search engine, Bing.

06 Jan 2025

LG, Samsung bring Microsoft Copilot to their 2025 TV lineups

LG and Samsung have unveiled their 2025 smart TV models at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

05 Jan 2025

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Microsoft's new AI model can run Windows programs by itself

In a major development, Microsoft has unveiled a revolutionary artificial intelligence (AI) model, the Large Action Model (LAM).

05 Jan 2025

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Microsoft betting big on AI data centers—$80B investment this fiscal

Microsoft has announced an investment of $80 billion for the fiscal year 2025, to build data centers specifically for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads.

04 Jan 2025

Indian Government

DPDP: Big Tech must not transfer personal data outside India

The draft Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) rules have proposed strict measures for Big Tech companies operating in India.

27 Dec 2024

OpenAI

'$100B in profits': Microsoft, OpenAI's secret definition of AGI revealed

According to documents obtained by The Information, OpenAI and Microsoft jointly defined artificial general intelligence (AGI) as a system that can generate $100 billion in profits.

27 Dec 2024

Donald Trump

Did Trump's AI advisor donate to Harris's campaign? Here's truth

Far-right activist Laura Loomer has found herself in hot water after mistakenly accusing Sriram Krishnan, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Senior White House Policy Advisor on Artificial Intelligence (AI), of donating to Vice President Kamala Harris's presidential campaign.

24 Dec 2024

OpenAI

Microsoft to integrate non-OpenAI models into 365 Copilot AI assistant

Microsoft is planning to integrate internal and third-party artificial intelligence (AI) models into its flagship AI assistant, Microsoft 365 Copilot.

23 Dec 2024

IIT-Delhi

IIT Delhi placements: Students receive 1,200 offers in phase 1

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi and Kanpur have recorded a successful first phase of the 2024-25 placement season.

23 Dec 2024

Donald Trump

Who is Sriram Krishnan, Trump's new AI policy advisor

Indian-American tech veteran, Sriram Krishnan, has been appointed as the White House's senior policy advisor on artificial intelligence (AI).

13 Dec 2024

App Store

US Congress calls on Big Tech to address deepfake concerns

The US Congress has stepped up its scrutiny of major tech firms including Apple, Meta, Google, and Microsoft over deepfake non-consensual intimate images.

13 Dec 2024

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Phi-4: Microsoft's smaller AI model beats larger competitors in reasoning

Microsoft has unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) model, Phi-4, which is capable of performing mathematical reasoning while consuming less computational power than larger models.

11 Dec 2024

Google

Google urges US government to break up Microsoft-OpenAI cloud deal

Google has appealed to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to dissolve Microsoft's exclusive contract with OpenAI, according to The Information.

10 Dec 2024

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft 365 outage: Teams, Outlook, and cloud-based apps down

Microsoft 365, the tech giant's suite of productivity tools and services, is currently witnessing a major disruption.

10 Dec 2024

Cybersecurity

Not AGI! Microsoft AI chief reveals the company's top priority

Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft's AI division, has revealed that the tech giant's number one focus is on security.

06 Dec 2024

Amazon

From Google's gaffe to CrowdStrike outage: 2024's biggest business blunders

In 2024, business failures were widespread, with companies in various sectors grappling with blunders ranging from AI missteps to technological glitches and manufacturing errors.

04 Dec 2024

Windows 10

Will your old PC get Windows 11? Microsoft says NO!

Microsoft has reiterated its position on the strict hardware requirements for Windows 11, stressing that the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 is a non-negotiable requirement.

04 Dec 2024

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