“With investors highly tuned into how AI spend will represent real revenue for big tech, Apple’s results have provided…reassurance,” said Susannah Streeter, head of money and markets at Hargreaves Lansdown. Unlike its technology peers such as Microsoft who have poured billions into AI-related investments, Apple took a prudent approach, betting on AI as features meant […]
Azure results for the fiscal second quarter also fell below Wall Street expectations. Despite beating quarterly overall sales estimates, investors want better results from the hundreds of billions of dollars that Wall Street heavyweights have been spending to build AI data centers and infuse their products with the emerging technology. Chinese rivals have recently claimed […]
Currently available in the beta version of the Phone Link application, this feature aims to streamline the file-sharing experience for iPhone users who also utilize Windows PCs, addressing the historical challenges posed by compatibility issues. For those unfamiliar, Phone Link is a Microsoft application that allows users to connect their iOS or Android devices to […]
The conversation happened after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission asked Google about Microsoft’s business practices as part of a broader investigation, the report said, citing a person directly involved in the discussion. Tech companies that compete with Microsoft in renting out cloud servers, such as Google and Amazon, also want to host OpenAI’s models so […]
An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed Brockman’s return. Brockman has been working with CEO Sam Altman on creating a new role for him to focus on significant technical challenges, Bloomberg News said, which first reported on the development. He posted on X, “Longest vacation of my life complete. back to building @OpenAI.” Microsoft, Open AI to launch […]
The company is positioning autonomous agents – programs that need little human intervention unlike chatbots – as “apps for an AI-driven world” that can handle client queries, identify sales leads, and manage inventory. Other big technology companies such as Salesforce (CRM.N), which opens a new tab have also touted the potential of such agents, tools […]
AI models, especially those used for deep learning and large-scale data processing, require substantial computational power, leading to higher energy consumption. The computing requirements for AI have dictated that tech companies string together thousands of chips in clusters to achieve the necessary amount of data-crunching power, leading to a surge in the demand for these […]
Microsoft said separately it had fixed the underlying cause for the outage of its 365 apps and services including Teams and OneDrive, but residual impact was affecting some services. “This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed,” CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said in […]
American Airlines, Delta Airlines, United Airlines, and Allegiant Air grounded flights less than an hour after Microsoft said it resolved its cloud services outage that impacted several low-cost carriers. It was not immediately clear whether the call to keep flights from taking off were related to an earlier Microsoft cloud outage. In Australia, media, banks, […]
The Games Showcase comes at a crucial time for Xbox and Microsoft as the gaming industry faces a downturn and publishers grapple with softer sales, layoffs, and studio shutdowns. Microsoft showed off three gaming consoles including a disc-less version of the Xbox Series X and S consoles and a special edition of the Series X […]
