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Bill Gates says he'd start Microsoft again as an AI-centric firm to rival OpenAI and Google: "Today, somebody could raise billions of dollars for a new AI company [that’s just] a few sketch ideas"

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In a recent interview, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates indicated that he'd start Microsoft again as an AI-centric firm if he got another crack at the corporate world.

Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, delivers a keynote speech on the closing day of the Global Solutions Summit in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024.

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Microsoft cut Windows 7 support on Edge, but Mozilla says "enough" Firefox users are using it to extend support to March 2025: "Backporting security fixes is already getting increasingly painful due to the divergence"

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Mozilla is extending Firefox 115's support on unsupported devices, including Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, and macOS 10.12 to 10.14, and will continue pushing important updates until April 1, 2025. Firefox 115.21 will also continue receiving updates until March 4, 2025.

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Google's lucrative ad business could be on the DOJ's chopping block for anti-competitive business practices: "No one is forced to use our advertising technologies, they use them because they're effective"

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The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), along with 17 states, has filed an antitrust case against Google, citing its dominance in digital advertising, which has left competitors with the shorter end of the stick.

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Leaked employee discussions demonstrate Amazon Q's lack of feature parity and potential loss of clientele to Microsoft's Copilot AI:"Q is fit for demos and very tightly controlled simple use cases"

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In leaked Slack messages, Amazon staffers discussed Q's performance since its rollout to general availability, indicating its lack of feature parity and incompatibility with other software compared to its competitors, like Microsoft Copilot.

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Former OpenAI co-founder raises $1 billion for safety-focused firm while the ChatGPT maker prioritizes shiny products and is on the cusp of bankruptcy

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Former OpenAI co-founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever recently raised $1 billion through investors for his new AI firm, Safe Superintelligence Inc., to further its safety-focused advances.

Sam Altman (C), US entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and founder and CEO of artificial intelligence company OpenAI, and the company's co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever (R), speak together at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2023.

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Incase will unearth Microsoft-branded accessories from the Microsoft Graveyard in Q4 2024: "The products will be the same, but instead of saying Microsoft they’ll say Incase, designed by Microsoft"

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Incase had initially indicated that the Incase Designed by Microsoft accessories would ship in Q2 of 2024 but has since pushed the launch to Q4

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"Is this even legal?" A leaked pitch reveals marketing agency uses 'Active Listening' software to eavesdrop on calls and push curated Facebook and Google ads

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A marketing agency admitted it listens to user voice data using its “Active Listening” software via smartphone microphones and uses the data to channel the "right" Facebook and Google ads to target customers.

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Google rubbishes Amazon's AI guidelines: "We're flattered they're worried about us, but fiction doesn't become fact just because it's in talking points"

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Amazon is reportedly using its internal sales guidelines to tout its vast experience in building custom silicon processors and AI chips as an advantage compared to its rivals in the lucrative space.

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Microsoft, Apple, and NVIDIA will reportedly bail out OpenAI from the shackles of bankruptcy, pushing the ChatGPT maker’s market valuation to over $100 billion

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OpenAI is reportedly in talks to raise funding which could push its market valuation to over $100 billion, with Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Apple as the top investors.

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AI for Mayor? A Wyoming mayoral candidate wants to use a ChatGPT-powered bot to run the city, but OpenAI blocked his account

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Wyoming mayoral candidate Victor Miller plans to use an AI-powered bot to run the local government if he gets into office. The bot will generate insights and solutions, while Miller will implement them "legally and practically."

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Microsoft seals a TPM 2.0 loophole, once again preventing users from installing Windows 11 on unsupported devices

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Microsoft might have hit pause on its fullscreen multi-page popup ads in Windows 10 but recently patched the TPM 2.0 trick. It allowed users to bypass the hardware requirement verification process when activating Windows 11 on unsupported devices.

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Do you hate the new Outlook for Windows? An annoying bug causes the classic version to crash at launch, but Microsoft has issued a workaround

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Microsoft 365 users have flagged an issue affecting classic Outlook, which is crashing. The issue is caused by corrupted server-based rules for the M365 email account, but the company has offered a temporary workaround.

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Sam Altman might be one of the last original founders remaining at OpenAI as another departs to focus on AI alignment at a rival firm

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OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman is going on sabbatical leave through the end of the year, while researcher John Schulman is leaving to join OpenAI competitor, Anthropic.

Satya Nadella and Sam Altman at OpenAI Dev Day

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