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Microsoft claps back at Salesforce — claims "100,000 organizations" had used Copilot Studio to create AI agents by October 2024

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Microsoft has clapped back at Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's comments downplaying its AI efforts. The company indicated over 100,000 organizations had used Copilot Studio to create agents by October 2024.

Microsoft CVP Charles Lamanna (left) and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff (right)

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Cisco debuts AI defense to combat misuse of AI tools, data leakage, and sophisticated threats — despite Sam Altman's confidence in AI's ability to prevent existential doom even with a 99.999999% probability

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Cisco's announcement comes while security and privacy are significant challenges for the progression of AI.

Cisco Systems headquarters in San Jose, California, US

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Microsoft blocks critical Secure Boot loophole after over 7 months — fortifying Windows 11 against sophisticated firmware attacks camouflaged as verified UEFI apps

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Microsoft finally patched the security threat (CVE-2024-7344), allowing bad actors to gain unauthorized access to Windows 11 by bypassing Secure Boot for over 7 months.

Binary code displayed on a laptop screen and Guy Fawkes mask are seen in this illustration photo.

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Microsoft unveils MatterGen — an AI for developing new materials with an approximate 80% success rate, surpassing traditional screening methods

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Microsoft Researchers recently unveiled MatterGen — a sophisticated AI system capable of developing high-quality materials.

MatterGen researchers at Microsoft experiment with compound TaCr2O6.

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Meta allegedly used 'crude tactics' to close in on OpenAI’s 2-year lead building AI uncontested — Sam Altman admitted creating ChatGPT without copyrighted data is impossible

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Meta reportedly used copyrighted content to train its AI models and seemingly tried to cover its tracks to avoid copyright infringement-related issues, including removing copyright headers and document identifiers.

Text of LlaMA by Meta on a phone's display resting on a laptop's keyboard.

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Revamped Copilot for Business: Microsoft's answer to gimmicky AI tool allegations?

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Microsoft recently unveiled Copilot Chat — "a new offering that adds pay-as-you-go agents to our existing free chat experience for Microsoft 365 commercial customers."

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in front of the Microsoft Copilot AI logo.

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OpenAI gets a step closer to being "the everything app" — ChatGPT mimics Siri with ability to schedule recurring tasks and set reminders

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OpenAI recently announced the launch of a new ChatGPT feature dubbed tasks in beta. The AI chatbot will automate several tasks, making work easier.

In this photo illustration OpenAI icon is displayed on a mobile phone screen in Ankara, Turkiye on August 13, 2024.

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"Sorry, Bill": Android co-founder says Bill Gates is responsible for "the greatest mistake of all time," costing Microsoft $400 billion

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Bill Gates revealed his greatest mistake of all time made Microsoft miss its opportunity with Android, partly due to mismanagement and antitrust-related issues. However, Android co-founder Rich Miner says Bill Gates is more responsible than he's letting on.

Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, at an event for the Alliance for Global Good Gender Equity and Equality in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.

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Amazon AGI lead says "several technical hurdles" delay revamped Alexa release: "Hallucinations have to be close to zero"

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Amazon is reportedly encountering "several technical hurdles," including hallucinations, seemingly preventing it from shipping the revamped Alexa to broad availability.

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Sam Altman claims knowing what questions to ask trumps raw intelligence as AI advances — Users struggle to realize Copilot and ChatGPT's full potential, owing to poor prompt engineering skills

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently claimed that AI is reducing the importance of raw intelligence, as figuring out what questions to ask gains precedence.

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023.

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Meta to trim 5% of its workforce, focusing on underperformers — Mark Zuckerberg says the move will "raise the bar" on performance management

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Meta will make performance-based cuts, slated to impact approximately 5% of its workforce based on performance. The company CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the move will "raise the bar" on performance management.

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc.

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A secret UI project resurfaces from the 'Microsoft Graveyard' to spruce up Edge with a modern Windows 11 aesthetic

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Microsoft is working on a new project called Phoenix. The project will revamp Microsoft Edge's look and feel to align with Windows 11's modern appeal and aesthetics.

Microsoft Edge web browser app in App Store seen displayed on a smartphone.

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Is software engineering dead in the water? Mark Zuckerberg says mid-level AI engineers might claim coding jobs from professionals at Meta in 2025

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently indicated AI might claim coding jobs from engineers in 2025. He admitted the approach might be expensive but it'll get more efficient over time with the mid-level AI engineers writing code for apps and AI.

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc.

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OpenAI launches next-gen reasoning models with "incredible" coding capabilities

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OpenAI announced its new flagship o3 model as a successor to its o1 reasoning model. It also sports incredible coding capabilities and is up to three times better at handling tasks and answering complex queries.

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Microsoft launches free tier for GitHub Copilot — over 150 million developers can now access Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o

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Microsoft recently introduced a new free tier for the service dubbed GitHub Copilot Free with access to 2000 completions/month, 50 messages/month, Copilot Chat in GitHub, and Block suggestions matching public code.

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On the 10th day of 'Shipmas,' OpenAI called, and ChatGPT answered — You can now add ChatGPT on speed dial or text it on WhatsApp

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OpenAI announced that users in the US can now call ChatGPT directly from their phone for 15 minutes every month for free. Users in other regions can also interact with the chatbot via WhatsApp messages.

OpenAI logo displayed on a laptop screen and ChatGPT on AppStore displayed on a phone screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Poland on August 8, 2024.

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Microsoft reportedly acquired the most NVIDIA GPUs compared to its rivals, including Google and Meta, for its AI projects — translating to 485,000 chips and $31 billion in expenditure

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A new report by Omdia details that Microsoft bought the most NVIDIA AI chips compared to its competitors, translating to 485,000 NVIDIA Hopper chips and almost twice as many as Meta.

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