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

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

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

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

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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