Amazon announced free courses to teach workers skills around artificial intelligence as the tech behemoth competes for talent with rivals including Microsoft and OpenAI. Dubbed “AI Ready,” the initiative includes eight “free AI and generative AI courses,” which Amazon hopes will teach as many as 2 million people by 2025 […]
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told CNBC’s Jon Fortt on Monday that the oversight of OpenAI needs to change. The comments come after days of drama kicked off by the OpenAI board dismissing co-founder Sam Altman as CEO. “At this point, I think it’s very clear that something has to change around the governance,” […]
I was at Microsoft Ignite last week for the AI and Copilot rollout on Azure and Windows. As I watched the presentation, I was taken back in time to the 1990s launch of Microsoft Bob and that first attempt at creating a digital assistant called Clippy, neither of which met […]
Sam Altman was fired as CEO of OpenAI on 17 November Abaca Press / Alamy Sam Altman, the former CEO of OpenAI, is to start a new venture at Microsoft, just days after being fired by the company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E. Here’s a quick summary of the big shake-up […]
Microsoft has swooped in to hire ousted OpenAI boss Sam Altman along with the firm’s co-founder Greg Brockman to lead a new advanced AI research team, the tech giant’s CEO Satya Nadella has announced. Nadella also appeared to confirm Emmett Shear’s reported appointment as the new OpenAI CEO, a company […]
Sam Altman is reportedly seeking additional financial backing from top investor Microsoft as the OpenAI chief looks to build “superintelligent” tech tools that would be as smart as humans. Altman already secured a $10 billion “multiyear” agreement between Microsoft and the ChatGPT maker earlier this year, expanding upon a partnership […]
Hot off the heels of officially acquiring Activision Blizzard earlier this month for a colossal $69 billion, Microsoft is reorganizing some of its top leadership in its gaming division. This news comes from a new report at The Verge, which writes that Microsoft head of studios and corporate vice president Matt Booty has […]
Microsoft on Tuesday reported strong sales in its latest quarter, showing that its corporate customers have been shaking off jitters about spending heavily in the uncertain economy. The results also showed early signs that the company’s investments in generative artificial intelligence were beginning to bolster sales, most notably reversing what […]