Microsoft Applications

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  Elon Musk's xAI, Nvidia Join Microsoft, BlackRock To Develop AI Infrastructure

  The group, formed last year with a goal to initially invest more than $30 billion in AI-related projects, is one of the biggest efforts to bankroll data centers and energy facilities needed to power AI applications such as ChatGPT.

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  Microsoft Rolls Out Copilot for Windows App Update With New UI to Windows Insiders

  Microsoft has announced the rollout of a new update for the Copilot for Windows app. Testers registered with the Windows Insider Program can download the update via the Microsoft Store, through which they can access the changes. It includes a new user interface (UI) which introduces a side panel featuring all the conversations with the artificial i...

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  Amazon Announces New Slate Of AI Models To Rival Meta, Google, Microsoft

  The announcements mark Amazon's biggest step toward combating a reputation that it had been caught flat-footed in developing AI applications as competitors sped ahead

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  Microsoft Windows 365 Link Cloud-Based Mini PC That Resembles Apple's Mac Mini Launched

  Microsoft unveiled its Windows 365 Link Cloud PC on Tuesday. The company's first Cloud PC device that lets users quickly and securely connect to Windows 365 arrives as Microsoft's response to Apple's Mac Mini M4. The PC has a thin and light build and it runs a cloud-based version of Windows 11. The Windows 365 Link offers dual monitor connectivity,...

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  Asus Vivobook S 15, ProArt PZ13 With Snapdragon X Plus 8-Core Processor Launched in India [Updated]

  Asus Vivobook S 15 and Asus ProArt PZ13 have been launched as the latest Copilot+ PCs from the Taiwanese firm. They are powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X Plus 8-core processors, paired with 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. The laptops are also equipped with Asus Lumina OLED displays and run on Windows 11 out-of-the-box.

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  Nations Building Their Own AI Models Add To Nvidia's Growing Chip Demand

  Countries adopting their own AI applications and models will contribute about low double-digit billions to Nvidia's revenue in the financial year ending in January 2025, Nvidia forecasts

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  Microsoft Says It Will Soon Deprecate Control Panel to Prioritise Settings App for a ‘Streamlined’ Experience

  Microsoft has announced that it will soon deprecate an application that has been included in every version of Windows since the introduction of the operating system decades ago. The app in question is Control Panel. It joins an exhaustive list of apps and features that have been deprecated by the Redmon-based technology giants in recent years, incl...

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  Acer Nitro V 16 With Ryzen 8040 Series Processors, GeForce 4060 GPU Launched in India

  Acer Nitro V 16 was launched in India as the company's first AI-focused gaming laptop. It is equipped with Ryzen R7 8845HS series processors from AMD paired with 16GB of RAM, and an Nvidia GeForce 4060 GPU. The laptop features a 16-inch display with a 165Hz refresh rate, and the company says that it is equipped with a dual-fan cooling system. It a...

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  Adobe, Microsoft Join Hands to Bring a Suite of Generative AI Features for Marketers in Microsoft 365

  Adobe and Microsoft joined hands to announce a suite of new AI features for marketers at the Adobe Summit on Tuesday. In this collaboration, Adobe will offer its Adobe Experience Cloud workflows and insights to Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 applications. The new capabilities are aimed at reducing data silos and the inconvenience of using mult...

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  Microsoft's Foldable Smartphone Could Be In Development, Suggests New Patent Application

  Microsoft’s latest patent application shows that the company is developing a technology for a foldable smartphone which will be quite different from its Surface Duo lineup. The company could try its hand at the ‘true foldable’ design where a single foldable display is used instead of two separate displays connected by a hinge.

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  ChatGPT App Could Soon Be Set as the Default Assistant on Android Phones: Report

  The rise of generative AI applications like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot have made existing standard AI voice assistants like Siri and Google Assistant feel obsolete. Where advanced chatbots can hold human-like conversations, respond to queries on multiple topics, and can now even pull real-time information from the Internet, AI ass...

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  Microsoft Copilot Now Available for Android Users as a Standalone App; May Come to iOS Soon

  Microsoft Copilot has been quietly rolled out to Android users. Although the company has not announced anything officially, the Microsoft Copilot app is currently listed on Google's Play Store and is available for download to all Android users. Meanwhile, a report suggests that the app is in development for iOS users as well.

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  Cyberpunk 2077 Developer Suggests PC Players Test Cooling Systems Before Phantom Liberty Launch

  In preparation for Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty expansion and version 2.0 update, a developer has warned PC players to test their cooling systems, suggesting that the game will be very CPU intensive. CD Projekt Red’s lead scene programmer Filip Pierściński recommends players run applications like Cinebench to gauge how their system perfor...

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  ChatGPT Maker OpenAI Sued by More Writers for Copyright Infringement Over AI Training

  A group of US authors, including Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon, has sued OpenAI in federal court in San Francisco, accusing the Microsoft-backed program of misusing their writing to train its popular artificial intelligence-powered chatbot ChatGPT.

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  UN Security Council Holds First Meeting on AI, Highlights Urgent Need for Global Regulation

  The United Nations Security Council held its first meeting on artificial intelligence on Tuesday where China said the technology should not become a "runaway horse" and the United States warned against its use to censor or repress people.