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Microsoft built a fake marketplace to test AI agents — they failed in surprising ways

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On Wednesday, researchers at Microsoft released a new simulation environment designed to test AI agents, along with new research showing that current agentic models may be vulnerable to manipulation. Conducted in collaboration with Arizona State University, the research raises new questions about how well AI agents will perform when working unsupervised — and how quickly […]

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People Inc forges AI licensing deal with Microsoft as Google traffic drops

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People Inc., one of the largest media publishers in the U.S., has signed an AI licensing deal with Microsoft. The media giant (formerly known as Dotdash Meredith) made the announcement Tuesday as a part of parent company IAC’s third-quarter earnings. Under the deal, People Inc. will become a launch partner in Microsoft’s publisher content marketplace.

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Altman and Nadella need more power for AI, but they’re not sure how much

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How much power is enough for AI? Nobody knows, not even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman or Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. That has put software-first businesses like OpenAI and Microsoft in a bind. Much of the tech world has been focused on compute as a major barrier to AI deployment. And while tech companies have been

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Lambda inks multi-billion-dollar AI infrastructure deal with Microsoft

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Cloud-computing company Lambda deepened its relationship with Microsoft through a sizable AI infrastructure deal. Nvidia-backed Lambda announced it struck a multi-billion-dollar deal with Microsoft on Monday to deploy tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs, according to a press release. The exact size of the deal was not disclosed. Some of these GPUs will be Nvidia

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Microsoft’s $15.2B UAE investment turns Gulf State into test case for US AI diplomacy

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Microsoft will invest $15.2 billion in the United Arab Emirates over the next four years, the company announced Monday at the first annual Abu Dhabi Global AI Summit. The investment will include the first-ever shipments of the most advanced Nvidia GPUs to the UAE. As part of the deal, the U.S. has granted Microsoft a license

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Microsoft inks $9.7B deal with Australia’s IREN for AI cloud capacity

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Microsoft is leaving no stone unturned in its quest to secure more compute capacity for meeting its customers’ heavy demand for AI services. On Monday, the Redmond-based tech giant signed a $9.7 billion, five-year contract with Australia’s IREN to secure further AI cloud capacity. The deal will give Microsoft access to compute infrastructure built with

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Microsoft Azure is down, affecting 365, Xbox, Minecraft, and others

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Microsoft Azure, the cloud computing service provided by the company, is experiencing a significant outage on Wednesday. The problems started around 12 p.m. ET, and Microsoft has acknowledged the issue on the service’s status page. According to Microsoft, “We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change triggered this issue.” The company has not indicated when service

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Two days after OpenAI’s Atlas, Microsoft launches a nearly identical AI browser

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Microsoft released a new batch of features for its AI assistant Thursday, including an ambitious project that builds artificial intelligence directly into one of its most central products. More than a simple extension, the new CoPilot Mode of Microsoft’s Edge browser is the company’s take on the long-hyped AI browser category — an intelligent and

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