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Microsoft has abruptly paused work on AI data centers in Ohio. Could the tech giant be getting cold feet about over-investing in the tech?

Microsoft’s Huge Plans for Mass AI Data Centers Now Rapidly Falling Apart

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft has "unintentionally uninstalled" its Copilot AI assistant app on some devices running Windows 11 — and users are rejoicing.

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Users Cheer as Microsoft Accidentally Removes Hated AI Feature From Windows 11

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft modified a lawsuit to name four people who allegedly jailbroke its AI tools to for abuses like deepfaked celebrity porn.

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Microsoft Is Suing People Who Did Bad Things With Its AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft Backing Out of Expensive New Data Centers After Its CEO Expressed Doubt About AI Value

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Microsoft Backing Out of Expensive New Data Centers After Its CEO Expressed Doubt About AI Value

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft has released a new generative model, dubbed Magma, that can autonomously control robots. What could go wrong?

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Microsoft Shows Off AI That Can Control an Entire Robot

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, whose company has invested billions of dollars in ChatGPT maker OpenAI, has had it with the AI hype.

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Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value

By Victor Tangermann

Trusting AI over the real thing seems, per a new study, to actually be atrophying folks' mental faculties.

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Study Finds That People Who Entrust Tasks to AI Are Losing Critical Thinking Skills

By Noor Al-Sibai

Just a few days after the full release of OpenAI's o1 model, a company staffer is now claiming that the company has achieved AGI.

OpenAI Employee Says They’ve “Already Achieved AGI”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft wants you to use Bing so badly, it'll pay a user a million bucks who switches to the search engine as part of a huge sweepstakes.

Desperate Microsoft Will Pay $1,000,000 to Someone Who Actually Uses Bing

By Frank Landymore

The AI industry is still struggling to reassure investors that the billions of dollars being poured into the tech are worth it.

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Big Tech Is Facing Down a Major Problem With Its AI Plans

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft is releasing AI agents that can work on your behalf or assist in your workflow, which some companies are already using.

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Microsoft Debuting AI-Powered Employees for Companies

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft will buy all the power produced by the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant for twenty years as part of a deal to reopen it.

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Microsoft Working to Reopen Three Mile Island to Power Huge AI Datacenters

By Frank Landymore

Tech companies have been obfuscating the emissions of their AI data centers by using dodgy energy certificates in their calculations.

AI Datacenters More Than 600 Percent Worse for Environment Than Tech Companies Claimed

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft has secretly been selling AI to oil companies and claiming it can help them make even more money while degrading the climate.

Microsoft Secretly Selling AI to Fossil Fuel Companies While Bragging About Environmental Progress

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bill Gates, the seventh-richest man in the world, has come out as a major ChatGPT stan, admitting that he uses it for personal research.

Bill Gates, Who Could Afford a Private Army of Researchers, Says He Does His Research Using ChatGPT, Which Makes Mistakes Constantly

By Noor Al-Sibai

Copilot can be tricked into coughing up an organization's sensitive data, and can also be weaponized to quickly carry out huge phishing scams.

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The Copilot AI Microsoft Built Into Windows Makes It Incredibly Hackable, Research Shows

By Frank Landymore

In an upcoming book about Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, a reporter is set to air some of the billionaire philanthropist's dirty laundry.

Microsoft Reportedly Had to Ban Bill Gates From Being Alone With Interns

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft has spent a staggering amount of money on AI — and serious profits likely remain many years out.

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Microsoft Is Losing a Staggering Amount of Money on AI

By Victor Tangermann

An increasing number of Silicon Valley investors and Wall Street analysts are starting to ring the alarm bells over the money spent on AI.

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Investors Are Suddenly Getting Very Concerned That AI Isn’t Making Any Serious Money

By Victor Tangermann

Crowdstrike, the cybersecurity firm behind last week's epic global computer meltdown, is offering its partners $10 Uber Eats gift cards.

CrowdStrike Offers $10 Gift Card as Apology for Shutting Down Basically the Whole Earth

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI wants to see the notes to assess The New York Times' copyright claims, in the newspaper's legal battle against the AI company.

OpenAI Demands to See All Notes by New York Times Reporters

By Frank Landymore

As the world is still reeling from a massive IT outage triggered by an antivirus update, Microsoft recommends rebooting up to 15 times.

Microsoft Recommends Rebooting Your Computer 15 Times as Blue Screen of Death Strikes Worldwide

By Victor Tangermann

Staff at airports from Singapore to Northern Ireland had been forced to scribble flight times on whiteboards due to a global IT outage.

Airlines Scribbling Flight Times on Whiteboards After Catastrophic Glitch Bricks Computers Worldwide

By Sharon Adarlo

In a blog post last week, Microsoft acknowledged the existence of a new AI chatbot jailbreaking technique dubbed "Skeleton Key."

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Microsoft Acknowledges “Skeleton Key” Exploit That Enables Strikingly Evil Outputs on Almost Any AI

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft recently released an ad, bragging that thanks to its Copilot AI, office workers can be "in three meetings at once"

Microsoft Brags That With the Powers of AI, You’ll Be Able to Attend Three Meetings at the Same Time

By Victor Tangermann

After announcing a new AI feature that records and screenshots everything you do, Microsoft is now delaying its launch.

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Microsoft Admits That Maybe Surveiling Everything You Do on Your Computer Isn’t a Brilliant Idea

By Noor Al-Sibai

The layoffs, a Microsoft exec said in a leaked memo, are merely part of the decisions the company has to make "along the way."

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Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames “AI Wave”

By Frank Landymore

An Irish man sued Microsoft after MSN circulated an AI article falsely accusing him of sexual misconduct, per a New York Times investigation.

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Microsoft Sued For AI Article Accusing Innocent Man of Sexual Misconduct

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft announced an AI Windows feature called Recall that regularly takes screenshots. It's a cybersecurity mess that can easily be hacked.

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Windows Feature That Records Everything You Do Can Easily Be Hacked

By Victor Tangermann

Fusion startup Helion is in talks for a deal with OpenAI to "buy vast quantities of electricity to provide power for data centers."

OpenAI Negotiating to Buy “Vast Quantities” of Fusion Power, Which Doesn’t Exist Yet

By Victor Tangermann

After OpenAI copied actor Scarlett Johansson's voice for a new voice assistant, the head honcho at Microsoft bashed human-like AIs.

Microsoft CEO Bashes Human-Like AI After OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson Scandal

By Sharon Adarlo

Microsoft has just unveiled a Windows feature to help users "recall" all their past activities by recording everything they do in real time.

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Microsoft Announces Feature That Records Everything You Do on Your Computer for AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft's water use and carbon emissions have increased compared to 2020 numbers due to artificial intelligence datacenters.

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Microsoft’s Emissions and Water Use Shoot Up as It Goes All in on AI Datacenters

By Sharon Adarlo

Microsoft has trained a massive new generative AI model — which is entirely disconnected from the internet.

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Microsoft Deploys Powerful New AI Completely Disconnected From the Internet

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft is said to be building an OpenAI competitor despite its multi-billion-dollar partnership with the firm.

Microsoft Reportedly Building a GPT-4 Competitor Despite $10 Billion OpenAI Partnership

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a beta build of Windows 11, Microsoft will show Start Menu ads in the form of "recommendations" for apps in the Microsoft Store.

You Know How Microsoft Keeps Pestering You to Upgrade to Windows 11? Now It’s Officially Putting Ads in Its Start Menu

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly working on a $100 billion supercomputer, codenamed Stargate, to train advanced new AI.

Microsoft and OpenAI Reportedly Building $100 Billion Secret Supercomputer to Train Advanced AI

By Jon Christian

Despite assurances to the contrary, Microsoft's newly-rebranded Copilot AI system keeps generating all manner of inappropriate material

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Microsoft’s Copilot AI Gladly Generates Anti-Semitic Stereotypes

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Microsoft engineer says the company won't investigate its text-to-image AI's disturbing outputs — so he reached out to the FTC.

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Microsoft Engineer Sickened by Images Its AI Produces

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There's a fiery back-and-forth going on between the New York Times, OpenAI, and Microsoft over journalism being used as AI training data.

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Microsoft Mocks NYT’s AI Lawsuit As “Doomsday Futurology”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft's new artificial intelligence chatbot, Copilot, told a user with PTSD that "I don’t care if you live or die."

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Microsoft Copilot Tells User Suicide Is an Option

By Sharon Adarlo

Microsoft has responded to claims about Copilot's "SupremacyAGI" alter ego by admitting that it's an "exploit, not a feature."

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Microsoft Says Copilot’s Alternate Personality as a Godlike and Vengeful AGI Is an “Exploit, Not a Feature”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft's AI apparently went off the rails again — and this persona, SupremacyAGI, demands worship in exchange for not killing us.

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Users Say Microsoft’s AI Has Alternate Personality as Godlike AGI That Demands to Be Worshipped

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft’s Super Bowl AI Ad Will Get Dumbest People You Know Absolutely Hyped

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Microsoft’s Super Bowl AI Ad Will Get Dumbest People You Know Absolutely Hyped

By Frank Landymore

Reuters reports that AI-related companies lost $190 billion in stock market value on Tuesday following disappointing earnings reports.

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AI Companies Lose $190 Billion After Dismal Financial Reports

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft is set to introduce its Copilot AI, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4, to keyboards on new Windows computers.

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Microsoft Says It’s Adding an “AI” Key to Your Keyboard For Some Reason

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Microsoft researcher giving an internal presentation on an early demo of an AI tool admits that the responses were "cherry-picked."

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In Leaked Audio, Microsoft Cherry-Picked Examples to Make Its AI Seem Functional

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft is teaming up with the TomTom GPS company to shove talking generative AI into your car, for some reason.

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Microsoft’s Stuffing Talking Generative AI Into Your Car

By Noor Al-Sibai

The OpenAI CEO debacle was so dramatic that people at Microsoft developed a vulgar nickname to refer to it.

Microsoft Employees Gave OpenAI’s CEO Drama an Amazingly Vulgar Name

By Noor Al-Sibai

After an extremely confusing five days, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has made his triumphant return to helm the ChatGPT maker once again.

In Stunning Reversal, OpenAI Rehires Sam Altman

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's staffers are pressuring the company to reinstate Sam Altman as its CEO — and say they'll walk if the board refuses.

700 OpenAI Staffers Demand Board Reinstate Sam Altman as CEO

By Noor Al-Sibai

To cap off one of the most bizarre weekends in tech history, Microsoft has announced that it is hiring freshly-fired OpenAI chief Sam Altman.

Microsoft Immediately Hires Sam Altman After He’s Fired by OpenAI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft filed a patent for an AI therapist, designed to pick up on emotional cues and offer emotional support. How does that make you feel?

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Microsoft Patents AI-Powered Therapy App

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft has been using MSN to distribute misleading and oftentimes incomprehensible garbage to hundreds of millions of readers per month.

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Microsoft Shamelessly Pumping Internet Full of Garbage AI-Generated “News” Articles

By Victor Tangermann

The Guardian wants answers after Microsoft ran a gross AI poll next to one of its articles about a woman found dead in Australia.

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Microsoft Runs Ghoulish AI Poll Next to Article About a Dead Woman

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI is arguing that ChatGPT is only a drafting tool, and thus can't be held legally responsible for any hallucinations it spits out.

OpenAI Says It’s Fine If ChatGPT Occasionally Accuses Innocent People of Crimes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

"Unsafe image content detected": Microsoft's Bing Image Creator often refuses to generate images of women.

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Bing’s AI Refuses to Generate Photorealistic Images of Women, Saying They’re “Unsafe”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Behold, the transformational power of generative AI technology: generating photorealistic images of lil' tykes gleefully smoking cigs.

OpenAI Image Generator Draws Pictures of Children Smoking Cigarettes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

LinkedIn, a Microsoft-owned company, is laying off almost 700 people this month in a second round of lay offs.

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LinkedIn Laying Off 700 as Microsoft Pivots to AI

By Sharon Adarlo

Microsoft is offering a "bug bounty" to anyone who can bait its Bing AI into saying or doing what it's not supposed to.

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Microsoft Will Pay You $15,000 If You Get Bing AI to Go Off the Rails

By Noor Al-Sibai

The IRS says that Microsoft owes tens of billions of dollars in back taxes — and apparently, the company isn't buying it.

The IRS Says Microsoft Owes More in Back Taxes Than It Invested in OpenAI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Fun's over, kids. As Windows Central reports, Microsoft appears to have lobotomized Bing's DALL-E 3-powered AI Image Creator.

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Microsoft Lobotomizes Bing’s Image Generating AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft's OpenAI-powered Bing Chat is usually weary of being used to solve CAPTCHAs, and not, for example, an AI being used to commit fraud.

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Bing Chat Will Help With Fraud If You Tug Its Heartstrings About Your Dead Grandma

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft is betting on small modular nuclear reactors to grow its energy infrastructure for training AI, a highly ambitious plan.

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Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It’s Considering Small Nuclear Reactors

By Victor Tangermann