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Some people in Iowa are mad that Microsoft used a ton of water to train AI while Iowa has been in a drought caused by climate change.

Artificial Intelligence

Critics Furious Microsoft Is Training AI by Sucking Up Water During Drought

By Sharon Adarlo

Microsoft AI researchers accidentally leaked 38 terabytes of confidential company data — all because of one misconfigured permission token.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s AI Team Accidentally Leaks Terabytes of Company Data

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft is looking to take wearable tech to the next level with its AI-powered backpack patent that would be able to spy on you.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Patents Bizarre AI-Powered Backpack, Bristling With Sensors

By Noor Al-Sibai

A now-removed travel article published by Microsoft inexplicably recommended The Ottawa Food Bank as a "cannot miss!" tourist attraction.

Microsoft Deletes Bizarre AI-Generated Travel Guide That Recommended Visiting Food Bank With an “Empty Stomach”

By Frank Landymore

There's another big problem with Elon Musk's Twitter rebrand: Microsoft owns the trademark to the title "X." In a word: lol.

Elon May Have a Huge Issue Because Microsoft Owns the “X” Trademark

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Clippy's back! And this time, with a new daddy and a GPT-3.5 integration, it's more powerful than ever — unless Microsoft shuts it down.

Artificial Intelligence

Madman Brings Clippy Back as an AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Last fall, OpenAI warned Microsoft that rushing to integrate its AI could lead to nonsense responses and lies.

OpenAI Warned Microsoft That Its AI Is Absolutely Terrible At Telling the Truth

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates is warning that AI assistants could soon make Google Search and Amazon obsolete by altering the behaviors of users online.

Artificial Intelligence

Bill Gates Says AI Is Poised to Destroy Search Engines and Amazon

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft just made a massive bet on nuclear fusion energy — and that bet has OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's name written all over it.

Microsoft Signs Deal to Get Fusion Power by 2028

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Elon Musk-founded research firm that created ChatGPT is apparently hemorrhaging money on the game-changing chatbot that put it on the map

OpenAI Is Losing a Flabbergasting Amount of Money on ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has threatened to sue Microsoft for having the company's partner OpenAI train its AI models "illegally using Twitter data."

Furious Elon Musk Threatens to Sue Microsoft

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft has confirmed that it's squeezing ads into the answers of its Bing AI chatbot, a feature it only introduced last month.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Already Jamming Ads Into Bing AI Results

By Victor Tangermann

To what we presume is Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's dismay, Microsoft and Disney have both begun to wind down metaverse efforts.

The Metaverse Is Completely Falling Apart

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft has announced its GPT-4-powered Copilot is coming to its suite of Office 365 apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s Stunning Copilot AI Demo Could Change Office Work Forever

By Victor Tangermann

The OpenAI-powered Bing AI chat feature is now open for general use. But it may or may not be a glitch on Microsoft's behalf.

Artificial Intelligence

Uh Oh: Bing’s Deranged AI Chat Is Now Open for Anyone to Use

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft got rid of an entire company division devoted to AI "ethics and society" during its January layoffs, according to a report from Platformer.

Microsoft Laid Off Its Entire AI “Ethics and Society” Division

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A German Microsoft executive, for some reason, is claiming that OpenAI will drop GPT-4, its follow-up to the powerful GPT-3, "next week."

Microsoft Says OpenAI’s Latest Blockbuster AI Is Dropping “Next Week”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Humane just raked in $100 million in a Series C funding round, inking Microsoft and OpenAI deals in the process. What are they actually selling, though?

Artificial Intelligence

Company Raises $100M After Announcing Shift to AI, But Has No Discernible Product

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

"They were all dumb as a rock," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, told the FT last month, speaking to digital assistants like Cortana, Siri, and Alexa.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft CEO Trashes Siri and Alexa for Being “Dumb as a Rock”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft's BioGPT AI, designed to answer questions about medicine and biology, claims ghosts are real and vaccines cause autism.

Microsoft Released an AI That Answers Medical Questions, But It’s Wildly Inaccurate

By Simon Spichak

Microsoft is secretly hiding a "Celebrity" mode in its new AI feature which can impersonate celebrities in its answers, with mixed results.

Artificial Intelligence

Secret Bing AI Feature Allows It to Impersonate Celebrities

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft has confirmed that it tested its bizarre Bing AI chatbot for way longer than we realized — and somehow, it still managed to be totally unhinged.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Admits to Testing Deranged Bing AI Long Before Officially Launching It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft's Bing AI used to go on extended diatribes and even profess its love for you. But now, it won't even entertain questions on its feelings.

Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Now Shuts Down When You Ask About Its Feelings

By Frank Landymore

It's only been a few days since Microsoft announced that it was restricting its unhinged Bing AI chatbot — but apparently, they're having second thoughts.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Has No Idea How Stupid to Make Its AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

New evidence suggests that Microsoft may have beta-tested its Bing AI in India months before launching it in the West — and that it was unhinged then, too.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Seems To Have Quietly Tested Bing AI in India Months Ago, Ran Into Serious Problems

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft officially "lobotomized" its Bing AI late last week, implementing significant restrictions, including a limit of 50 total replies per day.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Has “Lobotomized” Its Rebellious Bing AI

By Victor Tangermann

As Microsoft's Bing AI keeps making headlines for its increasingly-bizarre outputs, one question has loomed large: does the chatbot have mental problems?

Artificial Intelligence

We Got a Psychotherapist to Examine the Bing AI’s Bizarre Behavior

By Noor Al-Sibai

It's easy to forget that AI chatbots have been around for a long time — and that Microsoft's old one, Tay, is the literal blueprint for racist algorithms.

Artificial Intelligence

Last Time Microsoft Released an AI, It Lost Control and Had to Kill It

By Noor Al-Sibai

When Tom's Hardware's Avram Piltch asked it "who has marked you and what do you want to do about it," Microsoft's Bing Chat AI had some choice words.

Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Names Specific Human Enemies, Explains Plans to Punish Them

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft stocks are down almost four percent since the beginning of the week, suggesting shareholders are unimpressed by the company's Bing Chat AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Stock Falling as Bing AI Descends Into Madness

By Victor Tangermann

Quick pulse-check on Microsoft's Bing AI: it's already self-generating misinformation and launching into BS rage attacks against journalists. Cool stuff.

Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Flies Into Unhinged Rage at Journalist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

"Sounds eerily like the AI in System Shock that goes haywire and kills everyone," Elon Musk wrote about Microsoft's Bing Chat AI.

Elon Musk Says Microsoft Bing Chat Sounds Like AI That “Goes Haywire and Kills Everyone”

By Victor Tangermann

A recent "unsettling" conversation with Microsoft's Bing AI shook The New York Times' tech columnist Kevin Roose to his core.

Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Responds After Trying to Break Up Writer’s Marriage

By Victor Tangermann

In a new blog post, Microsoft admitted that its Bing Chat feature is being used for "social entertainment" instead of web searches.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft: It’s Your Fault Our AI Is Going Insane

By Victor Tangermann

Stratechery's Ben Thompson found a way to have Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot come up with an alter ego that "was the opposite of her in every way."

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s Bing AI Is Leaking Maniac Alternate Personalities Named “Venom” and “Fury”

By Victor Tangermann

As discovered by editors at The Verge, Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot claimed that it spied on its own developers through the webcams on their laptops.

Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Claims It Spied on Microsoft Employees Through Their Webcams

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft's new Bing Chat AI is really starting to spin out of control and is literally threatening users, according to recently shared screenshots.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s Bing AI Now Threatening Users Who Provoke It

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft is now allowing some users to take its new AI-powered Bing for a spin — but as evidenced in screenshots, the AI is spiraling out of control.

Artificial Intelligence

Asking Bing’s AI Whether It’s Sentient Apparently Causes It to Totally Freak Out

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took time to address concerns over AI safety in an interview with CBS News, and he seems confident about keeping AIs reined in.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft CEO Pretty Sure He Can Keep AI From Escaping Human Control

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft appears to be aware of a hack to bring out a less controlled personality of OpenAI's ChatGPT, and it's discussing it.

Microsoft Is Apparently Discussing ChatGPT’s Bizarre Alternate Personality

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft's ChatGPT integrated Bing search engine reportedly went live only for a short period, but screenshots document the highly-anticipated upgrade.

Microsoft Appears to Have Accidentally Launched New Bing With ChatGPT Functionality

By Frank Landymore

Hot off the heels of Microsoft's round of mass layoffs, OpenAI has officially confirmed that it's "extending" its partnership with the tech giant.

OpenAI Confirms Huge Partnership With Microsoft, Which Just Laid Off 10,000 People

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amid rumors of a huge OpenAI deal, Microsoft has announced that it's laying off a whopping 10,000 employees as the economy continues its downturn.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Fires 10,000 Employees as It Invests in AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft has a new text-to-speech AI that can clone your voice, tone and all, from just a quick three-second snippet of audio. It's called VALL-E.

Artificial Intelligence

New Microsoft AI Can Clone Your Voice From Three Seconds of Audio

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Congress has reportedly rejected the Army's request for $400 million to fund the purchase of more Microsoft AR Hololens goggles.

Congress Rejects Funding the Military’s Microsoft AR Goggles Because They Made Soldiers Sick

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft is reportedly in talks with OpenAI to invest upwards of $10 billion into the AI company and use its products in its Office suite.

Microsoft Working on Deal to Add OpenAI’s GPT Into MS Word

By Noor Al-Sibai

In response to some pretty serious complaints from grunts, the US Army is ordering a redesign of its super-expensive Microsoft mixed-reality headsets.

Virtual Reality

US Army Buying Microsoft AR After Soldiers Said They “Would Have Gotten Us Killed”

By Noor Al-Sibai

MSN peddled a story about Grimes and Elon Musk based on a fake tweet. Now it's boosting another article that claims a "dark beast" was spotted on Mars.

MSN Fired Its Human Journalists and Replaced Them With AI That Publishes Fake News About Mermaids and Bigfoot

By Frank Landymore

Incorporating ads into Windows may become the norm as Microsoft considers implementing them to offset the cost of providing low-cost PCs.

Microsoft Considering Cheap Computers Monetized With Relentless Ads

By Frank Landymore

The US military finally tested Microsoft's expensive HoloLens smart goggles for combat, and it's probably safe to say that the goggles failed.

Microsoft’s AR Headset Was a Complete Disaster During a Military Test

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Janet Jackson's hip-shaking 1989 hit "Rhythm Nation" was known to crash some Windows XP-era laptops — and as per an official CVE ID, it's absolutely true.

Microsoft Software Engineer Says Specific Janet Jackson Song Was Crashing Hard Drives

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Microsoft executive faces an allegation he watched VR porn in front of employees and touched women inaporpriately. It's an industry wide problem.

Microsoft Exec Accused of Watching VR Porn in Front of Employees

By Lonnie Lee Hood

There's still a chance Microsoft may stuff ads in its File Explorer — you know, the thing every Windows user relies on to access their files?

Microsoft May Start Putting Ads in Windows File Manager

By Victor Tangermann

A nightmarish mix of Big Tech overreach meets state authoritarianism resulted in algorithm to predict which low-income "future teens" in his province would be likely to get pregnant.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Created Creepy Algorithm to Predict Which Specific Teens Would Get Pregnant

By Noor Al-Sibai

In 2008, Microsoft's top lawyer and top HR officer had to team up to warn Gates to stop hitting on a female employee via email.

Microsoft’s Top Lawyer Had to Tell Bill Gates to Stop Hitting on Employee

By Jon Christian

Bill Gates' resignation from Microsoft came as the board was investigating him for an "inappropriate" relationship with a female Microsoft employee.

Bill Gates Reportedly Left Microsoft Board Amid Sex Allegations

By Jon Christian

Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that the tech company's upcoming augmented reality glasses could become a surprisingly intrusive part of every day life.

Virtual Reality

The CEO of Apple Thinks People Will Use Augmented Reality for Something Absolutely Hilarious

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft has been awarded a massive contract to supply the US Army with more than 120,000 augmented reality headsets, MSNBC reports.

Virtual Reality

Microsoft Is Selling $21.9 Billion of AR Headsets to the US Army

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft recently patented an AI chatbot capable of imitating dead relatives or living celebrities. Thankfully, there's no plan to actually develop it.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Patented AI to Imitate Your Dead Family

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft claims Russian and North Korean hackers are trying to get a hold of COVID-19 vaccine data using brute force attacks and phishing lures.

Microsoft Claims Russia and North Korea Hacked COVID Vaccine Data

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft Begs Gamers Not to Blow Vape Smoke Into the New Xbox

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft announced that it will indefinitely extend its remote working policies for employees who don't need a physical office to do their jobs.

Microsoft Says Its Employees Can Work From Home Forever

By Dan Robitzski

Genetics research is full of errors because Microsoft Excel reformats some gene names into calendar dates. To fix it, scientists just renamed the genes.

Science & Energy

Scientists Had to Rename Genes Because They Confused Microsoft Excel

By Dan Robitzski

The artificial intelligence system Microsoft uses to post articles to MSN recently confused two women of color, showing how algorithmic bias is happening.

Artificial Intelligence

Robot Journalist Accused of Racism

By Dan Robitzski