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☆ Bill Gates Is Still Pulling Strings at Microsoft, Overseeing AI Ideas
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

In fact, Business Insider has learned, Gates has been quietly orchestrating much of Microsoft's AI revolution from behind the scenes. The company, Nadella promised, would "continue to benefit from Bill's ongoing technical passion and advice to drive our products and services forward." According to two executives, Gates' memo treated as gospel, sparking Microsoft's push to take the lead in the AI arms race. Now, it seemed, OpenAI might offer Microsoft a way to help forge the AI future that Gates had long envisioned. According to two executives, Gates' words were treated as gospel, helping spark Microsoft's push to take the lead in the AI arms race.

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So we have to talk about the drama that has been playing out in the past week between OpenAI and Elon Musk. According to OpenAI, Elon Musk wanted majority, equity, initial board control, and to be CEO of this new for-profit subsidiary. It’s basically —casey newtonIt’s like, I’m going to find a way to follow your rule, but in the worst way possible. Like, working was one I thought that, oh, I’m going to work in this all the time. kevin roose[LAUGHS]: Well, I thought, like, I’m going to take some spatial videos.

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☆ ChatGPT's father Sam Altman was ousted by OpenAI's board then took a top job at Microsoft over the weekend. Here's how investors, analysts, and insiders reacted to the drama.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sam Altman was ousted from OpenAI then accepted a top job at Microsoft over the weekend. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementOver the course of a whirlwind weekend, OpenAI cofounder Sam Altman was ousted from ChatGPT's parent company and promptly accepted a job running a new AI research team at Microsoft. [Microsoft CEO Satya] Nadella says they're still committed to OpenAI. (Ware predicted brain drain as other OpenAI employees follow Altman to Microsoft or join other rivals now he's no longer in charge.)

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☆ Bill Gates thinks AI could spell the end of tedious life admin
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AI assistants are on their way. Bill Gates and Sam Altman spoke this week about the future of AI lying in "agents." This past week has made that much clear as big-name techies like Bill Gates and Sam Altman touted the future of AI as one of "agents." He reckons AI agents can change that within the next five years. A store leaderboard will even help you identify the most useful AI assistants.

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☆ It seems Microsoft realized asking why you want to close down OneDrive wasn't a great idea
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A Microsoft software update forced some users to answer a survey before they closed OneDrive. It told The Verge in a statement: "Between Nov. 1 and 8, a small subset of consumer OneDrive users were presented with a dialog box when closing the OneDrive sync client, asking for feedback on the reason they chose to close the application. Perhaps Microsoft hoped the poll would reveal why some users don't like a system that offers only an all-or-nothing approach to storing files. AdvertisementAdvertisementPart of the problem has been Microsoft's insistence on pushing the clunky and unpopular OneDrive cloud storage system on users. X users were also not umimpressed with the change, with one pointing out that using Microsoft was "quickly becoming an abusive relationship."

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☆ 10 Things in Tech: Amazon's AI scramble
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Hallam Bullock | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The OpenAI CEO says he is losing sleep over the fear that "we already have done something really bad by launching ChatGPT." When ChatGPT launched, Amazon managers asked staff for ideas on how to leverage the chatbot at work. "Amazon must be really scared about being late on all of this," an Amazon employee told Insider. Odds and ends:Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, showed off his guitar skills at Apple's WWDC conference this year. During the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, stole the show with a guitar solo.

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☆ The designer of Microsoft's super-annoying 'Clippy' assistant says he was 'so embarrassed' by his creation
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The creator of Microsoft's divisive assistant "Clippy" said he was "so embarrassed" by it. Kevan Atteberry told Great Big Story he would keep Clippy off his design portfolio. The man behind Microsoft's notorious "Clippy" assistant said he used to be "so embarrassed" by his creation that he'd leave it out of his design portfolio. Atteberry's design came out on top, much to the annoyance of some Microsoft staffers, he told Great Big Story. Julie Larson-Green, Microsoft's former chief experience officer, told Insider in 2016 she decided to kill Clippy because it could only offer scripted responses.

Persons: Clippy, Kevan Atteberry, Atteberry, Julie Larson Organizations: YouTube, Microsoft, Big Locations: Stanford

☆ ChatGPT Ban Lifted in Italy After Data-Privacy Concessions
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Sam Schechner | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Microsoft is combining the tech behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT with its Bing search engine. In an interview, WSJ’s Joanna Stern spoke with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about the new tools and how AI is going to change search. Photo illustration: Preston Jessee for The Wall Street JournalItaly’s privacy regulator rescinded its temporary ban on ChatGPT after the chatbot’s developer, OpenAI, implemented changes demanded by the regulator, the latest twist in the complex regulatory response to new artificial-intelligence technology. Italy’s ban was one of the first nationwide measures restricting the use of ChatGPT since it exploded globally in popularity in recent months. The Italian Data Protection Authority ordered the ban late last month, saying that OpenAI had “no legal basis” for using the data it had amassed about Italian residents to train its algorithms and that it was too easy for children to access.

☆ Microsoft's $13 billion bet on OpenAI carries huge potential along with plenty of uncertainty
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Microsoft's cumulative investment in OpenAI has reportedly swelled to $13 billion and the startup's valuation has hit roughly $29 billion. What does that mean for Microsoft's investment and broader arrangement? The structure changed in 2019, when two top executives published a blog post announcing the formation of a "capped-profit" entity called OpenAI LP. Microsoft has an exclusive license on GPT-4 and all other OpenAI models, the OpenAI spokesperson said. When considering potential exits for OpenAI, Microsoft — which does not hold an OpenAI board seat — would be the natural acquirer given its close entanglement.

☆ Microsoft Can’t Afford Turbulence From New Copilot
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Dan Gallagher | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

CEO Satya Nadella presides over a company that dominates the market for office app software. Clippy just got a serious promotion. Now Microsoft has to make sure this one doesn’t become unhinged. Microsoft, helmed by CEO Satya Nadella , announced plans on Tuesday to integrate the artificial intelligence technology powering the popular ChatGPT chatbot into its suite of Office software tools. That adoption will take the form of a new interface called Copilot, which can write Word documents, create PowerPoint presentations, analyze Excel spreadsheets and even reply to emails through Outlook—essentially a far more powerful tool than the Office Assistant dubbed Clippy that Microsoft once deployed through its Office products.

☆ Microsoft Can’t Afford Turbulence from New Copilot
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Dan Gallagher | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

CEO Satya Nadella presides over a company with a relatively tiny share of search traffic. Microsoft just has to make sure this one doesn’t become unhinged. Microsoft, helmed by CEO Satya Nadella , announced plans on Tuesday to integrate the artificial intelligence technology powering the popular ChatGPT chatbot into its suite of Office software tools. That adoption will take the form of a new interface called Copilot, which can write Word documents, create PowerPoint presentations, analyze Excel spreadsheets and even reply to emails through Outlook—essentially a far more powerful tool than the Office Assistant dubbed Clippy that Microsoft once deployed through its Office products. The new Copilot is also the next step in Microsoft’s aggressive campaign to adopt generative AI into its products, following a similar announcement last month related to its internet search business.

☆ Microsoft is bringing ChatGPT technology to Word, Excel and Outlook
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Microsoft on Thursday outlined its plans to bring artificial intelligence to its most recognizable productivity tools, including Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel and Word, with the promise of changing how millions do their work every day. The new features, which are built on the same technology that underpins ChatGPT, are far more powerful (and less anthropomorphized) than its wide-eyed, paperclip-shaped predecessor. Microsoft is also introducing a concept called Business Chat, an agent that essentially rides along with the user as they work and tries to understand and make sense of their Microsoft 365 data. During a presentation to its customers on Thursday, Microsoft outlined its road map for how it plans to bring artificial intelligence to its Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint, Excel and Word. A Microsoft spokesperson said 365 users accessing the new AI tools should be reminded the technology is a work in progress and information will need to be double checked.

☆ Apple’s iPhone Passcode Problem: How Thieves Can Take Over in Minutes
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Joanna Stern | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

S2 E20Bing With AI: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Why Search Is Changed Forever Microsoft is combining the tech behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT with its Bing search engine. In an interview, WSJ’s Joanna Stern spoke with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about the new tools and how AI is going to change search. (Oh, and Clippy!) Photo illustration: Preston Jessee for The Wall Street Journal

☆ Business Technology Chiefs Question ChatGPT’s Readiness for the Enterprise
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Angus Loten | Chris Bedi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +7 min

Yet some business-technology professionals are uneasy about integrating it into the enterprise stack, citing concerns over its use of online data and security risks. But at the moment, ChatGPT “should be used with caution in an enterprise business setting,” she said. Newsletter Sign-up WSJ | CIO Journal The Morning Download delivers daily insights and news on business technology from the CIO Journal team. For now, Mr. Schmidt said, generative AI capabilities should be reserved for writing corporate boilerplate—product or service announcements, or other promotional materials. For enterprise information-technology, “ChatGPT use cases might be a smaller universe than people are imagining,” he said.

☆ Microsoft pushing you to set Bing and Edge as your defaults to get its new OpenAI-powered search engine faster is giving off big 1990s energy
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | Shona Ghosh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Microsoft was once king of computing, with more than 90% market share. Microsoft has integrated some OpenAI deep-learning technology into Bing, its ailing competitor to Google, so that the search engine can answer questions in a more nuanced way. And rather than just returning a list of results, Bing will present the information in a more useful way. What is less futuristic is Microsoft's maneuvering to juice its own market share as much as possible. Microsoft is juicing Bing's market share right now Shona Ghosh/InsiderAt present, Bing's share of the search market is a mere 3%, according to data firm Stat Counter.

☆ Drone Footage Shows Scale of Destruction in One Turkish District
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Bing with AI: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Why Search Is Changed ForeverMicrosoft is combining the tech behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT with its Bing search engine. In an interview, WSJ’s Joanna Stern spoke with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about the new tools and how AI is going to change search. (Oh, and Clippy!) Photo illustration: Preston Jessee for The Wall Street Journal

☆ Microsoft could bring back Clippy, but make him smart
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —This week, Microsoft confirmed it’s planning to invest billions in OpenAI, the company behind the viral new chatbot tool ChatGPT. The prospect of Microsoft, maker of software that people mostly hate, getting involved with ChatGPT, a product people generally like, is raising a lot of eyebrows. Almost immediately, people began joking on social media that ChatGPT could be used to revive the broadly maligned, big-eyed goon known as Clippy. “There is a kernel of truth to the Clippy comparison,” David Lobina, an artificial intelligence analyst at ABI Research, told Sam. All of the above suggestions were generated by asking ChatGPT various forms of the question, “How could Microsoft integrate ChatGPT into its products?”Argh, Samantha, you scamp!

☆ How Microsoft could use ChatGPT to supercharge its products
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

For Microsoft, integrating the chatbot tool could make its core software products more powerful. All of the above suggestions were generated by asking ChatGPT various forms of the question, “How could Microsoft integrate ChatGPT into its products?” Microsoft, for is part, has said little on possible integrations beyond recently announcing plans to add ChatGPT features to its cloud computing service. “Microsoft will deploy OpenAI’s models across our consumer and enterprise products and introduce new categories of digital experiences built on OpenAI’s technology,” Microsoft said in a press release this week, announcing the expanded partnership. For Microsoft, that could make integrating the tool into specific products problematic. Integrating ChatGPT too quickly into Microsoft’s products could run the risk of schools rethinking their use of that software.

☆ 9 tech predictions for 2023 from seed investor in Uber, Pinterest, and other top companies
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Scott Belsky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

2022 was a pivotal year for:Collaborative web apps disrupting every function of the enterprise. Internet browsers will shift from generalized to specializedAs web apps, communal browsing, and decentralized technology continue to grow, browsers have become too generalized and antiquated for the future of web apps. Web apps offer virality and infinite possibilities for product-led growth, and are finally powerful enough for sophisticated apps like Photoshop. Browsers will be reimagined for collaboration and higher performance web apps — like Arc from The Browser Company. Content creators will own their audience and some will become "platform-less"Content creators with mass audiences are seeking novel ways to own the relationship.

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