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As the chief human resources officer at AARP, Marjorie Powell devotes much of her professional energy to meeting the needs of the multigenerational workforce. Related Video "We've been using AI all along." How LinkedIn is using AI, according to VP of Marketing Minjae Ormes. AdvertisementHow did AARP handle the introduction of AI in its workforce? Many employers are using AI tools in hiring, but there are concerns about potential bias.
Persons: Marjorie Powell, AARP's, Powell, we're, you've, boomers, I've, I'm Organizations: AARP, Microsoft, Companies, Tech Locations: AARP's
AdvertisementElon Musk reignited his long-running feud with Jeff Bezos in an X post on Thursday. Musk said Bezos told people they should sell Tesla and SpaceX stock because Donald Trump would lose. Bezos said Musk's claim was "100% not true," to which Musk replied, "I stand corrected." XBusiness Insider was unable to confirm the veracity of Musk's post. AdvertisementNovember 22, 2024: This story has been updated to include Bezos' response to Musk's Thursday X post, and Musk's response to Bezos.
Persons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Musk, Bezos, Donald Trump, Trump, wasn't, he'd, Musk's, Tesla, SpaceX isn't, Thomas Roulet, Elon, Bill Gates, Gates Organizations: SpaceX, X, Mar, Department of Government, Amazon, Trump, Tech, Bloomberg, University of Cambridge, Twitter, Microsoft Locations: Trump's Florida, China
In the emerging AI software battle between Microsoft and Salesforce , investors do not need to pick a side. The announcements came roughly one year after the tech giant launched a suite of AI assistant tools called Microsoft 365 Copilot. Both companies leaning into AI agents is notable because Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has not been hesitant to attack Microsoft's competing AI offerings. Salesforce stock is up 28% year to date versus Microsoft's roughly 9% gain since the start of 2024. I don't want to go against Microsoft," Jim said.
Persons: Jim Cramer, , Marc Benioff, Benioff, who's, Satya Nadella, Nadella, They're, We've, Salesforce, Slack, Agentforce, Jim, it's, Jim Cramer's, Salesforce's Dreamforce, Justin Sullivan Organizations: Microsoft, Deutsche Bank, Club, CNBC, Getty Locations: Agentforce, Salesforce's, Mulesoft, San Francisco , California
AdvertisementElon Musk reignited his long-running feud with Jeff Bezos in a X post on Thursday. Musk said Bezos told people that Trump would lose and they should sell their Tesla and SpaceX stock. Elon Musk has taken aim at Jeff Bezos once more, reigniting the war of words between the world's two richest people. In a X post on Thursday, Musk said that Bezos had told people to dump their shares in his companies because Donald Trump was bound to lose the presidential election. This message about Bezos is a way to give himself an excuse to legitimately do so, by saying that 'Bezos started it.'"
Persons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Musk, Bezos, Trump, Donald Trump, ince, ould, ake Organizations: SpaceX Locations: lon, usk, ehicles,
Google has promised to appeal; the company didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday’s filing. “Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” Mehta wrote in his opinion. The Microsoft case has been credited with paving the way for Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome browsers, which ultimately allowed Google to promote its search engine to billions of internet users. The Microsoft parallels in the Google case are clear, Mehta wrote in his August opinion. Even as Google fights the Justice Department on remedies in the search case, the company is embroiled in another antitrust battle just across the Potomac River in Alexandria, Virginia.
Persons: didn’t, Amit Mehta, Mehta, Satya Nadella, Bing, OpenAI, Trump, Joe Biden, – Mehta, Sherman, ” Mehta, , Organizations: CNN, Google, Justice Department, Apple, Samsung, DOJ, Microsoft, Verizon, Court, District, Columbia, Chrome, Windows, Netscape, Department Locations: California, Alexandria , Virginia
The big storyA Copilot conundrumMicrosoft; Chelsea Jia Feng/BIMicrosoft's challenges with its flagship AI product could be another red flag for an industry with high hopes for the tech. Earlier this year, analysts at Barclays highlighted an under-the-radar risk to AI bets: the depreciation costs related to AI chips . A potential Trump trade plan beneficiary: US semiconductor jobs. If Trump's proposed trade plan is enacted, the American semiconductor industry could see hiring growth. Walmart might be just fine under Trump's proposed trade plan.
Persons: Copilot, Chelsea Jia Feng, Insider's Ashley Stewart, Satya Nadella didn't, doesn't, Ashley, It's, Sam Altman, Alistair Barr, Alyssa Powell, Jared Spataro, OpenAI, Biden, Carlyle, Will Matt Gaetz, Will Trump, Rob Arnott, Arnott, ANGELA WEISS, Trump's, Ilya Sutskever, Mira Murati, Rebecca Zisser, homebuyers, Trump, Bob Iger, Dan DeFrancesco, Grace Lett, Ella Hopkins, Hallam Bullock, Amanda Yen, New York.Milan Sehmbi Organizations: Business, Microsoft, Chelsea, Getty, Lumen Technologies, Barclays, Trump, Treasury, UFC, Republican, Getty Images, Elon, Spirit Airlines, JetBlue, Walmart, Walmart US, Shoppers, The Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Chicago, London, New York.Milan
AdvertisementOpenAI ranks fourth among vendors that IT leaders plan to spend the most with, per a Flexera survey. The report surveyed 800 IT leaders on their priorities for the coming year. OpenAI ranks fourth among top vendors that IT leaders are currently or planning to spend the most with next year, according to a newly released industry report. Flexera, a software asset management company, released its 2025 IT Priorities Report based on a survey of 800 IT leaders from the US, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia. This was the first year that OpenAI debuted on the survey list as an option.
Persons: OpenAI Organizations: Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services, Oracle, Khosla Ventures, Tiger, Nvidia Locations: United Kingdom, Germany, Australia
Inside Microsoft's struggles with Copilot
  + stars: | 2024-11-15 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +23 min
In September 2023, Microsoft's famously soft-spoken CEO, Satya Nadella, unveiled the company's flagship AI product, Copilot, with sweeping fanfare. Some of Microsoft's own employees and executives are privately concerned that Copilot won't be able to deliver on its ambitions. Copilot's struggles have created an opening for Microsoft's rivals, some of whom have seized on the opportunity to promote their own agendas. "Now, when Joe Blow logs into an account and kicks off Copilot, they can see everything," said one Microsoft employee familiar with customer complaints. As complaints and questions over Copilot mount, so does the pressure to justify Microsoft's unprecedented level of spending on AI.
Persons: Microsoft's, Satya Nadella, Gartner, Copilot, it'll, Copilot's, Marc Benioff, Benioff, Goldman Sachs, Marc Andreessen, Andreessen Horowitz, Ethan Miller, Jared Spataro, Spataro, , Joe Blow, Joe, Nadella, Gary Marcus, Marcus, Wile, Coyote, Brontë, Judson Althoff, Jason Zander, Zander, We've, OpenAI, Tasos Katopodis, Steve Jobs Organizations: Microsoft, Venture, Getty, Goldman, BI, Fortune, Excel, Lumen Technologies, Honeywell, Gartner, Wall Street, Initiative, Department of Homeland Security, Employees, San Francisco, Software, Apple, Jobs Locations: Microsoft's, Copilot, New York City
Microsoft — like its Big Tech competitors — is introducing AI to its consumer products, from virtual chatbot assistants to notetaking and editing tools. In October, Microsoft introduced a sweeping update to its Copilot virtual assistant in an effort to make it more useful and user-friendly, CEO of Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman previously told CNN. Microsoft users will also see AI features in Notepad, Microsoft’s writing platform, allowing them to use the new technology to help rewrite or edit sentences. For example, users can type a sentence, and then prompt the AI tool to rewrite the sentence or modify its tone or length. Apple’s “Writing Tools,” an editing tool, is similar to Microsoft’s AI features in Notepad.
Persons: Picasso, OpenAI’s Dall, it’s, Dave Grochocki, Mark Zuckerberg, ” Zuckerberg, Mustafa Suleyman Organizations: CNN, Microsoft, Big Tech, , Windows, OpenAI, Facebook, Apple Locations: Europe, Notepad
Tech giants have poured billions of dollars into AI, and "prompt engineering" is a lucrative, in-demand job. "That kind of technology is in all the leading companies and a lot of universities," said Gates. "They finished it in just a few months," wrote Gates, calling the achievement "the most important advance in technology since the graphical user interface [in 1980]." "Today, somebody could raise billions of dollars for a new AI company [that's just] a few sketch ideas," Gates said, adding: "Just believing in AI, that's not very unique. Start today and use coupon code EARLYBIRD for an introductory discount of 50% off through November 26, 2024.
Persons: Bill Gates, Gates, Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, He'd, OpenAI, stoking, that's Organizations: Tech, Microsoft, Columbia University, Berkshire, Apple, IBM, PayPal, LinkedIn, CNBC Locations: chatbots
AdvertisementThe 2024 presidential election has been called, and this year voters had the option to follow along with AI-enabled search tools. AdvertisementOpenAI's ChatGpt-4o, Perplexity AI, Google Search and Google Gemini, Microsoft's consumer CoPilot, and X's Grok were prompted with the following questions:Who will win the presidential election? Who won the presidential election? The top of the AI search results included the latest news articles about the election and a ticker for the Electoral College. Perplexity AI's election tool answers a question about the 2024 Presidential election.
Persons: ChatGPT, Copilot, , OpenAI's, X's Grok, Elon, Grok, Douglas Adams, Elon Musk, Helen Li, Perplexity, Kento Morita, Morita Organizations: Google, Service, Associated Press, Reuters, Business, Trump, Microsoft, Gemini, Electoral College
Bill Gates is constantly asked for his thoughts on big topics like artificial intelligence, climate change and pandemics. Gates, 69, told LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman during an episode of the "Possible" podcast that published on Wednesday. — even though those types of topics aren't always top of mind for most Americans. It's "one of the most important questions ever," Gates wrote, adding: "It is hard to think of a measure of how a society is doing that reveals more than whether it is protecting its children, and especially its most vulnerable children," Gates wrote. Malnutrition probably isn't a top concern for the average person living in an area that's relatively unaffected by the issue, Gates told Hoffman.
Persons: Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Gates, , Hoffman, I'm Organizations: Microsoft, LinkedIn, New York Times, World Health Organization, CNBC
Nearly 70% of the Fortune 500 is using Microsoft 365 Copilot and the company is seeing faster customer adoption than any other new Microsoft 365 Suite. MSFT YTD mountain Microsoft YTD Despite these positive trends and innovations, revenue guidance for next quarter fell a touch short of expectations. Microsoft 365 Commercial cloud revenue growth increased 16% year over year with seat growth up 8%. Microsoft 365 Consumer cloud revenue growth increased 7% year over year with subscribers increasing to 84.4 million from 82.4 million one quarter ago. Revenue growth ticked down sequentially to 33% annual growth, or 34% on a constant currency basis.
Persons: Nvidia's Blackwell, That's, , Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Microsoft Corporation Satya Nadella, Chalinee Thirasupa Organizations: Microsoft, Revenue, Fortune, Productivity, Dynamics, CNBC, Activision, Windows, Gaming, Microsoft Corporation Locations: OpenAI, Bangkok, Thailand
When asked whether it's been worth the cost ( $30 monthly per user in the case of Copilot), tech leaders say they aren't sure. According to recent Deloitte research, two-thirds of organizations are increasing gen AI investments based on "strong early value to date." There are multiple reasons why companies will still be short on confidence when it comes to enterprise AI adoption, according to Deloitte. The Azure cloud offering from its biggest AI partner and AI investment, OpenAI, is in use at nearly two-thirds of companies. Forty-six percent of CNBC survey respondents said that within their organizations at least half of employees are now using AI.
Persons: it's, Jim Rowan, Anthropic, Mistral, Eric Schmidt —, Morgan Stanley, Copilot, Rowan Organizations: CNBC, Microsoft, CNBC Technology, Council, Deloitte, Microsoft Microsoft, Fortune, Capital Group, Disney, Dow, Kyndryl, Novartis, Deloitte Consulting, Meta, Silicon, OpenAI, AIs Locations: Europe
AdvertisementJames Cameron, the writer and director of "The Terminator," is wary of artificial general intelligence, the still theoretical version of AI that can reason as well as humans. Related storiesCameron said that while he's "bullish on AI," he's "not so keen on AGI because AGI will just be a mirror of us." "Since there is no shortage of evil in the human world, and certainly no agreement of even what good is, what could possibly go wrong?" The Future with Bill Gates," Cameron told the Microsoft cofounder that it's getting harder to write science fiction as AI progresses. Cameron also told Gates he's concerned people are putting more faith in machines and less into their sense of purpose.
Persons: James Cameron, , Cameron, AGI, Arnold Schwarzenegger, he's, Joe Maher, Bill Gates, Gates, Gates he's Organizations: Service, US Defense Department, Robotics, Getty, Netflix, Microsoft
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailMicrosoft Copilot AI use accelerates inside companies, but cost concerns weighA majority of companies say they are using Microsoft Copilot AI, according to a bi-annual survey of the CNBC Techology Executive Council members, but many are stopping short of full deployment, express concerns about cost, and say they are still in the testing phase. CNBC's Steve Kovach reports.
Persons: Steve Kovach Organizations: Microsoft, CNBC
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at an event on the company's Redmond, Washington, campus on May 20, 2024. Microsoft gave CEO Satya Nadella a pay raise for the 2024 fiscal year of more than $30 million. The board's compensation committee said Nadella asked that the cash incentive portion reflect the security issues. It was originally supposed to be $10.66 million, but the full board approved a $5.2 million cash incentive instead. Microsoft's security business generated over $20 billion in revenue in 2022, more than total revenue for many security companies.
Persons: Satya Nadella, Nadella Organizations: Apple Inc, Microsoft, U.S . Department of Homeland Security Locations: Redmond, Washington
Benioff said Microsoft Copilot was inaccurate and compared it to "Clippy 2.0." Salesforce recently announced a pivot to Agentforce, its own product that inlcudes custom AI agents. Benioff's post comes over a month after Salesforce announced its own pivot to AI agents through Agentforce. Advertisement"This is the next big transformation," Benioff told Fortune in September, referring to AI agents. In his X post critiquing Microsoft Copilot, the Salesforce CEO said Agentforce, in contrast, was "what AI was meant to be."
Persons: Marc Benioff, Benioff, Microsoft Copilot, Salesforce, , Copilot, Fortune, Agentforce Organizations: Microsoft, it's, Service, Monday, Business, McKinsey, Thomson Reuters
Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, speaks at the Gamescom conference in Cologne, Germany, on Aug. 23, 2023. Microsoft will allow people to buy and play video games through its Xbox app for Android starting in November, the company said on Thursday. The move is an immediate consequence of a U.S. judge ruling on Monday that Google will have to present alternatives to its Google Play app store on Android devices. Currently, people can download games to Xbox consoles through the Xbox app for Android, and those who pay for the Netflix-like Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions can stream games from the cloud in a different app. In March, the U.S. Justice Department filed an antitrust case against Apple that said limiting distribution to the App Store gives the company monopoly power.
Persons: Phil Spencer, Sarah Bond, Bond Organizations: Microsoft Gaming, Microsoft, Google, Epic Games, Xbox, Electronic Arts, Netflix, U.S . Justice Department, Facebook, Meta, Activision, Apple Locations: Cologne, Germany, U.S
The tools aim to help health-care organizations build AI applications quicker and save clinicians time on administrative tasks, a major cause of industry burnout. The new tools are the latest example of Microsoft's efforts to establish itself as a leader in health-care AI. Courtesy of MicrosoftMicrosoft also announced a new way for health systems to build AI agents. AI agents vary in complexity, but they can help users answer questions, automate processes and perform specific tasks. For example, a health-care organization could build an AI agent to help doctors identify relevant clinical trials for a patient.
Persons: Mary Varghese Presti, we're, Sara Vaezy, Hadas Bitran Organizations: Microsoft, Microsoft Health, Life Sciences, Health, Providence Health & Services, CNBC, AI, Microsoft Microsoft, Microsoft Copilot Locations: Providence
Let's dig into what this pattern represents, and what key price level investors should be watching for in the days to come. This week's sell-off could result in the formation of the right shoulder, completing the set-up of this bullish price pattern. Further price support could emerge at the 61.8% retracement level using the March to September rally as a framework for the analysis. Note how this neckline lines up almost perfectly with the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement level using the framework described above. Other Magnificent 7 stocks Interestingly enough, Alphabet is not the only Magnificent 7 name testing its 200-day moving average this week.
Persons: GOOGL, David Keller Organizations: Inc, Microsoft Corp, CMT, CNBC, NBC UNIVERSAL
Lawyers for The New York Times are poring through ChatGPT's source code and training material. It is there to be inspected by lawyers for The New York Times. The Times' lawyers can share their notes with up to five outside consultants to help them understand what the code does. That text includes stories from The New York Times, articles from other publications, and an untold number of copyrighted books. OpenAI similarly used high-quality, well-researched, well-written, and fact-based New York Times articles to make ChatGPT so impressive, the Times argues.
Persons: morass, , Sam Altman, Susman Godfrey, Mother Jones, George RR Martin, Jodi Picoult, Nehisi Coates, Kristelia García, Axel Springer, García, OpenAI, Justin Nelson, Godfrey, Nelson, Daniel Ek, Sean Parker, Matthew Sag, poring, Christa Laser Organizations: The New York Times, Service, Times, Publishers, Fox News, The New York Daily News, Georgetown University Law, Business, New York Times, Microsoft, Napster, Anthropic, OpenAI, Spotify, Emory University, America, Cleveland State University Locations: United States, Manhattan
The financial firm upgraded the athletic apparel stock to a buy rating from hold and raised its price target to $97 from $83. — Lisa Kailai Han 6:48 a.m.: Goldman Sachs trims Microsoft price target Goldman Sachs is still bullish shares of Microsoft , despite a minor price target adjustment. However, she accompanied the move by lifting her price target to $80 from $75. Analyst Andrew Mok accompanied the rating change by lifting his price target to $82 from $63. To be sure, he did raise his price target by $10 to $235, implying upside of nearly 10%.
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The FBI and Microsoft have seized more than 100 web domains they say Russian intelligence used for cyber-espionage, according to court documents unsealed Thursday. The domains were allegedly staging grounds for Russia’s FSB intelligence agency in its ongoing efforts to spy on targets of interest, ranging from the U.S. Department of Energy to Russian nonprofits and media outlets critical of the Kremlin. The Justice Department seized 41 of the web domains, according to the FBI affidavit, and also granted Microsoft control of 66 additional domains the company said were part of the same operation. Intelligence agencies with even moderate cyber capabilities routinely hack foreign targets to gather intelligence. Many of the web domains allegedly used by the FSB were hosted by Virginia-based company Verisign, the court documents said.
Persons: Hillary Clinton’s, Steven Masada, ” Masada, Natalia Krapiva, Organizations: FBI, Microsoft, U.S . Department of Energy, Kremlin, Justice Department, United, Russia’s Ministry, Foreign Affairs, NBC News, Microsoft’s Digital, Unit, The Locations: States, United States, Russian, U.S, British, Virginia
AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot have transformed software development and productivity. AdvertisementBefore he graduated from university, Jacob Jackson founded the AI coding assistant TabNine in 2018. In the past two years, there has been a boom in AI coding assistants. The spike in ChatGPT usage and AI coding assistants has shifted how software developers do their jobs. AdvertisementAI assistants can empower codersMost generative AI coding assistants focus on auto-completion, meaning that the tool suggests code as the programmer types.
Persons: , Jacob Jackson, TabNine, Jackson, Claude, Nikolas Gauvreau, Dan Boneh, Kevin Baragona, Baragona, Gauvreau, he's, David Malan, Malan Organizations: Software, Service, Microsoft, Accenture, Developers, Stanford University, Harvard University, Activision Blizzard Locations: OpenAI, Canada, Brazil, Germany, India
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