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Microsoft will introduce its customized Cobalt 100 chips to customers as a public preview during its upcoming Build conference.During an analyst briefing prior to Build, Scott Guthrie, the executive VP of Microsoft’s Cloud and AI group, made a direct comparison between Cobalt and AWS’s Graviton chips, which have been accessible …

William Chappell, CTO of Microsoft’s Strategic Missions and Technology, said that the company has set up a GPT-4 large language model on a government-only network that is separate from the rest of the internet and doesn’t connect to it. An unnamed executive told Bloomberg first about the setup. They said …

Microsoft and Quantinuum have made a significant advancement in quantum error correction. With the utilization of Quantinuum’s ion-trap hardware and Microsoft’s latest qubit-virtualization system, the team achieved an impressive feat of conducting over 14,000 experiments flawlessly. With the implementation of this innovative system, the team was able to effortlessly examine …

Has learned that Ghost Autonomy, a startup specializing in autonomous driving software for automaker partners, has ceased operations.As of Wednesday, the startup announced on its website that it has ceased operations globally and is in the process of winding down the company. The company had a workforce of approximately 100 …

Microsoft’s strategic foresight and bold investments in AI have propelled the software giant to claim the title of the world’s most valuable company. However, Satya Nadella, the usually composed chief executive of the company, couldn’t help but take a subtle dig at the rest of the industry. “We have an …

In the European Union, Microsoft has completed the second stage of launching its data localization service. The most recent rollout of the “EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud” (the infrastructure’s official name) began in early 2017. Following its earlier announcement, Microsoft is on track to finish the second phase …

Microsoft has collaborated with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) of the United States Department of Energy to narrow down millions of candidate new battery materials to only a few using its Azure Quantum Elements service. One of these materials is already in the prototype stage, according to Microsoft’s announcement …

Microsoft wants to give a few startups free Azure cloud “supercomputing” resources to develop AI models during an AI chip shortage. Microsoft added a free Azure AI infrastructure option for “high-end,” Nvidia-based GPU virtual machine clusters to train and run generative models, including large language models like ChatGPT, to its …

Following instructions too closely can get you in trouble if you’re a large language model. A new Microsoft-affiliated scientific paper examined the “trustworthiness” and toxicity of large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and GPT-3.5. The co-authors suggest that GPT-4 may be more susceptible to “jailbreaking” prompts that bypass the …

Microsoft’s restructured acquisition of Activision is being considered by the UK’s competition watchdog. In an update on its ongoing assessment today, it said the deal “makes important changes that substantially address the concerns it set out in relation to the original transaction earlier this year”. The Competition and Markets Authority …