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☑️ #115 May 13, 2024
7th Choose France Summit: Amazon and Microsoft to spend billions in France
@France24_en: The 7th annual foreign investment summit known as "Choose France" kicks off at Versailles with €15 billion in new projects expected. Also in this edition, China prepares a $140 billion debt float to fund economic stimulus. Plus, hundreds of environmental activists storm Tesla's German Gigafactory.
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☑️ #114 May 8, 2024
Microsoft adds an air-gapped ChatGPT for classified workloads
@KimZetter: Microsoft created an air-gapped ChatGPT for spies to use. Most generative AIs use the cloud, but US intel community wanted ability to run queries on classified info and not have it leak to the cloud or get hacked. "it’s on a special network that’s only accessible by the US government" https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-07/microsoft-creates-top-secret-generative-ai-service-for-us-spies
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@KimZetter: “This is the first time we’ve ever had an isolated version ... not connected to the internet.... You don’t want [the AI] to learn on the questions that you’re asking and then somehow reveal that information."
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☑️ #113 May 8, 2024
Fact Sheet: President Biden to Highlight $3.3 Billion Investment in Racine, Wisconsin, and How His Investing in America Agenda is Driving Economic Comebacks in Communities Across the Country
whitehouse.gov: [Transcription] [Excerpt] Six years ago, the prior administration touted a $10 billion investment by Foxconn that never materialized – now Microsoft will build a new AI datacenter on the same land, powering industries of the future in Wisconsin.
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☑️ #112 May 7, 2024
Bethesda
@shinobi602: Microsoft has closed down multiple Bethesda studios, including:
Arkane Austin (Redfall)
Tango Gameworks (The Evil Witihin, Ghostwire Tokyo)
Alpha Dog Studios
Roundhouse Studios
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☑️ #111 May 5, 2024 🔴 rumor
Silicon Valley finds its silver bullet in a desperate race for energy
telegraph.co.uk: [Transcription] [Excerpt] Tech giants bet on a nuclear revival to power the supercomputer revolution.
The almost-limitless piles of cash AI companies have to spend helps. OpenAI and its major investor Microsoft are reportedly developing plans for the world’s biggest supercomputer, a $100bn (£79.66bn) project codenamed Stargate. Analysts at Morgan Stanley speculated last week that this would be powered by several nuclear plants.
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☑️ #110 May 6, 2024
MAI-1 will have roughly 500 billion parameters
@bindureddy: As I predicted, Microsoft is training its own LLM
It's called MAI-1, a 500B param model, and may be previewed at their Build conference.
When this model becomes available, it will only be natural for MSFT to push this instead of the GPT line.
As predicted, OAI and MSFT are becoming more and more competitive. Any which way, LLMs have become a commodity (link in alt)
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☑️ #109 May 2, 2024
Microsoft’s AI Copilot is beginning to automate the coding industry
bloomberg.com: Along the way, Copilot is gradually revolutionizing the working lives of software engineers—the first professional cohort to use generative AI en masse. Microsoft says Copilot has attracted 1.3 million customers so far, including 50,000 businesses ranging from small startups to corporations like Goldman Sachs, Ford and Ernst & Young. Engineers say Copilot saves them hundreds of hours a month by handling tedious and repetitive tasks, affording them time to focus on knottier challenges.
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☑️ #108 May 2, 2024
Four decades of Microsoft
@Quart_App: Tomorrow: Edge Issue #11.
This week's cover story is a deep dive into $MSFT's journey to becoming the highest-valued company globally. Below is a sneak peek, illustrating four decades of Microsoft in one visual.
Join the Edge community now to secure your issue via our profile.
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☑️ #107 Apr 24, 2024
CMA seeks views on AI partnerships and other arrangements
gov.uk: [Transcription] [Excerpt] Invitation to comment launched by the CMA on the partnerships between Microsoft and Mistral AI, and Amazon and Anthropic, and Microsoft’s hiring of former employees and related arrangements with Inflection AI.
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☑️ #106 Apr 21, 2024
Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director
theregister.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] With little competition at the goverment level, Windows giant has no incentive to make its systems safer.
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☑️ #105 Apr 17, 2024
1.8M AI Chips by the end of the year
@BusinessInsider: Microsoft has a target to amass 1.8 million AI chips by the end of the year, internal document shows
Approximately $100 billion would be allocated for GPUs and data centers from 2024 up until 2027.
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☑️ #104 Apr 16, 2024
Microsoft Invests $1.5 Billion in Abu Dhabi’s G42 to Accelerate AI Development and Global Expansion
g42.a: [Transcription] [Excerpt] This strategic investment will enhance the UAE’s position as a global AI hub and provide further opportunities for partners and customers to innovate and grow.
G42, the leading UAE-based artificial intelligence (AI) technology holding company, and Microsoft today announced a $1.5 billion strategic investment by Microsoft in G42. The investment will strengthen the two companies’ collaboration on bringing the latest Microsoft AI technologies and skilling initiatives to the UAE and other countries around the world. As part of this expanded partnership Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft, will join the G42 Board of Directors.
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☑️ #103 Apr 11, 2024
Cybersecurity Directives - CISA: Emergency Directives
cisa.gov: [Transcription] [Excerpt] CISA Issues Emergency Directive 24-02: Mitigating the Significant Risk from Nation-State Compromise of Microsoft Corporate Email System.
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☑️ #102 Apr 10, 2024
Its biggest-ever investment in Japan
news.microsoft.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] Microsoft to invest US$2.9 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure in Japan while boosting the nation’s skills, research and cybersecurity.
Washington D.C., April 9 ET, 2024 – Today, Microsoft announced it will invest US$2.9 billion over the next two years to increase its hyperscale cloud computing and AI infrastructure in Japan. It will also expand its digital skilling programs with the goal of providing AI skilling to more than 3 million people over the next three years, open its first Microsoft Research Asia lab in Japan, and deepen its cybersecurity collaboration with the Government of Japan.
Expanding Japan’s AI and cloud infrastructure capacity
Building Japan’s AI capability by training 3 million people
Opening Japan’s first Microsoft Research Asia lab in Tokyo
Partnering to strengthen Japan’s cybersecurity defenses
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☑️ #101 Apr 7, 2024
Microsoft AI Hub in London
blogs.microsoft.com: [Transcription] [Excerpt] The Microsoft AI London hub adds to Microsoft’s existing presence in the U.K., including the Microsoft Research Cambridge lab, home to some of the foremost researchers in the areas of AI, cloud and productivity. At the same time, it builds off Microsoft’s recently announced £2.5 billion investment to upskill the U.K. workforce for the AI era and to build the infrastructure to power the AI economy, including our commitment to bring 20,000 of the most advanced GPUs to the country by 2026.
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