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Microsoft Ignite 2024 Roundup: AI Innovations, Copilots, Power Platform Updates, and More

Microsoft Ignite 2024 is taking place in Chicago this week, bringing together technology leaders and innovators from around the globe. The event explores how the latest updates to Azure, Copilot, Microsoft 365, Windows, Read more…

OpenAI and Google Clash in the Evolution of AI-Powered Search

GenAI continues to be a major disruptive force, reshaping how businesses innovate, make decisions, and engage with customers. Search engines are no exception to this wave of transformation.  According to Gartner, sea Read more…

Anaconda’s New Tool Lets Users Run Python Code Inside Excel

Anaconda Inc., an open ecosystem for sourcing, building, and deploying data science and AI initiatives, announced the release of Anaconda Code within its Anaconda Toolbox for Excel. This new feature enables users to writ Read more…

Microsoft’s New AI System Promises to Revolutionize Spreadsheet Use

As AI continues to reshape every corner of the digital landscape, Microsoft is now turning its attention to a critical yet often overlooked domain of office work: the spreadsheet.  The tech giant has introduced an ex Read more…

Oracle Brings Autonomous Database To Microsoft Azure

Strengthening its partnership with Microsoft Corporation, Oracle has announced the general availability of its Autonomous Database on Microsoft Azure. Oracle will operate and manage the Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud S Read more…

New AI Patent Study Shows IBM Leads Google and Microsoft in GenAI Race

The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence over the last year has sent tech companies scrambling to find new ways to develop and deploy AI technology in their products and processes. Companies that have developed or ar Read more…

Nvidia’s Dominance in AI Chips Challenged by Big Tech Companies

The GenAI boom has exposed just how reliant the big tech companies have become on Nvidia, the leading global manufacturer of high-end graphics processing units (GPUs). The rise in demand for specialized chips for AI solu Read more…

Microsoft’s New Copilot Pro Offers AI in Office Apps and Priority Access

Microsoft has launched a paid subscription for Copilot - the tech giant’s umbrella brand for its GenAI technologies. Users can now access a wide range of new features by paying an extra $20 monthly. This includes acces Read more…

Microsoft’s New AI Button Marks First Windows Keyboard Addition in Three Decades

Organizations are looking at different ways to use artificial intelligence (AI) in their operations, products, and service offerings. Microsoft has already shared their plans to invest heavily in AI, including substantia Read more…

First Open Map Dataset Launched by AWS, Meta, Microsoft-founded Overture Maps Foundation

The Overture Maps Foundation is a geospatial collaborative effort founded by Amazon Web Services, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom in December 2022. Earlier this week, the organization announced the release of its first open Read more…

SAS Innovate Conference Showcases Investments, Partnerships, and Benchmarks

The SAS Innovate conference drew a global crowd this week in Orlando. The analytics pioneer unveiled new R&D investment plans, new and continued partnerships and integrations, and a benchmarking study that explored t Read more…

Mozilla.ai Launches with $30M to Build Trustworthy AI

Mozilla has announced it is launching an AI startup, Mozilla.ai. The new startup will be aimed at building a trustworthy and independent open-source AI ecosystem and is backed by an initial $30 million seed investment fr Read more…

Bill Gates Says the Age of AI Has Begun, Bringing Opportunity and Responsibility

The latter half of March has been a whirlwind moment for artificial intelligence. OpenAI released GPT-4 last week, and this week, Nvidia announced a new cloud services platform for generative AI while Google initiated th Read more…

DataRobot Unleashes 9.0 Update and Partner Integrations to Drive AI ROI

DataRobot is capitalizing on the surging popularity of AI with new partner integrations and a significant platform update: DataRobot AI Platform 9.0. DataRobot’s AI platform is designed to cater to both data scienti Read more…

Multi-modal GPT-4 Rumored To Be Released This Week

Rumors are swirling around the anticipated release of OpenAI’s GPT-4 this week. German publication Heise reported that Microsoft Germany CTO Andreas Braun spilled the tea at an AI kickoff event last week. “We will Read more…

Companions, Not Replacements: Chatbots Will Not Succeed Search Engines Just Yet

The internet has been abuzz with news about the AI-powered search engine wars between Google and Microsoft. Microsoft has been collaborating with OpenAI to integrate an upgraded version of ChatGPT within its Bing search Read more…

Chatbot Search Wars Intensify with Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Unveiling of AI-powered Bing

Google has officially thrown its hat into the chatbot ring with the unveiling of Bard, its answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. “Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence, an Read more…

Microsoft Solidifies Multi-year, Multi-billion Investment in OpenAI

Microsoft announced it has entered a third phase of its long-term partnership with OpenAI, creators of the famed DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT generative AI technologies. The company first partnered with OpenAI in 2019 and aga Read more…

OpenAI Outsourced Data Labeling to Kenyan Workers Earning Less than $2 Per Hour: TIME Report

TIME has released an exclusive report showing that OpenAI outsourced data labeling work to Kenyan workers earning less than $2 per hour in order to build its content filter for ChatGPT. According to author Billy Perri Read more…

Microsoft Announces ChatGPT-powered Bing, Google CEO Declares ‘Code Red’

It appears Google is feeling the squeeze as the search engine market seems poised to be disrupted by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. A new report from The Information announced that Microsoft is now working to launch a ChatGPT-power Read more…

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