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Opinion: The Big Hallucination
People are too credulous about AI outputs, and it’s about to get even more complicated.
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Nuance is taking ChatGPT to the contact centre: Redmond's buyout looks canny
Voice Assistant, can you say ‘Kismet’? Turns out that when Microsoft completed its deal to buy Nuance Communications a little over a year ago for about $19.7 billion, the purchase may have been better than it anticipated at the time. Either that or part of a grand plan, because
Enterprise IT
Pentagon starts testing "secret" Office 365 at IL6
The US Department of Defense has started user testing for a new “Office 365 classified cloud”, days after Microsoft took its new Office 365 Government Secret cloud to general availability (GA). Tests at this high classification level coms months after the US Army decommissioned a legacy email system with four
Enterprise IT
5 key takeaways from Microsoft’s earnings
CapEx, a cloud slowdown, and more...
Cloud
Massive Azure outage blamed on WAN update
"The network connectivity issue is occurring with devices across the Microsoft Wide Area Network"
Enterprise IT
Microsoft fires 10,000, invests $10bn in 375-person OpenAI
Days after laying off over 10,000 people, Microsoft has invested a reported $10 billion in OpenAI -- a company with just 375 staff -- as Artificial Intelligence applications start to go mainstream Microsoft said it would move to “deploy OpenAI’s models across our consumer and enterprise products and
Cloud
Enterprise ChatGPT on Azure? For now, Satya Nadella's just a tease
Is it all just a "nothing burger"?
ESG/ClimateTech
Microsoft’s cloud emissions API wins praise as rivals lag on disclosure
Emissions data important enough now that some companies are abandoning suppliers...
Enterprise IT
New Microsoft Defender rule DELETES Windows apps on Friday 13
IT admins were left scrambling to detect if they had been hit by an unknown virus on Friday 13, after Windows applications vanished from the Start menu and taskbar on computers globally following what appears to have been a botched Windows Defender rule triggering chaos for thousands of users globally.
Enterprise IT
Psst: Your Windows 8.1 boxes are a week from blocking fresh installs of Microsoft 365 apps
No Extended Security Update for this OS...
Cloud
Microsoft vows an EU "data boundary" for customer, telemetry data
The move comes under huge pressure on sovereignty from EU policy makers
Cloud
Microsoft buys 4% of London Stock Exchange; LSEG to spend $2.8bn on cloud
Two will co-develop new analytics services, migrate data infrastructre to Azure