Maryland Courts and Offices Closed Due to Microsoft Outage
ANNAPOLIS, MD—Maryland’s Judiciary announced that all state courts, offices, and facilities will be closed to the public on Friday due to a worldwide Microsoft outage. However, they will continue to operate for…
Buffett cut Activision stake before judge approved Microsoft merger
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway sold 70% of its investment in Activision Blizzard in the second quarter, appearing to miss out on some gains when a federal judge…
Plaintiffs ask US Supreme Court to temporarily halt Microsoft, Activision merger
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group of individual plaintiffs on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to temporarily halt Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the largest in the…
US appeals court opens docket on FTC effort to overturn loss on Microsoft deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on the West Coast opened a docket on Thursday on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s effort to overturn its loss trying to stop Microsoft from buying…
Federal Judge Halts Biden FTC’s Block On Microsoft Acquisition
Federal Judge Halts Biden FTC’s Block On Microsoft Acquisition Will Kessler on July 11, 2023 A federal judge on Tuesday denied the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) motion Tuesday to block Microsoft’s acquisition…
Microsoft attempts to pick apart US legal argument against deal to buy Activision
By Greg Bensinger SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Arguing for the government on Tuesday in its legal fight against Microsoft’s $69 billion deal to buy game maker Activision Blizzard, Harvard economist Robin Lee…
Microsoft Announces Hack Behind Early June Service Outages
Microsoft Announces Hack Behind Early June Service Outages Harold Hutchison on June 18, 2023 Microsoft said that a June 5 outage that affected multiple services was caused by hackers who carried out…
Microsoft says early June service outages were cyberattacks
(Reuters) – Microsoft said on Friday that the outages that affected certain services of the company through some of the earlier days of this month were the result of cyberattacks, but said…
Microsoft notches record high valuation of nearly $2.6 trillion
By Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK (Reuters) -Microsoft Corp shares rose to a new record high close on Thursday as market optimism about the prospects of artificial intelligence (AI) has helped buoy the…
Activision intervenes in Microsoft challenge to UK regulator’s block
LONDON (Reuters) – “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard has been given permission to intervene in Microsoft’s legal battle with Britain’s anti-trust regulator over its decision to block the $69 billion takeover.…
Microsoft beefs up ChatGPT and Bing in wide-ranging AI product launch
By Yuvraj Malik and Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp on Tuesday started making available to users a host of AI upgrades, including to ChatGPT, its search engine Bing as well as…
Microsoft helping finance AMD’s expansion into AI chips – Bloomberg News
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is working with Advanced Micro Devices Inc on the chipmaker’s expansion into artificial intelligence processors, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The…
VP Harris tells Microsoft, Google they have legal responsibility to ensure safety of AI products
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday told the chief executives of tech companies including Microsoft and Google they have a “legal responsibility” to ensure the safety of their…
Microsoft developing its own AI chip – The Information
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is developing its own artificial intelligence chip code-named “Athena” that will power the technology behind AI chatbots like ChatGPT, the Information reported on Tuesday, citing two people familiar…
Amazon cranks up AI competition against Microsoft, Google with new cloud tools
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc’s cloud computing division on Thursday released a suite of technologies aimed at helping other companies develop their own chatbots and image-generation services backed by artificial…
Microsoft offers to change cloud practices to ward off EU antitrust probe -source
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Microsoft Corp has offered to change its cloud computing practices to settle antitrust complaints filed by smaller rivals, a person with direct knowledge of the matter…
Microsoft wins dismissal of gamers’ suit over $69 billion Activision deal
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp on Monday won dismissal of a private consumer antitrust lawsuit over its $69 billion proposed purchase of “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard Inc, but…
Microsoft adds new Bing to Windows computers in effort to roll out AI
By Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp on Tuesday started adding its recently upgraded Bing search engine to its Windows computer software, aiming to put artificial intelligence (AI) at the fingertips of…
Microsoft wants to cut up to 120 jobs in Germany – WiWo
BERLIN (Reuters) – Microsoft wants to cut up to 120 jobs in Germany, business news outlet WirtschaftsWoche reported on Thursday, citing sources, as part of the tech company’s global job cuts. (Writing…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates: ChatGPT ‘will change our world’
BERLIN (Reuters) – Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes ChatGPT, a chatbot that gives strikingly human-like responses to user queries, is as significant as the invention of the internet, he told German business…
Analysis-From Meta to Microsoft, AI’s big moment is here
By Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) – Big Tech companies have a new obsession: artificial intelligence. This week, chief executives across the sector packed earnings calls with mentions of the heavily hyped technology, which…
Microsoft rolls out ChatGPT-powered Teams Premium
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp on Wednesday rolled out a premium Teams messaging offering powered by ChatGPT to simplify meetings using the AI chatbot that has taken Silicon Valley by a storm. The…
Microsoft Posts Worst Earnings In Years After Major Layoffs
Microsoft Posts Worst Earnings In Years After Major Layoffs Lorenzo Prieto on January 24, 2023 Microsoft experienced its slowest quarter of growth in the last six years in the three months ending…
Microsoft, Amazon results to highlight softening cloud business
By Yuvraj Malik and Aditya Soni (Reuters) – Slower cloud spending by inflation-hit businesses is expected to stall the sales momentum at Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp and add to the troubles…
Microsoft to shed 10,000 jobs, adding to glut of tech layoffs
By Jeffrey Dastin and Yuvraj Malik DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp on Wednesday said it would eliminate 10,000 jobs and take a $1.2 billion charge to earnings, as its cloud-computing customers…
Microsoft to invest in autonomous trucking startup Gatik -sources
By Krystal Hu and Joseph White (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is in advanced talks to invest in Gatik, a California-based autonomous driving startup, as part of its cloud partnership with the company,…
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