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The Microsoft Build 2023 opened with a band when CEO and Chairman Satya Nadella took the stage for the opening keynote session and announced that Microsoft is taking a big step towards copilots. Copilots are essentially the AI-powered assistive chatbot technology that Microsoft has built for its platforms through a collaboration with OpenAI. Nadella announced that the copilots will now enter various Microsoft offerings including Edge, Windows 11, and Microsoft 365 as well as a copilot stack that will enable developers to…

Microsoft hosted its much-awaited event, Microsoft Build 2023, in Seattle, the United States on Tuesday and made a slew of announcements. The event started with the keynote address of its CEO, Satya Nadella. Microsoft Build 2023 offers a first-hand opportunity to explore the entire…

Microsoft/Maria Diaz/ZDNETAs different experts, ethicists, and even the government push for increased safety in the development and use of artificial intelligence tools, Microsoft took to the Build stage to announce new measures for AI content safety.Included in a series of updates aiming for responsible AI, Microsoft launched Azure AI Content Safety, currently in a preview stage, as well as other measures such as media provenance capabilities for its AI tools, like Designer and Bing. Also: Today's AI boom will…

Next up is another tool that can ease the workload of developers and reduce the worry of admins: GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps. Last year, Microsoft announced this service was coming, and now, Microsoft is announcing the availability of a public preview.Also: Bolstered Dev Box leads developer delights at Microsoft Build 2023This brings the GitHub Advanced Security features to Azure DevOps, integrating directly into Azure Repos and Azure Pipelines. There are three main capabilities that can make…

Doing data science today is far more difficult than it will be in the next 5 to 10 years. Sharing and collaborating on workflows in painful, pushing models into production is challenging. Let’s explore what Azure provides to ease data scientists’ pains. In this post, you will learn about the Azure Machine Learning Studio, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Databricks, Data Science Virtual Machine, and Cognitive Services. What tools and services can we choose based on a problem definition, skillset, or infrastructure…

What Is a Virtual Machine? It is a computer file known as an image that functions much like a real computer. One of the folders that contain everything is that one. Windows, Linux, and other operating systems can all run it. As a result, you have the flexibility to run several machines on a single physical computer. In addition, different operating systems are possible for various systems. The virtual hardware that each of these virtual machines offers includes CPUs, RAM, hard drives, network connections, and other…

Today, artificial intelligence-powered machine learning (ML) and data analytics solutions are high in demand by companies in almost every area, whether it’s the financial sector, power industry, retail, healthcare, technology, or telecommunications. ML allows companies to work through a massive amount of raw data to extract actionable information. It equips businesses to understand their targeted audience better, automate their operations and production, align customer demand, and predict future business development with…

The explosion of generative AI has taken the world by storm, but one question all too rarely comes up: Who can afford it?OpenAI bled around $540 million last year as it developed ChatGPT and says it needs $100 billion to meet its ambitions, according to industry media The Information. "We're going to be the most capital-intensive startup in Silicon Valley history," OpenAI's founder Sam Altman told a panel recently. And when Microsoft, which poured billions of dollars in investment into OpenAI, is asked about how much its…

Amazon.com Inc shares fell nearly 5% on Friday after the company warned its lucrative cloud services business slowed further in April, fuelling concerns that the long-time growth driver was struggling with a pullback in technology spending. The company, one of the largest in the world by market capitalization, is on track to shed about $60 billion from its valuation of $1.126 trillion, if losses hold. Atlantic Equities analyst James Cordwell said the slowdown reflected Amazon Web Services' greater exposure to technology…

A security researcher was recently able to change the top results in Microsoft’s Bing search engine and access any user’s private files, potentially putting millions of users at risk — and all it took was logging into an unsecured web page. The exploit was discovered by researcher Hillai Ben-Sasson at their team at Wiz, a cloud security firm. According to Ben-Sasson, it would not only allow an attacker to change Bing search results, but would also grant them access to millions of users’ private files and data.…