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Best Buy has a great deal on the Microsoft Surface Pro 7+ right now. Normally priced at $930, you can buy it for just $600 meaning you save a huge $330 off the regular price. Even better, you get the near-essential Type Cover included so there’s no need to budget for additional accessories. Easily one of the best Microsoft Surface Pro deals around at the moment, it’s perfect for anyone that wants flexibility and good looks from their hardware. If you’ve been checking out laptop deals for something like this, keep…

Microsoft is exploring ways to share ad revenue it generates through the new Bing, Bing Chat, with select publishers. Bing Chat has had ads since it launched on February 7th. Now, Microsoft says it will look to “share the ad revenue with partners whose content contributed to the chat response.” What’s new. “We’re also exploring placing ads in the chat experience to share the ad revenue with partners whose content contributed to the chat response,” Microsoft vice president Yusuf Mehdi wrote. “We recently met with…

It’s not often that Xbox deals involve a great discount on an Xbox Series S bundle but that’s exactly what Dell is offering right now. Today, you can buy the Microsoft Xbox Series S — Fortnite & Rocket League bundle with nine in-game cosmetics and virtual currency for Fortnite, Rocket League, and Fall Guys, all for $270. A saving of $30, 10% off may not be the biggest discount but it’s an unusual one for one of the more sought-after consoles right now. Odds are you already know you want it but if you haven’t…

Microsoft is beginning a pilot program to allow advertising by delegated or authorized providers of certain government services with review and pre-approval. The pilot will be limited to the Microsoft Advertising Search Network and Microsoft Audience Network in the United States. Other markets aren’t available at this time. How it works. During this pilot, Microsoft will only consider the following government products/services unless approved otherwise: Recreational…

As soon as Lars Ruiter steps out of his car, he is confronted by a Microsoft security guard, who is already seething with anger. Ruiter, a local councillor, has parked in the rain outside a half-finished Microsoft data center that rises out of the flat North Holland farmland. He wants to see the construction site. The guard, who recognizes Ruiter from the last time he brought a TV crew here, says that’s not allowed. Within minutes, the argument has escalated, and the guard has his hand around Ruiter’s throat. The security…

Over the past few days, users have reported seeing ads within the Bing chatbot experience. Based on the limited examples we've seen, the GPT-4-powered chatbot embeds relevant ad links in responses to users' actual questions. Ads don't seem to show up for most people (including us) yet, but they'll most likely pop up more frequently and in more places soon. In a new post on the Bing blog, Microsoft Corporate VP for Search and Devices Yusuf Mehdi has admitted that the company is currently exploring putting ads in Bing's…

Alphabet Inc.'s Google is striking a partnership to combine its artificial intelligence language models with software from startup Replit Inc. that helps computer programmers write code, a bid to compete with a similar product from Microsoft Corp.'s GitHub and OpenAI.Replit, which has 20 million users, said its Ghostwriter app will rely on Google's language-generation AI to improve its ability to suggest blocks of code, complete programs and answer developer questions. Google Cloud Vice President June Yang declined to…

Microsoft Corp on Tuesday launched a tool to help cybersecurity professionals identify breaches, threat signals and better analyze data, using OpenAI's latest GPT-4 generative artificial intelligence model.The tool, named 'Security Copilot', is a simple prompt box that will help security analysts with tasks like summarizing incidents, analyzing vulnerabilities and sharing information with co-workers on a pinboard. The assistant will use Microsoft's security-specific model, which the company described as "a growing set of…

An open letter signed by hundreds of prominent artificial intelligence experts, tech entrepreneurs, and scientists calls for a pause on the development and testing of AI technologies more powerful than OpenAI’s language model GPT-4 so that the risks it may pose can be properly studied.It warns that language models like GPT-4 can already compete with humans at a growing range of tasks and could be used to automate jobs and spread misinformation. The letter also raises the distant prospect of AI systems that could replace…

ChatGPT is a simple, straightforward application. It’s an empty box to type into, and not much more. But according to AI enthusiast Rowan Cheung, some ChatGPT Plus users have reported that a new feature is being tested and will be rolled out that will add some ways of narrowing down your prompts to get a response that’s a bit more targeted. 🚨Breaking: Some ChatGPT users are reporting a new mini toggle helper. This will allow users to prompt ChatGPT much faster, and could be the start of prompt templates…