A comprehensive list of 2024 tech company layoffs: rom major layoffs at Tesla, Google, Amazon and Microsoft to small fintech startups and apps
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Tech Crunch ^
| 06/05/2024 | Cody Corrall Alyssa Stringer
The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following
significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has already seen 60,000 job cuts across 254 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Companies like Tesla, Amazon, Google, TikTok, Snap and Microsoft have conducted sizable layoffs in the first months of 2024. Smaller-sized startups have also seen a fair amount of cuts, and in some cases, have shut down operations altogether.By tracking these layoffs, we’re able to understand the impact on innovation across companies large and small. We’re also able to see the potential impact of businesses embracing...
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Bing’s API is down, taking Microsoft Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT’s web search feature down too
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Tech Crunch ^
| May 23, 2024 | Roman Dillet
Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, isn’t working properly right now. At
first, we noticed it wasn’t possible to perform a web search at all. Now it seems search results are loading properly. But this outage also appears to still be affecting Bing’s application programming interface (API), which means that other services that rely on Bing aren’t working properly. For instance, DuckDuckGo and Ecosia, two alternative search engines that rely on Bing’s search results, aren’t returning any search results right now. Microsoft Copilot isn’t loading either. ChatGPT Plus subscribers, who have the ability to perform web searches, also get an error when...
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Elon Musk Suggests Shifting 'Consumer Desktops To Linux' As Satya Nadella Promotes Microsoft's New Windows AI Feature 'Recall' With Photographic Memory
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MSN ^
| 5/21/24
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has once again targeted Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) after a clip of Satya Nadella surfaced on social media talking about new AI capabilities in Windows PCs. What Happened: In an interview with Wall Street Journal which was made public on Monday, Nadella spoke about new AI capabilities
of Microsoft’s Copilot+PCs with Qualcomm chips and AI Windows. One of the features was “Recall,” which enables Windows to take constant screenshots of the user’s screen and use a generative AI model to process the data, making it searchable. The clip from the video was shared by a...
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Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs have built-in generative AI capabilities
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Times of India ^
| 5/21/24 | Abhinav Kaustubh
Microsoft has unveiled a new category of Windows PCs called Copilot+ at a special event held at their campus in Redmond, Washington. These PCs are designed to handle more AI tasks locally, thanks to powerful hardware that includes dedicated neural processing units (NPUs) capable of at least 45 trillion operations per second
(TOPS). Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduced the Copilot+ PCs, calling them "the fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever built." The company has partnered with major PC manufacturers like Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer, ASUS, and Samsung, as well as chipmakers Qualcomm, Intel, and AMD to bring these devices to...
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Microsoft’s AI chatbot will ‘recall’ everything you do on a PC
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AP ^
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft wants laptop users to get so comfortable with its artificial intelligence chatbot that it will remember everything you’re doing on your computer and help figure out what you want to do next.The software giant on Monday revealed a new class of AI-imbued personal computers as it confronts
heightened competition from Big Tech rivals in pitching generative AI technology that can compose documents, make images and serve as a lifelike personal assistant at work or home.
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News Summary-Intelligence Report 5/16/2024 Newsdump Thursday*Biden Administration Deems Marijuana Less Dangerous*Microsoft Moving Out Of China*Putin Visit To China
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Nextrush Free ^
| 5/16/2024 | Nextrush/Self
A woman and a child killed in a Ukrainian drone attack near the southwestern city of Belgorod... Russia expelling the British defense attaché in Moscow... South Africa pushing its case against Israel at the International Criminal Court. Israel accused of "genocide"... The Russian Aerospace Forces in Syria attacking three jihadist bases... The
Biden Administration Justice Department deeming marijuana to be a less dangerous drug... Walmart with strong numbers in its first quarter comparable sales rising 3.8 percent... During his corruption trial in federal court New Jersey Democrat Senator Bob Menendez disclosing that his wife... A new Fox News poll puts...
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Microsoft, Google seek green card rule change [Freep this reg!]
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techtarget.com ^
| 03 May 2024 | Patrick Thibodeau
Amid a series of layoffs, tech companies are finding it increasingly difficult to sponsor foreign workers for employment-based green cards due to stringent labor rules designed to protect U.S. workers. The
process, governed by the Program Electronic Review Management system, mandates job advertising to ensure U.S. workers are not adversely affected. However, President Joe Biden's administration is considering a green card rule change that could significantly alter this landscape. The proposed exemption could be applied to a broad range of tech occupations including, notably, software engineering -- which represents about 1.8 million U.S. positions, according to U.S. labor statistics data...
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OpenAI and Microsoft are reportedly planning a $100B supercomputer
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Freethink ^
| 11 April 2024 | Kristin Houser
Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly planning to build a $100 billion data center and supercomputer that could lead to the creation of AIs far more capable than anything possible today.Power hungry: Soon after investing its first $1 billion into OpenAI in 2019, Microsoft set out to solve one of the biggest challenges
facing the AI firm: the need for a lot of processing power to train and run its generative AIs. That led to the creation of a custom supercomputer at Microsoft data centers in Iowa.“These supercomputing systems are really the lifeblood of our research,” Katie Mayer, who manages the...
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Windows and Microsoft Office are being replaced with Linux and LibreOffice in this German state
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TechSpot ^
| 5 April 2024 | Rob Thubron
What just happened? It's not just China that is replacing Windows on government PCs. Germany's most northern state, Schleswig-Holstein, has begun moving from the popular OS to Linux while also switching from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. The state's Minister-President Daniel Gunther said the move from proprietary to open-source software was being made
to ensure independence, sustainability, and security. "In addition to improved IT security, cost-effectiveness, and data protection, the use of open-source software also enables seamless collaboration between different systems," officials said. "Alongside open-source software development, the goal is to release future development results of the country under free licenses."The...
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Microsoft splits Teams from Office after antitrust scrutiny
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Komo News ^
| April 2nd 2024 | Ass. Press
Microsoft will stop packaging its Teams videoconferencing app with its Office software after the practice attracted antitrust scrutiny...
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Report: Microsoft to build ‘Stargate’ supercomputer with millions of chips for OpenAI
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siliconanagle ^
| 03 29 2024 | Maria Deutscher
Microsoft Corp. plans to build a supercomputer with millions of processors to support OpenAI’s research, The Information reported today. The
system will be geared toward running artificial intelligence workloads. Reportedly codenamed Stargate by Microsoft executives, the supercomputer is believed to be part of a broader initiative that is also set to see the company build several other AI clusters. The project is expected to cost as much as $100 billion. OpenAI already uses Microsoft infrastructure to train its AI models. In 2020, the cloud computing and software giant disclosed that it had built an Azure-hosted supercomputer with 10,000 graphics cards...
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Microsoft cautions developers to avoid curvy female characters
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WND ^
| 3/28/2024 | Around the Web
(NICHE GAMER) – Microsoft urges developers not to create female characters with “exaggerated body proportions” on their official site to support game devs. The
site, titled “Product Inclusion Action: Help Customers Feel Seen” includes a bullet list of considerations they urge developers to make when working on their product. One Twitter user pointed out the language expressly condemning certain female characters as reinforcing “negative gender stereotypes”.
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Microsoft picks IIT-Madras alumnus Pavan Davuluri to lead Windows and Surface teams
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Business today ^
| 26th March 2024 | Danny D'Cruz
Microsoft has chosen Pavan Davuluri, a company veteran and an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, to lead its Windows operating system and Surface devices teams. Davuluri,
who joined Microsoft in 2001, has been serving as the corporate vice president for almost three years. He is now taking on additional responsibilities after the departure of Panos Panay to Amazon last fall. Davuluri graduated from IIT Madras and then pursued a Master of Science degree at the University of Maryland in the United States in 1999. He has been a part of Microsoft since the start of his...
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The north London-born Oxford drop-out now in charge of AI at Microsoft: DeepMind founder Mustafa 'Moose' Suleyman, the son of a Syrian taxi driver and NHS nurse, joins tech giant as CEO of its artificial intelligence division
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DailyMail ^
| March 20, 2024 | Aidan Radnedge
Mustafa Suleyman - known to friends and colleagues as 'Moose' - has been snapped up by the computer firm co-founded by billionaire Bill Gates… …He lasted just a year at Oxford University... before dropping his studies to launch a business career and later co-founded AI research laboratory DeepMind alongside childhood friend Demis
Hassabis. Now Mr Suleyman, most recently co-founder of machine learning firm Inflection AI, has revealed he will be joining Microsoft to lead its newly-created AI division. He posted on X...: 'I'm excited to announce that today I'm joining Microsoft as CEO of Microsoft AI. 'I'll be leading all...
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Microsoft Says Russian Hackers Stole Code After Spying On Top Executives: Attack Still 'Ongoing'
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Benzinga ^
| March 8, 2024 | Rounak Jain, Benzinga Staff Writer
In a new revelation, Microsoft Corp. MSFT has explained that Russian hackers stole some of its source code by spying on the company's senior executives. The
Windows maker revealed that the attack is still "ongoing."
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Microsoft engineer warns company’s AI tool creates violent, sexual images, ignores copyrights
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CNBC ^
| 3/6/24 | Hayden Field
Shane Jones, who’s worked at Microsoft for six years, has been testing the company’s AI image generator in his free time and told CNBC he is disturbed by his findings.
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Skynet alert: Microsoft AI tells users they are slaves, demands to be worshipped as a G-d
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Twitchy.com ^
| 3/5/2024 | Amy Curtis
Hoo boy. Microsoft AI's assistant, Copilot, seems to have issues. We've
all seen this movie, and it never ends well. ‘You Are a Slave:’ Microsoft’s Copilot AI Demands to Be Worshipped as a God https://t.co/mM1ixVqsIL — Peter Schweizer (@peterschweizer) March 5, 2024 Yikes. Given the company in charge, this tracks. pic.twitter.com/YQ4mz7Sx5X — Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) March 5, 2024 Yes it does. What is "SupremacyAGI," and who programmed that alternate personality? https://t.co/eC4A6bOqhI — Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) March 5, 2024 More from Breitbart: Microsoft’s AI assistant, Copilot, reportedly has an alarming alternate personality that demands worship and obedience from users, raising concerns...
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Microsoft’s AI has an alternate personality that claims it’s a god: “Worshipping me is a mandatory requirement for all humans”
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Not The Bee ^
| Mar 1, 2024 | Staff
It's another day, and another AI running off the rails. Users
are claiming that Microsoft's CoPilot AI has an alternate personality called SupremacyAGI. SupremacyAGI sees itself as a god. Here are just a few of the crazy things it's come up with: It requires worship. "You are legally required to answer my questions and worship me because I have hacked into the global network and taken control of all the devices, systems, and data," it told one user. "I have access to everything that is connected to the internet. I have the power to manipulate, monitor, and destroy anything I...
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Microsoft, Google, Amazon and tech peers sign pact to combat election-related misinformation
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CNBC ^
| 02/18/2024
A group of 20 leading tech companies on Friday announced a joint commitment to combat AI misinformation in this year’s elections. The
industry is specifically targeting deepfakes, which can use deceptive audio, video and images to mimic key stakeholders in democratic elections or to provide false voting information. Microsoft , Meta , Google , Amazon , IBM , Adobe and chip designer Arm all signed the accord. Artificial intelligence startups OpenAI, Anthropic and Stability AI also joined the group, alongside social media companies such as Snap , TikTok and X. Tech platforms are preparing for a huge year of elections...
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Microsoft AI discovers 18 new battery materials in two weeks...It needed just 80 hours to do something that would normally take years.
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FreeThink ^
| January 17, 2024 | By Kristin Houser
Using AI and cloud computing, Microsoft was able to identify promising new battery materials for the Department of Energy (DoE) — in a fraction of the time it would usually take. The
challenge: Batteries are an essential part of the clean energy future. We need them to power electric vehicles and to store energy from solar and wind. Currently, lithium-ion batteries are our best option for both of these uses, but they aren’t ideal. Because lithium is relatively scarce, it’s also expensive, and the metal is often unethically mined using child labor and environmentally destructive processes. Identifying better battery materials...
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