kurtshFeb 20

New research on detecting AI use in media.

✅ Media Integrity and Authentication: Status, Directions, and Futures - Microsoft Research
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/media-integrity-and-authentication-status-directions-and-futures/
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Media Integrity and Authentication: Status, Directions, and Futures - Microsoft Research

We provide background on emerging challenges and future directions with media integrity and authentication methods, focusing on distinguishing AI-generated media from authentic content captured by cameras and microphones. We evaluate several approaches, including provenance, watermarking, and fingerprinting. After defining each method, we analyze three representative technologies: cryptographically secured provenance, imperceptible watermarking, and soft-hash fingerprinting. We […]

Microsoft Research
kurtshFeb 17

Microsoft's AI datacenters are now completely closed loop, liquid-cooled w/ zero evaporation loss.

At construction, they are filled with as much water as a golf course during the summertime ONCE, then never again.

✅ Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter - Microsoft
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/18/inside-the-worlds-most-powerful-ai-datacenter/

#ai #microsoft #msftadvocate #datacenters

Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter - The Official Microsoft Blog

This week we have introduced a wave of purpose-built datacenters and infrastructure investments we are making around the world to support the global adoption of cutting-edge AI workloads and cloud services. Today in Wisconsin we introduced Fairwater, our newest US AI datacenter, the largest and most sophisticated AI factory we’ve built yet. In addition to...

The Official Microsoft Blog
kurtshFeb 7

I did. But that's just me.

☑️ 625 Billion Reasons to Buy the Dip in Microsoft Stock Right Now | The Motley Fool
https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/02/03/625-billion-reasons-to-buy-the-dip-in-microsoft-st/
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625 Billion Reasons to Buy the Dip in Microsoft Stock Right Now | The Motley Fool

Microsoft stock is getting hammered following its recent earnings report.

The Motley Fool
kurtshAug 4, 2025
Microsoft Is an AI Darling, but Its Core Businesses Are Booming Too: Company’s non-AI businesses, including productivity software and cloud computing, are going strong
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft-is-an-ai-darling-but-its-core-businesses-are-booming-too-2213126f
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kurtshJul 31, 2025

"The closely watched Azure division posted a 39% rise in sales during Microsoft’s fiscal fourth quarter, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Analysts projected a 34% increase."

✅ Microsoft Surges on Robust Cloud Growth, Record AI Spending - Bloomberg
https://archive.ph/iRBHg
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kurtshJul 31, 2025
"Azure surpassed $75 billion in revenue, up 34 percent, driven by growth across all workloads."

✅ Microsoft Releases FY25 Q4 Earnings Report
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2025-Q4/press-release-webcast

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kurtshJul 31, 2025
"It’s just the magnitude of upside that has shocked many here.”

✅ Microsoft climbs to $4 trillion in after-hours trading on blowout earnings | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2025/07/30/microsoft-earnings-blowout-fourth-quarter-4-trillion-market-cap-ai/

(Archive https://archive.ph/jfqZ9)
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Microsoft climbs to $4 trillion in after-hours trading on blowout earnings

"In our largest quarter of the year, we significantly exceeded expectations," CEO Satya Nadella said.

Fortune
kurtshJul 31, 2025
Microsoft Backs Up A.I. Spending With $27.2 Billion Quarterly Profit: The company’s results are likely to ease investors’ worries that big investments in artificial intelligence aren’t paying off - NYTimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/technology/microsoft-earnings-ai-data-centers.html
(Archive https://archive.ph/u61FD)
#Microsoft #msftadvocate #ai
Microsoft Backs Up A.I. Spending With $27.2 Billion Quarterly Profit

The company’s results are likely to ease investors’ worries that big investments in artificial intelligence aren’t paying off.

The New York Times
kurtshJul 31, 2025
Microsoft Backs Up A.I. Spending With $27.2 Billion Quarterly Profit: The company’s results are likely to ease investors’ worries that big investments in artificial intelligence aren’t paying off - NYTimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/technology/microsoft-earnings-ai-data-centers.html
(Archive https://archive.ph/u61FD)
#Microsoft #msftadvocate #ai
Microsoft Backs Up A.I. Spending With $27.2 Billion Quarterly Profit

The company’s results are likely to ease investors’ worries that big investments in artificial intelligence aren’t paying off.

The New York Times
kurtshJun 11, 2025

Wow. I remember when $MSFT was $8/share. But AI is just "slop" & has no value, right? 🙄

✅ NEWS: Hottest Job in Corporate America? Executive in Charge of A.I.
https://kurtsh.com/2024/04/18/news-hottest-job-in-corporate-america-the-executive-in-charge-of-a-i/

✅ INFO: UK Microsoft 365 Copilot Experiment Findings Report
https://kurtsh.com/2025/06/10/info-uk-microsoft-365-copilot-experiment-findings-report/
#msftadvocate #alltimehigh