I played around with the new OpenaAI-powered Bing features, including better answers and chat. It was pretty adept at restaurant recommendations but I'd hold off looking to it for political information or a definitive view of Stalin: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-08/microsoft-s-new-search-with-openai-chat-technology-debuts-with-hits-misses
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Brad SamsThe investment in 2019 may go down as one of their best ever...up there with Google buying Youtube.
That being said, Microsoft won't ever own OpenAI, so it's a bit more complex over the decades to come but for now, it's a big win for the org.
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OpenAI announces a "multi-year, multi-billion dollar" investment from Microsoft, following 2019 and 2021 investments, to build "safe, useful, and powerful" AI (@dinabass / Bloomberg…
https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1617527493375975424
Runa SandvikA @[email protected] investigation found that pharmacies selling abortion pills share sensitive data with Google and other third-parties, similar to what @[email protected] uncovered last summer. https://www.propublica.org/article/websites-selling-abortion-pills-share-sensitive-data-with-google
Microsoft to slash 10,000 jobs starting today and over the current quarter. Will take $1.2 billion charge: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-18/microsoft-to-eliminate-10-000-jobs-or-5-of-workforce-as-tech-slump-deepens
ChatGPT is coming to Azure OpenAI cloud service "soon," says Microsoft in a blog post (no info in said post about that whole other Microsoft-OpenAI thing) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-17/microsoft-azure-to-add-chatgpt-to-cloud-services
I took a look at the rising tide of questions around ownership, authorship and art being generated by generative AI for Bloomberg Businessweek's Year Ahead Issue: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-09/github-s-openai-powered-copilot-sparks-legal-debate?srnd=businessweek-v2
Our story confirming Semafor scoop that Microsoft is in talks for an investment of up to $10 billion in OpenAI: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-10/microsoft-weighs-10-billion-chatgpt-investment-semafor-says
Confirmed the Information scoop that Microsoft and OpenAI are working to add ChatGPT to Bing. But how and when it gets released depends not just on implementing it but on the accuracy of ChatGPT for search questions, source tells us: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-04/microsoft-hopes-openai-s-chatbot-will-make-bing-smarter
JeffStonepro-Ukrainian hackers are assembling a "Book of Executioners" to catalog alleged Russian war crimes.
Kyiv is also using facial recognition and mobile surveillance tech to track Russian troops' movements.
Major telecom companies like AT&T, as well as Amazon and Intel have restarted giving to election deniers after a post-Jan 6 pause a Bloomberg analysis of donations shows. Other companies like Microsoft, Meta and Google stuck to pledges not to contribute to those who voted against certifying Biden's election, but backed other candidates who cast doubt on the election: https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-14/at-t-comcast-amazon-among-companies-giving-to-election-deniers-again by Emily Birnbaum and me
