White House to meet Microsoft, Google CEOs on AI threats

Thursday’s meeting will be attended by Google’s Sundar Pichai, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, as well as Vice President Kamala Harris and administration officials including Biden’s chief of staff Jeff Zients, national security adviser Jake Sullivan Lail, director of the National Economic Council. Brainard and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. Before […]

Microsoft to invest more in OpenAI as tech race heats up

Microsoft Corp on Monday announced another multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI, deepening ties with the startup behind chatbot sensation ChatGPT and setting the stage for more competition with rival Alphabet Inc’s Google. Recently claiming a revolution in artificial intelligence (AI), Microsoft is building on a bet it made on OpenAI nearly four years ago, when […]

Microsoft will expand ChatGPT reach as OpenAI investment rumors swirl

Public interest in OpenAI has grown since the release in November of ChatGPT, a text-based chatbot that can compose prose, poetry or even draft computer code on command. ChatGPT is powered by generative artificial intelligence, which adds new content after training on massive amounts of data — technology that Microsoft is letting more customers apply […]

Video gamers sue Microsoft in US court to stop Activision takeover

The private lawsuit also seeks an injunction preventing Microsoft from acquiring Activision. It was filed on behalf of 10 video game players in California, New Mexico and New Jersey. The proposed acquisition would give Microsoft “far-reaching market power in the video game industry,” the complaint alleges, “by limiting competitors, limiting production, reducing consumer choice, raising […]