Sources: OpenAI has been slow to expand in-app checkouts for ChatGPT as the startup and its partners Shopify and Stripe struggle to standardize merchant data
OpenAI's efforts to turn ChatGPT into a go-to personal shopper are off to a slow start. — Challenges with wrangling product data mean …
Microsoft debuts Copilot Checkout in the US, enabling in-chat purchases via PayPal, Shopify, Stripe, and more; Shopify merchants will be automatically enrolled
Microsoft is beginning to roll out its first agentic experiences within Copilot, it's AI answer engine.
Satya Nadella hands off some of his duties to Judson Althoff, who will become CEO of Microsoft's commercial business, so that he can focus on technical work
Microsoft Corp. is giving its longtime sales chief oversight of marketing and operations in a reorganization designed to free …
OpenAI and Microsoft say they “signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding for the next phase of our partnership”, and are working to finalize the terms
OpenAI and Microsoft said Thursday they have reached preliminary terms on a revised partnership and are “actively working to finalize” a definitive agreement.
Microsoft unveils Dragon Copilot, a voice-activated AI assistant for doctors combining Dragon dictation tool Medical One and ambient listening tool DAX Copilot
a game-changing AI tool designed to lessen administrative burden for doctors Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Microsoft's New Dragon Copilot Brings AI to Healthcare Documentation...
Microsoft hires Carolina Dybeck Happe as its executive vice president and COO; Dybeck Happe was previously the CFO at GE
Microsoft told employees on Thursday that it has hired Carolina Dybeck Happe as its executive vice president and chief operating officer, reporting to CEO Satya Nadella.
Microsoft estimates that CrowdStrike's update affected 8.5M Windows devices, or less than 1% of all Windows machines
On July 18, CrowdStrike, an independent cybersecurity company, released a software update that began impacting IT systems globally. Although this was not a Microsoft incident …
Microsoft and Oracle expand their cloud partnership with Oracle Database@Azure, letting customers run Oracle workloads natively in Azure data centers
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Microsoft and Oracle expand their cloud partnership with Oracle Database@Azure, letting customers run Oracle workloads natively in Azure data centers
The new level of collaboration reflects how technology and customer demand have fostered more cooperation among software companies
Epic Systems partners with Microsoft to use Azure OpenAI Service, including GPT-4, to help automate some processes in Epic's electronic health record software
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Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 Copilot, which will bring OpenAI's GPT-4 to Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and its other Office apps in the coming months
here's how Sohini Bagchi / TechCircle : Microsoft adds next-gen AI to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more with Microsoft 365 Copilot Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : Microsoft 365 Copilot in...
Microsoft invests in OpenAI, a source says totaling $10B over many years, after 2019 and 2021 investments, to build “increasingly safe, useful, and powerful” AI
Source: CEO Satya Nadella voiced concerns for years that Microsoft was slow to commercialize its AI research; in 2022, its researchers said rivals seemed ahead
For more than a decade, Microsoft Research, the company's in-house research group, has touted artificial intelligence breakthroughs …
OpenAI announces an investment by Microsoft, a source says totalling $10B over years, after 2019 and 2021 investments, to build “safe, useful, and powerful” AI
Microsoft Corp. is making a $10 billion investment over several years in OpenAI, the creator of the artificial …
AT&T plans to sell its Xandr programmatic advertising marketplace to Microsoft; the deal would not include the ad sales business supporting DirecTV
Was one of the most botched and mismanaged assets I've ever covered — Deal likely came in under $1 billion — Xandr brings in roughly $300-$380m in revenue annually and loses betwee...
Microsoft acquires Ally, whose software helps companies track and hit their goals; PitchBook: Ally was last valued at $345M after its $50M Series C in February
Microsoft has acquired Ally, a 3-year-old Seattle-based startup that helps companies track and hit their goals. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Microsoft debuts Microsoft 365 updates, including tools for developers to integrate deeper into Teams, Graph updates, and Outlook message extensions on the web
Microsoft today announced a number of improvements across Microsoft 365, its line of subscription services offered as a part of Microsoft Office.
Microsoft, an investor in OpenAI, says it's now using the GPT-3 model in its low-code Power Apps service to translate natural language text into code
Microsoft, Accenture, GitHub, ThoughtWorks, and Linux Foundation launch the Green Software Foundation, aiming to make software engineering more sustainable
Electric autonomous vehicle startup Cruise raises $2B at a $30B valuation from Microsoft, GM, Honda, and others
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