Category: Microsoft
Jeffrey Epstein threatened billionaire Bill Gates over ‘secret affair’
PAEDO Jeffrey Epstein threatened Bill Gates over the tycoon’s alleged affair with a bridge player. Epstein is said to have wanted the Microsoft founder to be part of a multi-billion-dollar charitable fund and implied that unless he got involved he would reveal his infidelity. Jeffrey Epstein tried to blackmail Bill Gates after he heard about the billionaire’s alleged affairAP YouTube Bill Gates allegedly had an…
Amazon is slashing 9,000 more workers amid a layoff wave that has expanded past tech to include bellwethers like Dow...
Newsbreak 2 months ago in 3m, Affirm, Alphabet, Amazon, Andy Jassy, Around The World, Arvind Krishna, bdg, Bob Iger, brian armstrong, Business Visual Features, Capital One, Coinbase, Compass, Daniel Ek, Dell, Disney, DocuSign, Dow, Dow Inc, Features, FedEx, Finance, GoDaddy, Goldman Sachs, Google, IBM, Intel, Layoffs, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, Microsoft, News, PayPal, Retail, Rivian, Salesforce, SAP, Satya Nadella, Splunk, Spotify, Stitch Fix, Tech Insider, Vimeo, Visual Features, Wayfair, WeWork, Yahoo, Zoom 0 In a memo sent to employees on Monday, Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy said the company would be eliminating 9,000 positions from its ranks. Mike Blake/Reuters Amazon, Meta, and Twitter employees are the latest to be hit by a wave of layoffs. Over the past few months, layoffs have expanded outside of tech, media, and finance as Dow and 3M announced cuts. See the full list…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said voice assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Cortana were ‘dumb as a rock’
Newsbreak 3 months ago in Alexa, Around The World, Artificial Intelligence, Chatbot, ChatGPT, Microsoft, News, Satya Nadella, Siri, Tech Insider, Trending UK 0 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said voice assistants like Siri, Cortana and Alexa ‘just don’t work.’ Brad Barket/Getty Images Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella said voice assistants like Siri and Alexa were “dumb as a rock.” His comments come as excitement around generative AI has reached a fever pitch. Microsoft has poured more than $10 billion into ChatGPT’s creator OpenAI. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called the first…
Gary Vaynerchuk compares the rise of AI like ChatGPT to the way the internet revolutionized work: ‘AI is coming for...
Newsbreak 3 months ago in AI, Around The World, artificial intellegence, automation, Bard, ChatGPT, Economy, Google, labor shortage, Microsoft, Workers 0 Entrepreneur and internet character Gary Vaynerchuk is optimistic that employees will survive the rise of AI, though some consultants are more ambivalent. Eric Gaillard/Reuters Gary Vaynerchuk predicts that AI software program like ChatGPT will eradicate many jobs. He’s optimistic about employees’ potential to rally and adapt to AI, or create new roles. That’s been true to an extent about earlier varieties of automation, however AI…
Microsoft is using ChatGPT to teach robots how to get you a soda and warm up your lunch
Newsbreak 3 months ago in Around The World, ChatGPT, Microsoft, OpenAI, Satya Nadella, Tech Insider 0 Microsoft’s researchers think about a day when people can provide directions to at-home robots using ChatGPT. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Microsoft is testing what occurs when ChatGPT takes management of small robots. Researchers at Microsoft think about a day when people can provide directions like “heat up my lunch” to at-home robots. Though the corporate cautions that the tech should not be deployed with out “careful…
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates says the rise of AI poses a threat to Google’s search engine profit
Newsbreak 3 months ago in AI, Around The World, Artificial Intelligence, Bill Gates, Bing, ChatGPT, Google, Microsoft, News, Tech, Tech Insider, Tech News 0 Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates said AI is the “biggest thing in this decade” Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Bill Gates said in a podcast Google’s search engine earnings might fall as Microsoft strikes into AI. Gates said AI is the “biggest thing in this decade” and will reshuffle the tech house. Microsoft unveiled an AI-powered Bing in a problem to Google’s search engine dominance. Bill Gates —…
Uber is cutting some employees as part of a ‘more rigorous strategy’ to performance reviews
Newsbreak 3 months ago in Around The World, Google, Job Cuts, Meta, Microsoft, News, Tech Insider, Transportation, Uber 0 Dara Khosrowshahi, Chief Executive Officer, Uber, speaks onstage through the 2021 Concordia Annual Summit on September 22, 2021 in New York City. A consultant for Uber told Insider the corporate is conducting “even more rigorous” performance reviews this year. Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Concordia Summit Uber is conducting “even more rigorous” performance reviews this year, a consultant told Insider. The firm plans to backfill the…
End of an period: Microsoft officially retires Internet Explorer
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — This Valentine’s Day did not show like to those that experienced the early levels of the world extensive net. As of Tuesday, Microsoft has officially disabled Internet Explorer for desktops, the tech company announced. The browser was initially launched in 1995 for Windows units. Internet Explorer had a complete of 11 variations, with the last one being released in 2013….
The AI arms race is on. Are regulators prepared?
Newsbreak 4 months ago in Around The World, Artificial Intelligence, Bing, ChatGPT, Finance, Google, Microsoft, Technology 0 The race amongst tech corporations to roll out generative synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments is elevating considerations about how errors in know-how and blindspots in regulation might hasten the unfold of misinformation, elevate biases in outcomes and enhance the harvesting and use of Americans’ private information. So far tech giants Microsoft and Google are main the race in releasing new AI instruments to the general public, however smaller corporations and startups are…
Microsoft’s new Bing refused to wax lyrical about Trump and Biden, as creative content for such ‘influential’ politicians could be...
Newsbreak 4 months ago in AI, Around The World, Artificial Intelligence, Bing, ChatGPT, Microsoft, News, Politics, Tech, Tech Insider 0 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Tuesday it is important to develop AI that’s “more aligned with human values, more aligned with what our preferences are.” Sean Gallup/Getty Images Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing refused to write optimistic or detrimental poems about Donald Trump and Joe Biden. It said producing creative content about “influential” politicians could be seen as biased or disrespectful. This contrasts with ChatGPT, which…
Bill and Melinda Gates: Here’s a look inside their 27-year marriage, from meeting at work, to spending $45 billion on...
Newsbreak 4 months ago in Around The World, BI Innovation, BI Select, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Couple, Features, Finance, Life, marriage, Melinda Gates, Microsoft, Relationship, Strategy, Tech Insider 0 Bill and Melinda gates are splitting up, the Microsoft co-founder announced on Monday. Scott Olson/Getty Images Bill Gates, the founding father of Microsoft, announced he and his spouse, Melinda, divorced in 2021. Gates married Melinda French in 1994 after the 2 met at work. The two ran the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which had an endowment of $49.8 billion in 2019. Bill and Melinda Gates…
I asked Microsoft’s ‘new Bing’ to write me a cover letter for a job. It refused, saying this would be...
Newsbreak 4 months ago in AI, Around The World, Artificial Intelligence, Bing, Chatbot, ChatGPT, Microsoft, News, Tech Insider 0 Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing search engine comes with ChatGPT powers. I examined it out by asking it to write me a cover letter for a job. But it refused, saying it would be “unethical” to accomplish that. But gave me ideas for writing one and even added a “Good luck! 😊” The rise of synthetic intelligence powered…
Microsoft is giving Google the kick in the butt it’s needed for years
Newsbreak 4 months ago in AI, Analysis, Around The World, Bing, ChatGPT, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Search, Search Engine, Tech Insider 0 Microsoft Satya Nadella is lobbing a warning shot throughout Google’s bow with the firm’s funding in OpenAI — and its use in the Bing search engine. REUTERS:Shannon Stapleton Microsoft announced an OpenAI-powered Bing update that brings some much-needed innovation to go looking. Win or lose, Microsoft is giving Google the kick in the rear end it’s needed for a long time. Competition is finally good…
These 6 CEOs are taking pay cuts to prevent more layoffs and fight tough times as industrywide reductions persist
Newsbreak 4 months ago in Alphabet, Apple, Around The World, Business Visual Features, Careers, Features, Goldman Sachs, Google, Intel, JP Morgan, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, News, pay cuts, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook, weekend BI US 0 Apple CEO Tim Cook. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Chief executives are more and more opting to take pay cuts off their multi-million annual compensation. The reductions come amid financial hardship throughout industries, main to mass layoffs. Here are 6 CEOs who’ve decreased their salaries, from Tim Cook to David Solomon. Apple CEO Tim Cook Cook at Code in 2022. Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Vox Media Apple CEO Tim…
Inside world’s quietest room so silent you can hear your own BONES grind – visitors can’t stand more than an...
WHILE you might have contemplated the interior workings of your physique, listening to each heartbeat could also be going overboard. But a whole lot of daredevils nonetheless flock to Microsoft‘s anechoic chamber to hear to every grind, crunch and squeak our skeletons make. The world’s quietest room is positioned at Microsoft’s headquarters in Washington Visitors can hear each sound their physique makes contained in the…
Microsoft plans to start using AI tech to write emails for salespeople, and it’s not hard to see why
Newsbreak 4 months ago in Analysis, Around The World, ChatGPT, Emails, insider news, Microsoft, News, OpenAI, Tech, viva sales 0 Microsoft said on Thursday that it plans to use OpenAI know-how to assist customers write their emails. Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Microsoft plans to use synthetic intelligence from ChatGPT maker OpenAI to write emails for people. The firm says its analysis exhibits that 66% of a vendor’s day is spent managing emails. Insider examined ChatGPT to see the way it offers with a…
Amazon employees are already using ChatGPT for software coding. They also found the AI chatbot can answer tricky AWS customer...
Newsbreak 4 months ago in AI, Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Around The World, Artificial Intelligence, AWS, Chatbots, ChatGPT, Enterprise, Machine Learning, Microsoft, OpenAI, Retail, Tech Insider 0 People tour the Amazon Spheres throughout a gap occasion at Amazon’s Seattle HQ, January 29, 2018. LINDSEY WASSON/Reuters Amazon employees are using ChatGPT in quite a few other ways, inner Slack messages present. ChatGPT was capable of answer AWS customer questions and write training paperwork. It wasn’t so spectacular in creating an “epic rap battle.” Amazon employees are shortly discovering ChatGPT‘s huge potential as a…
Microsoft is selling the Xbox Series S for $50 off for Black Friday
Newsbreak 6 months ago in Around The World, Black Friday, Black Friday & Cyber Monday (Reviews), Black Friday 2022, Cyber Monday, Deals, Deals (Reviews), Gaming, Holiday, Holidays, Insider Picks, Insider Reviews 2022, IP Deals, Microsoft, product card, proudct card, Reviews, Tech (Reviews), Tech Insider, Xbox, Xbox Series S 0 When you purchase by way of our hyperlinks, Insider might earn an affiliate fee. Learn more. Microsoft; Insider If you’ve got been on the hunt for the best Black Friday gaming deals, this is an enormous one: Microsoft is dropping the worth of the Xbox Series S for the holidays, providing it for solely $250. This is $50 cheaper than its common worth of $300….
See every stock trade House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, has made since 2021
Newsbreak 6 months ago in Alphabet, American Express, Apple, Around The World, Conflicted Congress, Congress, Disney, Google, INSIDER Data, Investing, Josh Hawley, Markets, Micron, Microsoft, Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi stocks, nVidia, Paul Pelosi, PayPal, Politics, politics enterprise, Roblox, Salesforce, Slack, Stock Act, Stocks, Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, Tesla, Visa, Walt Disney, Walt Disney Co. 0 Paul Pelosi and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in 2021. Samuel Corum/AFP/Getty Images Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband is making huge stock trades as Congress mulls whether or not to ban lawmakers and their spouses from buying and selling. An Insider evaluation estimated the Pelosis’ cumulative wealth at no less than $46.1 million. Insider compiled every of Paul Pelosi’s trades that the speaker has reported since 2021….
Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen’s art collection just fetched a record $1.5 billion at public sale, and there’s still more on...
Newsbreak 7 months ago in Around The World, Art, Artworks, Auction, Business Visual Features, Christie's, Features, Life, Microsoft, Paul Allen, Tech Insider 0 Steve Granitz/WireImage / CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2022 More than 150 items of art owned by late Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen have gone up for public sale. In the first of two days on the public sale block, 60 items fetched over $1.5 billion, setting a record for the most precious non-public collection sale of all time. The artworks come from the likes of van Gogh,…
An auction of 60 works from the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s art collection smashes records by raising $1.5 billion
Newsbreak 7 months ago in Around The World, Art, Auction, Microsoft, Paul Allen, Retail, Weekend BI UK 0 Georges Seurat’s “Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version)” fetched virtually $150 million. Christie’s An auction of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s art collection raised simply over $1.5 billion. The Christie’s auction has set a brand new document as the largest art sale in historical past. The most costly work was Georges Seurat’s “Les Poseuses,” which offered for nearly $150 million. An auction of 60 artworks from…
Welcome to the Big Tech reckoning
Newsbreak 7 months ago in Amazon, Around The World, Elon Musk, Facebook, insider weekly, Meta, Microsoft, Newsletter, Twitter 0 Hi, I’m Matt Turner, the editor in chief of enterprise at Insider. Welcome again to Insider Weekly, a roundup of a few of our prime tales. On the agenda right now: Young Silicon Valley staff are in for a rude awakening. Meet 26 standout artistic execs at Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon, and more. LoveShackFancy constructed a dreamworld. But the fantasy was impossible to live up…
Tech companies like Amazon and Meta are warning of tough times ahead — and only some are prepared
Newsbreak 7 months ago in Alphabet, Amazon, Analysis, Apple, Around The World, Google, Microsoft, News, Tech Insider, Tech stocks 0 Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Paul Morigi/Getty Images Tech shares obtained battered this week after earnings studies signaled uneven waters ahead. While Apple is a “bright spot,” Meta, Alphabet, and others are in for a tough few months, analysts say. Still, these corporations are higher outfitted to climate it than Meta, which must refocus on its core enterprise, in response to analysts. …
More than $3.2 trillion has been wiped off tech giants’ value this year as inflation soars and a recession looms
The greatest tech shares have misplaced $300 billion in value this previous week. Rachel Mendelson/Insider The greatest tech shares have shed about $3.2 trillion in value this year. The market cap of “GAMMA” shares is down by extra than $300 billion this previous week. The results of inflation and indicators of a doable recession have hit corporations’ earnings and outlook. The value of a few…
Tech earnings just flopped. From Amazon to Meta and Microsoft, here are the biggest takeaways
Newsbreak 7 months ago in Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Around The World, Big Tech, Earnings, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Markets, Meta, MI Exclusive, Microsoft, Tech 0 reklamlar/Getty Images Tech heavyweights like Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft flopped this previous week, whereas Apple reported blended outcomes. Experts clarify the obstacles in entrance of Big Tech, and what the takeaways from earnings are. “It’s clear that there are headwinds for the industry after a period of unsustainable growth coming out of the pandemic.” Big Tech corporations like Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, and Apple just…
Big Tech is getting wiped out in a brutal 3rd-quarter earnings season – but Apple is not. Here’s why.
Newsbreak 7 months ago in Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Around The World, Big Tech, Digital Advertising, Facebook, Federal Reserve, Google, Inflation, iPhone, Markets, Meta, MI Exclusive, Microsoft, Monetary Policy, Netflix, Q3 Earnings, Recession, Social Media, Stocks, Tech stocks 0 Apple CEO Tim Cook. Getty Big Tech shares have plunged this week on the again of disappointing quarterly earnings. Apple inventory was spared as a result of the iPhone maker’s outcomes beat analysts’ forecasts. The shopper-electronics large might have been saved by its model energy and rich buyer base. Lackluster earnings from a few of America’s largest expertise corporations have led to tons of of…
Xbox boss says that the current metaverse is a ‘poorly built video game’ and is ‘not how I want to...
Newsbreak 7 months ago in Around The World, Entertainment, Media, Metaverse, Microsoft, News, Phil Spencer, Tech Insider, Video Games, Xbox 0 Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft’s Xbox Division Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Xbox chief Phil Spencer compared the metaverse to a “poorly built video game” and a “living room.” He said it’s “not how I want to spend my time” at a conference on Wednesday. But he added that the metaverse is in “the early stage” and would “evolve.” Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft’s Xbox, isn’t a…
Mega-cap tech stocks are poised to drop as earnings for giants like Alphabet and Meta have left investors ‘screaming for...
Newsbreak 7 months ago in Alphabet, Around The World, Big Tech, Earnings, Facebook, Google, Markets, Mega Caps, Meta, MI Exclusive, Microsoft, New York Stock Exchange, Stock Market Outlook, Tech stocks 0 REUTERS/Dario Cantatore/NYSE Euronext Mega-cap stocks could see a valuation reset aa Meta and Alphabet earnings have disappointed, an analyst said. Tech giants are seeing less advertising revenue, but traditional ad agencies haven’t been hit as hard, suggesting industry-specific troubles. The New York Stock Exchange’s senior market strategist explained how the market could react to tech earnings. Big Tech stocks have stumbled this week after reporting…
US stocks trade mixed as hotly anticipated mega-cap tech earnings get off to a weak start
Newsbreak 7 months ago in Alphabet, Around The World, Big Tech, market wrap, Markets, MI Exclusive, Microsoft, stock market news, Tech Earnings 0 Traders work on the New York Stock Exchange floor in New York City. AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey US stocks were mixed on Wednesday as investors digested weak third-quarter earnings from Microsoft and Alphabet. Google’s parent company suffered an unexpected slowdown in digital advertising growth last quarter. Microsoft, meanwhile, reported its slowest revenue growth in years. US stocks opened mixed on Wednesday as investors sifted through weaker-than-expected…
Nasdaq falls after Alphabet’s earnings miss ignites worries about Big Tech’s digital ad sales
Newsbreak 7 months ago in Alphabet, Alphabet earnings, Alphabet Stock, Around The World, Google, Investing Analysis, Investing Outlook, Investing Strategy, Markets, MI Exclusive, Microsoft, Microsoft earnings, Microsoft stock, Stock Market Analysis, Stock Market Outlook, Stock Market Strategy, Stocks 0 Disappointing earnings reports by Alphabet and Microsoft dragged Nasdaq futures lower Wednesday. REUTERS/Eric Thayer Nasdaq stock futures fell 1.5% in premarket Wednesday after Alphabet missed on earnings and revenue. YouTube’s first-ever drop in ad revenue helped spark worries for 3Q Big Tech financial results this week. Meta and Amazon fell as the worries weighed on techs, while Microsoft slid post-earnings. Stocks on the Nasdaq fell…