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Microsoft unveils new voice-activated AI assistant for doctors
Microsoft is giving its health-care artificial intelligence tools a makeover. The company on Monday unveiled a new voice-activated AI assistant that combines capabilities from its dictation solution, Dragon Medical One, and ambient listening solution, DAX Copilot, into one tool. “Dragon Copilot” will be able to help doctors quickly pull information from medical sources and automatically […]
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Reported global Microsoft outage leaves tens of thousands unable to access email and other apps
A Microsoft store in New York, US, on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tens of thousands of users were unable to access various Microsoft programs on Saturday afternoon. “We’re investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Outlook features and services,” Microsoft 365 Status, the official […]
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Microsoft is shutting down Skype after a 21-year run. Here’s how it lost out to video call rivals
Kelly Harris of San Jose, leans over to kiss the web cam as she says her goodbye to Brian Johnson, her brother stationed in Japan, at the end of their video phone call via Skype in San Jose, Calif. on Nov. 25, 2009. Lea Suzuki | San Francisco Chronicle | Hearst Newspapers | Getty Images […]
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Nvidia bounced from the $3 trillion market cap club after shares fall more than 8%
Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., during the opening ceremony of a Siliconware Precision Industries Co. plant in Taichung, Taiwan, Jan. 16, 2025. An Rong Xu | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia is out, leaving Apple as the sole member of the $3 trillion club. The chipmaker’s shares slumped more than […]
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House Judiciary Committee subpoenas Alphabet, Meta, other tech giants over ‘foreign censorship’ of speech
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is interviewed by FOX and Friends at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sent subpoenas to eight technology companies asking for more information about their communications with foreign governments over concerns that they seek to “censor […]
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Meta plans to release standalone Meta AI app in effort to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc., arrives for the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta AI will soon become one of the social media company’s standalone apps, joining Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, CNBC has learned. The company intends to debut […]
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OpenAI launching GPT-4.5, its next general-purpose large language model
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during an interview at Bloomberg House on the opening day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI on Thursday announced the research preview of GPT-4.5, a general-purpose large language model. It will initially be […]
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Snowflake surges 13% on earnings beat as company expands AI push
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Snowflake shares popped more than 13% Thursday after the data analytics software company posted stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter results. The company reported adjusted earnings of 30 cents per share on $987 million in revenue, surpassing the 17 cents per share and $956 million in sales expected by analysts polled by […]
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Amazon touts its first quantum computing chip a week after Microsoft’s unveiling
Amazon on Thursday revealed its first chip for quantum computing, and said the design is a step toward building efficient high-scale systems. The processor is called Ocelot, and the announcement comes as more tech companies tout their advancements in quantum. Last week, Amazon cloud rival Microsoft showed off its inaugural quantum chip. Microsoft had a […]
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Nvidia reports fourth-quarter earnings after the bell
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holds a Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series GPU (L) and a RTX 5000 laptop as he delivers a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 6, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty Images Nvidia reports fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the bell. […]
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