Microsoft became focused on shipping AI tools more quickly than its rivals Members of the ethics and society team said they generally tried to be supportive of product development. But they said that as Microsoft became focused on shipping AI tools more quickly than its rivals, the company’s ...
Written by Matt Milano Tuesday, July 14, 2020 Microsoft is continuing its shift to AI for its MSN editorial team, laying off additional personnel months after its initial layoffs. Several weeks ago, Microsoftlaid offroughly 50 contractors working for the company’s MSN property. The contractors ...
As part of this process, we have made the painful decision to reduce the size of our gaming workforce by approximately 1900 roles out of the 22,000 people on our team. The Gaming Leadership Team and I are committed to navigating this process as thoughtfully as possible. The people who are...
Tom Warrenis a senior editor and author ofNotepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is laying off dozens of journalists and editorial workers at its Microsoft News and MSN organizations. The layoffs are part of a bigger push by Microsoft ...
Amazon, Google and Microsoft have laid off at least 27,000, 12,000 and 16,000 employees, respectively, since 2022. However, in that same roughly three-year period, the companies have secured at least 61,000 H-1B visas combined for foreign workers, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immig...
The Personal Data Act requires duty of care, a defined purpose for processing personal data, and exclusivity of purpose, and it lays out general prerequisites for processing, data quality, and documentation of the data processing. Processing of sensitive data (special categories of data) is ...
Today, we routinely use Counterfit as part of our AI red team operations. Based on learnings from internal and external engagements, Counterfit is designed to be flexible in three key ways: 1. Environment agnostic: It can help assess AI models hosted in any cloud environment, on- premises, ...
It’s also a first step toward making the next generation of very large AI models and the infrastructure needed to train them available as a platform for other organizations and developers to build upon. “The exciting thing about these models is the breadth of things they’re going to enable...
Microsoft has built one of the top five publicly disclosed supercomputers in the world, with new infrastructure available to train very large AI models.
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