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Microsoft’s artificial intelligence researchers on Tuesday announced VASA-1, a model capable of generating impressive deepfakes with extremely little data. Though the tool ostensibly exists to create “virtual characters,” it was trained on real people’s images and voice audio, raising questions about its potential role in an internet increasingly rife with …

Microsoft Copilot is spreading through all the company’s products, but under the hood, it’s just a version of OpenAI’s GPT AI models. That means not all copilots are created equal. Depending on your subscription status and where you’re talking to Copilot, you might get a more capable AI model. Microsoft …

Web browsers sucking up precious resources from our computers is not a new phenomenon. Still, now Microsoft has one weird trick to fix a situation that has bedeviled PC users for ages. In the latest test build of its Edge browser, the company is letting users set a hard limit …

The world is moving toward renewable energy, but progress has been slow. Part of the problem is that power sources like wind and solar are inconsistent, and battery technology isn’t advanced enough to smooth it out. Developing new battery materials is a tedious process, but scientists at the Department of …

The smartphone version of Microsoft’s web browser is no longer Edge on Mobile—it’s Microsoft Edge: AI Browser. Though the app’s functionality is the same (for now), both the iOS and Android versions of Edge now feature a name that places AI at the browser’s center. The change comes just days …

You can’t even blink without Microsoft rolling out yet another way to interact with its new AI tools. The Bing search engine is now built around conversational AI, Windows has an AI Copilot, and now even your Android phone can get in on the fun. Microsoft has quietly released an …

Microsoft has sunk billions of dollars into AI software, building out its Azure virtual machine infrastructure and rolling ChatGPT into products like Bing and SwiftKey. In 2019, reports surfaced that Microsoft was moving into AI hardware, designing a chip purpose-built for AI. Now, The Information reports that engineering samples of …

Search Engine Land » PPC » Microsoft wants to drive more traffic, revenue to publishers “The value proposition that we see for publishers specifically as we go forward is driving more traffic and clicks—not less—and ensuring that publishers and partners earn more money.” That’s according to new Corporate Vice President …

Search Engine Land » PPC » Microsoft Ads introduces PLA Extensions PLA Extensions are the first fully integrated retail media solution from Microsoft allowing brands to serve product ads both onsite and offsite with a single budget while automatically optimizing for the best balance of performance and reach. How it …

Microsoft has fixed a data loss issue within the Bing Webmaster Tools API that resulted in a week of missing data. That data has now been backfilled and restored and can now be accessed through the Bing Webmaster Tools API. The dates. The Bing Webmaster Tools API stopped showing data …