Tag: Microsoft
Vodafone, Microsoft team up for major AI push
Vodafone Group has struck a ten-year partnership deal with Microsoft to bring generative AI and cloud expertise to more than 300 million businesses, public...
Microsoft displaces Apple as the world’s most valuable company
Microsoft overtook Apple as the world’s most valuable company on Thursday after the iPhone maker began 2024 with its worst start in years due...
MTN, Tomorrow.io, Microsoft to provide early warning weather reports in Africa
On the sidelines of COP 28, weather intelligence and climate adaptation leader Tomorrow.io, and MTN Group, Africa’s largest mobile operator, leveraging a Microsoft Azure...
Microsoft roped into copyright lawsuit against OpenAI
A new lawsuit from an author whose work was used to train OpenAI‘s artificial intelligence model spotlights the company’s partnership with Microsoft to create...
Sam Altman returns to OpenAI as CEO, as his ousters get...
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has reached an agreement for Sam Altman to return as CEO days after his ouster, capping frenzied discussions about the future of...
Microsoft ready to absorb OpenAI employees with same compensation
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on Tuesday offered to match compensation for the hundreds of employees at OpenAI who are threatening to resign following Sam...
Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
Microsoft is hiring former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman.Altman was fired from OpenAI on Friday, after the board said it “no...
Microsoft slapped with $29 billion tax bill
Microsoft said the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in September notified the company that it is seeking an additional tax payment of US$28.9-billion, plus...
$69 billion Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal cleared by Britain
Britain has finally cleared Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard on Friday after it forced the Xbox owner to sell the streaming rights to...
12 African startups picked for Microsoft-backed FAST Accelerator program
Flapmax, a prominent data and AI technology company, has unveiled the twelve startups selected for the second cohort of the Microsoft-backed FAST Accelerator program.This...