Microsoft announces new health-care AI tools

Microsoft announces new health-care AI tools

Microsoft on Thursday announced new health-care data and artificial intelligence tools, including a collection of medical imaging models, a health-care agent service and an automated documentation solution for nurses.  The tools aim to help health-care organizations build AI applications quicker and save clinicians time on administrative tasks, a major cause of industry burnout. Nurses spend … Read more

Microsoft will let people buy games in Xbox Android app in November

Microsoft will let people buy games in Xbox Android app in November

Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, speaks at the Gamescom conference in Cologne, Germany, on Aug. 23, 2023. Franziska Krug | German Select | Getty Images Microsoft will allow people to buy and play video games through its Xbox app for Android starting in November, the company said on Thursday. The move is an immediate … Read more

OpenAI Chair Bret Taylor talks AI agents, regulation, the tech’s boom

OpenAI Chair Bret Taylor talks AI agents, regulation, the tech’s boom

Bret Taylor, co-CEO of Salesforce, speaks at the Viva Technology Conference in Paris on June 15, 2022. Nathan Laine | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bret Taylor, board chairman of OpenAI, joined CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” on Thursday to discuss his artificial intelligence startup Sierra. Taylor co-founded Sierra in March 2023. The startup aims to … Read more

Nvidia stock up 25% in a month as stock closes in on new record

Nvidia stock up 25% in a month as stock closes in on new record

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presents “Blackwell” at an event ahead of the Computex forum, in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 2, 2024. Ann Wang | Reuters Nvidia shares have surged 25% in the last month and are closing in on a record ahead of tech earnings season in the coming weeks, when top customers like Meta, … Read more

HSBC exec says there’s a lot of AI ‘success theater’ in finance

HSBC exec says there’s a lot of AI ‘success theater’ in finance

Big technology companies are betting that a new wave of smaller, more precise AI models will be more effective when it comes to the needs of businesses in sectors like law, finance, and health care. Jaap Arriens | NurPhoto via Getty Images   LONDON — Increasingly many financial services firms are touting the benefits of artificial … Read more

Foxconn chairman says AI boom still has time to go as LLMs evolve

Foxconn chairman says AI boom still has time to go as LLMs evolve

Chairman of Foxconn Young Liu delivers a speech during the Hon Hai Tech Day in Taipei on Oct. 18, 2023. I-hwa Cheng | AFP | Getty Images The boom in corporate investment into artificial intelligence infrastructure still has some way to go as large language models are continuing to evolve, according to the CEO of … Read more

Microsoft AI bet shows up in finance leases that haven’t yet commenced

Microsoft AI bet shows up in finance leases that haven’t yet commenced

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at a company event on artificial intelligence technologies in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024. Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion to build out cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Indonesia, betting on Southeast Asia’s biggest economy to spur growth. Dimas Ardian | Bloomberg | Getty Images As Microsoft investors … Read more

Cerebras files for IPO

Cerebras files for IPO

Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, speaks at the Collision conference in Toronto on June 20, 2024. Ramsey Cardy | Sportsfile | Collision | Getty Images Artificial intelligence chip startup Cerebras Systems on Monday filed its prospectus for an initial public offering, with plans to trade under the ticker symbol “CBRS” on the … Read more

Super Micro shares tumble 15% after DOJ reportedly opens probe into company

Super Micro shares tumble 15% after DOJ reportedly opens probe into company

Jaque Silva | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Super Micro Computer shares fell more than 15% on Thursday after the Justice Department reportedly opened a probe into the company, which has been a major beneficiary of the artificial intelligence boom. The probe is in its early days, according to a report from The … Read more

Microsoft GitHub gives clients option to keep sensitive code in EU

Microsoft GitHub gives clients option to keep sensitive code in EU

Microsoft-owned GitHub says that 90% of the world’s open-source projects are stored on its code repository platform. Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto via Getty Images Microsoft-owned developer platform GitHub on Tuesday said it is giving enterprise users the ability to limit the storage of their sensitive software code to data centers located in the European Union. … Read more