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Microsoft has announced that customers who access its Azure AI services can now use nine more realistic-sounding AI voices. They are designed to offer conversational responses to questions.

Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service has launched a public preview of a new feature that offers businesses real-time detection and mitigation of abusive generative AI requests from end users.

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Microsoft has added GitHub Copilot Chat integration into the Azure Migrate application and code assessment extension for Visual Studio. Like GitHub Copilot, this feature will require a subscription.

Microsoft has announced that its On Your Data feature for its Azure OpenAI Service is now generally available. It lets businesses use LLMs on their data with enterprise-grade security.

Microsoft posted a blog post late on Friday, announcing that the Azure IoT Central deprecation in 2027 message was a mistake. The company remains committed to Azure IoT Central and its services.

Microsoft has become the second company to reach a $3 trillion market valuation. Led by CEO Satya Nadella's focus on cloud and AI, Microsoft has experienced tremendous growth for years.

Vodafone is joining hands with Microsoft to harness the power of AI, Cloud and other digital services in an attempt to "transform the customer experience" across Europe, the UK, and Africa.

Microsoft continues its plans to end support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 from its services with today's reveal that both will be removed from Azure storage accounts on Nov. 1.

Microsoft teamed up with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to make a new and better lithium battery, with the help of Microsoft's AI and its Azure Quantum Elements services.

A new report says that Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has put its previously announced plans to relocate data centers to its parent company's Azure cloud servers on hold for the time being

AMD announced its new generative AI-based chips, the Instinct MI300 Series, and Microsoft was among a number of companies who stated it would start using versions of the chip in its services.

Microsoft has announced it plans to give startup companies free access to its Azure AI services, including GPU virtual machine clusters, so they can train and run large language models.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella appeared on stage as part of OpenAI's first DevDay developer conference and used it to reinforce the two companies' partnership and its plans for the future.

Canonical has become the first Linux provider to enable a snapshot service for its Microsoft Azure instances. It hopes that this feature will deliver more safety and predictability for admins.

Microsoft and Siemens have launched Siemens Industrial Copilot, an AI assistant jointly developed to improve productivity in manufacturing. It can rapidly generate and debug complex automation code.

Microsoft has just announced Radius, a new platform for developing and managing cloud-based apps. It is an open source platform that can be used with Azure, Amazon Web Services, and private clouds.

Microsoft recently started Windows 11 23H2 hardware certification to ensure compatibility. Now the company is doing the same for Microsoft 365 services with improvements to the Test Base.

Microsoft has announced that it will be introducing four new AI text-to-speech voices optimised for conversations which can be used for chatbots, voice assistants or conversational agents.

Due to a misconfigured cloud storage setting on GitHub, Microsoft accidentally exposed over 38TB of internal data for over two years. This includes backups of employee passwords and messages.

The new Typeface Ai app will allow enterprise users of Microsoft Teams to collaborate on creating content with the assistance of generative AI via Azure Machine Learning and Azure OpenAI Service,

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Microsoft's Azure Firewall service, which helps to protect workloads on the company's Azure cloud servers, has added some new features in both public preview and general availability.

Microsoft Azure managed to grow 26% during the second quarter year-over-year. At that growth rate, it did better than Amazon Web Services but was behind Google Cloud which grew by 31%.

Aptos Labs will integrate Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service with its network. Microsoft's AI models will be trained on the Aptos blockchain, while Aptos will run validator nodes on Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft said Chinese hackers accessed US and EU government email accounts. Senator Wyden asked authorities to investigate Microsoft's role and negligence. They worry about the encryption keys.

Microsoft has announced the availability of Azure Managed Lustre. It said this first-party managed service on Azure is available through two instances that offer different performance options.

Chinese companies could soon be restricted from using some Microsoft cloud services. The US is supposedly readying restrictions that would limit Chinese access to cloud services that use AI chips.

In a formal complaint to the FTC, Google has accused Microsoft of using its position in the enterprise market to push licensing terms in its software to lock customers into its Azure cloud business.

Microsoft has outlined its current roadmap towards the building and running a real quantum supercompter, stating that it has already achieved the first milestone on that new roadmap.

Microsoft fails to settle with the CISPE ahead of the EU cloud market dominance investigation. Allegations include unfair bundling and lock-ins and EU antitrust case looming. Here are the details.

Microsoft has announced several developer tools and solutions today at its Build 2023 event. Leaked previously, the company has unveiled its new Dev Box today which claims to boost VS performance.

Microsoft has announced several developer tools and solutions today at its Build 2023 event. Leaked previously, the company has unveiled its new Dev Box today as it gets a new 2TB SSD option.

The European Union has asked customers and firms to submit documents and complaints over Microsoft's use of confidential business information to gain leverage over other cloud-service providers.

The Power BI division of Microsoft will hold its own digital event starting at noon Eastern time on May 24 and May 25 during Build 2023, with special pre-shows before each day's events.

Microsoft is adding support for XFS as a root file system on Linux. The change was announced with the latest update to CBL-Mariner which is Microsoft's Linux-based OS for Azure 1P.