Microsoft stock rises 4% as tech giant beats expectations with $52.9B in Q3 revenue Microsoft reported revenue of $52.9 billion for its fiscal third quarter, a 7% increase from last year. The company beat… Read More
Microsoft earnings preview: Growth slows as tech giant awaits payoff from big AI bets Barring a big surprise, the sluggish economy will continue to take a toll on Microsoft’s overall growth in its financial… Read More
Microsoft’s ‘Verified ID’ will confirm that LinkedIn members actually work where they say they do Microsoft is expanding its digital identity technology to LinkedIn with a new tool that lets companies give their employees a… Read More
Microsoft Research head Peter Lee on the applications of GPT-4 in medicine and life sciences Peter Lee has spent a lot of time recently with GPT-4, the AI-powered tool that simulates human conversation, built by… Read More
New ‘Security Copilot’ is Microsoft’s latest integration of OpenAI’s GPT-4 Microsoft previewed new technology that uses artificial intelligence to defend against hackers by identifying, analyzing, and understanding the inner workings… Read More
Microsoft job cuts surpass 2,700 in Seattle region; security technology group hit in latest round Microsoft made another 559 job cuts in the Seattle region on Monday, according to a filing with the state Employment… Read More
Microsoft buying TikTok wouldn’t be so strange after all — here’s why it’s still unlikely to happen With the future of TikTok in the U.S. in doubt again, there’s a fresh round of speculation about potential buyers… Read More
Play Podcast GeekWire Podcast: Microsoft, OpenAI, and the AI opportunity for startups, with Neo CEO Ali Partovi Play This week on the GeekWire Podcast: what AI means for startups. We’re joined by Ali Partovi, a technology investor, entrepreneur,… Read More
Lessons in virtual reality: What these computer science students built (and learned) in 10 weeks The tech world is abuzz about artificial intelligence, but there’s still plenty to learn and accomplish in virtual and augmented… Read More
Bill Gates: AI breakthroughs are the biggest tech advance since the graphical user interface One of the pivotal figures in the rise of the graphical user interface says he sees a similar revolution in… Read More
Microsoft subsidiary Nuance is using GPT-4 for a new physician notes app Microsoft-owned AI company Nuance is leveraging GPT-4 to power new software designed to ease the burden of clinical documentation for… Read More
Play Podcast GeekWire Podcast: SVB aftermath; the ‘affliction’ of remote work; and Microsoft puts AI to work Play This week on the GeekWire Podcast … We discuss the latest on the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, and consider the… Read More
Microsoft’s real AI battle against Google begins with the promise of new superpowers for work Microsoft was encroaching onto Google’s turf when it announced an AI-powered Bing search engine last month. This morning, Microsoft started… Read More
Microsoft confirms Bing’s AI-powered search chatbot is running on OpenAI’s new GPT-4 With OpenAI’s unveiling of GPT-4 today, its partner Microsoft acknowledged something that had been largely assumed but never confirmed: its… Read More
Suspect in alleged stabbing of fellow Microsoft employee pleads not guilty to attempted murder A 27-year-old engineer who joined Microsoft last year pleaded not guilty Thursday morning to a charge of attempted second-degree murder… Read More
Microsoft’s Windows 11 is getting Bing AI taskbar search and new iPhone integration Microsoft announced an update to Windows 11 with the ability to query the company’s AI-powered Bing search chatbot directly from… Read More
Microsoft expands AI chatbot to Bing and Edge mobile apps after adjusting limits on chat sessions Microsoft is expanding the preview of its AI-powered search and composition features to its Bing and Edge mobile apps starting… Read More
Microsoft inks binding contract with Nintendo for ‘Call of Duty’ as it defends Activision deal Microsoft’s deal with Nintendo to bring “Call of Duty” games to Nintendo systems — if Microsoft’s proposed $68.7 billion acquisition… Read More
Microsoft now says AI-powered Bing chatbot is ‘not a replacement or substitute for the search engine’ “We think of it, humbly, as the next generation of search and browsing.” That was a comment by Yusuf Mehdi,… Read More
The future of the information economy is in flux as internet search industry enters new area Editor’s note: This is a guest commentary from Oren Etzioni, former CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), a… Read More
Play Podcast GeekWire Podcast: The new Microsoft Bing, and how artificial intelligence is changing the web Play The new Microsoft Bing drafted the introduction for this week’s GeekWire Podcast, with this prompt: Write an intro for a… Read More
Microsoft continues with previously announced layoffs, as Seattle-area total nears 1,500 people Microsoft notified another round of workers this week that they’re losing their jobs as part of the 10,000 layoffs announced… Read More
Arguing with AI: My first dispute with Microsoft’s brilliant and boneheaded Bing search engine For the past couple days, I’ve been trying out Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing search engine, a chatbot that uses an… Read More
Microsoft reveals new search engine and browser with AI ‘copilot,’ escalating battle with Google REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft unveiled new versions of its Bing search engine and Edge web browser that take advantage of next-generation… Read More
Microsoft Word gets ChatGPT integration with new ‘Ghostwriter’ third-party add-in Microsoft says it plans to integrate OpenAI technologies throughout its product lineup, but one entrepreneur has already put ChatGPT into… Read More
Microsoft and VMware vet Paul Maritz backs social app that vows not to monetize user data Veteran computer scientist and business leader Paul Maritz is perhaps best known for his work in PC and server operating… Read More
Tech Moves: Ex-Amazon VP Babak Parviz joins Madrona; Microsoft CVP Vahé Torossian departs — Babak Parviz, a former director at Google and vice president at Amazon, joined Seattle-based firm Madrona Venture Group as a… Read More
What Microsoft’s numbers say about the state of the tech economy Things really began to change in December. That’s when Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform started to lose some of its momentum,… Read More
Just how bad is Microsoft’s bottom line? Earnings report will be closely watched after job cuts Microsoft is seeing customers “optimize their digital spend to do more with less,” and “exercise caution” in the face of… Read More
Microsoft’s ‘multibillion dollar’ OpenAI investment comes with new level of secrecy Microsoft is making a big new investment in OpenAI, the artificial intelligence powerhouse behind ChatGPT, extending a partnership that has… Read More
