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Microsoft's Windows 95 CD contained a lot of "fun" stuff, here's how

Usama Jawad — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:18:01 +0000

Microsoft spent almost $1 billion to promote Windows 95 in a mammoth effort that also included securing the rights to a popular music video. Read more...

Netflix says its doubling down on AI in its media and ads

Paul Hill — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:56:01 +0000

Netflix has told shareholders that its creative partners are using AI in their productions in various ways, including de-aging characters in flashback scenes. Read more...

MIT sees astonishing light-speed 6G processing with its new "100 times faster" chip

Sayan Sen — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 08:28:01 +0000

MIT's pioneering optical AI chip uses photonics and the power of light-speed, promising way better 6G speeds. Read more...

Ancient CD app makes 64-bit comeback to support Windows 11 and probably Windows 10 too

Sayan Sen — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 08:58:01 +0000

CD ripping and burning used to be a common activity back in the day. An ancient Windows 7-era tool used for ripping has made a comeback, as it now supports Windows 11 24H2. Read more...

Bluesky won't train AI on your posts, which is what X does

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 07:12:01 +0000

After seeing a sudden surge in the number of new signups, Bluesky has updated its policies clarifying that it won't train AI on users' posts. Read more...

A3 VMs now in private preview on Google Cloud, powered by NVIDIA H100 GPUs

Paul Hill — Wed, 10 May 2023 19:09:26 +0000

Google Cloud has announced its new A3 VMs are available in a private preview. They are powered by NVIDIA's H100 GPUs and are designed for training complex machine-learning models quicker. Read more...

CatGPT: It's like ChatGPT but not useful in any way whatsoever

Dean Howell — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 17:24:01 +0000

CatGPT is a simple tool that erases all the usefulness of ChatGPT and transports the user back to a simpler time when cats ruled the Internet and you sometimes had to change your pager batteries. Read more...

India's telco authority plans to implement AI and ML-based solutions to curb SMS spam

Karthik Mudaliar — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 08:00:01 +0000

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India is working to limit text message spam and financial frauds that occur over phone using artificial intelligence and machine learning models. Read more...

Microsoft and Lockheed Martin launch deal on innovation in AI, 5G and more

Hamza Jawad — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 16:50:01 +0000

The U.S. Department of Defense will be benefitting in four key areas as a result of this partnership, including cloud innovation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and more. Read more...

MIT researchers build AI system that can model the world using sound in latest breakthrough

Usama Jawad — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 05:30:01 +0000

Researchers at MIT have developed a fascinating machine learning model that leverages sound to accurately map an environment and also determine the acoustics of the room at different locations. Read more...

Computer, enhance! Microsoft details image enhancing technology for Edge now in testing

Usama Jawad — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 13:24:01 +0000

Microsoft is working on a nifty new capability for Edge that will allow its browser to automatically enhance images by improving their lighting, contrast, and color. It's currently in preview. Read more...

Valorant will start recording your voice chats soon

Usama Jawad — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:12:01 +0000

Riot Games has provided a launch date for a controversial change that will allow it to record your voice chats to train its language model and take action upon reported incidents of hate speech. Read more...

Microsoft opens-sources GODEL language model for realistic conversations

Usama Jawad — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 05:50:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced that it is open-sourcing its latest GODEL conversational AI, which enables goal-oriented interactions while still providing external information, just like a real conversation. Read more...

GitHub Copilot is now generally available, starts at $10/month

Usama Jawad — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 17:42:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced the general availability of GitHub Copilot, its AI-powered development assistant. If you're looking for an AI to help you write code, you can give it a go at $10/month. Read more...

Google engineer believes company's AI has become sentient, gets put on administrative leave

Usama Jawad — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 06:54:01 +0000

A Google engineer has been put on paid administrative leave following his claims that the company's LaMDA AI model has become sentient and wants to be acknowledged as a person with consent rights. Read more...

Google Chrome will automatically block annoying website pop-ups soon

Usama Jawad — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 10:56:01 +0000

Google has highlighted several new machine learning-based capabilities coming to Chrome soon. These include autonomous blocking of permission prompts and automatic arrangement of the toolbar. Read more...

Microsoft Purview's new classifiers detect sexual harassment and more in Teams and emails

Usama Jawad — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 12:52:01 +0000

Microsoft is working on new classifiers for its Purview data governance and communication compliance solutions that will allow organizations to detect sexual harassment, money laundering, and more. Read more...

Google banned 190,000 malicious developers from the Play Store last year

Usama Jawad — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 05:06:01 +0000

Google has revealed that it banned over 190,000 malicious and spammy developers from the Play Store last year. Similarly, 1.2 million apps that violated Play Store policies were also removed. Read more...

Microsoft starts rolling out automatic music detection and noise suppression to Teams

Usama Jawad — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 05:56:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced some audio enhancements for Teams. Machine learning-based noise suppression is now enabled by default while automatic music detection will be rolled out in the coming months. Read more...

EzPC: Microsoft's attempt to enhance data security in AI model validation

Usama Jawad — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 05:50:01 +0000

Microsoft has detailed a new open-source framework called EzPC, which enables AI model validation without requiring involved parties to share data with each other. It is built on top of MPC. Read more...

Microsoft releases new guidance and tools for responsible AI development

Usama Jawad — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 07:42:01 +0000

Microsoft has partnered with Boston Consulting Group on a whitepaper outlining the process for developing AI products responsible. It has also released a governance dashboard on the same topic. Read more...

Microsoft shares more details about its Privacy Preserving Machine Learning initiative

Usama Jawad — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 07:06:01 +0000

Microsoft has shared some details regarding its Privacy Preserving Machine Learning initiative. It's exploring the possibility of ensuring privacy without sacrificing utility while training ML models. Read more...

IBM's ModelMesh goes open-source, enabling developers to deploy AI models at scale

Usama Jawad — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:00:01 +0000

IBM has announced that it is open-sourcing ModelMesh, its model-serving management layer powering Watson products. ModelMesh will enable the deployment of AI models at "extreme scale" on Kubernetes. Read more...

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Microsoft offers GPU-accelerated ML training on Windows 10 and WSL via TensorFlow-DirectML

Usama Jawad — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 07:08:01 +0000

Microsoft has worked with the open-source community, Intel, AMD, and Nvidia to offer TensorFlow-DirectML, a project that allows accelerated training of machine learning models on DirectX 12 GPUs. Read more...

Google announces Private Compute Core Services for deeper network and ML model isolation

Usama Jawad — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 06:38:01 +0000

Google has unveiled Private Compute Core Services that utilize a set of open-source APIs to ensure that machine learning models for Private Compute Core features update over a private path. Read more...

Apple VP on iCloud Photos scanning: We know people have misunderstandings and are worried

Usama Jawad — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 06:38:01 +0000

In an internal memo, Apple's Software VP has acknowledged that people are worried about the company scanning iCloud Photos for child sex abuse material, but says that this is due to misunderstandings. Read more...

Google is making on-device machine learning easier on Android later this year

Usama Jawad — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 17:38:52 +0000

Google has announced the Android ML Platform. Coming this year, it will make on-device inference easier by offering a consistent API and deeper integration with the OS without too many dependencies. Read more...

OpenAI's diffusion models beat GANs at what they do best

Ather Fawaz — Sun, 16 May 2021 08:22:02 +0000

OpenAI's improvements to contemporary diffusion models see them beat the state-of-the-art generative adversarial networks (GANs) in both conditional and unconditional image generation tasks. Read more...

Microsoft announces Counterfit, an automation tool for security testing of AI systems

Usama Jawad — Tue, 04 May 2021 09:26:01 +0000

Counterfit is a tool from Microsoft which can be used to automate the security testing of AI models at scale. It is environment-, model-, and data-agnostic so can be used in a variety of situations. Read more...

Microsoft Defender can now use Intel's CPU-based machine learning to detect cryptojacking

Usama Jawad — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:00:02 +0000

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint has been enhanced using advancements in Intel Threat Detection Technology to detect cryptojacking attacks via machine learning heuristics based on CPU telemetry. Read more...

Ford is partnering with Google in a new multi-year collaboration

Usama Jawad — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 17:04:01 +0000

Ford has announced a multi-year collaboration to modernize its process as well as the technologies used in its vehicles. It aims to offer Android and other Google services in its cars by 2023. Read more...

AWS announces two substantial updates to Amazon Braket

Ather Fawaz — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 05:50:01 +0000

Amazon's quantum computing service has been integrated with PennyLane to speed up the development of quantum-hybrid algorithms. It also has a new tensor network simulator that supports 50 qubits. Read more...

Intel unveils ControlFlag, a machine programming tool that detects errors in code

Ather Fawaz — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:00:01 +0000

Trained on over 1-billion unlabeled lines of production-quality code, ControlFlag is a machine programming system that detects coding patterns, stylistic choices, and notorious code. Read more...

FPGA-based inference accelerator outscores GPUs and ASICs in MLPerf benchmark

Ather Fawaz — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 13:00:01 +0000

Mispology's FPGA-based Zebra AI inference accelerator outperformed Nvidia A100, V100, Tesla T4, AWS Inferencia, Google TPUv3, and others, on the ResNet 50 architecture in ML inference efficiency. Read more...

IBM and AMD join forces to improve security on their virtual machines powering AI workloads

Ather Fawaz — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:12:01 +0000

The two giants have agreed to collaborate on Confidential Computing whereby they will be enhancing and extending the security of AI and HPC workloads on their hybrid cloud offerings. Read more...

Microsoft is partnering with Qualcomm to enhance AI and ML developer experience

Usama Jawad — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 10:02:01 +0000

Microsoft and Qualcomm are partnering to improve the development and deployment experience for developers using the respective technologies offered by the two firms to build AI and ML solutions. Read more...

Airpeak is Sony's new project for AI-powered drones and remote sensing

Ather Fawaz — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 07:14:02 +0000

Sony has launched Airpeak, a project with which the Japanese giant will be bringing its imaging and sensing technology to the drone space to help photographers, videographers, and content creators. Read more...

Microsoft, Adobe, and C3.ai team up to bring an "enterprise class" AI-powered CRM solution

Ather Fawaz — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:54:01 +0000

C3 AI CRM is the first enterprise-class software integrated with Dynamics 365, Adobe Experience Cloud, and C3.ai's industry-specific AI models, to build a comprehensive CRM solution for firms. Read more...

Microsoft partners with Nvidia, IBM, and more to release Adversarial ML Threat Matrix

Usama Jawad — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 08:48:01 +0000

Microsoft has collaborated with over 10 organizations from around to globe to release the Adversarial ML Threat Matrix framework for protection against malicious actors which target ML systems. Read more...