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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 has announced it is conducting a limited test of a new Azure AI feature that will allow businesses to upload documents so sensitive info from them can be detected and removed.

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.

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 Microsoft Azure service, which offers businesses a way to add natural speech through text for apps and services, finally has a male voice, that can speak in 41 different languages.

Developers utilizing Azure Synapse, Cognitive Services, AI, Cosmos DB, Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL, and SQL Database have a lot to be excited today for what Microsoft has in store for them.

The team-up with Hewlett Packard Enterprise will be centered around delivering Azure capabilities to space through HPE's Spaceborne Computer-2, which is set to be launched this month.

The Azure Cognitive Service which has been in preview since last year has finally become generally available, bringing additional features such as an updated SDK and new translator languages as well.

The new supercomputer is noted to be the fifth most powerful publicly disclosed one across the globe, and it represents a key milestone in Microsoft's partnership with independent research org OpenAI.

Microsoft and Sony have formed a new partnership to apply the former's Azure AI capabilities to the latter's smart camera sensor system. The goal is to boost computer vision for enterprise settings.

Today Microsoft announced an alliance with OpenAI and an investment of $1 billion in the company. Microsoft aims to build new Azure AI supercomputing tech through this partnership.