After it’s initial plan to purchase gaming giant Activision Blizzard was blocked by the CMA, Microsoft has submitted an amended deal it hopes will appease the UK’s regulator’s concerns.
Some of the biggest players in the AI sector have grouped together to set up Frontier Model Forum – described as ‘an industry body focused on ensuring safe and responsible development of frontier AI models.’
There have been yet more twists in the saga that is Microsoft’s $69 billion bid for games publisher Activision Blizzard.
While global interest in generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has surged of late, only sporadic progress has been made on the ethical guardrails needed to protect society.
Telco software firm Amdocs has launched amAIz, which aims to bring much of the latest AI cleverness to much of the rest of its portfolio.
Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard has been approved by EU regulators, a few weeks after the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority blocked it.
The acquisition of gaming titan Activision Blizzard King by US tech giant Microsoft has been blocked by the UK Competition and Markets Authority.
US tech giant Microsoft has incorporated ChatGPT-based AI into its search answers, which produced some remarkable results.
Gamers will face higher prices, fewer choices and less innovation if Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision is allowed to go through, says the CMA.
For the first time possibly ever, Microsoft appears to have got one over on Google in the search market.
Kit vendor Ericsson has teamed up with Intel and Microsoft to demonstrating end-to-end 5G standalone network slicing on a laptop, which they reckon shows the flexibility of the tech.
Employees at Microsoft this week learned a harsh lesson from CEO Satya Nadella about the fickle nature of the tech industry.
US tech giant Microsoft has augmented its Airband initiative, designed to connect the unconnected, by partnering with satellite player Viasat.
Lumenisity, a UK hollow core fibre (HCF) startup, has been acquired by US tech giant Microsoft to augment its global cloud infrastructure.
The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into the proposed acquisition of computer games giant Activision Blizzard by Microsoft.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority has very reasonable concerns about the effect Microsoft owning Activision will have on consumer choice and thus value.
Google’s Q2 2022 results registered 13% growth in revenue, while Microsoft enjoyed a 12% hike, but investor were apparently expecting more.
Australian operator group Telstra has increased its exposure to the public cloud by expanding its partnership with Microsoft.
The Competitions and Markets authority in the UK is having a look at the proposed purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft, which at $68.7 billion would be the biggest deal in the history of gaming.
Kit Vendor Nokia and tech giant Microsoft team up to integrate Microsoft Azure Arc cloud capabilities into the Nokia MX Industrial Edge platform, designed for digital transformation.
