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Last week, Microsoft claimed a breakthrough in its long-running pursuit of quantum computing, announcing the creation of a new type of quantum bit, or qubit, based on a newly-created state of matter. This development, while met with some skepticism from the scientific community, could potentially accelerate the global race to

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A new Microsoft chip could lead to more stable quantum computers Microsoft has announced that it’s made significant progress in its 20-year quest to make topological quantum bits, or qubits—a special approach to…

Microsoft has announced the development of a new artificial intelligence (AI) model designed to assist in video game development, Reuters reports. This initiative, called Muse, is a collaboration with Ninja Theory, a game developer under Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios.The push for AI-driven tools comes as development costs

Microsoft develops AI model for videogames  Reuters

Microsoft’s Xbox AI era starts with a model that can generate gameplay  The Verge

Microsoft on Wednesday revealed its first quantum computing chip, Majorana 1, stating it will speed up the development of quantum computers able to solve “meaningful, industrial-scale ...

Microsoft has long been working on an alternative that could cut down on the overhead by using components that are far more stable. These components, called Majorana quasiparticles, are not real ...

Microsoft Research has created Muse, a first-of-its-kind generative AI model that can generate a game environment based on visuals or players’ controller actions. It understands a 3D game world and ...

Microsoft has outlined its research in a peer-reviewed paper published today in Nature, explaining how its researchers were able to create the topological qubit. Microsoft has helped create a new ...

US tech giant says it has harnessed a new state of matter to create the basic building blocks of a quantum machine ...

Microsoft Corp. announced its first quantum computing chip, a major step in the company’s effort to produce devices that might someday solve problems beyond the reach of modern computers.

Microsoft is further bolstering Poland's cyber defenses with a $700 million investment, as reported by Reuters. The investment is intended to enhance the country's cybersecurity capabilities in cooperation with the Polish Armed Forces.The investment will be allocated towards the second phase of the previously announced

Google's head of public policy in India, Sreenivasa Reddy, has quit, a company ... news website The Information reported on Wednesday, with the AI startup racing to catch up with Microsoft-backed ...

In an interview with CRN, the head of Arm’s infrastructure business talks about how the company has convinced Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Nvidia to use its technologies to ...

Anduril Industries will take control of Microsoft's multibillion-dollar augmented reality headset program for the U.S. Army.

Palmer Luckey-founded defense tech startup Anduril will take over the development and production of Microsoft's mixed-reality headset program for the U.S. Army, the companies said on Tuesday.

Amazon shares took a significant hit on Friday, falling 4%, after the company's quarterly cloud computing revenue growth fell short of investor expectations, as reported by Reuters. This slowdown comes despite massive investments in artificial intelligence (AI) and follows similar disappointing results from Microsoft and Alphabet-owned Google.The

Microsoft has offered to widen the price differential between its Office product sold with its chat and video app Teams and its software sold without the app in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust ...

Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and AWS cloud sales for fourth quarter 2024 includes global market share, total revenue, operating income and sales growth comparison.

Want to learn more about Microsoft's family of Copilots? Here's our guide to Copilot and Copilot in Microsoft 365, as well as GitHub Copilot.

Amazon, Echoing Microsoft, Says It Can’t Keep Up With AI Demand  Bloomberg

Amazon.com is facing intense scrutiny as investors await its fourth-quarter earnings report on Thursday, where its cloud computing performance will be under the microscope, Reuters reports. This comes after lackluster results from Microsoft and Google sent shockwaves through the tech sector, raising concerns about the viability of massive AI

Amazon.com Inc. warned investors that it could face capacity constraints in its cloud computing division despite plans to invest some $100 billion this year, with most of the money going toward ...

Amazon.com Inc. shares have largely climbed on the back of two trends: strength in its cloud business and a focus on costs. Now both could be in question.

The pressure is on Amazon.com to deliver on lofty expectations for cloud computing in its fourth-quarter results on Thursday, after Microsoft and Google's lackluster reports jolted investor faith in ...

Pharmaceutical software company Veeva Systems has sued Microsoft in California federal court, alleging Microsoft's Viva business software infringes its trademarks.

Alibaba Cloud users can log into its PAI Model Gallery, where DeepSeek’s latest models and ‘distilled’ versions of these products are found.

Microsoft is forming a new unit to study AI’s impacts  TechCrunch

Microsoft’s Q2 AI Business Soars but Cloud, Guidance Disappoint  PYMNTS.com

Microsoft, Meta back big AI spending despite DeepSeek's low costs  Reuters