Who's who in AIAI glossary
Microsoft
The American software giant (Windows, Office), OpenAI's first major investor back in 2019. It has integrated AI into all its products with the Copilot assistant and rents out the computing power of its Azure cloud to AI labs.
In other words
Its billions invested in OpenAI have given it privileged access to the models that power ChatGPT.
Alyriaz articles that mention it
- Microsoft: Nadella wants an emergency brake for AI
Satya Nadella wants AIs to be stoppable mid-task by a human, and for them to be treated as compromised from the outset. What that changes.
- Copilot: humans see your photos. What about the rest?
At Copilot, humans see your photos to grade edits. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude: who can read what, and the setting to check tonight.
- The scam that went through Microsoft's real page
Microsoft has dismantled EvilTokens, an AI-driven email scam. How it hacked 12,000 mailboxes, and how to protect yourself.
- Microsoft joins the slowdown camp, while a standards body prepares behind the scenes
Microsoft has published a code of conduct for its models and joined the leaders advocating a deliberate pace. Meanwhile, three labs are working on a private standards body. We analyse this convergence.
- One link was enough to leak your emails: the Copilot flaw that makes agentjacking a reality.
Microsoft has patched a vulnerability that, via a simple malicious link, could automatically trigger instructions in Copilot and exfiltrate connected data. We break down the mechanism and the lessons to be learned.
- Microsoft posts the biggest single-day market value gain in stock market history: is AI finally paying off?
Microsoft posted record quarterly results driven by cloud growth, triggering one of the largest market-cap gains ever recorded in a single session. We analyse what these figures actually prove about AI profitability, and what they don't.
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