Microsoft Azure AI Content Safety has received a new Multimodal API that allows it to detect harmful and inappropriate content made by users or by AI.
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Microsoft has announced it is expanding the number of TTS AI voices for English (Indian) and Hindi customers for its Azure AI speech services to use.
Microsoft has announced the general availability of the Mv3 High Memory VMs on Azure. It has also shared more details about Very High Memory VMs.
Microsoft Azure will make multi-factor authentication mandatory across services. It will affect various services in two phases, the first in October and the second phase in early 2025.
Microsoft has revealed it will deprecate the Virtual Network Injection feature for Azure Data Explorer. No new customers can use this feature, and current users will see it shut down on Feb. 1, 2025.
Microsoft has reportedly laid off hundreds of team members this week from its Azure for Operations and Mission Engineering teams. One unnamed source claimed as many as 1,500 employees were affected.
Microsoft committed $2.2B to expand its cloud and AI operations in Malaysia over the next few years. This is the company's largest ever investment in the country with new local infrastructure.
Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion to develop Indonesia's AI infrastructure by building new cloud computing data centers. CEO Satya Nadella said it would be their largest investment in the country.
Amazon will lay off hundreds of team members from its sales, marketing, and global services divisions, along with more job cuts in its physical stores division. It may rehire some of those workers.
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 shared an updated DC hardening timeline where it has added new guidance and key dates about the deployment phase. This hardening meant to improve the security of the concerned servers.
Microsoft has launched a limited public preview of Copilot in Azure SQL Database. It's designed to assist with the use of Azure SQL Database-driven applications with natural language queries into SQL.
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Canalys has forecasted that global cloud spending will increase by 20% this year to around $348 billion. The growth is largely going to be driven by investments into generative AI.
Microsoft posted a blog post late on Friday, announcing that the Azure IoT Central deprecation in 2027 message was a mistake. The company remains committed to Azure IoT Central and its services.
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 continues its plans to end support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 from its services with today's reveal that both will be removed from Azure storage accounts on Nov. 1.
Microsoft is once again working with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to update its Santa Tracker website by using several Azure website services, including an interactive map.
Microsoft has announced that its Azure OpenAI Service has added support for the GPT-4 Turbo with Vision AI model via a public preview, combining the use of text prompts with image analysis.
A new report says that Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has put its previously announced plans to relocate data centers to its parent company's Azure cloud servers on hold for the time being
Microsoft has announced that Azure ACS and SharePoint Add-In services will stop working for new tenants on November 1, 2024, and will be shut down for existing tenants on April 2, 2026.
Microsoft has announced that its Azure OpenAI Service has added support for OpenAI's new GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-3.5-Turbo generative AI models that were first revealed earlier this month.
As part of its Ignite 2023 developer conference, Microsoft has announced a new Azure AI Speech service called Personal Voice, which will let businesses and people make their own AI voices.
Microsoft made many major revelations today at its 2023 Ignite event regarding Windows 365 Cloud PC and Azure Virtual Desktop. These include the new Windows App, GPU support, and more.
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.
Microsoft and Oracle have announced another new multi-year agreement that will let Microsoft use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to power its Bing services. Financial details were not disclosed.
Microsoft has added seven more realistic-sounding AI text-to-speech voices in different languages that can be used by Azure AI customers along with several updates to previous voices.
Microsoft has just announced Radius, a new platform for developing and managing cloud-based apps. It is an open source platform that can be used with Azure, Amazon Web Services, and private clouds.
Microsoft Research is working on Project Silica, a new cloud storage technology that will allow tons of data to be stored on glass plates, and which will be available for thousands of years.
Microsoft recently started Windows 11 23H2 hardware certification to ensure compatibility. Now the company is doing the same for Microsoft 365 services with improvements to the Test Base.
Microsoft and Amazon are among the cloud providers that are the target of a newly announced investigation by the UK Competition and Markets Authority regulatory body, based on an Ofcom study.
Microsoft's GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps will allow software developers to work in the cloud with a number of extra security features that are available with a special license.
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.
Newly revealed internal emails from Microsoft executives showed that the company was working in 2021 on a PC game streaming service similar to its current Xbox Cloud Gaming service.
The new joint Oracle Database Azure service will allow Oracle database services to be run directly on Microsoft's datacenters. Financial details on this new partnership were not revealed.
Microsoft's Azure Firewall service, which helps to protect workloads on the company's Azure cloud servers, has added some new features in both public preview and general availability.
Microsoft Azure managed to grow 26% during the second quarter year-over-year. At that growth rate, it did better than Amazon Web Services but was behind Google Cloud which grew by 31%.
Aptos Labs will integrate Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service with its network. Microsoft's AI models will be trained on the Aptos blockchain, while Aptos will run validator nodes on Microsoft Azure.
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.
The new Microsoft Azure ND H100 v5 Virtual Machine (VM) series will offer fast generative AI workloads for business, while the Azure OpenAI Service is now available in more parts of the world.
