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Microsoft said it is "slowing or pausing" some of its data center construction, including a $1 billion project in Ohio, the latest sign that the demand for artificial intelligence technology that ...

Last week, Microsoft released a tech demo of its WHAMM (World and Human Action MaskGIT Model) "game engine." The research project showed that the model could generate frames for a playable version ...

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing outage that is blocking admins worldwide from accessing the Exchange Admin Center (EAC). The company tagged this ongoing issue as a critical service issue ...

LONDON — The Trump administration has upended what it calls “blatantly unfair” talks to set a carbon tax on international shipping and has vowed "reciprocal measures" to shield U.S. ships from any ...

Microsoft has launched a playable demo of the classic video game Quake II, designed to showcase the capabilities of its Copilot AI platform. The demo, which is browser-based, allows users to play a ...

Plenty of uncharitable comments here. Carmack has the right of it, eventually this will become yet another tool in the toolbox, and I expect there will be both good examples, and bad examples, of ...

At the same time, this objectively terrible tech demo is a pretty rough context from which to make the case. There is a real possibility trying to use generative transformer models this way is a ...

Microsoft has unveiled an AI-generated interactive gameplay demo of Quake II. The AI model WHAMM allows real-time interaction and gameplay. Although an impressive technological feat, the model has ...

The Quake II gameplay demo is built on Microsoft’s Muse AI models WHAMM can generate 10+ frames a second Quake II is a 1997 first-person shooter game ...

Seeing a gaming demo on the menu, I asked for it. Unfortunately, I ended up seeing a version of Minecraft being played with Copilot Vision that Microsoft had referenced before rather than ...