The United Kingdom's competition regulators have agreed to clear the final legal hurdle in Microsoft's ambitious $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc.

Activision’s takeover by Microsoft surpasses the final regulatory block in the UK

Investors believe that Microsoft will see stronger growth and significantly lower china risk, thus the software juggernaut is bridging the stock market gap with Apple. With the maker of the iPhone at the center of a heated dispute with China, Microsoft has seen its stock price rise more quickly than Apple this month.

Microsoft gains ground on Apple in stock market race | World Business Watch

As investors recognise Microsoft Corp.'s superior growth and significantly lower China risk, the software behemoth is closing the gap with Apple Inc. in the stock market, according to a Bloomberg report.

Microsoft looks to overtake Apple as the world's largest stock: Report

Alphabet's Google said on Tuesday that Bard, its generative artificial intelligence, will have the ability to fact-check its answers and analyze users' personal Google data as the tech giant scrambles to catch up to ChatGPT in popularity.

Bard Gets Smarter: Google AI Chatbot gets new features

According to a new report from cloud security company Wiz, the Microsoft AI research team accidentally leaked 38TB of the company's private data.

Microsoft AI team accidentally leaks 38TB of private company data

AI researchers at Microsoft have committed a grave error, as revealed in a recent report by cloud security company Wiz. The Microsoft AI research team inadvertently disclosed a massive 38 terabytes of the company's confidential data.

Microsoft made the grave error of accidentally leaking sensitive data. This is what happened next

Google is set to face one of the largest anti-trust trials big tech has ever seen in the US, beginning 12 September.

US: Google braces for anti-trust case

The recently disclosed Chinese hack of senior officials at the US State and Commerce departments stemmed from the compromise of a Microsoft engineer’s corporate account, Microsoft Corp said in a blog post on Wednesday.

Microsoft says hackers penetrated its engineer's account to steal emails of US officials

Microsoft has stopped updating WordPad and the company said that it will now eliminate its basic word processor from a forthcoming release of the Windows. Instead, the company will suggest Microsoft Word, its comprehensive paid word processing software, over the basic WordPad application that has been included with Windows since Windows 95.

Microsoft's WordPad, launched in 1995, set to be removed from Windows

The UK launched a new investigation into Microsoft Corp.'s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. after the tech giant presented a significantly revised proposal to the country's antitrust agency, effectively reviving a transaction that had previously been believed to be dormant.

UK reopens investigation into Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision

Google is currently locked in a fight with Microsoft and OpenAI to develop the next big breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI) technology. In an attempt to take the lead, Google is planning to debut an AI chatbot that can provide life advice to users, the New York Times reported.

'Hey Google, why am I sad?': Tech giant developing AI chatbot that offers life advice

ChatGPT, a generative AI program, was created by Microsoft partner OpenAI, and has been the center of debates about education.

Bill Gates impressed with ChatGpt acing AP test

Due to a dwindling user base and financial losses, OpenAI’s ChatGPT might go out of business. After its release in November 2022, OpenAI’s ChatGPT established itself as the fastest-growing platform in history.

ChatGPT costs $700,000 daily, creator OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024: Report 

Tech giant Google is finally bringing a highly-requested Gmail translation feature to mobile. Earlier this week, Google announced in a blog post that users can now access translation on the Gmail mobile app. For years, people have used easily translated emails in Gmail on the web in over 100 languages.

Google brings Gmail translation to mobile devices

Microsoft researchers on Wednesday (August 2) alleged that a Russian government-linked hacking group targeted dozens of global organisations as part of its strategy to steal the users' login credentials by engaging them in Microsoft Teams chats and talking to them under the pretence of technical support.

Russia-linked hackers carrying out dozens of Teams phishing attacks, alleges Microsoft

Apple and Microsoft, the prominent U.S. tech giants, continue to dominate as two of the world's largest companies by market capitalization. This can be attributed to the substantial surge in tech stocks, fueled by the escalating interest in artificial intelligence.

Apple & Microsoft two biggest companies by market capitalisation

The EU has launched an antitrust investigation into tech giant Microsoft, and it all revolves around their bundling tactics. The EU's concerns revolve around Microsoft's bundling of its video and chat application, teams, together with its other office products. The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, suspects that this practice may be tipping the scales in favor of teams, potentially denying customers the freedom to choose whether to include the app when subscribing to office 365.

Microsoft faces EU antitrust heat

The European Union (EU) has initiated an antitrust investigation concerning Microsoft's practice of bundling its collaboration and communication software, Teams, with its popular cloud-based productivity suites for businesses, Office 365 and Microsoft 365.

European Union launches antitrust investigation into Microsoft's bundling of Teams

AI is becoming good at many human jobs leading to many fearing that AI will ultimately one day replace human workers throughout the economy. To tackle these concerns, the world's top artificial intelligence companies have launched a new industry body to regulate the development of AI. Google, Microsoft OpenAi and Anthropic have announced the formation of Frontier Model Forum.

Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAi join forces

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has experienced a remarkable surge in profits in its second quarter (April to June), The company reported a net profit of $1.

Alphabet's Q2 earnings exceed expectations, Microsoft stocks dip

Alphabet the parent company of Google has defied expectations with its second-quarter earnings the company's profits have increased driven by steady demand for its cloud services in a remarkable rebound in the advertising sector. Meanwhile, Microsoft witnessed stock declines after Azure's Cloud Revenue growth hit a bump.

Alphabet's tech earnings report card

In a big relief for tech giant Microsoft, the US Trade regulator has withdrawn its case to block the 69 billion dollar Microsoft Activision deal. The US trade regulator has been opposing the mega gaming deal, fearing that it could lead to unfair trade practices like monopoly.

US trade watchdog withdraws case against Microsoft

Microsoft has pushed its stock to new highs that have prepared CEO Satya Nadella's overall earnings from the business to above a golden threshold of one billion dollars and that's big news. A Bloomberg report showed Nadella's compensation from Microsoft including salary bonuses and dividends was included in the total win. The stock price of Microsoft has jumped by more than one thousand per cent since the day he took over as the CEO.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's compensation tops $1bn

Microsoft Corp.'s stock has soared to unprecedented heights, propelling Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella's total gains from the company to surpass a remarkable milestone of $1 billion.

CEO Satya Nadella's Microsoft shares surge, payouts exceed $1billion

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