Microsoft has agreed to pay approximately $3 million to settle its potential civil liability for more than 1,300 apparent sanctions violations involving exporting services or software from the US to Cuba, Iran, Syria, and Russia.

Microsoft to pay $3 million settlement over sanctions violations

In order to resolve potential civil responsibility for more than 1300 suspected violations of U.S. sanctions and export restrictions that occurred between 2012 and 2019, which implicated blocked Russian businesses or individuals in Crimea, Syria, Iran, and Cuba, Microsoft has agreed to pay a three million dollar settlement.

US settles with Microsoft over $3M sanctions breach

Irked by false results, a mayor in Australia has warned OpenAI that he may sue the platform. Brian Hood, an elected mayor of Hepburn Shire - a town located 120 kilometres northwest of Melbourne is worried about his reputation as ChatGPT continues to falsely claim that he had served time in prison for bribery.

Australian mayor threatens to sue OpenAI over false ChatGPT content

The National Company Law Appellate (NCLAT) on March 29 partially upheld Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) Android dominance order against Google. The tribunal has upheld the penalty of $150 M imposed by CCI.

NCLAT upholds CCI's $150 M penalty on Google

Microsoft has threatened to restrict access to its internet-search data that it licenses to rival search engines if they do not stop using it as the basis for their artificial intelligence (AI) chat products, the news agency Bloomberg reported early Saturday (March 25) citing sources.

Microsoft threatens to cut off data from rival AI search engines: Report

There is relief for Microsoft in the Activision case, the US firm has won the dismissal of a private consumer anti-trust lawsuit. This is over its proposed purchase of Call of Duty maker.

Microsoft wins dismissal of Activision case, judge dismisses claims on 'harm' | World Business Watch

New vulnerabilities have been spotted in Android phones. Microsoft may soon allow users to use AI in office applications such as Word and Excel. The week gone by was buzzing with a lot of exciting technologies and we bring you the most interesting ones in our Tech Wrap.

Android devices are prone to hacking | Tech It Out

Microsoft is planning to put Artificial Intelligence into the hands of more users. It has announced a new Chatbot - CoPilot - that will apply ChatGPT like abilities - its iconic programmes like Excel and Outlook.

Race for AI dominance: Microsoft announces new Chatbot - CoPilot

Taking ahead its artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, Microsoft announced on Thursday that it will be incorporating a ChatGPT-style AI system into its widely used work software called Microsoft 365.

Microsoft incorporates ChatGPT-style AI into Word, Outlook

Microsoft has told its customers that the hackers linked to the Russian military targeted some European military networks, energy and transportation organisations in an apparent spying attempt, CNN reported.

Russian military-linked hackers spied on European military, energy firms: Microsoft

Microsoft has sacked its entire ethics and society team in the fresh round of layoffs which affected 10,000 employees, Platformer reported. The ethics and society team within the artificial intelligence organisation looked after ensuring whether or not AI principles were being implemented during product design.

No ethics needed for AI? Microsoft sacks entire ethics and society team that ensures AI principles

ChatGPT has been inescapable in recent months, and it looks like Microsoft is about to upgrade the AI tool with an update that could thrust it into the spotlight once again. That’s because the company is set to launch GPT-4 as early as next week, and it will potentially let you create AI-generated videos from simple text prompts.

Microsoft to launch ChatGPT -4 soon, know all about it

Microsoft has recently announced launch of two AI powered services which are aimed at helping operators manage Telecom networks more efficiently. Services draw on same capabilities which were used to manage Microsoft's Azure Cloud platform and offer operators advanced artificial intelligence that can unlock new business opportunities.

Microsoft releases 2 cloud tools, cloud services to use same capabilities as Azure cloud platform

Mr Kirk, who worked for eight years at Google, was one of the 12,000 employees let go by the company. Mr Kirk stated that he has given himself and his team six weeks to set up a design and development studio in New York and San Francisco.

7 People fired by Google come together to form new company

#Gravitas | A New York Times' journalist last week had a two-hour-long conversation with Microsoft Bing's yet-to-be-released chatbot. During the interaction, the chatbot expressed its desires to 'destroy' all it could and turn into a human. | @mollygambhir explains

Gravitas: Microsoft's yet-to-be-released chatbot goes rogue

AI chatbots have been raking in all the attention over their natural and almost humane responses to users’ intriguing, or sometimes bizarre, questions. But the one that has gained the most prominence is the recent interview conducted of UK PM Rishi Sunak and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

AI-powered bot interviewed UK PM Rishi Sunak, Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Here’s what unfolded

A few days after Microsoft Bing's AI chatbot gave disturbing and dark responses to a New York Times columnist's questions, the company announced it will be limiting chat sessions on the platform.

Spooked! Microsoft limits Bing chatbot to five questions after it gives dark, unsettling answers

Microsoft has announced its decision to limit the new AI-integrated Bing search engine to five questions per session and 50 questions per day. The tech giant has launched a new iteration of its search engine earlier this month.

Race for AI supremacy: Microsoft curbs new AI-powered Bing

San Francisco-based startup OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced on Thursday that it will give users more control to customise the application as per their individual requirements.

The real reason why Microsoft-backed OpenAI developing customisable ChatGPT

American software giant Microsoft's Bing chatbot can at times deny obvious facts and chide users, as per the exchanges shared online by developers testing the artificial intelligence (AI) creation.

Microsoft's Bing chatbot denying obvious facts, scolding users

People of certain age were introduced to facinating Worldwide Web in times when Internet Explorer was the undisputed king of web browsers. Though Netscape Navigator did create some stir but it was soon crushed by the good ol' Internet Explorer, a Microsoft software in an era the company was at the very top of all things tech.

Microsoft to kill off Internet Explorer completely

The online recruitment-offering site, LinkedIn, is now facing layoffs, cutting down the number of employees working in the recruitment team. The cloud of Layoffs 2023 is now hovering on the heads of the employees working at LinkedIn.

Job-providing platform, LinkedIn, sacks employees from its recruitment team

Microsoft's $69 billion purchase of "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard will stifle competition and hurt the gamers, an in-depth investigation in Britain found.

Microsoft’s Activision deal could harm gamers, says UK watchdog in interim report

Microsoft said on Tuesday that it is integrating artificial intelligence into both its Edge Web browser and Bing search engine in an effort to regain market leadership in the consumer technology space.

Microsoft to revamp Bing, Edge with AI integration; eyes to regain lead in consumer tech

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