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Microsoft Says It's Google's Fault You Can't Buy Xbox Games On Its App
- Microsoft blames Google for the delay in selling Xbox games on its app on Android devices.
- The delay is due to an administrative stay granted by the courts following Epic's lawsuit against Google.
- Microsoft has the functionality ready, but is waiting for court approval.
- Google argues that the 30% fee it charges for in-app purchases is necessary for customer security.
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Copilot and Mesh: A World of Possibilities
- AI has the potential to enhance experiences within Microsoft Mesh.
- Avatar generation and text-to-speech capabilities can make avatars in Mesh more lifelike.
- AI-driven tools like Copilot can revolutionize environment building and customization.
- AI-driven agents in Mesh can assist with meeting facilitation, provide real-time feedback, and create adaptive learning paths.
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Microsoft Is The Subject Of An FTC Antitrust Investigation Into Its Business Practices
- The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft.
- The investigation includes Microsoft's cloud computing, software licensing, cybersecurity, and AI products.
- Lawyers for the FTC will meet with Microsoft's competitors to gather more information.
- This investigation comes decades after the government sued Microsoft over similar conduct.
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Node.js and the Javascript Ecosystem with Gil Tayar
- Gil Tayar, Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, joins the show to discuss his contributions to the Node.js ecosystem.
- He added support for ECMAScript Modules in Node.js to Mocha and TestDouble.
- Josh Goldberg, an independent full-time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem, also joins the discussion.
- They talk about monorepos vs polyrepos, the state of JavaScript, and more.
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Microsoft faces broad antitrust investigation from US FTC
- The US Federal Trade Commission has opened an antitrust investigation of Microsoft Corp.
- The investigation includes scrutiny of Microsoft's cloud computing, software licensing, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence businesses.
- FTC antitrust lawyers are meeting with Microsoft competitors to gather more information about the company's business practices.
- The probe focuses on Microsoft's bundling of office productivity and security software with its cloud offerings, which competitors argue makes it harder for them to compete.
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Every App is Now an AI App
- Microsoft introduced Azure AI Foundry at its Ignite 2024 event
- Azure AI Foundry is a platform for designing, customising and managing AI apps and agents
- The platform is intended for use by workers beyond AI engineers and developers, including business leaders and IT professionals who can access tools that provide insights into AI's impact on their business
- Meanwhile, Amazon Bedrock provides access to foundational models from third-party providers and its own models like Titan
- While Azure AI Foundry mainly uses OpenAI's models like GPT, Bedrock offers more flexibility in terms of model customisation for complex workflows
- Both Azure AI Foundry and Bedrock operate on a pay-as-you-go pricing model
- At Ignite 2024, Microsoft also integrated Azure AI with GitHub and Copilot Studio
- The platform provides over 1,800 AI models for experimentation and simplifies AI integration
- The Azure AI Foundry SDK provides a simplified coding experience that merges components together to build AI apps
- Jessica Hawk, Microsoft's corporate VP of data, AI and digital applications, said the platform was designed to overcome barriers to AI adoption
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FTC reportedly opens antitrust investigation into Microsoft
- The FTC has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft.
- The investigation focuses on potential antitrust violations in Microsoft's public cloud, AI, and cybersecurity product lines.
- The FTC is particularly interested in the bundling of Microsoft's cloud products with its office and security tools.
- The investigation comes at a time when the FTC's chair, Lina Khan, is expected to depart with the incoming administration of Donald Trump.
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Rumour – Forza Horizon 5 Is Ready To Come To PS5 At Xbox’s Convenience
- Rumour suggests that Forza Horizon 5 is ready to come to PS5 at Xbox's convenience.
- Leaker eXtas1s claims that Forza Horizon 5 was delayed but is ready to arrive on PS5.
- Forza being one of Xbox's biggest franchises, rumors have been circulating about its arrival on PS5.
- If Forza Horizon 5 does come to PlayStation, it will be interesting to compare it with Gran Turismo.
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FTC reportedly launches antitrust investigation into Microsoft’s cloud, AI and cybersecurity practices
- The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft’s cloud computing, software licensing, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence offerings.
- The investigation includes allegations of Microsoft abusing its market power by imposing licensing terms to prevent data migration from Azure to other platforms.
- The FTC is also scrutinizing Microsoft's cybersecurity business and AI products in addition to licensing conditions.
- The investigation is accompanied by a detailed request to obtain information from Microsoft.
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OpenAI Targets $100 Billion Revenue Amid AI Spending ‘Paradigm Shift’
- OpenAI aims to achieve $100 billion in revenue by 2029 amid a paradigm shift in corporate AI spending.
- The company is landing new contracts with healthcare, manufacturing, and legal companies.
- OpenAI is expanding its sales team, which now accounts for almost 20% of its workforce.
- The company focuses on security and compliance to compete with Microsoft and Google in the corporate AI market.
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Google’s plan to keep AI out of search trial remedies isn’t going very well
- US District Judge Amit Mehta suggested that Google's AI products may be restricted as a remedy in the search monopoly trial
- Judge Mehta wants to understand the role of AI in Google's search empire during the remedies stage of litigation
- The emergence of AI products that mimic search engines is rapidly changing the search market
- AI is expected to have a larger role in the remedy phase of the trial than it did in the liability phase
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How Trump's Tariffs Could Cost Gamers Billions
- The proposed new tariffs could harm the video game industry and cost gamers billions of dollars.
- In 2019, Trump was delayed in implementing tariffs on popular consumer devices such as laptops and video game consoles.
- The new proposed tariffs include a 60% import tax on anything assembled in China, and a 10-20% tax on anything made outside the United States.
- 40% of the costs of tariffs will be passed onto consumers for gaming consoles and related products, according to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).
- Gaming consoles such as the Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PlayStation would see significant increases in price due to the proposed tariffs.
- Higher hardware costs could cause players to move towards cloud gaming and other accessibilities.
- Physical games could end faster as players prefer tariff-exempt digital downloads and cheaper, digital-only versions of the existing PlayStation and Xbox consoles.
- The tariffs could harm the video game industry, including publishers, game studios, and related businesses.
- Some experts suggest that companies should increase imports and shift manufacturing capacity to other countries like India.
- Historically, Trump has been known to back off major tariffs in exchange for minor trading concessions from other countries.
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Microsoft AI Introduces LazyGraphRAG: A New AI Approach to Graph-Enabled RAG that Needs No Prior Summarization of Source Data
- Microsoft researchers have introduced LazyGraphRAG, a novel system that removes the need for expensive initial data summarization, reducing indexing costs to nearly the same level as vector RAG.
- LazyGraphRAG employs an iterative deepening approach that combines best-first and breadth-first search strategies, achieving efficiency while maintaining quality.
- LazyGraphRAG achieves answer quality comparable to GraphRAG's global search but at 0.1% of its indexing cost, outperforming other competing systems on local and global queries.
- LazyGraphRAG represents a groundbreaking advancement in retrieval-augmented generation, providing a cost-effective and scalable solution for extracting insights from vast datasets.
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Inflection CEO says it’s done trying to make next generation AI models
- Inflection AI, once known for its next-generation AI models, has shifted its focus and is no longer competing in that space.
- After Microsoft hired Inflection's former CEO and acquired the startup, Inflection has pivoted toward serving enterprise customers and acquiring AI startups.
- Inflection's new CEO, Sean White, emphasizes that they are no longer trying to make the next generation of AI models but are still competing in the enterprise market.
- Inflection believes that current AI models are sufficient for enterprise needs and questions the value of test-time compute scaling as the next generation of AI models.
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Esker Integrates Accounts Payable Solution With Microsoft ERPs
- Esker integrates its Accounts Payable solution with Microsoft ERPs
- Integration with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central enabled through Esker's Connectivity Suite
- Seamless real-time connectivity optimizes business operations and saves time
- Benefits include automated processes, enhanced cash flow, and improved reporting
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