A digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica has been created using artificial intelligence to explore one of the world’s most important monument’s.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft , including of its software licensing and cloud computing businesses, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

Autonomous agents, consumption-based infrastructure, and improved governance were the key themes at Microsoft Ignite 2024.

Microsoft has denied claims that it uses Microsoft 365 apps (including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) to collect data to train the company's artificial intelligence (AI) models.

In the latest controversy, Microsoft has refuted the claim stating that it doesn't use Word documents or Excel data to train its AI models.

Microsoft's 'optional' Connected Experiences enable Microsoft to use Excel and Word files to train its AI technology, but it is possible to turn this feature off.

All of the recent hullabaloo surrounding Microsoft 365's 'connected experiences' has been a misunderstanding, per the company.

People are increasingly worried about how AI affects them. Will our jobs become obsolete? Are we constantly being tracked online and in the real world? Most recently, people have raised concerns about whether our creative and professional work is being used to train large language models.

Microsoft has put a total of $4 million on the table for any hackers who think they can find zero-day vulnerabilities in cloud and AI products.

Microsoft unveiled Aurora in June, an AI model that draws on atmospheric data. The company said in a blog post introducing the model that a team of researchers developed it to forecast in the most challenging conditions, for regions without much data and during extreme weather scenarios.