May 19, 2020

Microsoft announced the addition of new capabilities to Azure Machine Learning, its cloud-based environment for training, deploying, and managing AI models. WhiteNoise, a toolkit for differential privacy, is now available both through Azure and in open source on GitHub, joining…

May 19, 2020

Microsoft has built one of the top five publicly disclosed supercomputers in the world, making new infrastructure available in Azure to train extremely large artificial intelligence models, the company is announcing at its Build developers conference.

May 19, 2020

Microsoft is introducing a new Microsoft Industry Cloud solution that will integrate the Microsoft Cloud with an industry-specific data model, cross-cloud connectors, workflows and APIs to provide industry solutions aligned to priority scenarios. Healthcare will be the first industry served,…

May 19, 2020

The world after this pandemic will not be the same as the one that came before it. From remote teamwork and telehealth, to supply management and customer service, to critical cloud infrastructure and security—we are working alongside customers every day to…

May 19, 2020

The code for WhiteNoise, the first version of the open source differential privacy platform, is now live on GitHub. The project is jointly developed by Microsoft and Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) and the School of Engineering and…

May 19, 2020

Microsoft is introducing a new Microsoft Industry Cloud solution that will integrate the Microsoft Cloud with an industry-specific data model, cross-cloud connectors, workflows and APIs to provide industry solutions aligned to priority scenarios. Healthcare will be the first industry served,…

May 19, 2020

Bing, with help from Microsoft Research, is using Natural Language Representation (NLR) models to improve the results on each search. On Tuesday the Microsoft search engine introduced a feature that serves a one-word answer for queries, as well as a…

May 19, 2020

As the CEO of the world’s most valuable company, one that works with hundreds of millions of customers and employs more than 150,000 people, Satya Nadella has a unique vantage point for observing technology’s role in combatting Covid-19.