Microsoft’s complicated partnership with OpenAI concerns insiders claiming it’s become “a glorified IT department for the hot startup”

What you need to know In the past few years, Microsoft has worked closely with OpenAI to further its advances in the generative AI landscape across its products and services, especially after making a multi-billion investment. Microsoft Insiders recently lodged complaints citing that the tech giant is leaning on OpenAI for its AI advances, seemingly […]

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App Developers Can Now Sign Up for Consultations on Complicated EU App Ecosystem Changes

Apple this week announced that developers can sign up to meet with an Apple team member to discuss the changes being made to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union. Developers can request a 30-minute online consultation to ask questions and provide feedback about Apple’s changes. Topics of discussion include alternative distribution […]

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Are Microsoft and OpenAI too close? UK CMA will look into the complicated partnership that could forge the future of AI.

What you need to know The UK Competition and Markets Authority has invited comments on the partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft. Microsoft and OpenAI have a complex relationship, including Microsoft investing billions of dollars in OpenAI and having a 49 percent stake in OpenAI’s for-profit arm. OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman almost joined Microsoft […]

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Why Is Europe’s Latest Heat Wave Called Cerberus? It’s Complicated

The current heat wave in Italy is “very unusual,” says Mercalli, because of its long duration: The heat event is expected to last roughly two weeks. A study published in May estimated that, until the late 1990s, the average European heat wave would last one week or less, but this has since increased significantly due […]

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Quantum Break disappearing from Xbox Game Pass is a complicated licensing issue

What you need to know Quantum Break is a 2016 game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Xbox Game Studios.  A recent listing in the Xbox Game Pass home tab showed that Quantum Break was leaving Xbox Game Pass.  Microsoft has confirmed that Quantum Break should return to the service after resolving licensing issues. […]

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Greenland’s Melting Glaciers Spew a Complicated Treasure: Sand

That sediment is special, indeed. Desert sand from, say, the Sahara is no good for making concrete because it’s too rounded and uniform. Over millennia, winds push those grains around, polishing them. If you make concrete out of such sand, “it’s almost like building with marbles,” says Bendixen. “You want particles that are more angular […]

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The Origins of Covid-19 Are More Complicated Than Once Thought

In October 2014, virologist Edward Holmes took a tour of the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, a once relatively overlooked city of about 11 million people in the central Chinese province of Hubei. The market would have presented a bewildering environment for the uninitiated: rows of stalls selling unfamiliar creatures for food, both dead […]

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Is the Seagate Xbox Storage Expansion Card now worth it? It’s complicated.

Source: Matt Brown | Windows Central It’s been some time since Microsoft launched the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S consoles, its duo of next-gen gaming devices, promising the latest leap in power for the living room. There are also more games than ever before, but with file sizes on the rise, each eats […]

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