Microsoft says Iranian hacking group targeting US election

Microsoft says Iranian hacking group targeting US election

Microsoft says Iranian hackers have conducted surveillance on US election-related websites and media outlets. The software company has warned that this could be a prelude to direct influence operations with just under two weeks to go until the presidential election. Ira Spitzer reports.

October 24, 2024 20

Business / Economics

US company Nvidia becomes most valuable public company

Nvidia has overtaken Microsoft and Apple to become the world's most valuable public company.The computer chip maker — at the heart of the artificial intelligence boom — now has an overall market valuation of $3.34 trillion USD. Benji Hyer reports.

June 20, 2024 25

Science & Technology

Microsoft to invest $3.2 bn in AI in Sweden

Microsoft said Monday it would invest 33.7 billion kronor ($3.2 billion) over two years in cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Sweden, the US company said in a statement. The group will train 250,000 people by 2027 to boost AI knowledge and competence and also increase capacity at its three data centres in the country, the statement said, adding that the investment was Microsoft's biggest ever in Sweden. […]

June 3, 2024 40

Africa

Global tech giants in Africa AI gold rush

By Conrad Onyango, bird story agency Global technology giants including Microsoft, IBM, Huawei, Nvidia, and Google are lining up to tap into a multi-billion dollar opportunity in the nascent Artificial Intelligence (AI) market. The five multinationals tops the list of more than 100 tech companies across the globe that will feature in the ‘AI Everything’ forum in this year’s GITEX Africa 2024, the continent's premier tech and […]

May 2, 2024 24

Africa

Undersea cables for Africa’s internet retrace history and leave digital gaps as they connect continents

By Jess Auerbach Jahajeeah, University of Cape Town Large parts of west and central Africa, as well as some countries in the south of the continent, were left without internet services on 14 March because of failures on four of the fibre optic cables that run below the world’s oceans. Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Ghana, Burkina Faso and South Africa were among the worst affected. By midday […]

March 18, 2024 9

World

Open AI launches ‘app store’ for chatbots

OpenAI has launched a new marketplace where users can buy and sell custom artificial intelligence chatbots. The ChatGPT creator will make the new GPT store available to premium subscribers. Ira Spitzer has more.

January 11, 2024 15

Business / Economics

Amazon unveils new chips as Microsoft rivalry heats up

Amazon's cloud computing arm has unveiled new chips designed to help customers train artificial intelligence models. It follows a similar announcement from Microsoft earlier this month as the race to develop custom silicon chips heats up. Ira Spitzer reports.

November 29, 2023 15

Business / Economics

Sam Altman back at OpenAI with new board & support from Microsoft

The fired CEO of OpenAI - maker of ChatGPT - is returning to his role, after he was reinstated by the board. Divisions over how much risk to take with the future of Artificial Intelligence were exposed during the almost week-long saga. Caroline Malone reports.

November 23, 2023 12

Business / Economics

Standoff continues at OpenAI

More than 700 members of staff at OpenAI - almost the entire workforce - have now signed a letter calling for the company's board to bring back ousted CEO Sam Altman. The employees say the board is incapable of overseeing AI and should resign. Microsoft has already given Altman a job heading up a new AI department. Our US correspondent Nick Harper reports.

November 22, 2023 16