Satya’s sacrifice: Why agents threaten Office and how Microsoft responds

In that world, Office starts to look like the logic tier, and the “ CRUD database ” becomes the Office file format. The sandworm represents the existential threat to Microsoft’s productivity franchise ...

Microsoft urges major changes to Washington data center regulations as bill nears final vote

After weeks on the sidelines, Microsoft publicly declared its opposition to a bill that aims to rein in the environmental and ...

Microsoft's new AI training method eliminates bloated system prompts without sacrificing model performance

Microsoft researchers have developed On-Policy Context Distillation (OPCD), a training method that permanently embeds ...
New Scientist

Data centres could store information in glass for thousands of years

Microsoft researchers have developed a technology that writes data into glass with lasers, raising the prospect of robotic libraries full of glass tablets packed with data ...
IEEE

Enhancing the Teaching of Data Structures and Algorithms using AI Chatbots

Abstract: This paper explores the potential of AI chatbots in enhancing the teaching of data structures and algorithms (DSA) in computer science education. We present our experience using AI chatbots ...
The New York Times

Microsoft Continues to Spend Big on A.I. While Profit Jumps 60%

The company said on Wednesday that revenue in the most recent quarter was $81.3 billion, but its share price dropped more than 7 percent in after-hours trading. By Natallie Rocha Reporting from San ...
The New York Times

There’s a New American TikTok. What Does That Mean for You?

The popular short form video app has a new corporate structure in the United States, which could result in some changes for the 200 million Americans who use TikTok. By Emmett Lindner TikTok has new ...
AOL

Profit Alert: Netflix Goes All-Cash, Microsoft Cracks Healthcare AI, and How You Win

Netflix (NFLX) revised its Warner Bros. Discovery bid to $83B all-cash, ditching the cash-and-stock structure. Meta solved short-form video monetization with most Instagram ads now running on Reels.
GitHub

Data Structures and Algorithms

These notes can be used to find top patterns for each category. Note that reading these notes can be much faster than watching videos. Moreover, it can take only take an evening to refresh your ...
Reuters

Microsoft rolls out initiative to limit data-center power costs, water use impact

Jan 13 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab on Tuesday unveiled an initiative to curb water usage at its U.S. data centers and limit the impact on the general population from any potential ...
Microsoft

A Scalable Algorithm for Fair Influence Maximization with Unbiased Estimator

This paper studies the fair influence maximization problem with efficient algorithms. In particular, given a graph G, a community structure C consisting of disjoint communities, and a budget k, the ...