Microsoft has launched an Africa AI offensive, targeting 3 million users for training in 2026 while partnering with MTN to counter DeepSeek's growing dominance.
TL;DR: Microsoft's Connected Experiences feature in Office apps like Word and Excel allegedly collects data for AI training, according to nixCraft. However, Microsoft denies using customer data for ...
Rumors online have suggested for months that Microsoft could be using your Word data to train its artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs). Microsoft, however, says it doesn't use ...
Microsoft is furiously denying accusations that it is scraping Microsoft 365 user data to train its AI models. The grumblings started when users reported on social media that they had been ...
On the 16th of September, 2021, we launched the #Digitalforall Challenge – a free digital skilling initiative and competition designed to drive engagement of young people in the digital economy across ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Microsoft aims to provide 1 million people in South Africa with artificial intelligence (AI) and cyber security training opportunities by 2026, Lillian Barnard, President for ...
Microsoft is one of the tech giants running the ongoing AI race aggressively. But, that doesn’t mean it can’t be the topic of controversy. Allegedly, Microsoft Office quietly enabled a feature letting ...
LinkedIn is under fire for "quietly" rolling out a new feature that allows AI models to access your data for training without consent. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
Microsoft isn't training its AI models on Microsoft 365 users' documents, the company clarified this week. After a slew of social media posts misinterpreted 365's "connected experiences" feature, ...
Following backlash in a Hacker News thread, Microsoft deleted a blog post that critics said encouraged developers to pirate Harry Potter books to train AI models that could then be used to create AI ...
Just a few hours after David Sacks claimed DeepSeek used OpenAI’s models to train its own models, Bloomberg Law reports that Microsoft is investigating DeepSeek’s use of OpenAI’s application ...