Simulated students that make realistic mistakes help AI tutors learn faster
Microsoft and UIUC introduced StudentSim, an AI system using digital student replicas to rapidly train and evaluate personal AI tutors.
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Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
Unsealed court filings reveal internal Microsoft and OpenAI warnings that web scraping for AI models poses existential risks to publishers.
OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
Unsealed court filings show internal concerns at Microsoft and OpenAI regarding AI web scraping and fair use limits.
Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Unsealed court documents reveal internal warnings at Microsoft and OpenAI that scraping publisher data for AI model training threatened fair use defenses.
Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman criticized Anthropic's focus on model welfare while outlining Microsoft's 'Humanist AI' alignment principles.
Microsoft says ‘people matter more than AI’ following safety concerns
Microsoft's new Humanist AI code mandates strict human oversight and rejects agent autonomy that compromises safety.
Anthropic’s 3-Step ‘Pace the Frontier’ Plan Wins OpenAI, xAI and Microsoft Support: Is It Too Late to Slow AI Down?
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls for slowing frontier AI progress, gaining support from OpenAI, xAI, and Microsoft amid safety concerns.
Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy
Microsoft issued a record 972 vulnerability fixes in September as tech giants face an influx of AI-generated software exploits.
Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement
The Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, seeking damages and the destruction of AI models trained on their reporting.
Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot
Microsoft legal filings reveal fewer than 1% of analyzed Copilot chats contained 16 or more matching words from news content.
Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a ‘distraction-free Windows experience’ for developers
Microsoft unveiled Project Zenith, a developer-centric Windows setup paired with high-memory hardware to run 30B+ parameter AI models locally.
Sparks Fly: NVIDIA Accelerates Local AI at IFA 2026
Nvidia and Microsoft teamed up at IFA 2026 to launch one-click local setup for major AI agent applications on Windows.
GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Toward population-scale discovery with efficient pathology foundation models
Microsoft released GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash under open licenses to drastically reduce computational costs for population-scale pathology research.