As AI reshapes work, Microsoft and UW expand partnership for training, research — and a looming jobs gap

The University of Washington and Microsoft are deepening their partnership with a new effort aimed at preparing Washington ...

Microsoft quietly removes an AI blog post after realizing "pirating the Harry Potter books" isn't a great look

The dataset was deleted late last week after the outlet reached out to Shubham Maindola, a data scientist in India with no known affiliations to Microsoft. “The dataset was marked as Public Domain by ...
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Microsoft Sovereign Cloud adds governance, productivity and support for large AI models securely running even when completely disconnected

As digital sovereignty becomes a strategic requirement, organizations are rethinking how they deploy critical infrastructure and AI capabilities under tighter regulatory expectations and higher risk ...

Microsoft deletes blog telling users to train AI on pirated Harry Potter books

The blog recommended that users learn to train their own AI models by downloading the Harry Potter dataset and then uploading text files to Azure Blob Storage. It included example models based on a ...