Windsurf was a rising artificial intelligence (AI) start-up – until it wasn’t. Days after OpenAI’s US$3 billion acquisition deal collapsed, Windsurf’s founders and top researchers joined Google DeepMind under a non-exclusive licensing agreement. What remained was sold to another company. Windsurf, as an independent innovator, ceased to exist. This is how many AI start-ups today…
A US lawmaker is pushing the Pentagon for more transparency regarding information shared with Chinese engineers under a cloud computing services contract with Microsoft. According to a report, Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) has sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, requesting detailed information on the extent of access Chinese engineers had to US military…
US President Donald Trump has urged American technology giants to halt overseas hiring practices, including those in India and China, and instead focus on creating jobs at home, reported India Today. The publication added that the remarks were made during a high-profile Artificial Intelligence (AI) Summit held in Washington on Wednesday, where Trump took aim…
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a directive late last week ordering the Pentagon’s chief information officer to take additional measures to ensure the department’s technology is protected from the influence of top adversaries. The secretary’s order, signed Friday but first made public Tuesday, came after an eye-opening investigation by ProPublica revealed Microsoft had been…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has joined its US peers Microsoft and IBM in downsizing artificial intelligence research activities in mainland China amid ongoing geopolitical tensions. The company has decided to close its seven-year-old AI Shanghai Lablet due to “China-US strategic realignment”, according to Wang Minjie, the facility’s chief applied scientist, in an announcement posted on…
The US National Nuclear Security Administration was among more than 100 organisations worldwide compromised in a sweeping cyberattack exploiting flaws in Microsoft‘s SharePoint software, with the tech giant attributing the breaches to Chinese state-sponsored hacking groups.Microsoft identified three China-linked groups—Linen Typhoon, Violet Typhoon, and Storm-2603—as exploiting critical vulnerabilities in SharePoint servers that rendered customers running…
Microsoft is now changing its workforce assignments, and it will no longer assign China-based engineers to work on products and services that are being used by the US Department of Defense. This came after a recent exposé report, which discovered that Microsoft employed engineers in China and tasked them to work on the company’s services…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Microsoft has issued an alert about “active attacks” on server software used by government agencies and businesses to share documents within organizations, and it recommended security updates that customers should apply immediately. The FBI on Sunday said it is aware of the attacks and is working closely with its federal and private-sector partners,…
WASHINGTON Microsoft has said it is making sure that personnel based in China are not providing technical support for U.S. Defense Department systems, after investigative news site ProPublica revealed the practice. Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth confirmed that work on Defense Department cloud services had been outsourced to people in China, insisting that the country will…
Microsoft founder Bill Gates once said that Elon is “super mean” and that he can not be taken ‘too personally’. The remark was made by Gates in Walter Isaacson’s 2023 biography of the Tesla CEO, highlighting what can be considered as one of the most high-profile billionaire feuds in recent memory. Fallout between Bill Gates…