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Inside Microsoft’s AI-Powered Global Biodiversity Monitoring
Microsoft’s AI-powered SPARROW uses solar-powered edge computing and satellite connectivity to monitor and identify biodiversity in real time worldwide
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Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
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New cohort of AI Economy Institute Fellows to examine frontier AI firms and the transformation of work
The AI Economy Institute (AIEI) is launching its third cohort of researchers, advancing our mission to understand the adoption of artificial intelligence across economies, industries, and communities.
Information-flow control: Moving towards secure, autonomous agents
A deterministic security system, information-flow control (IFC) offers a promising path towards secure and autonomous agents. When agents can take high-stakes actions like sending an email, sharing a business document, or opening a pull request,…
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How AI Companies Can Pay Fair Rates for the Content They Need
The fight over the data that trains artificial intelligence has become one of the defining economic conflicts of the decade. Publishers, authors, and visual artists argue that their work was taken without permission or payment.…
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Silicon Valley Needs to Get God
POPE LEO XIV recently presented the Catholic Church’s first encyclical on digital technology, Magnifica Humanitas. Silicon Valley’s atheist critics complained that the Holy Father had missed a chance to humble humanity before artificial superintelligence. Yet…
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Announcing Microsoft Discovery general availability and Microsoft Discovery app preview
Today at Microsoft Build, we are announcing that Microsoft Discovery is now generally available for all organizations, providing a comprehensive platform for building and governing agentic AI workflows across scientific and engineering disciplines. We are also introducing…
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Why better AI starts with the people it often misses
Ask an AI tool for a picture of “someone at work,” and you’ll often get a person at a desk, in front of a computer, maybe holding a coffee cup. When people with disabilities appear…
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【“科学版ChatGPT”が夢の新素材を生み出す現場】Microsoft研究員「サイエンスは黄金期の入口」／今井翔太も“極秘ラボ”に大興奮／次のノーベル賞は“科学者AI”が来る？【AI QUEST】
AI研究者の今井翔太さんと知能の未来について探求する「AI QUEST」 海外ロケ特別編【Microsoftシアトル本社直撃取材】の第3弾をお届けします。