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Microsoft AI News: Week Ending 07/26/2024

July 26, 2024

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The Bookseller – News – Academic authors ‘shocked’ after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/academic-authors-shocked-after-taylor–francis-sells-access-to-their-research-to-microsoft-ai

Introducing Bing generative search | Bing Search Blog

https://blogs.bing.com/search/July-2024/generativesearch

Microsoft collaborates with Mass General Brigham and University of Wisconsin–Madison to further advance AI foundation models for medical imaging – Stories

https://news.microsoft.com/2024/07/24/microsoft-collaborates-with-mass-general-brigham-and-university-of-wisconsin-madison-to-further-advance-ai-foundation-models-for-medical-imaging

“Microsoft researchers just published new research introducing ‘SpreadsheetLLM’ and ‘SheetCompressor’ It encodes spreadsheet data into a format that can be used by LLMs to process and understand spreadsheets better

Microsoft researchers just published new research introducing 'SpreadsheetLLM' and 'SheetCompressor'

It encodes spreadsheet data into a format that can be used by LLMs to process and understand spreadsheets better pic.twitter.com/VqDlCkapQb
— Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) July 21, 2024

Microsoft aims to boost AI workload capacity with Lumen partnership By Reuters

https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/microsoft-aims-to-boost-ai-workload-capacity-with-lumen-technologies-partnership-3533371

“Multiple folks at four major AI labs I’ve spoken to really think the exponential continues for the next couple years. (Only person I feel ok naming is Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft, as that was public) Skepticism is fine & warranted. But consider what ifs

Multiple folks at four major AI labs I’ve spoken to really think the exponential continues for the next couple years. (Only person I feel ok naming is Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft, as that was public)

Skepticism is fine & warranted. But consider what ifs https://t.co/qYBfpp7A7u
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) July 23, 2024

Microsoft is adding AI-powered summaries to Bing search results

https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-is-adding-ai-powered-summaries-to-bing-search-results-203053790.html

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AI News #43: Week Ending 07/26/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 97 Links

The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

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