Anthropic, a new startup from former GPT-3 researchers that aims to build large-scale, general AI systems, raises $124M Series A led by Skype's Jaan Tallinn
As AI has grown from a menagerie of research projects to include a handful of titanic, industry-powering models like GPT-3 …
Microsoft announces Microsoft Audience Network, an AI-based platform for advertisers that uses data from Bing, Outlook, Skype, and others to target audiences
Microsoft, which has quietly built a $6.9 billion/year advertising business through its Bing search engine, will attempt to expand …
Starship Technologies launches autonomous robot delivery services aimed at corporate and academic campuses in Europe and US with ~1K robots rolling out in 2018
Starship Technologies, a robotics startup created by Skype's cofounders, has launched a large-scale commercial autonomous delivery service aimed …
Skype partners with Open Whisper Systems, which makes Signal, to begin testing of end-to-end encrypted “Private Conversations”
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Salesforce and Microsoft broaden partnership, which will include integration of Skype, OneNote, and new Salesforce 1 Mobile app for Windows 10 for cloud tools
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Cyanogen partners with Microsoft to bundle and create native integrations of Bing, Skype, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook, and Office on Cyanogen OS
Microsoft will bundle its apps on Cyanogen's Android OS — Rumors of a Microsoft and Cyanogen partnership have been making the rounds recently …
Microsoft partners with Dell, Pegatron, and eight regional OEMs to preinstall Office and Skype on Android devices; expands partnership with Samsung to tablets
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