Microsoft doesn’t want any of this

Microsoft has unveiled a new AI-driven vulnerability discovery system that identified 16 previously unknown Windows vulnerabilities, including four critical remote code execution flaws, in what security analysts say could mark a major shift in how software vulnerabilities are discovered and remediated. The system, codenamed MDASH, was developed by Microsoft’s Autonomous Code Security team alongside the Windows Attack Research and Protection group. The platform will enter private preview for enterprise customers next month, Microsoft said in a blog post announcing the system. The vulnerabilities were patched as part of Microsoft’s May 12 Patch Tuesday release. “Cyber defenders are facing an increasingly asymmetric battle,” Microsoft added in the blog post. “Attackers are using AI to increase the speed, scale, and sophistication of attacks.” Critical Windows components affected The four critical vulnerabilities affected core Windows components broadly deployed across enterprise environme

OpenAI's renegotiated deal with Microsoft enhances financial predictability, potentially boosting investor confidence and market expansion. The post OpenAI saves $97B through 2030 in renegotiated Microsoft deal appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

It feels like the world’s longest and most public divorce: In late April, Microsoft and OpenAI once again renegotiated the slow-motion breakup that has been playing out between the two over the last several years. At first glance, it looks like a win-win. In the broadest terms, OpenAI gets more freedom to set its own course — it can sell its models to Microsoft competitors such as Amazon and Google, for example — while Microsoft gets a better revenue deal and first rights to the newest OpenAI technologies into the next decade.  But in truth, one company got a better deal than the other. Who came out ahead? To figure that out, we first need to look at the most important details of the new agreement.  A new deal after a lot of rancor Keep in mind that this new agreement didn’t arise from thin air. It’s a direct result of Microsoft’s threats in March to sue OpenAI when inked a $50 billion deal with Amazon that makes the latter company the only third-party cloud provider ⁠for ⁠OpenAI’s ent

Tests of how well 19 large language models (LLMs) complete and perform complicated multi-step tasks has shown that they are both error-prone and, in many cases, unreliable. The findings are contained a preprint paper, LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate, written by Microsoft researchers  Philippe Laban, Tobias Schnabel and Jennifer Neville based on a benchmark they created called DELEGATE-52 that allowed them to simulate workflows that might be part of a knowledge worker’s tasks. The paper is currently under review. They said that the benchmark contains 310 work environments across 52 professional domains including coding, crystallography, genealogy and music sheet notation. Each environment consists of real documents totaling around 15K tokens in length, and five to 10 complex editing tasks that a user might ask an LLM to perform. And, they stated in the paper’s abstract: “Our analysis shows that current LLMs are unreliable delegates: they introduce sparse but severe errors

Tests of how well 19 large language models (LLMs) complete and perform complicated multi-step tasks has shown that they are both error-prone and, in many cases, unreliable. The findings are contained a preprint paper, LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate, written by Microsoft researchers  Philippe Laban, Tobias Schnabel and Jennifer Neville based on a benchmark they created called DELEGATE-52 that allowed them to simulate workflows that might be part of a knowledge worker’s tasks. The paper is currently under review. They said that the benchmark contains 310 work environments across 52 professional domains including coding, crystallography, genealogy and music sheet notation. Each environment consists of real documents totaling around 15K tokens in length, and five to 10 complex editing tasks that a user might ask an LLM to perform. And, they stated in the paper’s abstract: “Our analysis shows that current LLMs are unreliable delegates: they introduce sparse but severe errors

The technology giant’s chief executive faced a grilling in court over whether it exerted too much control over what was meant to be an A.I. nonprofit.

Elon Musk’s lawyer argued that Microsoft’s Satya Nadella played a role in getting Mr. Altman his job back at OpenAI when he was briefly fired in 2023.

Microsoft chief explains his decision to back AI lab’s boss in 2023 coup attempt during testimony in Elon Musk’s lawsuit