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Microsoft’s controversial claim that its Majorana chip program will make possible a scalable quantum computer by 2029 has been thrown into new doubt by a scientific paper that questions whether the company has correctly interpreted its own experimental evidence. According to a peer-reviewed paper by Dr. Henry Legg from the University of St Andrews, published this week in Nature, Microsoft’s Topological Gap Protocol (TGP) framework, designed to infer the existence of quantum states in theorized Majorana particles, is flawed. “Last year Microsoft claimed they had built the equivalent of a precision Swiss watch. However, when I opened the case to examine the mechanism, I found what looked like a chaotic jumble of mismatched parts,” said Legg. He believed the results gathered from Microsoft’s TGP software data analysis could also be explained by other effects, as well as being skewed by the data chosen for analysis. Because of this, he believed the company’s researchers had jumped to the w
Read full articleThe lawsuit's outcome could redefine copyright norms in AI, impacting media revenue models and setting precedents for content usage rights. The post The New York Times amends lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
In a new court filing, The Times accused Microsoft of encouraging OpenAI to train its A.I. systems using copyrighted articles.
Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5's strong leaderboard debut highlights its potential to reshape enterprise image generation and editing markets. The post Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2.5 lands at #2 in image editing, #3 in text-to-image on global leaderboard appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
RAISE US aims to partner with governors, employers, and training organizations to retrain and redeploy workers displaced or affected by AI, with a goal of raising $1 billion in multi-year commitments — more than half of which has already been secured. Read More
The EU's scrutiny of cloud giants under the DMA could reshape competitive dynamics, impacting market practices and investor strategies. The post Microsoft, Amazon Web Services face EU scrutiny under Digital Markets Act appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
The growing water demands of AI data centers could drive regulatory changes and investor scrutiny, impacting tech industry sustainability practices. The post Google, Amazon, Microsoft address water use amid AI expansion concerns appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft have signed on to an effort led by Gina Raimondo, a former commerce secretary.
Microsoft has been rethinking its commitment to Windows for a while now, with Insider builds of the operating system showing a swing away from web-based user experiences and back to native code. That commitment got a boost at Build 2026 with a bundle of announcements that focused on tools and features that help developers take advantage of the platform. The most obvious is support for the standard core Unix utilities, in the shape of a Microsoft-maintained fork of the popular Rust-based uutils coreutils package, Coreutils for Windows. Coreutils for Windows installs as a single binary, making it easier to update and manage. And it is one of those tools that does exactly what it says on the tin, providing a Windows implementation of the commands you’re using in Linux virtual machines or in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Building on Windows Terminal with Coreutils Much of the Windows developer experience has moved back to the command line via Windows’ rearchitected terminal, underscor
