How Microsoft Is Preparing Its Workforce For The AI Era

Microsoft’s internal AI transformation offers a valuable lesson for every organization: adding AI tools is only the beginning ...
techtimes

Perplexity Launches Legal AI Platform: 20-Model Agent Targets Law Firm Workflows Above Westlaw

Perplexity unveiled Computer for Counsel on June 24 — a legal-specific configuration of its agentic platform that routes tasks across more than 20 frontier AI models while connecting to the document ...
Windows Report

Microsoft Pushes Copilot Prompts Into Edge While Pages Load

Microsoft Edge Canary is testing contextual Copilot prompts that appear while websites load, turning wait time into another opportunity to drive AI engagement.
IEEE

SCSQ-Net: A Shared Kernel Point Convolution Semantic Query Network for Weakly Supervised Classification of Multispectral LiDAR Point Clouds

Abstract: Multispectral LiDAR (MS-LiDAR) point cloud classification holds great potential, but current methods rely heavily on fully supervised learning, requiring costly manual labeling. To address ...
The Straits Times

LinkedIn plans to lay off 5% of staff in latest tech-sector cuts

SAN FRANCISCO – LinkedIn planned to inform staff of layoffs on May 13, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a widening of technology-sector cuts in 2026. The Microsoft-owned social ...
InfoQ

Google BigQuery Adds SQL-Native Managed Inference for Hugging Face Models

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Erik Steiger discusses the operational pain ...
GitHub

Search4Code: Web queries dataset for code search

Search4Code is a large-scale web query based dataset of code search queries for C# and Java. The Search4Code data is mined from Microsoft Bing's anonymized search query logs using weak supervision ...
The Straits Times

Pritam’s conviction has implications for Sylvia Lim, Faisal Manap; will be discussed in Parliament: Indranee

SINGAPORE – Workers’ Party chief Pritam Singh’s conviction has implications for party leaders Sylvia Lim and Faisal Manap, which will be part of upcoming discussions in Parliament, said Leader of the ...
Searchenginejournal.com

Google’s New BlockRank Democratizes Advanced Semantic Search

A new research paper from Google DeepMind proposes a new AI search ranking algorithm called BlockRank that works so well it puts advanced semantic search ranking within reach of individuals and ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Medical School Licenses Consumer Health Content to Microsoft for AI Use in New Deal

Harvard Health Publishing, a division of Harvard Medical School that publishes consumer health resources, has agreed to allow Microsoft to use its content on specific diseases and health topics to ...
Wired

Microsoft Says Its New AI System Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors

Microsoft has taken “a genuine step toward medical superintelligence,” says Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of the company’s artificial intelligence arm. The tech giant says its powerful new AI tool can ...