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Bill Gates plans to press Xi Jinping on global AI safety and restrictions

The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist told Reuters in an interview that he believes China might agree to restrict potentially dangerous AI model releases if the US took initiative.

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates arrives for a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 10, 2026.
Founder of Moonshot AI Yang Zhilin delivers a speech at a conference of 2026 Zhongguancun forum, in Beijing, China March 25, 2026.

China's Moonshot AI negotiates Microsoft, Amazon, Google over Kimi K3 revenue sharing - report

IPO-bound Moonshot is seeking up to a 30% share of revenue generated from K3-related services on Microsoft's Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud.

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A screenshot of a release poster of The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt Remastered.

The Witcher 3 remaster to be released on September 29, ahead of 2027 expansion

"The Witcher 3", a winner of more than 250 Game of the Year awards, is among the world's all-time best-sellers, with more than 65 million copies sold since its launch.

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View of the Assuta medical center in Ramat haHayal, Tel Aviv. June 17, 2025.

Assuta, Microsoft develop AI medical assistant to reduce relieve doctors' documentation tasks

The AI assistant is intended to read the medical record and present key information before a patient meeting, and listen to and transcribe the conversation during the meeting.

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What is Generative AI, the technology behind OpenAI's ChatGPT? - explainer

What is generative AI like ChatGPT and what is it good for?

MARCH 17, 2023ByREUTERS
Artificial Intelligence illustrative.

The AI war: Google invests in start-up of ChatGPT veterans

Google will invest $300 million in a start-up of OpenAI veterans, the developer of ChatGPT, and will own 10% of the company.

MARCH 14, 2023ByYINON BEN SHUSHAN/WALLA!
FILE PHOTO: A Google sign is shown at one of the company's office complexes in Irvine, California, U.S., July 27, 2020.

The quietest place on earth will drive you insane

In 2015, Microsoft built a room that is now officially designated in the Guinness Book of Records as the quietest place on Earth.

FEBRUARY 19, 2023ByWALLA! HEALTH
Radio frequency anechoic chamber, Antennas Research Group, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. The interior surfaces are covered with pyramidal Radiation Absorbent Material (RAM) which are made of rubberized foam impregnated with mixtures of carbon and iron.

Here is everything you need to know about lay-offs and dismissals - explainer

Companies across the world are being forced to lay off thousands of people due to recession.

FEBRUARY 8, 2023ByARONA MASKIL
The Google logo at Alphabet's Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, California, in 2018.

Israel launches Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund

Israel declared it would invest in transforming the country's ecosystem into a global source of inspiration for the development of low-carbon technologies.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022BySHANI ASHKENAZI/GLOBES/TNS
View of the Microsoft offices in Herzliya, Israel, on May 28, 2021

First Excel NFTs include renderings of Ukraine's Zelensky

All proceeds from the first-ever Microsoft Excel NFTs will go to the victims of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

AUGUST 15, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
First Excel NFTs, with some rendering Ukraine's president Zelensky, go on sale.

Why did Russia's cyber warfare against Ukraine fizzle out?

The vice president of the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center grants insight into the sudden lack of aggression from Russia at the war's outbreak.

JUNE 29, 2022ByZACHY HENNESSEY
John Lambert, vice president of the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center

Israeli cloud company CloudZone announces new Portuguese branch

The branch will be headed by former FlipKick CEO Nuno Tavares

JUNE 12, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Attendees at Amazon.com Inc annual cloud computing conference walk past the Amazon Web Services logo in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., November 30, 2017.

Microsoft scales down Russia operations due to Ukraine crisis

"We have made the decision to significantly scale down our operations in Russia," a Microsoft spokesperson said.

JUNE 8, 2022ByREUTERS
Smartphone is seen in front of Microsoft logo displayed in this illustration taken, July 26, 2021.

Microsoft disables Iran-linked hacker group targeting Israeli companies

Lebanon-based POLONIUM group targeted over 20 Israeli companies using Microsoft's OneDrive cloud storage platform.

JUNE 3, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
EVEN AFTER THE Cyberserve/Atraf disaster, Bennett is more afraid of overregulation than he is of lacking the power to save the private sector from its own occasional cyber laziness or cheapness.