Microsoft is advocating that Congress become involved in regulating facial-recognition technology, on the heels of criticism of potentially negative impacts of its own work in that area.
Microsoft's LinkedIn unit has developed a new dynamic translation service for posts in the LinkedIn news feed, and used some of Microsoft's cognitive services to build it.
Microsoft is buying one of the AI companies in which it has invested: Bonsai, a deep reinforcement platform for enterprise/industrial applications.
Microsoft may be looking to get more involved in the checkout-free retail space, a market where Amazon has been making its mark as of late.
Chris Jones, the director of Microsoft's HealthCare NExT incubator has left the company after 26 years in various posts across the company.
Microsoft is touting the 'full duplex' conversational capabilities of its Chinese chatbot, Xiaoice, while promising similar functionality will come soon to its Zo.ai bot.
Microsoft is extending its work in building custom virtual-support agents by working with Accenture and Avanade to build more vertical AI services.
Microsoft's new unified Speech Service and development platform aim to bring together the many different speech services used across Microsoft's own products and services.
Microsoft is shifting the way it is thinking about, positioning and building out Cortana. Cortana product chief Javier Soltero explains the new strategy.
Microsoft's project to run fast AI tasks on FPGAs in Azure is starting to come to fruition, with testers starting to get access to the first pieces now.