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  • The Acitvision Blizzard Call of Duty game is seen in the Apple App Store in this photo illustration on 13 March, 2023 in Warsaw, Poland.Finance

    Microsoft gets rare second chance for $69 billion Activision merger approval from U.K. regulators

    By Katharine Gemmell, Dina Bass, and others
  • Satya NadellaTech

    Microsoft will charge you $30 per month to use A.I. tools with Office—on top of what you already pay

    By Dina Bass and Bloomberg
  • SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 24: Tesla CEO Elon Musk leaves the Phillip Burton Federal Building on January 24, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Musk testified at a trial regarding a lawsuit that has investors suing Tesla and Musk over his August 2018 tweets saying he was taking Tesla private with funding that he had secured. The tweet was found to be false and cost shareholders billions of dollars when Tesla’s stock price began to fluctuate wildly allegedly based on the tweet. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Tech

    Feud erupts between Elon Musk and Microsoft—with one side threatening to sue the other for ‘illegally’ using its data

    By Dina Bass and Bloomberg
  • Executive at computerFinance

    Execs could start using a ChatGPT-powered bot to call the shots for your company’s budget

    By Dina Bass and Bloomberg
  • Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., speaks during the virtual Meta Connect event in New York, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. Zuckerberg unveiled his company’s newest virtual-reality headset, the Meta Quest Pro, the latest foray into the world of high-end VR devices that Meta Platforms hopes will entice creators and working professionals to adopt its vision for a virtual future. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Mark Zuckerberg responds to the ChatGPT A.I. race with a new offering from Meta: Meet LLaMA

    By Kurt Wagner, Dina Bass, and others
  • Sam Altman, chief executive officer and co-founder of OpenAI, speaks during an event at the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, US, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Microsoft unveiled new versions of its Bing internet-search engine and Edge browser powered by the newest technology from ChatGPT maker OpenAI. Photographer: Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Buzzy ChatGPT chatbot is so error-prone that its maker just publicly promised to fix the tech’s ‘glaring and subtle biases’

    By Dina Bass and Bloomberg
  • Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft CorpTech

    Microsoft just unveiled its big play for A.I. with a new and improved search engine: ‘This technology is going to reshape pretty much every software category’

    By Dina Bass and Bloomberg
  • A phone with the ChatGPT logo i front of a screen with a brain illustration.Tech

    It’s raining money for ChatGPT company OpenAI as Microsoft officially throws down a $10 billion investment

    By Dina Bass and Bloomberg
  • Satya NadellaTech

    Microsoft and Amazon just began cutting 28,000 jobs combined on the same day

    By Dina Bass, Matt Day, and others
  • OpenAI logo seen on screen with ChatGPT website displayed on mobile seen in this illustration, on January 8, 2023 in Brussels, Belgium. (Photo illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Tech

    Microsoft escalates talks with the chatbot threatening Google’s dominance

    By Dina Bass and Bloomberg
  • UNITED STATES – MAY 18: FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan and SEC Chairman Gary Gensler testify during the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government hearing titled FY2023 Budget Request for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), in Rayburn Building, on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)Tech

    FTC sues to stop Microsoft’s $69 billion blockbuster Activision deal that could ‘harm competition’ in the ‘dynamic’ video game industry

    By Leah Nylen, Dina Bass, and others
  • OAKLAND, CA – 1992: Benjamin Benoit #00 of the Seattle SuperSonics grabs the rebound against the Golden State Warriors during a game in 1992 at The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena in Oakland, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 1992 NBAE (Photo by Sam Forencich/NBAE via Getty Images)Lifestyle

    An NBA team in Seattle ‘probably could sell out three years of basketball in one day.’ Fans are still waiting

    By Dina Bass and Bloomberg
  • Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft.Tech

    Microsoft cuts many open job listings in weakening economy

    By Dina Bass and Bloomberg
  • LONDON, ENGLAND – AUGUST 09: In this photo illustration, an image of the Google logo is reflected on the eye of a young man on August 09, 2017 in London, England. Founded in 1995 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google now makes hundreds of products used by billions of people across the globe, from YouTube and Android to Smartbox and Google Search. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)Politics

    Google to delete user data on trips to abortion clinics because some places people visit are ‘deeply personal’

    By Dina Bass and Bloomberg
  • Microsoft’s technical fellow Alex Kipman reveals “HoloLens 2” during a presentation at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) on the eve of the world’s biggest mobile fair in Barcelona on February 24, 2019. – Phone makers will focus on foldable screens and the introduction of blazing fast 5G wireless networks at the world’s biggest mobile fair starting tomorrow in Spain as they try to reverse a decline in sales of smartphones. (Photo by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) (Photo by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP via Getty Images)Tech

    Microsoft is lost in the metaverse as its AR head leaves after sexual harassment claims

    By Dina Bass and Bloomberg