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£2.5 billion boost for UK AI

In the news | GOV.UK

The Chancellor has welcomed Microsoft’s £2.5 billion investment over the next 3 years to expand its next generation AI datacentre infrastructure. The Chancellor has today hailed Microsoft’s major investment in AI infrastructure and skills as critical for future growth and…

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In the news | Microsoft On the Issues

 Today, Microsoft announced a major AI infrastructure and skilling investment supported by a new partnership on security. It will help the UK seize the artificial intelligence (AI) opportunity and ensure that AI innovation and safety progress together while creating jobs, improving services,…

In the news | Microsoft On the Issues

Today, Microsoft is sharing an update on its AI safety policies and practices ahead of the UK AI Safety Summit. The summit is part of an important and dynamic global conversation about how we can all help secure the beneficial…

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A diverse research ecosystem is essential to realizing the promise of AI. Accelerate Foundation Models Research aims to expand access to powerful models, engaging academics outside of computer science to pursue a broad range of important opportunities.

In the news | Microsoft Unlocked

Recent advances in AI have sparked both wonder and anxiety as we contemplate its transformative potential. AI holds enormous promise to enrich our lives, but this anticipation comes intertwined with apprehensions about the challenges and risks that might emerge. To…

In the news | Microsoft

“Don’t ask what computers can do, ask what they should do.” That is the title of the chapter on AI and ethics in a book I coauthored in 2019. At the time, we wrote that “this may be one of…