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Read an update on what we’ve done to help Microsoft customers recover from the recent CrowdStrike outage. Learn about our actions from the start of the incident and our collaboration with customers, cloud providers and others in the tech community. https://lnkd.in/gPBnrjyt
Helping our customers through the CrowdStrike outage - The Official Microsoft Blog
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We are enhancing support for autistic employees, helping them thrive without “masking” their true selves. Natalie Worden-Cowe, who faced challenges as a musician and software engineer, found success through our #neurodiversity hiring program, launched in 2015. This program has welcomed 300 neurodivergent employees to Microsoft. Director of Inclusive #Hiring and Accessibility, Neil Barnett, noted: “All they needed was this different, more inclusive process, and once they got into the company, they flourished.” Flexible schedules, sensory-friendly environments, and neurodiversity training empowers neurodiverse talent. Read more about our programs in The New York Times. https://lnkd.in/gXG7ara4
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The Chi Mei Medical Center in Taiwan is at the forefront of healthcare innovation with the help of Microsoft Azure’s AI copilots. These tools are: - Effortlessly Integrating Data: Bringing together patient information from various sources. - Increasing Efficiency: Minimizing time spent on documentation to prioritize patient care. - Improving Patient Outcomes: Providing decision support for diagnostics and treatment, ensuring better safety and quality. Read more on how we continue empowering healthcare through #AI: https://lnkd.in/gndQG93U
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By the end of 2024, two billion people will have voted in nationwide #elections. This presents opportunities for bad actors to exploit the system using #deepfakes. Deepfakes, #AI-generated images, videos, or audio recordings, can spread false information and cause confusion during elections. Here's what we're doing to combat this threat with #GenerativeAI and more. 👇
Combatting Deepfakes in the EU & US Elections
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With its profound place in human history, Hiroshima serves as a compelling backdrop to help ensure a technology created by humanity serves all of humanity and our common home. Today, leaders from major world religions met in Hiroshima to join the Rome Call for AI Ethics to help ensure that over the next eight decades, #AI continues to be forged as a lifechanging tool for peace that includes serving the world’s least privileged. Microsoft is proud to work with the Vatican and be one of the first signers of this important Call. https://lnkd.in/eq5fSeG9
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It’s fun to watch how partnerships like TitletownTech, in my home state of Wisconsin, and the 1819 Innovation Hub at the University of Cincinnati are helping transform what was once the country’s industrial powerhouse into a new center for tech investment and innovation. Microsoft
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On the latest episode of #ToolsAndWeapons, Dr. Sultan Al Jaber explains how the relationship between AI and energy can help the world achieve a low carbon future and unlock the greatest socioeconomic development since the first industrial revolution. https://lnkd.in/eZP-mDHK ADNOC Group, COP28 UAE, Masdar (Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company)
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On the latest episode of #ToolsAndWeapons, Dr. Sultan Al Jaber explains how the relationship between AI and energy can help the world achieve a low carbon future and unlock the greatest socioeconomic development since the first industrial revolution. https://lnkd.in/eZP-mDHK ADNOC Group, COP28 UAE, Masdar (Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company)
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Our latest newsletter explores how #AI is bridging the past to the present. With geospatial methodologies and #AI technologies like Large Language Models (#LLMs) and Text-to-Speech, the Thread of Memory brings the stories of the individuals at the heart of D-Day to life in an entirely new way and allows visitors unprecedented access to archival content.
Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of D-Day with the help of AI
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