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OpenAI and Microsoft have been named as the defendants in yet another class action lawsuit over their alleged use of web scraping techniques to obtain supposedly private data for the use of training ChatGPT and other associated artificial intelligence models. 

By Raphael Satter

BTIG believes the Teams decoupling from Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) in European Union markets in October could boost a significant Teams competitor.

Alteryx Inc, a data analytics software company with a market value of $2.2 billion, has been working with an investment bank to explore a potential sale after attracting takeover interest, according to people familiar with the matter. Fierce competition from big rivals such as Microsoft Corp and Oracle Corp, as well as setbacks in winning new business, have suppressed Alteryx's valuation and made it an acquisition target. Its shares had lost almost half their value in the last 12 months prior to news of its exploring a sale.

By Supantha Mukherjee and Martin Coulter

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Google just needed to explain how its business functioned. It was 2009, and the Federal Trade Commission was assessing whether Google had rigged technology markets in its favor. Walker's plan worked. The company agreed to a few small business practice changes in a 2013 settlement and maintained its search engine dominance for another decade.

The European Commission on Wednesday said it designated six tech giants as «gatekeepers» under its new Digital Markets Act — a strict set of rules that could shake up the business models of large digital platforms.

Out of the ten most bought funds for the period, half were trackers either from Vanguard, L&G or HSBC.

"Please accept this letter as my resignation from my duty with effect from 01.01.2024 from my position (Deputy Manager-RMSME) at your branch, which is 4 months prior notice as due to bad HR Transfer policy, extreme pressure and bad behaviour of higher management, my health situation deteriorates day by day in current bank service. Presently, I am suffering from High BP, Anxiety, and Depression. Recently, I have been transferred from the SBI-Malout Branch (01465) to SBI, SME Branch (04044) Jalandhar. Due to this my health, my family, and the education of my children are suffering very badly, and seems it will not improve in bank service my whole life. Moreover, the lack of an employee-friendly transfer policy, late sitting, threatening message from senior management, and phone calls & after working hour is impacting my health, my family, and my social life balance. Money is not everything in life. An example of the harsh behaviour of the higher management is the meeting of RMSMEs held by Sh. Shanker Prashad P (GM Network -1) dated 22.08.2023 on MICROSOFT Teams App & Whatsapp Message in RMSME Group Ludhiana on dated 04.09.2023.in which behaviour of GM Sir is extremely bad and not possible to tolerate for anyone in the meeting. It makes me very depressed as an officer in SBI. So, accept my resignation and settle my dues in due course". The letter was written by the Assistant General Manager (Branch Head), SBI-SME Branch, Jalandhar.

Apple Inc and Microsoft have argued that some of their services were not popular enough to be designated as «gatekeepers» under the EU's new Digital Markets Act, designed to curb the powers of Big Tech, the Financial Times reported on Monday. Apple is battling over its iMessage chat app, while Microsoft is battling over its search engine Bing, ahead of Wednesday's publication of the first list of services to be regulated under the act, the report said.

The company, the world’s fourth biggest by market value, is also close to setting up two centers of excellence around artificial intelligence and cyber security with the government, Google’s global chief of cloud, Thomas Kurian, told ET in an interview.

full stack developer and delve into the top web development languages that can pave the way for a rewarding career in this dynamic field. Becoming a full stack developer is akin to having a Swiss Army knife of skills in your toolkit. A full stack developer possesses proficiency in both frontend and backend development, crafting a seamless user experience while seamlessly handling server-side operations.

Microsoft is no longer updating the almost 30-year-old WordPad and the software will removed from the next version of Windows. The tech giant is instead promoting its own paid software Microsoft Word for documents and Notepad for plain text.

Microsoft has announced that it will no longer update WordPad and plans to remove the word processor from a future release of Windows nearly after 30 years. As an alternative, Microsoft will recommend Word, its paid word processor that has always been far more powerful than WordPad, which has shipped with Windows since 1995.

Microsoft has announced plans to phase out WordPad, a nearly three-decade-old component of the Windows operating system. This decision, made earlier this week, has cast doubt on the future of this native word-processing tool. WordPad, which has been a part of the Windows operating system since Windows 95, has had an incredible 28-year existence.

India for the world. Top CEOs of these firms talk about how the country is becoming an important part of the research, which will drive this disruptive force in the future.AI will bring more talent into creative fields: Adobe Adobe Inc’s India teams are helping build the next-gen AI-ready solutions for the company, said CEO Shantanu Narayen. He added that the company is driving development of several global products from India. “There’s this recently-released feature called Generative Recolor — think about text, you identify a text and you want to get a prompt or a vector to start your creative process — all of that development is happening here, right here in the Noida office,” he explained.

Actor and investor Ashton Kutcher’s venture capital firm, Sound Ventures LLC, is among the investors for open source AI company, Hugging Face.

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