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Tracking the AI Gold Rush: How Much Does All This Innovation Cost?

What big-ticket deals and strategic moves are driving the booming generative AI economy? From massive datacenter buildouts to blockbuster acquisitions, keep track of the most notable investments here.

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Build Next-Gen AI Apps with .NET and Azure

There couldn't be a better time to get started with coding modern, cloud-based AI-infused applications in the Microsoft camp.

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Researchers Demonstrate the Creation of Artificial Life

The results have potential practical implications for the fields of anthropology, political science, sociology and economics -- and suggest that the existence of life on other planets may be more likely than previously thought.

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Top 10 Prompts You Should Know for Microsoft 365 Copilot

Expert certified trainer Heather Severino: "With AI being a newer technology, I've noticed a good number of Copilot users struggling with prompt writing (as well as what content Copilot can assist with) and decided to highlight 10 key prompts to enhance your daily productivity."

Prompt Engineering with Azure OpenAI

No longer commanding annual salaries north of $330,000, the nascent discipline of prompt engineering is still a valuable skill as LLMs evolve across industries.

Understanding AI Language Translation

We asked Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research to put together a concrete example of language translation, with an explanation intended for people who are not computer programmers, and with an emphasis on the business implications for an organization that wants to implement a custom language translation system.

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Understanding Text Summarization with AI

Here's an example of text summarization with an explanation intended for people who are not computer programmers -- and with an emphasis on the implications for a business that wants to implement a text summarization model.

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Few-Shot, One-Shot, Zero-Shot and Fine-Tuning for Not-Quite Dummies

We asked a data scientist to explain the terms in enough detail to provide useful information, but not so much detail to make your head explode.

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5 Questions with Author, Educator, and Influencer Ahmed Banafa

In the second installment of our new series we asked Prof. Ahmed Banafa, a lecturer of interdisciplinary engineering at San José State University five questions about the current state and future impact of AI.

Foundational Models Might Revolutionize Time Series Regression Problems

Researchers are looking at adapting LLM techniques that have revolutionized natural language to see if they can be applied to time series regression problems and provide a gigantic leap in capability.

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