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Microsoft has just updated its Weather app on Windows 10 and 11. Easily switch between locations and enjoy a convenient new left-hand sidebar with hourly forecasts. But the redesign also brings ads and low-grade news stories. Adverts are becoming increasingly more pervasive on Windows 11, ruining the user experience. Microsoft should focus on delivering great weather forecasts, not cluttering it with ads.

Microsoft President Brad Smith's warning that Chinese organisations and companies will be major rivals of ChatGPT, the OpenAI AI-powered chatbot, has placed the cutting-edge technology under the spotlight. Smith presents a solution of taking what already exists and developing upon it to counter the potential of AI being used as an offensive weapon by nation states. Japan's Prime Minister Kishida only furthers this notion as he explores regulations on utilization of AI. ChatGPT has already been adopted by the largest three banks in Japan, with insurers like Tokio Marine developing AI systems based on the platform. Smith's approach looks at the long-term context of job displacement, copyright infringement and compromising privacy.

Discover the trends behind AI chatbots with the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, who recently investigated user data for these bots. Learn about the plethora of websites these bots source data from, including journalism, entertainment, software development, medicine and more. Uncover the potential bias these bots contain due to data from religion-based sites and the US government. Protect yourself and others from spreading false information, and get the facts now.

Microsoft's groundbreaking AI chip Athena could revolutionize OpenAI's language models, saving up to $700,000 per day in processing costs. Microsoft began this project in 2019, now employing more than 300, working to make it available to internal users as soon as 2021. Latitude, an AI dungeon game using OpenAI's language model, is already paying $200,000 a month for AWS servers. Microsoft is looking to improve budgeting for AI projects and reduce operations costs for AI models.

Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975, is a leading technology company, offering the Windows OS, Office software, Xbox consoles, and a Cloud platform. Their highly anticipated smaller version of the Surface Pro and their revolutionary new Arm-based Surface Go 4 feature the state-of-the-art SnapDragon 7C processor with 5G capability. With a targeted release for fall 2024, these small-scale devices will reinvent the way we interact with Windows devices.