Chris Barry, the president of Microsoft Canada.HO/The Canadian Press
When the head of Microsoft Canada needed to write a letter of interest as part of an application to join a not-for-profit board, he decided to put the tech giant’s software to the test.
Chris Barry commanded Copilot, the firm’s generative artificial intelligence service, to craft a five-paragraph missive based on his LinkedIn profile that was so good he only had to remove one word before sending it.
“I omitted one adjective that was a little over the top, a little too much, not quite my voice,” the Microsoft Canada president told a room of chuckling attendees at an executive AI summit the company hosted Wednesday in Toronto.
Later, in an interview, Barry said he didn’t think many other executives are using AI to the same degree, despite the hype that has built up around
The two tech giants – Alphabet and Microsoft – report potent quarterly earnings that surpass market anticipations, propelling their shares to soar. Traders retain optimism towards their respective core firms, which have been driven by the progress of AI.
AdvertisementThe US large tech businesses once once again demonstrated their potent momentum in the to start with quarter, with the Google dad or mum company, Alphabet, and its rival Microsoft, both surpassing market anticipations in their quarterly earnings stories. Alphabet’s shares surged by extra than 10%, and Microsoft’s shares rose nearly 5% in following-hrs investing. The two tech giants are commonly viewed as the major flag bearers for synthetic intelligence (AI), hence providing optimism to the sector. Underneath are the information of their earnings success and the general performance of their respective main companies in the to start with quarter.
Alphabet, the dad or
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| Symbol | PUT/CALL | Trade Type | Sentiment | Exp. Date | Strike Price | Total Trade Price | Open Interest | Volume |
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| NVDA | PUT | SWEEP | BEARISH | 10/13/23 | $460.00 | $136.5K | 10.8K | 61.0K |
| AAPL | CALL | SWEEP | BEARISH | 10/20/23 | $180.00 | $182.0K | 59.5K | 22.1K |
| TWLO | CALL | SWEEP | BEARISH | 10/20/23 | $59.00 | $81.6K | 492 | 6.9K |
| MSFT | PUT | TRADE | BEARISH | 10/20/23 | $325.00 | $25.1K | 18.7K | 3.2K |
| PLTR | PUT | SWEEP | BEARISH | 12/15/23 | $17.00 | $375.6K | 5.1K | 2.3K |
| SNOW | PUT | SWEEP | BULLISH | 10/20/23 | $160.00 | $48.2K | 2.1K | 1.6K |
| AVGO | CALL | SWEEP | BEARISH | 11/10/23 | $950.00 |
Microsoft has unveiled stability updates to address a Safe Boot zero-day vulnerability exploited by BlackLotus UEFI malware to infect completely patched Windows techniques.
Protected Boot is a security feature that blocks bootloaders untrusted by the OEM on computer systems with Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware and a Reliable Platform Module (TPM) chip to protect against rootkits from loading in the course of the startup process.
In accordance to a Microsoft Protection Reaction Centre website put up, the stability flaw (tracked as CVE-2023-24932) was utilized to bypass patches released for CVE-2022-21894, a further Protected Boot bug abused in BlackLotus assaults past yr.
“To guard from this attack, a repair for the Windows boot supervisor (CVE-2023-24932) is included in the Might 9, 2023, stability update release, but disabled by default and will not deliver protections,” the enterprise claimed.
“This vulnerability lets an attacker to execute self-signed code at the
Quisitive (TSXV:QUIS) has partnered with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) to establish generative synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments.
This workforce-up will leverage Azure OpenAI and Microsoft Copilot, to embed into its suite of industry know-how solutions for healthcare, public sector, and manufacturing.
The organization is prioritizing the swift adoption of secured and field-aligned big language styles (LLM) and has recognized various specific use cases in just its business products for the very first
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| Symbol | PUT/CALL | Trade Type | Sentiment | Exp. Date | Strike Price | Total Trade Price | Open Interest | Volume |
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| AAPL | CALL | SWEEP | BULLISH | 05/19/23 | $175.00 | $53.9K | 64.4K | 144.1K |
| NVDA | CALL | SWEEP | BULLISH | 05/19/23 | $315.00 | $501.8K | 6.2K | 77.8K |
| MSFT | CALL | SWEEP | BULLISH | 05/19/23 | $315.00 | $71.9K | 35.7K | 23.0K |
| INTC | CALL | SWEEP | BEARISH | 06/16/23 | $30.00 | $63.0K | 50.9K | 3.4K |
| PSTG | CALL | SWEEP | BEARISH | 05/19/23 | $23.00 | $55.6K | 7.3K | 3.1K |
| AMD | CALL | SWEEP | BEARISH | 07/21/23 | $105.00 | $46.7K | 9.0K | 3.0K |
| AI | PUT | SWEEP | BULLISH | 05/19/23 | $25.00 | $28.1K | 7.5K | 2.9K |
| ON | CALL | SWEEP | NEUTRAL | 05/19/23 | $81.00 | $35.6K |