OpenAI’s Sora 2 has arrived in Azure AI Foundry public preview, bringing studio-grade text-to-video generation to a unified, enterprise-ready platform and promising to shorten the gap between imagination and finished visual content for developers, marketers, and creative teams.
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Microsoft has introduced MAI‑Image‑1, its first image‑generation model built entirely in‑house, a move Microsoft says prioritizes photorealism, speed, and workflow fit for creators while preparing the model for near‑term integration into Copilot and Bing Image Creator.
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Microsoft has announced MAI-Image-1, its first fully in-house text-to-image model, and begun public testing on benchmarking platforms while preparing integrations into Copilot and Bing Image Creator—an important step in Microsoft’s move from relying primarily on third‑party models to building...
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AI chatbots are now answering more questions — and, according to a fresh NewsGuard audit, they are also repeating falsehoods far more often, producing inaccurate or misleading content in roughly one out of every three news‑related responses during an August 2025 audit cycle.
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Microsoft has put a generative AI assistant where most knowledge workers spend the bulk of their time: directly into Excel’s grid with a new COPILOT function that lets Microsoft 365 Copilot run natural-language prompts inside individual cells and return multi-cell arrays, categories, summaries...
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