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Microsoft’s new Gaming Copilot—shipped into the Windows 11 Xbox Game Bar as a beta in mid‑September—can capture screenshots, perform OCR on on‑screen text, and (unless you opt out) send that extracted text and related captures back to Microsoft where they may be used to improve AI models...

Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot — the AI assistant now embedded in the Windows 11 Game Bar — can capture screenshots, listen to voice interactions, and collect conversation and personalization data while you play, and those inputs can be used to train Microsoft’s AI models unless you explicitly opt...

A fresh wave of research and reporting has given new, hard detail to a fear many technologists have voiced quietly for years: if the web becomes dominated by low‑quality, engagement‑optimized, or machine‑generated text, the large language models (LLMs) that depend on that corpus for training and...

Goldman Sachs’ chief data officer has delivered a blunt verdict: the era of easy, human‑generated training data for large AI models is closing, and the industry must change how it feeds the next generation of systems. Background: what "running out of data" actually means When AI researchers say...

Microsoft’s push to fold AI into search and browsing — most visibly through Copilot, Bing Chat, and AI features in Microsoft Edge — can be disorienting for users who want a classic, no‑frills search and browser experience; the good news is you can significantly reduce or hide these AI elements...

Some of the world’s largest AI labs stand accused of quietly harvesting the world’s recorded music to teach their models how to sing, riff and mimic the voices and styles of living artists — and a newly public dossier compiled by the International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) has...

Anthropic’s abrupt switch to an opt‑out model for training Claude on consumer conversations has forced a long‑overdue reckoning: if you want to keep your chats from being recycled into the next generation of chatbots, you must actively say so — and the same is true for ChatGPT and Google’s...

Generative AI promises dramatic cost savings and speed for marketing, design, and copy — but the shortcut from prompt to public-facing asset can land a company in a copyright courtroom, saddle it with crippling legal bills, or leave it unable to protect the very assets it thought it owned...

The escalation of generative AI technologies over the past few years has revolutionized how individuals and organizations create, automate, and interact with digital content. Yet, this surge in adoption comes at a moment of elevated concern about how personal and sensitive data is managed within...

Artificial intelligence chatbots, once heralded as harbingers of a global information renaissance, are now at the center of a new wave of digital subterfuge—one orchestrated with chilling efficiency from the engines of Russia’s ongoing hybrid information warfare. A comprehensive Dutch...

I'm an experienced programmer, but new to AI. I'm trying to learn ML techniques by building a bot to play a video game. I'm documenting my process as I go. The game I'm focusing on 1st is TFT (TeamFightTactics) which is in the AutoBattler genre - Essentially, you try to build the strongest...

Peter Daukintis, Microsoft Technical Evangelist, who we recently highlighted, Kinect for Windows v2 Face Tracking Managed and Native, continues his Kinect for Windows v2 exploration and sharing, this time with two posts about the very cool Visual Gesture Builder. Link Removed When I created a...