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  • Slashdot: Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/09/08/0125250/microsofts-analog-optical-computer-shows-ai-promise?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a project by Microsoft Research involving an analog optical computer (AOC) designed for AI workloads, significantly enhancing computation speed and energy efficiency compared to traditional GPUs. The initiative offers opportunities for…

  • The Register: Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/microsoft_analog_optical_computer/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype Feedly Summary: Good for solving finance and clinical problems… and AI Microsoft researchers in Cambridge have unveiled its latest iteration of an Analog Optical Computer (AOC) and have inevitably incorporated AI into the technology’s capabilities.… AI Summary and Description:…

  • The Register: Microsoft researchers bullish on AI security agent even though it let 74% of malware slip through

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/06/microsofts_ai_agent_malware_detecting/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft researchers bullish on AI security agent even though it let 74% of malware slip through Feedly Summary: Project Ire promises to use LLMs to detect whether code is malicious or benign Microsoft has rolled out an autonomous AI agent that it claims can detect malware without human…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Researchers Develop Hyper-Efficient AI Model That Can Run On CPUs

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/17/2224205/microsoft-researchers-develop-hyper-efficient-ai-model-that-can-run-on-cpus?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Researchers Develop Hyper-Efficient AI Model That Can Run On CPUs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has launched BitNet b1.58 2B4T, a highly efficient 1-bit AI model featuring 2 billion parameters, optimized for CPU use and accessible under an MIT license. It surpasses competitors in…

  • Slashdot: AI Models Still Struggle To Debug Software, Microsoft Study Shows

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/04/11/0519242/ai-models-still-struggle-to-debug-software-microsoft-study-shows Source: Slashdot Title: AI Models Still Struggle To Debug Software, Microsoft Study Shows Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The study by Microsoft Research highlights the limitations of popular AI models, such as Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet and OpenAI’s o3-mini, in successfully debugging software. Despite advancements, AI still falls short…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: debug-gym

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/31/debug-gym/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: debug-gym Feedly Summary: debug-gym New paper and code from Microsoft Research that experiments with giving LLMs access to the Python debugger. They found that the best models could indeed improve their results by running pdb as a tool. They saw the best results overall from Claude 3.7…

  • The Register: Microsoft researchers promise entire game worlds made from AI slop

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/19/microsoft_genai_game_dev_model/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft researchers promise entire game worlds made from AI slop Feedly Summary: WHAM, bam, no thank you, ma’am? Researchers have produced a generative AI tool they say can create a three-dimensional game world to help developers design and tweak gameplay.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Researchers from…

  • The Register: Some workers already let AI do the thinking for them, Microsoft researchers find

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/microsoft_study_ai_critical_thinking/ Source: The Register Title: Some workers already let AI do the thinking for them, Microsoft researchers find Feedly Summary: Dammit, that was our job here at The Reg. Now if you get a task you don’t understand, you may assume AI has the answers Some knowledge workers risk becoming over-reliant on generative…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Research: AI Systems Cannot Be Made Fully Secure

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/01/17/1658230/microsoft-research-ai-systems-cannot-be-made-fully-secure?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Research: AI Systems Cannot Be Made Fully Secure Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A recent study by Microsoft researchers highlights the inherent security vulnerabilities of AI systems, particularly large language models (LLMs). Despite defensive measures, the researchers assert that AI products will remain susceptible to…