Yes, this is a real AI-generated image that Microsoft has used in one of its corporate blog posts about Copilot (spotted by Albacore). I assume it’s supposed to say Copilot, but many AI models regularly fail at producing text correctly in images. Microsoft had a similar AI image fail earlier this year.
Microsoft has started reminding Xbox owners that it will start deleting game captures from its Xbox Network after 90 days, starting on May 30th. If you don’t want to lose game clips and screenshots, then you’ll need to back up any old ones to OneDrive or an external drive over the next month. There’s more information over on Microsoft’s support site.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in the UK has started gathering comments from third parties about the partnerships between Microsoft and Mistral AI, Amazon and Anthropic, and Microsoft’s hiring of Inflection AI staff. This is the first phase of gathering information to see whether these deals “fall within UK merger rules and the impact that these arrangements could have on competition in the UK.”
Coca-Cola has made a $1.1 billion commitment to the Microsoft Cloud and the company’s generative AI capabilities. Coca-Cola will use the Azure OpenAI Service and Copilot for Microsoft 365 in a five-year strategic partnership. The deal comes a day after Cognizant also partnered with Microsoft for generative AI, and just days before Microsoft’s earnings report where AI growth is a big focus for investors.
