Aaron Holmes

Mustafa Souleyman. Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images.

Until Microsoft lit up the artificial intelligence world yesterday by appointing Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of AI startups DeepMind and Inflection, as head of its consumer AI business, the software giant lacked an executive who had built sophisticated generative AI models and products from ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, left, and Inflection CEO Mustafa Suleyman, right.

Worrying about artificial intelligence turning into Skynet —a la the Terminator—should take a back seat to basic cybersecurity concerns, as we’ve written repeatedly. Today we’ve got news to prove our argument.

As many businesses remain cautious about spending on conversational artificial intelligence, AI providers such as Microsoft, OpenAI and Google are racing to make the technology more of a must-have—by introducing new features that can handle complex tasks with little guidance from the customer. ...

Wiz CEO, Assaf Rappaport. Photo By Harry Murphy/Sportsfile via Getty Images.

As companies lose faith in the effectiveness of cybersecurity software and reexamine or rein in their spending on it, startups that sell that type of software have struggled to grow. Many of them will have little choice but to look for a buyout, some of their shareholders say, despite having raised record amounts of capital during the pandemic-fueled startup boom.

Cloud security startup Wiz has abandoned its $200 million bid to acquire rival security firm Lacework after conducting due diligence, according to someone familiar with the company’s thinking. The Information first reported last month that Wiz was in advanced talks to buy Lacework. News of the deal talks falling apart was first reported by Calcalist.The episode shows how private

Microsoft is making sweeping changes to the structure of its security business, including by making some executives’ pay hinge on Microsoft’s success in reducing security breaches, executive vice president Charlie Bell said in a statement Friday. Microsoft’s threat intelligence organization will now report to CISO Igor Tsyganskiy, Bell said.Microsoft has been under growing pressure to combat

For the first time since it invested more than $10 billion into OpenAI in exchange for the rights to reuse the startup’s AI models, Microsoft is training a new, in-house AI model large enough to compete with state-of-the-art models from Google, Anthropic and OpenAI itself.The new model, ...