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Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus

Microsoft has fired two more employees who participated in recent protests against the company’s contracts with the Israeli military and government. The two employees, Nisreen Jaradat and Julius Shan, were fired “in connection” with demonstrations that saw protesters set up encampments at Microsoft’s headquarters, according to Hossam Nasr, an organizer with the No Azure for […]

Microsoft launches its first in-house AI models

Microsoft announced its first homegrown AI models on Thursday: MAI-Voice-1 AI and MAI-1-preview. The company says its new MAI-Voice-1 speech model can generate a minute’s worth of audio in under one second on just one GPU, while MAI-1-preview “offers a glimpse of future offerings inside Copilot.” Microsoft already uses MA1-Voice-1 to power a couple of […]

Grounding Medical AI in Expert‑Labeled Data: A Case Study on PadChest-GR- the First Multimodal, Bilingual, Sentence‑Level Dataset for Radiology Reporting

A Multimodal Radiology Breakthrough Introduction Recent advances in medical AI have underscored that breakthroughs hinge not solely on model sophistication, but fundamentally on the quality and richness of the underlying data. This case study spotlights a pioneering collaboration among Centaur.ai, Microsoft Research, and the University of Alicante, culminating in PadChest‑GR—the first multimodal, bilingual, sentence‑level dataset […] The post Grounding Medical AI in Expert‑Labeled Data: A Case Study on PadChest-GR- the First Multimodal, Bilingual, Sentence‑Level Dataset for Radiology Reporting appeared first on MarkTechPost.