Microsoft has updated the terms of service going into effect at the end of September and is clarifying that its Copilot AI services should not be used as a replacement for advice from actual humans.
AI-based agents are popping up across industries as chatbots are increasingly used for customer service calls, health and wellness applications, and even doling out legal advice. However, Microsoft is once again reminding its customers that its chatbots responses should not be taken as gospel. “AI services are not designed, intended, or to be used as substitutes for professional advice,” the updated Service Agreement reads.
The company specifically referred to its health bots as an example. The bots, “are not designed or intended as substitutes for professional medical advice or for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, prevention, or treatment of disease or other conditions,” the new terms explain. “Microsoft is not responsible for any decision you make based on information you receive from health bots.”
The revised Service Agreement also detailed additional AI practices that are explicitly no longer allowed. Users, for example, cannot use its AI services for extracting data. “Unless explicitly permitted, you may not use web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction methods to extract data from the AI services,” the agreement reads. The company is also banning reverse engineering attempts to reveal the model’s weights or use its data “to create, train, or improve (directly or indirectly) any other AI service.”
“You may not use the AI services to discover any underlying components of the models, algorithms, and systems,” the new terms read. “For example, you may not try to determine and remove the weights of models or extract any parts of the AI services from your device.”
Microsoft has long been vocal about the potential dangers of generative AI’s misuse. With these new terms of service, Microsoft looks to be staking out legal cover for itself as its AI products gain ubiquity.
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.