Phil Dent/Redferns/Getty This year, to save themselves from tears, thousands of people are avoiding listening to Wham!'s holiday classic "Last Christmas." It's not because they hate Christmas ...

As a first step, Microsoft has developed an AI model, called WHAM, that “beta tests” games early in the development cycle using AI instead of human players. Gamers know that realistic AI can ...

Microsoft Research's new World and Human Action Model (WHAM), revealed today in a paper published in the journal Nature, shows how quickly those models have advanced in a short time. But it also ...