The tech giant plans to teach its AI to find the traits of cancerous cells that trained pathologists do manually by looking at a slice of the patient’s tissue on a glass slide. SRL’s bank of more than one million such slides from past diagnosis will be used as the training material for the AI.

Nadella will continue to divest shares in the next year through the structured plan in which he doesn’t control the timing or amounts sold, the company said Friday. He will sell fewer than half his Microsoft shares through the plan, according to the company.

“The Surface Go, Microsoft’s latest 2-in-1, is now shipping. It has all the hallmarks of a Surface tablet — magnesium casing, fully adjustable kickstand, Windows Hello-compatible camera, and a keyboard connector,” The Verge reported on Thursday.

Shares of one of the technology world's oldest and best-known names rose 4 per cent to $108.50 in trading before the bell, potentially adding nearly $32 billion to a market capitalisation that was already $802 billion at close on Thursday.

The US tech giant reported its net income increased 10 per cent to $8.8 billion on revenue that was up 17 percent to $30.1 billion when compared with the same period last year.

With this, the company has doubled its user base in the country in the past four years. “Our members-first, localised approach has helped us cross the 50-million mark in India.