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Revamped Copilot for Business: Microsoft's answer to gimmicky AI tool allegations?

Microsoft recently unveiled Copilot Chat — "a new offering that adds pay-as-you-go agents to our existing free chat experience for Microsoft 365 commercial customers."

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in front of the Microsoft Copilot AI logo.

OpenAI gets a step closer to being "the everything app" — ChatGPT mimics Siri with ability to schedule recurring tasks and set reminders

OpenAI recently announced the launch of a new ChatGPT feature dubbed tasks in beta. The AI chatbot will automate several tasks, making work easier.

In this photo illustration OpenAI icon is displayed on a mobile phone screen in Ankara, Turkiye on August 13, 2024.

Shock move by Microsoft: Hiring freeze in consulting to cut costs after significant recent layoffs

Microsoft has announced a hiring freeze, which is expected to impact its consulting business in the U.S. as part of its broader plans to cut costs.

Microsoft logo

"Sorry, Bill": Android co-founder says Bill Gates is responsible for "the greatest mistake of all time," costing Microsoft $400 billion

Bill Gates revealed his greatest mistake of all time made Microsoft miss its opportunity with Android, partly due to mismanagement and antitrust-related issues. However, Android co-founder Rich Miner says Bill Gates is more responsible than he's letting on.

Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, at an event for the Alliance for Global Good Gender Equity and Equality in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.

Amazon AGI lead says "several technical hurdles" delay revamped Alexa release: "Hallucinations have to be close to zero"

Amazon is reportedly encountering "several technical hurdles," including hallucinations, seemingly preventing it from shipping the revamped Alexa to broad availability.

Amazon Alexa logo is displayed on a smartphone with AI symbol in the background.

Sam Altman claims knowing what questions to ask trumps raw intelligence as AI advances — Users struggle to realize Copilot and ChatGPT's full potential, owing to poor prompt engineering skills

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently claimed that AI is reducing the importance of raw intelligence, as figuring out what questions to ask gains precedence.

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023.

Meta to trim 5% of its workforce, focusing on underperformers — Mark Zuckerberg says the move will "raise the bar" on performance management

Meta will make performance-based cuts, slated to impact approximately 5% of its workforce based on performance. The company CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the move will "raise the bar" on performance management.

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc.

A secret UI project resurfaces from the 'Microsoft Graveyard' to spruce up Edge with a modern Windows 11 aesthetic

Microsoft is working on a new project called Phoenix. The project will revamp Microsoft Edge's look and feel to align with Windows 11's modern appeal and aesthetics.

Microsoft Edge web browser app in App Store seen displayed on a smartphone.

Is software engineering dead in the water? Mark Zuckerberg says mid-level AI engineers might claim coding jobs from professionals at Meta in 2025

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently indicated AI might claim coding jobs from engineers in 2025. He admitted the approach might be expensive but it'll get more efficient over time with the mid-level AI engineers writing code for apps and AI.

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc.

OpenAI launches next-gen reasoning models with "incredible" coding capabilities

OpenAI announced its new flagship o3 model as a successor to its o1 reasoning model. It also sports incredible coding capabilities and is up to three times better at handling tasks and answering complex queries.

The OpenAI logo appears on the screen of a smartphone.

OpenAI's Sam Altman says AGI is becoming a "less useful term" with o1 — "astonishing cognitive capabilities" predicted before 2026

Sam Altman claims the term is increasingly becoming less useful. He predicts AI systems that "can do truly astonishing cognitive tasks" by the end of 2025.

Sam Altman

Is Google copying Microsoft's security playbook? Chrome might get a new AI-powered tool to detect scams

The latest Google Chrome Canary update ships with a new "Client Side Detection Brand and Intent for Scam Detection"

Google Chrome on Windows

Microsoft launches free tier for GitHub Copilot — over 150 million developers can now access Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o

Microsoft recently introduced a new free tier for the service dubbed GitHub Copilot Free with access to 2000 completions/month, 50 messages/month, Copilot Chat in GitHub, and Block suggestions matching public code.

A photo illustration shows a laptop screen displays welcome screens and messages on the Github developer platform website.

On the 10th day of 'Shipmas,' OpenAI called, and ChatGPT answered — You can now add ChatGPT on speed dial or text it on WhatsApp

OpenAI announced that users in the US can now call ChatGPT directly from their phone for 15 minutes every month for free. Users in other regions can also interact with the chatbot via WhatsApp messages.

OpenAI logo displayed on a laptop screen and ChatGPT on AppStore displayed on a phone screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Poland on August 8, 2024.

Microsoft reportedly acquired the most NVIDIA GPUs compared to its rivals, including Google and Meta, for its AI projects — translating to 485,000 chips and $31 billion in expenditure

A new report by Omdia details that Microsoft bought the most NVIDIA AI chips compared to its competitors, translating to 485,000 NVIDIA Hopper chips and almost twice as many as Meta.

Microsoft sign at an event

Elon Musk's free-for-all Grok-2 AI turns the billionaire into a pariah, reportedly spreading misinformation with narcissistic tendencies

X's Grok-2 is now accessible and free for all users. Some have lauded the tool's ultra-realistic photo generation capabilities, while others have gotten the tool to make fun of the company CEO, Elon Musk.

Elon Musk and his Grok AI.

Microsoft AI CEO predicts AGI within 7 years, but not with 'current hardware' as indicated by Sam Altman: "I don’t think it can be done on [Nvidia] GB200s"

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman talks about AGI, security, OpenAI partnership, copyright infringement by AI, and more in a detailed interview with The Verge.

Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI CEO talks on Day 1 of the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park at Bletchley Park on November 1, 2023 in Bletchley, England.

Apple's ingenious AI strategy will let the iPhone maker have its cake and eat a cut of OpenAI's ChatGPT Plus subscription plan, too

Apple's latest iOS 18.2 beta features a new Upgrade to ChatGPT Plus option in the Settings app. The iPhone maker will get a commission for advertising the service across its platform while availing Apple Intelligence to its broad user base for free.

Apple Intelligence running on an iPhone

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