Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google plans to test search and shopping ads in its AI Overviews, drawing from advertisers’ existing campaigns; AI Overviews rolled out to US users last week — Google is set to start mixing ads into its new AI-generated search answers. It’s a test of how the company’s biggest revenue stream can adapt to the age of generative AI.
Microsoft unveils a Team Copilot for Microsoft Teams, Loop, and Planner that can help run meetings, manage projects, assign tasks, more, coming later this year (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft unveils a Team Copilot for Microsoft Teams, Loop, and Planner that can help run meetings, manage projects, assign tasks, more, coming later this year — Microsoft will test the limits of artificial intelligence in group collaboration with a new AI assistant that keeps meetings on track …
Tech Against Scams, a coalition to fight “pig butchering” ploys with better industry coordination, launches with Meta, Coinbase, Match, Kraken, others on board (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
Tech Against Scams, a coalition to fight “pig butchering” ploys with better industry coordination, launches with Meta, Coinbase, Match, Kraken, others on board — Bad people who prey on those looking for love, or hoping to make a quick buck, have been around since biblical times.
Microsoft ships Azure AI Studio in broad availability, adds support for OpenAI’s GPT-4o, and announces a new multimodal model in its lightweight Phi-3 family (Kevin Okemwa/Windows Central)
Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central:
Microsoft ships Azure AI Studio in broad availability, adds support for OpenAI’s GPT-4o, and announces a new multimodal model in its lightweight Phi-3 family — Azure AI will now ship with GPT-4o and Microsoft’s Phi-3 family of small AI models to help developers build custom Copilot apps responsibly and safely.
Microsoft debuts a new AI feature for Edge to translate spoken content via dubbing and subtitles live, on YouTube, LinkedIn, Coursera, news sites, and more (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Microsoft debuts a new AI feature for Edge to translate spoken content via dubbing and subtitles live, on YouTube, LinkedIn, Coursera, news sites, and more — Microsoft Edge will soon offer real-time video translation on sites like YouTube, LinkedIn, Coursera, and more.
Microsoft launches Copilot Extension for GitHub, letting developers build third-party skills into Copilot, starting with DataStax, Stripe, MongoDB, and more (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Microsoft launches Copilot Extension for GitHub, letting developers build third-party skills into Copilot, starting with DataStax, Stripe, MongoDB, and more — Build is Microsoft’s largest developer conference and of course, it’s all about AI this year. So it’s no surprise that GitHub’s Copilot …
A live stream of Microsoft’s Build 2024 keynote (Microsoft Developer on YouTube)
Microsoft Developer on YouTube:
A live stream of Microsoft’s Build 2024 keynote — For the full event experience, please head to ➡️ https://aka.ms/MSBuild2024EventJoin us for Day 1 of Microsoft Build 2024 Microsoft Build is for developers, …
A French AI startup, simply called H and founded by ex-Google DeepMind scientists, raised $220M from Accel and others, and plans a model capable of reasoning (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
A French AI startup, simply called H and founded by ex-Google DeepMind scientists, raised $220M from Accel and others, and plans a model capable of reasoning — – Billionaires and VCs join round in company promising AGI — DeepMind alums will partner with UiPath, other investors
AWS says it has “fully transitioned” its previous orders for Nvidia’s Grace Hopper chips to the successor Grace Blackwell chips, announced in March 2024 (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
AWS says it has “fully transitioned” its previous orders for Nvidia’s Grace Hopper chips to the successor Grace Blackwell chips, announced in March 2024 — Delay from the world’s biggest cloud computing provider gives investors jitters over potential ‘air pocket’ in demand for AI chips
Adobe adds generative AI tools to Lightroom, including Firefly-powered Generative Remove to let users “paint” over unwanted objects, available in early access (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Adobe adds generative AI tools to Lightroom, including Firefly-powered Generative Remove to let users “paint” over unwanted objects, available in early access — Adobe is adding some new generative AI tools to Lightroom that aim to make the photo editing platform easier to use …
