Gaming Copilot is currently available to Xbox Insiders

political system and engage with their communities. To collect data for this study, in August 2024 we prompted three GenAI chatbots -- the GPT-4o model of ChatGPT, Google's Gemini 1.5 Flash model and Microsoft's latest Copilot model -- to generate two sets of lesson plans for eighth grade civics classes based on Massachusetts state standards

(Spoiler: Its really all about the new GPU.) Also, Sam goes deep on his review of the ROG Xbox Ally X, Microsofts first stab at a portable Xbox. Subscribe! iTunes Spotify Pocket Casts Stitcher Google Podcasts Topics Apple refreshes of the Macbook Pro, Vision Pro and iPad Pro with M5 chips 1:24 Sam Rutherfords review of the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X 18:45 Microsoft makes big promises with Copilot Voice, can it follow through? 39:00 OpenAIs Sora app reaches 1M downloads in less than 5 days, faster than ChatGPT 50:42 Sam Altman announces youll be able to sext with ChatGPT starting in December 54:00 Working on 1:06:50 Pop culture picks 1:09:41 Credits Hosts: Devindra Hardawar and Sam Rutherford Producer: Ben Ellman Music: Dale North and Terrence O'Brien This article originally appeared on Engadget at ...rog-xbox-ally-x-113000324.html?src=rss

NASA's Earth-watching archives find new home in Redmond's cloud, complete with Copilot hype Microsoft has made NASA's Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) dataset available on Azure via the Windows giant's Planetary Computer platform

PC gamers on Windows 11 are getting some new features including an AI helper in the Game Bar

To entice people to upgrade, the software giant on Thursday announced new Windows 11 features, most of them further integrating the company's AI chatbot, Copilot, into the experience of using a laptop

Copilot expands with an emphasis on creating and editing files, voice input.

We've seen this before and it was called Cortana or Clippy As if pulling support for Windows 10 was not punishment enough for long-suffering customers, Microsoft has decided to shove Copilot down everyone's throats with a new voice activation feature and even more control over your PC

From a report: "We already use [AI agents] in almost every meeting," Faber said at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, D.C., on Monday. While she said AI agents today (like Microsoft Copilot and internal bots) mostly take care of summarization and idea generation, that's likely to change owing to the pace at which the technology is developing

The Gaming Copilot feature is currently as pointless as it sounds.

Early adopters will be able to tell Microsoft's Copilot assistant to take action on files stored on their Windows 11 PCs.

Microsoft is reshaping Windows around AI, introducing capabilities that let users control their computers through voice and allow Copilot to take autonomous actions on their behalf

(Reuters) -Microsoft on Thursday rolled out a series of artificial intelligence upgrades to Windows 11 that would make its Copilot AI assistant more appealing to users by making it easier to automate tasks and connect with services across devices

Microsoft is going deep on AI with Windows 11, making voice a third input aside the keyboard and mouse with new wake words and additional features

All Windows 11 users will soon be able to talk to the Copilot AI assistant more easily via voice, and Copilot Vision can understand the context of your screen.

Windows 11 is about to get a heaping spoonful of new AI features

Microsoft is serious about you relying on your mouse and keyboard a lot less in the future

Over a decade since Microsoft tried to make talking to Cortana on PCs a thing -- and spectacularly failed in the process -- the Windows giant is taking another swing at voice commands with its Copilot AI assistant in Windows 11

(European users will get the free option with no strings attached .) The first is that you'll be linking your Windows login to Microsoft's cloud-based online service. Most users have likely already done this (if they're using CoPilot, Office 365, GamePass, OneDrive or one of Microsoft's other various online services)

To the slop trough, kiddos! Not content to shove Copilot into every corner of the enterprise it can think of, Microsoft has announced plans to force feed AI to students across its home state of Washington.

Microsoft has beefed up the Copilot app with an impressive addition that's a substitute for a useful Copilot+ PC feature

(European users will get the free option with no strings attached .) The first is that you'll be linking your Windows login to Microsoft's cloud-based online service. Most users have likely already done this (if they're using CoPilot, Office 365, GamePass, OneDrive or one of Microsoft's other various online services)

Bring Your Copilot To Work Day, anyone? Microsoft, the corporation that just 13 days ago implored customers to bring their Copilot to work, has now published a report warning of the dangers of Shadow AI.

Microsoft's latest Copilot update connects to your Gmail, Drive, and more a productivity dream for some, and a privacy headache for others.

According to the blog post , MAI-Image-1 is particularly good for creating photorealistic results, and can generate natural lighting and landscapes. For now, the model is being tested on LMArena, and Microsoft said it plans to roll out MAI-Image-1 to Copilot and its Bing Image Creator "very soon." Over the summer, Microsoft made its first break from collaborating with OpenAI when it unveiled its first two in-house trained models, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview

Best Buy is holding a sitewide sale on Microsoft Copilot+ PCs with steep discounts up to $700 off

(European users will get the free option with no strings attached .) The first is that you'll be linking your Windows login to Microsoft's cloud-based online service. Most users have likely already done this (if they're using CoPilot, Office 365, GamePass, OneDrive or one of Microsoft's other various online services)

Microsoft makes AI agent in settings more powerful and I'm excited to see what the next agent achieves

A demo of educational AI-powered tools by a Microsoft product manager (in March of 2024) showed "how AI has the possibility to transform various job sectors and the education system," according to one report. But that demo "includes a segment on Copilot in Excel that is likely to resonate with AI-wary software developers," writes long-time Slashdot theodp: The Copilot in Excel segment purports to show how even teachers who were too "afraid of" or "intimidated" to use Excel in the past can now just use natural language prompts to conduct Excel analysis

(European users will get the free option with no strings attached .) The first is that you'll be linking your Windows login to Microsoft's cloud-based online service. Most users have likely already done this (if they're using CoPilot, Office 365, GamePass, OneDrive or one of Microsoft's other various online services)

ASUS Malaysia has introduced the refreshed ProArt P16, a Copilot+ creator laptop powered by the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPU

Microsofts Copilot assistant now lets users link their Google and Microsoft accounts

Viva Insights turns AI guzzling into a leaderboard Microsoft is adding Copilot adoption benchmarks to Viva Insights, a tool that lets managers monitor teams to spot those that are gulping down the AI Kool-Aid fastest.

Google is directly challenging Microsoft's dominance in the workplace AI space with its powerful new tool.

Lunar Lake chips integrated RAM on-package and used the latest Battlemage GPU architecture but were mostly used in high-end thin laptops. Arrow Lake processors offered more flexibility but paired newer CPU cores with older graphics and an NPU that did not meet Microsoft Copilot+ requirements

AI assistant could be duped into leaking code and tokens via sneaky markdown GitHub's Copilot Chat, the chatbot meant to help developers code faster, could be helping attackers to steal code instead.

The chatbot kicked off a flurry of investment, such as Microsoft's multibillion-dollar deal in 2023. And, of course, the biggest tech companies followed OpenAIs lead with products like Googles Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Apple Intelligence

(Reuters) -Microsoft is partnering with Harvard Medical School to enhance its Copilot AI assistant with health content, as part of a broader effort to reduce its dependence on ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday

A new report reveals ChatGPT and Copilot are now the biggest sources of workplace data leaks and most employees dont even realize theyre doing it

A fine balance between forgetfulness and memory makes the perfect, privacy-protecting chatbot.

Microsoft Copilot, not so much Employees could be opening up to OpenAI in ways that put sensitive data at risk

Microsoft's Copilot is helping workers perfect the ancient art of doing sweet f all Opinion It has been less than three years since ChatGPT lit the fuse of the current explosion of AI everywhere

Microsofts Photos app adds AI-powered sorting and super resolution features, but they only work on Copilot+ PCs with NPU hardware

Use your home subscription with your work Microsoft 365 account Your job may not support BYOD, but how about BYOC? Microsoft has declared that people can bring their personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions to work to access various Copilot features at companies that fail to provide an AI fix.

In a way, the Microsoft 365 Premium plan simplifies Microsoft's offerings a bit. If you had one of the cheaper MS 365 plans, you'd still need to pay another $20 a month to get access to higher AI usage limits with the Copilot Pro subscription

The software company introduced Copilot Pro at $20 per month in early 2024.

Yep, we're sure that will win folks over Microsoft is testing talking avatars for Copilot to see if users feel more at ease chatting with a face instead of just a text box

Available as a Copilot Labs experience, Copilot Portraits supplements the voice with animated 2D images that speak with you in real time.

Available for Microsoft 365 Copilot users, the new agents will help you create, edit, and analyze your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

The release of Sonnet 4.5 caps off a strong September for Anthropic. Just one day after Microsoft added Claude models to Copilot 365 last week, OpenAI admitted its rival offers the best AI for work-related tasks

But in the meantime, sure: vibe working it is. Using Office Agent within Office apps or Copilot chat, users can begin a document with a single prompt and then work iteratively alongside Copilot to develop a finished product

The software maker is launching a new Agent Mode in Excel and Word that can generate complex spreadsheets and documents with just a prompt. A new Office Agent in Copilot chat, powered by Anthropic models, is also launching today that can create PowerPoint presentations and Word documents from a "vibe working" chatbot

Yet, for industry observers, this partnership with Google raises intriguing questions about competitive dynamics in the browser space, where Firefox has historically positioned itself as an independent alternative to Chrome... This move comes at a time when browsers are increasingly becoming platforms for AI-driven enhancements, as evidenced by recent updates in competitors like Microsoft's Edge, which integrates Copilot AI

Microsoft Copilot found to have accessed millions of business records per organization as data sharing risks grow across industries

Some Microsoft Copilot functionalities can now use Claude models alongside those from OpenAI

Qualcomm changed its name back then to reflect the huge leap in performance. Microsoft released a lineup of Copilot+ PCs with the new Snapdragon chip in 2024

Redmond wants more flavors of ML than OpenAI can cook up Microsoft has sealed a deal with Anthropic to give users of Microsoft 365 Copilot the option to use the Claude AI engine

That report from a few weeks ago was spot-on. As The Information 's sources tipped , Microsoft 365 Copilot is adding Anthropic's AI models

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told The Verge today that the company plans to transform Edge into an "agentic browser" where Copilot controls tabs, navigates websites and completes tasks while users watch

Microsoft is preparing a Publisher Content Marketplace to pay publishers when their work is used in AI products like Copilot

Gemini in Sidekick won't really replace a detailed game guide written by a human, but for a quick answer it's easier than Googling. It's also similar in many ways to Microsoft's Gaming Copilot , which also places a live AI in games with you

Software compatibility is no longer a problem for Windows on Arm devices, Microsoft assures us but games, on the other hand

$199) through Sep. 28 and enjoy AI Copilot, advanced security, and productivity tools in a lifetime license.

Microsoft has began rolling out its new Gaming Copilot assistant to Windows users as part of a public beta, following a previous rollout to Xbox Insiders in August

All the tasks Microsoft says Copilot can handle for you now, across your entire workday.

Latest marketing blitz for a solution seeking a problem... and a killer app Comment Microsoft suspects that a "transformative shift" is being driven in personal and enterprise computing by its Copilot+ PCs and an expanding Windows on Arm ecosystem.