In an acknowledgement that cracking the home robotics market is hard, Amazon is bringing its Astro robot to a decidedly more corporate audience. The company today announced Astro for Business, which repurposes Astro as a security robot for small- and medium-sized business customers. Astro for Business adds several new capabilities to Astro, including the ability […]
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At its annual Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced a slew of interesting updates for Teams, its Slack-like collaboration and messaging service. Among the dozens of updates here, some of the highlights are the initial rollout of voice isolation, an AI-driven noise reduction feature that can not just reduce repetitive noise in the background but also […]
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Everything’s coming up Copilot — including Bing. Today at Ignite, Microsoft renamed Bing Chat, the AI-powered chatbot it launched on Bing earlier this year, to Copilot. Meanwhile, the premium, corporate-focused version of Bing Chat, which was previously called Bing Chat Enterprise, has been rebranded to Copilot Pro. Why the name changes? Not to cause confusion, […]
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Google Photos is rolling out a set of new features today that will leverage AI technologies to better organize and categorize photos for you. With the addition of something called Photo Stacks, Google will use AI to identify the “best” photo from a group of photos taken together and select it as the top pick […]
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Copilot, Microsoft’s brand of generative AI technologies, promises to be a big moneymaker for the company, with one analyst predicting that it could generate $10 billion in annualized revenue by 2026. Despite a staggered and somewhat confusing rollout, 40% of companies in the Fortune 100 were testing Copilot by fall, according to Microsoft CEO Satya […]
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YouTube is expanding a few new features for premium users, the company announced on Wednesday. The platform is expanding its enhanced bitrate version of 1080p HD to more devices, expanding the ability to continue watching YouTube across different devices to smart TVs and tablets, rolling out badges that showcase achievements and launching new offers on […]
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