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Microsoft announces Copilot Studio, a no-code tool to build on 365 Copilot to let businesses create a custom copilot or integrate a custom ChatGPT chatbot (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces Copilot Studio, a no-code tool to build on 365 Copilot to let businesses create a custom copilot or integrate a custom ChatGPT chatbot — Last week OpenAI announced its new GPT platform to let anyone create their own version of ChatGPT, and now Microsoft is following with Copilot

Microsoft announces Windows AI Studio, to let developers access and tweak AI models; Nvidia brings TensorRT-LLM to GeForce RTX 30 and 40-powered Windows PCs (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Emma Roth / The Verge: Microsoft announces Windows AI Studio, to let developers access and tweak AI models; Nvidia brings TensorRT-LLM to GeForce RTX 30 and 40-powered Windows PCs — Microsoft and Nvidia want to help developers run and configure AI models on their Windows PCs. During the Microsoft Ignite event on Wednesday …

Microsoft officially launches Loop, a Notion-style productivity and collaboration app, after releasing a public preview in March 2023 (Kevin Okemwa/Windows Central)

Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central: Microsoft officially launches Loop, a Notion-style productivity and collaboration app, after releasing a public preview in March 2023 — Everyone’s looped in. — What you need to know — Microsoft Loop is now shipping to commercial customers on web and mobile platforms.

Microsoft rolls out AI updates to Teams, including generative backgrounds, and plans to integrate its Mesh mixed reality platform into Teams in January 2024 (Usama Jawad/XDA Developers)

Usama Jawad / XDA Developers: Microsoft rolls out AI updates to Teams, including generative backgrounds, and plans to integrate its Mesh mixed reality platform into Teams in January 2024 — Microsoft has outlined a detailed list of features that are rolling out now to Teams, through January 2024. — Source: Microsoft

Microsoft Ignite 2023: all the AI news from Microsoft’s IT pro event

Illustration: The Verge Ignite is Microsoft’s chance to show why AI matters to developers and IT professionals. Continue reading…

The Analogue Pocket now comes in a rainbow of classic Game Boy colors

Photo: Analogue Analogue seems obsessed with recreating the Game Boy family as faithfully as possible. For its latest endeavor, it’s bringing the classic colorways of the Game Boy Advance and Pocket to the Analogue Pocket. These Classic Limited Edition Pockets have, according to the press release, been “carefully color-matched” to resemble the colors of the

Microsoft Teams’ latest AI trick cleans and decorates your messy webcam background

Image: Microsoft Microsoft is adding two new AI-powered features to Teams soon that will improve your voice and webcam. A new “decorate your background” feature is coming to Microsoft Teams Premium in early 2024 and uses generative AI effects to clean up and replace clutter in the background when on a video call. While Microsoft

Google’s new Photos features try to declutter your library

As the amount we store in image form increases, so does the need to categorize it. | Image: Google Google’s latest features for its Photos app on iOS and Android are an attempt to tame an unruly gallery filled with duplicate photos, endless screenshots, and photos of receipts and ID cards. The first feature, called

Microsoft’s planning tools will soon be less confusing

Illustration: The Verge Microsoft is overhauling its project management services to help small teams and businesses better keep track of work. During the company’s Ignite event on Wednesday, Microsoft announced that some of its existing task management and planning tools — Microsoft To Do, Microsoft Planner, and Microsoft Project for the web — will be

Microsoft debuts new unified security solution with Security Copilot

Unified Microsoft Defender dashboard with analytics and Sentinel on the sidebar. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is combining its Sentinel security analytics and Microsoft Defender XDR platforms into an “industry first” unified security operations platform — with the company’s Security Copilot chatbot stationed centrally for IT and security personnel to administer everything easily. During the company’s

Pixel 8a dummy units show up in new leak

Credit: xleaks7 Images of an aluminum dummy unit of the Pixel 8a have leaked online. The dummy phone shows that the upcoming Pixel may be more rounded than its predecessor. The dummy unit also shows that the Pixel 8a could have thick bezels. Even before the launch of the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro,

Amazon’s new security robot is kind of cute

Image: Amazon Because the world wasn’t frightening enough already, companies can now buy a security robot from Amazon to patrol their businesses. Lucky for humans, this thing looks like it’s just a step above a Roomba — it’s giving Wall-E instead of Terminator. Amazon launched Astro for Business for customers in the US today, a

Wallpaper Wednesday: More great phone wallpapers for all to share (November 15)

Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use

Aqara’s new camera is one of the cheapest HomeKit cameras you can buy

Aqara’s Camera E1 is a pan and tilt indoor smart security camera that works with Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home. | Image: Aqara Aqara’s latest smart home security camera, the Camera E1, is the company’s least expensive camera that still packs high-end features. First shown at the IFA 2023 tech conference, the $60

WhatsApp for Android will again use Google Drive space for backups

Illustration: The Verge Android users on WhatsApp won’t have a free ride anymore when it comes to backups. The change comes after five years of Android users’ backups not counting toward Google Drive storage limits at all — something that was never true for iOS users. Google and WhatsApp both announced that, starting for WhatsApp

Be My Eyes, an app for blind people, says Microsoft plans to integrate its Be My AI into the Microsoft Disability Answer Desk for customer service calls (Jackie Davalos/Bloomberg)

Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: Be My Eyes, an app for blind people, says Microsoft plans to integrate its Be My AI into the Microsoft Disability Answer Desk for customer service calls — – Company is working with Be My Eyes app for visually impaired — Service will help users install software updates, troubleshoot

Amazon announces Astro for Business, letting SMBs buy its Alexa-powered Astro security robot for $2,350 per unit for sites no larger than 5,000 square feet (Daniel Cooper/Engadget)

Daniel Cooper / Engadget: Amazon announces Astro for Business, letting SMBs buy its Alexa-powered Astro security robot for $2,350 per unit for sites no larger than 5,000 square feet — Astro for Business aims to automate nighttime patrols. — It’s been a couple of years since Amazon first showed off Astro …

Google is going to let you annotate search results

Illustration: The Verge Ever wanted to add your own annotations to search results you find on Google? With Google’s new “Notes” experiment, launching Wednesday as an opt-in feature through Search Labs, you’ll be able to. If you’ve opted in to Notes, buttons to add and see notes will appear under search results and under articles

PitchBook: Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, and Binance Labs significantly cut dealmaking since Q1 2022; Coinbase did 11 deals in Q3, down from 65 in Q1 2022 (Hannah Miller/Bloomberg)

Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: PitchBook: Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, and Binance Labs significantly cut dealmaking since Q1 2022; Coinbase did 11 deals in Q3, down from 65 in Q1 2022 — Even crypto companies are pulling back on crypto venture capital. … It’s the all-time biggest backer of industry startups …

Who owns AI art?

In 2022, James Allen filed a copyright application for an image titled “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial,” or “Space Opera Theater.” While the picture had the look of a detailed sci-fi painting, Allen had actually created it through painstaking experimentation in the AI image generator Midjourney; he described using over 600 prompt variations to get the look

Microsoft investigating Windows activation issues after closing a key loophole

Image: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft is investigating Windows activation issues that appear to be linked to the company’s recent move to block Windows 7 and Windows 8 keys from activating copies of Windows 10 and Windows 11. If you have an installation of Windows 10 / 11 that has been activated using

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