Google is working on "Project Magi" to transform its search engine beyond the classic 10 blue links, adding conversational AI and short-form video content. Facing pressure from ChatGPT and TikTok, the new design focuses on queries with no single right answer. It will initially test with one million U.S. users.
Microsoft is reportedly teaming up with AMD to boost the AI capabilities of AMD GPUs, offering engineering resources to help break Nvidia’s near-monopoly on hardware. A more competitive hardware market could dramatically slash server costs for running large generative models. Microsoft, however, flatly denied that AMD is involved with its internal Athena AI chip.
Microsoft just moved the AI-powered Bing and Edge into Open Preview, completely dropping the waitlist so anyone with a Microsoft account can jump in. The update brings chat history, export options, 100+ language image generation, and third-party plugins like OpenTable and Wolfram|Alpha. It marks Bing's shift from a search engine into an action-oriented platform.
Vice President Kamala Harris is summoning the CEOs of Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to the White House this Thursday for a frank discussion on AI risks. Top administration officials will push for guardrails and ethical standards to mitigate potential fallout. Basically, Washington wants proof that these models are safe before they are unleashed to the wider public.
Geoffrey Hinton, widely considered one of the “Godfathers of AI,” just resigned from Google after more than a decade so he can speak freely about the technology's risks. Hinton admitted he partially regrets his life's work, warning that escalating corporate race could flood the world with fake media—and eventually pose an existential threat to humanity.
Microsoft just opened up the preview of Microsoft Designer to everyone, ditching the waitlist and rolling it directly into the Edge browser sidebar. The AI-powered design tool now lets users generate captions and hashtags, create animated visuals, and automatically resize graphics across 20 social media layouts. It makes spinning up custom social posts as seamless as tapping a sidebar icon without switching tabs.
Elon Musk just threatened to sue Microsoft, accusing the company of illegally harvesting Twitter data to train its AI models. The warning followed reports that Microsoft plans to drop Twitter from its ad platform. It marks another escalation in the growing clash over who owns the social web data powering generative AI.
Microsoft is reportedly developing in-house AI chips codenamed Athena to train LLMs and slash its costly dependence on Nvidia hardware. Some Microsoft and OpenAI employees already have access to test the silicon on GPT-4, with internal rollouts planned as early as next year.
Google is scrambling to roll out new AI-powered search features next month under the codename Magi, aiming to reach up to one million US users first. With ChatGPT surging and Samsung reportedly weighing a switch to Microsoft's Bing, Google is on high alert to defend its search kingdom.
Google just partnered with cloud coding platform Replit to bring its foundation AI models directly into Replit's Ghostwriter assistant. Coming just a week after GitHub unveiled Copilot X powered by GPT-4, the alliance sets up a fierce battle between Google and Microsoft over who will power the next generation of software developers.
Microsoft just launched Microsoft Security Copilot, a cybersecurity assistant combining OpenAI's GPT-4 with proprietary security models trained on 65 trillion daily threat signals. Defenders can run natural-language queries to investigate incidents, summarize alerts, and reverse-engineer threats in minutes instead of days. Why it matters: with a global shortfall of 3.4 million cyber pros, it gives overwhelmed defenders an AI-scale safety net.
Microsoft just rolled out a ground-up rebuild of its Teams app, ditching Electron for WebView2 and React to run twice as fast while cutting memory usage in half. Alongside a Windows 11 UI refresh and AI video filters, the overhaul is built to support rapid iteration for its Copilot assistant. It is currently in preview for Windows commercial users.
Microsoft is threatening to cut off search engine rivals from Bing’s index if they keep using the data to power their own AI chatbots, according to Bloomberg. The tech giant reportedly warned partners that feeding Bing data into competing chat tools breaches their contracts, effectively walling off its search moat as the generative AI race heats up.
Microsoft just launched the public preview of Loop, a dynamic workspace app featuring modular components that sync live across Teams, Outlook, and other 365 apps. The platform also integrates Microsoft 365 Copilot for AI-assisted brainstorming, drafting, and page summarization. The main app is now open to everyone, though Loop's Copilot features remain in private preview.
GitHub just unveiled Copilot X, a major vision powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 that moves AI far beyond basic code completion. It integrates a ChatGPT-style chat directly into IDEs, automatically drafts pull request descriptions, answers questions on documentation, and assists in the CLI. Basically, your AI pair programmer is stepping up to cover the full software development lifecycle.
Microsoft just integrated Bing Image Creator into the new Bing preview and Edge browser, powered by an advanced DALL∙E model from OpenAI. Users in Creative mode can now generate custom pictures right inside search chat simply by describing what they want. It basically transforms web search from tracking down existing images into conjuring new ones from scratch.
Bill Gates just published a memo calling modern artificial intelligence the most revolutionary technology he has seen since the graphical user interface in 1980. After watching OpenAI's GPT ace an AP biology exam with a top score of 5, Gates argued that AI will reshape healthcare and education while helping eliminate global inequities.
Microsoft just integrated large language models into its core productivity suite with Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing automated drafting, data analysis, and a cross-app Business Chat to Word, Excel, and Teams. It connects directly with your emails and calendar via Microsoft Graph, though it is currently in preview with only 20 enterprise customers.
LinkedIn just rolled out AI writing assistants to help job seekers spruce up their profiles and recruiters draft job descriptions. Profile summaries run on GPT-4 for Premium subscribers, while job posts are powered by GPT-3.5. Why it matters: LinkedIn won't flag AI-generated text, making the platform feel a lot more automated.
Microsoft just confirmed that its new Bing search engine has been running on OpenAI's newly released GPT-4 all along, customized specifically for search. Anyone who used the Bing preview over the past five weeks was already testing an early version, with future model upgrades set to flow directly into the search engine.
