Microsoft announced today a new Microsoft 365 Copilot agent called App Builder that can help users create and deploy apps “in minutes.” As Microsoft explained, this agent allows employees to build apps using their Microsoft 365 data, including documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and notes, “just as easily as having a conversation.” “Describe what you need in natural language, and Copilot helps …
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Periodic Labs came out of stealth on Tuesday with a war chest of $300 million as a seed round, backed by a tech industry’s who’s who: Andreessen Horowitz, DST, Nvidia, Accel, Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos. Periodic Labs was founded by Ekin Dogus Cubuk and Liam Fedus. Cubuk led the materials and chemistry team at Google …
Read More »An AI chatbot is a pretty good interpreter. It can’t dredge a river. Microsoft researchers analyzed which careers are most and least likely to be affected by generative AI and large language models based on an anonymized dataset of 200,000 conversations between users in the United States and the tech giant’s Copilot chatbot, formerly known as Bing Copilot. They found …
Read More »Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas thinks the future of AI isn’t in chatbots but in your browser. And he said it’s coming for two roles that every modern workplace depends on: recruiters and administrative assistants. On Thursday’s episode of The Verge’s “Decoder” podcast, Srinivas explained how his company’s new AI-native browser, Comet, is designed not just to help people browse the …
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Bedrock Robotics, an autonomous vehicle technology startup founded by veterans of Waymo and Segment, has been operating quietly for more than a year. Now, it’s breaking cover with an $80 million funding round from investors Eclipse and 8VC. Bedrock Robotics is focused on developing a self-driving kit that can be retrofitted to construction and other worksite vehicles, according to the …
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