Microsoft is reportedly eyeing a $10 billion funding in OpenAI, the startup that created the viral chatbot ChatGPT, and is planning to combine it into Workplace merchandise and Bing search.
This can be a large deal. If profitable, it is going to convey highly effective AI instruments to the lots. So what would ChatGPT-powered Microsoft merchandise appear to be? Whereas neither Microsoft or OpenAI have been prepared to reply our questions, we all know sufficient to make some knowledgeable, clever guesses. Trace: it’s most likely excellent news for those who discover creating PowerPoint displays and answering emails boring. Read the full story.
—Melissa Heikkilä
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The information has main implications for the nation’s social, protection and financial insurance policies. (CNN)
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+ India is ready to take over because the world’s most populous nation. (Economist $)
+ Anti-covid zero demonstrators are nonetheless being detained. (Bloomberg $)
2 The primary invoice for Elon Musk’s Twitter buy is looming
How he offers with it’s yet one more main check of his management. (FT $)
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+ Microsoft is including ChatGPT to its cloud service “quickly.” (Bloomberg $)
4 EV gross sales have handed a major milestone
They made up 10% of latest automobiles bought final 12 months. (WSJ $)
+ Tesla is slashing its costs—however not everybody’s pleased. (The Verge)
5 Tenant-screening algorithms reportedly discriminated towards Black renters
Now the US Division of Justice is getting concerned. (Wired $)
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