Big AI News

According to multiple sources (including The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg), Apple, Nvidia, and Microsoft are in discussions to participate in a new funding round (led by Thrive Capital) that would value OpenAI at over $100 billion. The exact amounts that Apple, Nvidia, and Microsoft might invest have not yet been reported. Continue Reading →

Not Quite Total Recall

Microsoft's "Recall" is an upcoming Windows 11 feature that will create a searchable timeline of your activities, allowing you to easily retrieve and review ("recall") past work. It accomplishes this by capturing and storing screenshots of nearly everything you see or do on your PC. What could possibly go wrong? Continue Reading →

When Everyone Gets a Blue Screen of Death

BSOD, the blue screen of death, has become the universal metaphor for an unscheduled operational collapse. When it happens to your Windows machine, you know you're in for a day that is only slightly more preferable than a root canal. When it happens systemically in the cloud… that's something else entirely. Continue Reading →

Mistral Large: A New AI Model and a Microsoft Partnership

Paris-based startup Mistral has unveiled Mistral Large, a new open source AI model that builds on its initial offering, Mistral 7B. Designed for developers, Mistral Large distinguishes itself with exceptional reasoning skills and proficiency in code and mathematics. The model is multilingual and is fluent English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Continue Reading →

Copilot For Everybody!

Copilot for Microsoft 365 subscriptions are now available on a per-user basis with no minimum number of users required. This is a massive shift from the 300-user minimum that has been in place since the AI assistant launched last November. Continue Reading →

Microsoft Copilot for iOS is Here

Have you been lying in bed at night, dreaming of a day when Microsoft would release Copilot for iPhone and iPad? Have you caught yourself daydreaming about how great it would be if you could have a standalone Copilot app instead of the standalone ChatGPT app? Continue Reading →