Microsoft builds super app integrating Copilot AI tools and chat

Microsoft's super app could significantly boost Copilot adoption, impacting revenue and competitive positioning in the AI market. The post Microsoft builds super app integrating Copilot AI tools and chat into one platform appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The Euro-Office open source productivity app suite will be available with the first stable release of the software on June 9.  Euro-Office was unveiled in March with the aim of providing a modern, open source alternative to Microsoft and Google software for European organizations increasingly wary of a dependence on US-based suppliers.  Euro-Office consists of four browser-based applications: a document editor, spreadsheet program, presentation tool, and a PDF editor, with each application enabling collaborative document editing. It supports Microsoft Office file formats DOCX, PPTX and XLSX, as well as Open Document Format (ODF) files such as ODS, ODT and ODP. The software is intended to be integrated into collaboration solutions such as file-sharing platforms, online wikis or project management tools, according to Nextcloud, one of several European organizations involved in the Euro-Office project. Nextcloud will add Euro-Office to its Nextcloud Office next month, where it will be ava

Meta has raised the possibility that it could be joining the likes of Amazon, Microsoft and Google in offering cloud services at some point in the future — although potential customers shouldn’t be adding the company to their suppliers list just yet. When asked about plans for offering such services at the company’s annual shareholders meeting,  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said there was a possibility of the company competing with the major hyperscalers. “It’s definitely on the table.” He explained that different companies were approaching Meta asking for the company to offer an API service or to buy compute services at a premium price. “We haven’t done it yet, because we think we have a use for the compute, but when we feel we have overbuilt, then that is an option that we have.” Meta has been active in developing its data centers over the past few years, so there will be a possibility of some excess capacity. It is also developing its own AI chips. For the moment, though, the company ma

Microsoft is launching a revamped version of Microsoft 365 Copilot, offering a cleaner design that the company claims loads twice as fast. As part of this update, Copilot will provide more reliable and structured responses that are easier to scan, according to Microsoft. The redesign, which is rolling out across desktop and mobile devices, comes with a feature Microsoft calls "progressive disclosure." That means Copilot will present you with tools and controls based on your prompt, instead of showing a bunch of options at once. You can now format your text directly inside Copilot's upgraded prompt box as well, which will expand to fit every … Read the full story at The Verge.

Richard Thackeray and Phil Snell respond to an article by Wendy Liu on using artificial intelligence Wendy Liu’s thoughtful piece on AI and cognitive sovereignty raises real concerns about labour redundancies, the hype and the environmental cost (I avoid AI tools because thinking is supposed to be hard. It’s what makes us human, 24 May). But I think she allows those legitimate grievances to colour a separate and more interesting question: what is AI actually doing to the way we think? I use AI heavily and it has changed how I think, but not in the way she fears. It has made me more curious, not less. I now ask questions that I wouldn’t have known to ask and explore territory I would never have had time to reach. Yes, I offload research, but that offloading doesn’t empty my mind, it frees it. Continue reading...

The company is aiming to make the software easier to use for a growing number of workplace and personal tasks.

Microsoft Finance Agent helps finance teams use AI inside Microsoft 365 Copilot for reports, collections, audits, and data review.

Microsoft's new AI coding model could significantly enhance developer productivity, impacting enterprise software and cloud computing sectors. The post Microsoft to release new coding model next week appeared first on Crypto Briefing.