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Microsoft’s new Team Copilot feature will allow the assistant to manage meeting agendas and notes, moderate lengthy team chats, or help assign tasks and track deadlines in Microsoft Planner. It’s part of a new wave of agent capabilities for Copilot that you can read more about right here.

One of the first big uses of generative AI for Microsoft, GitHub Copilot, now has 1.8 million paid users. Microsoft is launching GitHub Copilot extensions today to make the service even more extensible.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says Sam Altman will appear onstage at Build soon to “talk about what’s next” with Microsoft CTO and EVP of AI Kevin Scott. Will we hear about OpenAI’s search engine, powered partly by Bing? GPT-5? Vague promises of the AI future? Stay tuned.

OpenAI’s latest GPT-4o model is now available for businesses to use through Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. The model includes multimodal input and output, and Microsoft has demonstrated new ways developers can leverage this model for conversational AI in their apps.

Microsoft mentioned yesterday that in addition to all the Snapdragon-powered PCs announced, we would also see those AI PC experiences ship in computers powered by Intel, AMD, and Nvidia as well. Now Nvidia suggests it won’t be a long wait:

In the coming months, Copilot+ PCs equipped with new power-efficient systems-on-a-chip and RTX GPUs will be released, giving gamers, creators, enthusiasts and developers increased performance to tackle demanding local AI workloads, along with Microsoft’s new Copilot+ features.

Microsoft is now allowing businesses to preview its new Arm-based Cobalt CPU on Azure virtual machines. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced onstage at Build that the preview opens today, and these chips should include some performance increases for cloud workloads.

Lots of applause from the developers in the audience at Microsoft Build for the company’s new Windows Copilot Runtime. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella likens this to a big moment like Win32, allowing developers to more easily build AI into their Windows apps.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has opened Build 2024 by discussing the new AI era. He says Microsoft has had two dreams for decades:

1) Can computers understand us instead of us having to understand computers?

2) In a world where we have ever-increasing information, can computers help us reason, plan, and act more effectively on all that information?

Nadella is positioning this wave of AI as the answer to Microsoft’s dreams.

As Google plugs AI into search, what happens to the web? Nilay Patel discussed that topic with Google CEO Sundar Pichai this week on the Decoder podcast. It quickly became a deeper discussion about the new AI Overviews results, but you can start with a small bite here.

Fluid Framework 2.0 lets multiple people work together in Microsoft’s Notion-like Loop workspaces and turns Office document items like charts, tables, and lists into “Lego pieces” that can be edited in real time from any app.

Starting today, outside developers are getting preview access to the technology that gave Microsoft 365 apps a Google Workspace-like boost, stretching those abilities for collaboration even further.

Wired found thousands of event listings that violated the platform’s policies, including pages claiming to sell drugs, escort services, and social media engagement.

Sometimes, the recommended events were offensive or potentially harmful: pages promoting illegal drug sales were displayed next to addiction recovery events, for example.

It’s live in 20 countries now and will reach 25 by July 1st. Warner Bros. Discovery also has bundle deals in place with providers like Telefonica and Vodafone.

In these European countries, Max will be the only way to stream every 2024 Olympic Games event live, it offers “double the amount of content” versus HBO Max, and House of Dragons season two will premiere on June 17th.

A24 has been selling physical copies of its films’ screenplays through its online store for a few years now, but the studio has just struck a deal with publisher Mack that will put its books in brick-and-mortar stores in in the U.S., Europe and Asia beginning this September.

Bandai Namco has announced that it will debut the story trailer for Shadow of the Erdtree today at 11 AM ET / 8 AM PT. There’s exactly one month until the highly anticipated DLC to 2022’s Game of the Year finally launches and there are a whole lot of messed up lil’ dudes FromSoftware has to show off between then and now.

The iPhone maker has filed a suit at the EU’s General Court, according to Bloomberg, after arguing that the investigation into the App Store’s music-streaming app distribution had failed “to uncover any credible evidence of consumer harm.”

The probe, sparked by an antitrust complaint Spotify raised in 2019, also ordered Apple to stop preventing music-streaming apps from advertising cheaper deals available outside the App Store.

European ministers have unanimously adopted the bloc’s AI Act, which is now set to be published in the EU’s Official Journal in the coming days.

The law will take effect 20 days after publication, where compliance deadlines will be staggered — starting at six months for AI systems that pose “unacceptable risk,” up to the end of 2030 for AI components of large-scale IT systems.