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Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNETZDNET's key takeawaysMicrosoft Copilot just got a new editing feature for its AI image generator. You can try it out today in Copilot for free. Doing simple edits to your generated image can be done without leaving Copilot, making it easier to get the exact result you want or to just experiment. If you wish to do extensive edits to the image you generate, you'll still have to rely on another app. The most popular AI chatbots have recently unveiled updates -- and Copilot wasn't going to fall behind.…

Graphic: MicrosoftMy colleague Maxwell Zeff once described Microsoft Copilot as “if Clippy went to get his MBA.” Microsoft just announced a new premium subscription to its Copilot AI, which can be analogous to Clippy getting a PhD. Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future TechTargeted at “power users and creators,” Copilot Pro promises to be an advanced version of the free tier for a monthly fee of $20. It runs across your devices (yes, on your phones, too—more on that in a bit) to deliver what Microsoft calls a…

Microsoft Microsoft is expanding its AI integration again, enabling anyone to subscribe to a new service called Copilot Pro, which will be used in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. That means you can do things like generate full slideshows in Powerpoint with just a few words typed into the chatbot. Having generative AI built right into Office apps was an exciting idea when it was announced last year, but so far, it’s only available for enterprise accounts as part of Copilot in Microsoft 365. Now, that…

Microsoft’s AI chatbot Copilot will now be able to churn out AI songs on demand — thanks to a new plug-in with Suno. The Cambridge-based AI music startup offers a tool on Discord that can compose an original song — complete with lyrics — based on a text prompt. Now, Copilot users will be able to access Suno using the Microsoft chatbot. In order to start making music, Copilot users only need to sign on to their accounts and enable the Suno plug-in — or click on the logo that says, “Make music with Suno.” Users then need to…

Yes, Microsoft Copilot, formerly known as Bing Chat, is available for free. The cost of the application-specific Microsoft Copilots depends on the service it is being integrated into. For example, Copilot for Microsoft 365 has been made available for enterprise customers at a whopping $30 per user per month.Also: Microsoft's latest AI offerings for developers revealed at Ignite 2023For context, the price of the add-on is more than the lower-end plans of Microsoft 365 business subscriptions, which range from $12 to $23 per…

The Service application, expected to be available "in early 2024," is priced at $50 per user per month. The second application, Copilot for Sales, is an "evolution" of a program unveiled for Dynamics 365 this summer called Sales Copilot. Enhancements to the program include integration with Microsoft Word. "Sellers can prompt Copilot to create a meeting preparation brief in Microsoft Word, automatically populated with customer information such as an account and opportunity summary, names and titles of meeting…

Today, November 15, was an important day in the artificial intelligence space. Microsoft hosted its event dubbed Microsoft Ignite, where it made a range of AI-related announcements. One of the major highlights from the event was that copilots, the company's AI tools, have received new capabilities. They will now be able to do more tasks across the Microsoft 365 suite. In other news, Cambridge Dictionary's word of the year is inspired by AI and it gives a familiar word a new meaning. This and more in today's AI roundup.…

The artificial intelligence race has just got even more intense. Microsoft, during the keynote session of its developer-centric event Microsoft Build, announced a wide range of AI copilots for its products as well as a full copilot stack for its developers to build apps and plugins. With Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC) just a couple of weeks away, it remains to be seen if Apple too will join the AI bandwagon. In other news, a scammer in China used AI technology to scam people. This and more in our daily…

Microsoft has a lot of news at this year's Build conference around its AI "copilots" for Windows 11 and other products, but it wants third-party developers in on the action too. The company announced that it has expanded its AI plugin ecosystem and provided a framework for building AI apps and copilots. At the same time, it's adopting the same open plugin standard that OpenAI uses for ChatGPT to ensure it'll work alongside its Windows 11, 365 and other copilots.  Microsoft introduced the idea of copilots nearly two years…

Microsoft GitHub Copilot and its business partner OpenAI have been targeted in a proposed class action lawsuit Microsoft, it’s subsidiary GitHub, and its business partner OpenAI have been targeted in a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that the companies’ creation of AI-powered coding assistant GitHub Copilot relies on “software piracy on an unprecedented scale.” The case is only in its earliest stages but could have a huge effect on the broader world of AI, where companies are making fortunes training…