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Microsoft on Thursday previewed an artificial intelligence tool for customers' finance departments, part of a strategy tailoring new software to industries, professionals and ultimately individuals.The company said its tool, called Microsoft Copilot for Finance, helps users review data sets for risks, produce reports from raw numbers, and generally handle tasks they might otherwise outsource. It did not announce pricing or a date for wider availability.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Online shopping and home delivery have displaced the traditional trip to the shops for many people. This has been an ongoing process in retail that has seen the closure of high-street shops and many of the big department store chains as customers turn to shopping online. The process was somewhat accelerated during the pandemic when many people simply could not go shopping because of the…

Jobs in the Age of AI:Daniel Shapero has been at LinkedIn since 2008, when the Great Recession rocked the labor market. He's since risen through the ranks to become the company's chief operating officer, guiding the platform through significant strategic shifts. Now owned by Microsoft Corp., the professional networking site is taking on its next big transformation: artificial intelligence.We'll start with AI, the topic du jour. What have you been hearing?The biggest unknown, and probably the biggest change, is that…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Salespeople's motivation is the essential factor in value-based selling—the process of presenting a product or service in terms of the value it creates for customers—especially when the value proposition is based on the offering of sophisticated digitally enabled solutions. Supervisors, on their side, can play an important role in creating and stimulating motivation. This is the subject of a…

Microsoft Corp. is adding artificial intelligence capabilities from ChatGPT maker OpenAI to another of its products — this time a customer-relationship app that's meant to help win revenue from Salesforce Inc. Viva Sales, which connects Microsoft's Office and video conferencing programs with customer relations management software, will be able to generate email replies to clients using OpenAI's product for creating text. The AI tools, which include OpenAI's GPT 3.5 — the system that is the basis for the ChatGPT…