Thu. 11/16 – Microsoft’s Ignite Conference

All of the big announcements from Microsoft’s development conference yesterday, including the debut of their own AI chips. YouTube is bringing AI to Shorts. Threads is kinda doing hashtags, though Chris Messina has thoughts. And the new UPS warehouse where the robots way outnumber the humans.

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Links:

• Microsoft rebrands Bing Chat to Copilot, to better compete with ChatGPT (The Verge)
• Microsoft officially launches Loop, its Notion competitor (The Verge)
• Microsoft Unveils Its First Custom-Designed AI, Cloud Chips (Bloomberg)
• YouTube Shorts Challenges TikTok With Music-Making AI for Creators (Wired)
• Threads starts testing hashtags…without the hash (TechCrunch)
• Robots to Outnumber People at UPS’s Massive New Warehouse (Bloomberg)