Microsoft plans to bring its AI Copilot to 1 billion Windows 10 users

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🔎 Google's innovative AI-powered search feature, which provides full-sentence, conversational answers, is reaching a global audience across over 120 countries. The expansion introduces new languages and enhancements like translation refinements

🤖 Microsoft intends to integrate its AI assistant, Copilot, into Windows 10, extending its reach to about 1 billion additional active devices, making the same advanced features available as in Windows 11.

🚧 SAG-AFTRA has potentially concluded a 120-day strike with a tentative deal that requires a ratification vote from its members. The agreement includes better pay and provisions for AI protections, which if ratified, would result in the resumption of TV and movie productions, albeit with schedules stretching into 2024.

⚙️ Nvidia is set to introduce three new chips in China, circumventing recent US sales restrictions on other high-end AI and gaming chips. This move could give Nvidia an opportunity to maintain its significant market presence in China's $7 billion AI chip industry.

👍 Mozilla's new Fakespot Chat employs AI to analyze product reviews and aid consumers in identifying authentic feedback. This chatbot integrates with Mozilla's browser extension, ensuring a more reliable and efficient online shopping journey without exposing personal information.

🤯 GitHub has announced a new enterprise version of its Copilot service starting February 2024, priced at $39/month, which will allow companies to configure the AI-driven coding assistant to work specifically with their internal codebases.

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So here (but not in the email version) we're adding AI-related stories that may be slightly less attention-grabbing, but still could move the needle in specific sectors and fields.

💰 Nexperia is selling the UK's largest semiconductor manufacturing plant, Newport Wafer Fab, to US company Vishay Intertechnology for $177 million. The sale comes after the UK government intervened on national security grounds due to Nexperia's links to the Chinese government. Vishay plans to use the site for the production of MOSFETs and aims to safeguard jobs at the factory. This sale means the UK's biggest chip plant will remain in foreign ownership.

💸 With $137 million in funding and a partnership with Microsoft, Photonic aims to develop a fault-tolerant quantum computer in five years that could revolutionize industries like healthcare and technology.

🎙️Samsung introduced "Galaxy AI" with an in-built "AI Live Translate Call" feature for instant phone call translations, potentially enhancing global connectivity and communication, slated to be part of Samsung's Galaxy S24 smartphones available next year.

🕵🏿 In a ruling that has significant implications for car owners' privacy, a court has allowed automakers to record and access text messages from vehicle infotainment systems. This court decision upholds the practice by several major car companies, despite privacy concerns.

🦾 SEC faces fierce pushback on plan to police AI investment advice: financial industry professionals are strongly opposing the SEC's proposed regulations to manage AI in financial advice, arguing they are overly broad and impractical, with existing rules already providing investor protection.

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