Microsoft is simplifying Copilot by combining its consumer and business apps, and dropping AI-generated podcasts, Group Chats, Deep Research, and its Mico character.

Imagine a trio of bumbling, English lads who fantasize about becoming megastars while knocking back a few pints in a grimy pub somewhere in London. Picture the guys chortling and trying to one-up each other’s idealized visions of the future with a series of increasingly glitzy fantasies in which their fame leads to access to […]
Nvidia has a plan to make sure its GPUs won’t lose value. It wants to convince a new crop of financiers to keep lending for AI buildouts.

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about a question that’s been rocketing around the tech industry for the past week: Is Google losing the AI race? That’s because last week Google announced a bombshell reorganization of its AI division, Google DeepMind. Jeff Dean, the company’s chief scientist, is […]

Microsoft is finally beginning to combine its consumer and commercial Copilot AI assistants into a single “super app” interface, starting with the Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps. Both personal and work accounts will be moved to the new unified app, which recycles the “Microsoft Copilot” name but features an updated app icon. The single […]
Databricks has raised $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation as CEO Ali Ghodsi claims AGI already arrived, with the fortune now buried in context the models don’t have.
Twitch channels are quietly being used to train Amazon’s AI models. Here’s how creators can opt out.
Anthropic announced they are turning on watermarking for their Claude AI-generated outputs. This is significant. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.
Is Anthropic’s new watermarking system a travesty? Some have taken to social media to complain that it is.