WW 815: It's Your Foot! - AI riskiness, Zoom layoffs, HBO's The Last of Us, Skype on Apple Silicon

 WORLD WAR AI

OpenAI announces ChatGPT Plus

Google responds to ChatGPT with Bard

Microsoft announces AI-powered Bing and Edge.

Google hosted its own AI event and it announced multi-search, Maps improvements, and Translate improvements, and discussed how AI can make life better

Semi-related: Paul was let into the Notion AI beta

Windows

Paul has some thoughts about Windows 12 and what an AI-based Windows could look like

Ads are coming to the Microsoft Store. FINALLY

New Insider build for the Beta channel. No new features, but a new policy that lets IT admins customize how Search looks on the Windows 11 Taskbar

Microsoft is integrating Adobe Acrobat PDF with Microsoft Edge, but only on Windows 10 and 11 for now

Microsoft 365

Native Apple Silicon version of Skype is 3X faster. What took so long?

Hardware

Microsoft says it's still committed to HoloLens 2 and MR, tries not to laugh

Samsung is working on XR hardware with Qualcomm and Google.

Dev

Microsoft updates its .NET language strategy. Nothing has changed, other than they way they document their .NET language strategy

More Big Tech Earnings

Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Meta earnings

Zoom just showed us the way to handle layoffs

Xbox

Sony is fighting Microsoft subpoena in AB case. It's fighting the FTC subpoena, too

UK CMA says AB deal is "anti-competitive" but would accept some concessions

New Game Pass titles announced for the middle of February

Sony says the PS5 is immune to the downturn

Nintendo says Switch is not immune to the downturn, but it's still dominating

Tips & Picks

Tip of the week: Protect your privacy in Windows 11

App pick of the week: Microsoft Edge Dev

Brown Liquor of the week: Mackmyra

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