You get an agent, and you get an agent, and you get an agent — everybody gets their own AI agent using 1,800 large language models that Microsoft is making available to enterprise customers. Preview announcements at Microsoft’s Ignite 2024 conference included pre-built autonomous agents, no-code agent-building tools, and AI-powered app creation assistants. Microsoft’s AI eco-system may be the largest: some say, “no one else is close.”
Department of Justice officials reportedly will ask a judge to force Google to sell its Chrome browser, which gives Google access to data that is critical to its ad business. This follows the judge’s ruling in August that Google operates an illegal monopoly in the search market. But don’t sell that Alphabet stock quite yet: years of appeals lie ahead, and the new administration in Washington could change the DOJ position.
Twenty percent of Americans are routinely getting news from social media influencers, a figure that rises to 37% of adults under 30, says a Pew research study. But stop clutching those pearls: it turns out that influencers skew just slightly conservative (27% vs 21% liberal), liberals and conservatives are about equally likely to get their news from influencers, and most people (61%) say they get an even mix of opinions they agree and disagree with. Other Pew research finds that news websites or apps are still the most-preferred news source... Read More >
Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks. The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems. Prices were not announced.