Microsoft Corp. launched new artificial intelligence software designed to function like an always-active executive assistant, the latest evolution of its workplace AI efforts. While AI bots like ChatGPT or Microsoft’s Copilot are only visible to the user, the new tool, dubbed Scout, will appear on internal email and calendar systems as if it were just […]

AI is getting expensive, and some companies are cutting back on usage in an attempt to moderate costs. That cohort includes Uber, which recently instituted internal usage caps as a way to cut down on its exorbitant AI spend. Bloomberg reports that the company has instituted a new rule that places a monthly $1,500 cap per employee and per agentic […]

In addition to the Surface Laptop Ultra, Microsoft has another device coming that’s powered by NVIDIA’s RTX Spark chip: the creatively named Surface RTX Spark Dev Box. Announced at Build today, it’s basically a desktop version of the Laptop Ultimate built for sustained AI work like “long-running training jobs, agentic Al pipelines and local model fine-tuning,” according to […]