Microsoft partners with Mistral in second AI deal beyond OpenAI – The Verge – https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/26/24083510/microsoft-mistral-partnership-deal-azure-ai

Introducing Microsoft Copilot for Finance in Microsoft 365| Microsoft 365 Blog – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2024/02/29/introducing-microsoft-copilot-for-finance-transform-finance-with-next-generation-ai-in-microsoft-365/ 

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This week’s executive overview and top links are here:

AI News #22: Week Ending 03/01/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 25 Stories

The post you just read is an extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

• Agents/Copilots
• Amazon
• Apple
• Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
• Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
• Autonomous Vehicles
• AI Audio
• Business and Enterprise AI
• Chips and Hardware
• Consumer Products
• Education
• Ethics/Legal Security
• Google
• Images/Photos
• International AI News
• Locally Run AI Models
• Meta
• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Open Source
• Podcasts/YouTube
• Publishing and News
• Robots and Embodiment
• Science and Medicine
• Video
• Vision/Multimodality
• X/Twitter/Grok
• Tech and Development

Credits/Sources

Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile. 

• Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
• Ethan Mollick:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
• Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
• Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia 
• The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
• Bilawal Sidhu:  https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/ 
• TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai 
• Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang 
• Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats 
• Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan
• All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI 

Previous Issues

• AI News: Week Ending 02/23/2024: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/03/ai-news-21-week-ending-02-23-2024-with-executive-summary-and-top-36-links/ 
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