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Microsoft Teams gains animated avatars and AI-powered recaps • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on October 12, 2022Posted in AI, Enterprise, Microsoft, Microsoft Ignite 2022, Microsoft Teams, StartupsNo Comments

At its Ignite conference this week, Microsoft announced updates heading to Teams, its ever-evolving videoconferencing and workplace collaboration app. New avatars are available, and more details were announced around Teams Premium, a paid set of Teams features including AI-generated tasks and meeting guides, which is set to arrive in December in preview. Teams Premium is […]

Thanks to AI, you can now create automations in Power Automate by simply describing them • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on October 12, 2022Posted in Automation, Enterprise, Microsoft, Microsoft Ignite 2022, openai codex, power platform, Robotics & AINo Comments

Power Automate, Microsoft’s Power Platform service that helps users create workflows between apps, is getting new AI smarts. During its Ignite conference, Microsoft rolled out capabilities powered by OpenAI’s Codex, the code-generating machine learning system underpinning GitHub Copilot. Starting today (in public preview), Power Automate users can write what they want to automate in natural […]

Microsoft announces Syntex, a set of automated document and data processing services • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on October 12, 2022Posted in AI, artificial intelligence, Automation, Microsoft, Microsoft Ignite 2022, Robotics & AI, StartupsNo Comments

Two years ago, Microsoft debuted SharePoint Syntex, which leverages AI to automate the capture and classification of data from documents — building on SharePoint’s existing services. Today marks the expansion of the platform into Microsoft Syntex, a set of new products and capabilities including file annotation and data extraction. Syntex reads, tags and indexes document […]

Microsoft’s Edge browser gets shared Workspaces, new security features and more • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on October 12, 2022Posted in Apps, browsers, Microsoft, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Ignite 2022No Comments

It’s Microsoft Ignite this week and while a lot of the announcements this week target the kinds of IT professionals and admins who really need more deployment options for Azure Kubernetes Service through Azure Arc, the company is also announcing a few user-facing updates to its Edge browser. The most important of these is likely […]

Microsoft launches new security services aimed at protecting code in the cloud • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on October 12, 2022Posted in devops, Enterprise, Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Ignite 2022, SecurityNo Comments

At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced Defender Cloud Security Posture Management and Defender for DevOps, two new offerings within the company’s Defender for Cloud service (previously Cloud App Security) aimed at managing software development and runtime security across multicloud, multiple-pipeline environments. Currently available in public preview, they work with GitHub and Azure DevOps to […]

Microsoft brings DALL-E 2 to the masses with Designer and Image Creator • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on October 12, 2022Posted in Apps, Azure OpenAI Service, dall-e 2, image generation, Microsoft, Microsoft Ignite 2022, OpenAI, Robotics & AINo Comments

Microsoft is making a major investment in DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s AI-powered system that generates images from text, by bringing it to first-party apps and services. During its Ignite conference this week, Microsoft announced that it’s integrating DALL-E 2 with the newly announced Microsoft Designer app and Image Creator tool in Bing and Microsoft Edge. With […]