Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, November 16th,

2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

All of the big announcements for Microsoft's Development Conference yesterday,

including the debut of their own AI chips.

YouTube is bringing AI to shorts,

Threads is kind of sort of doing hashtags,

though Chris Messina has some thoughts,

and the new UPS warehouse where the robots way outnumber the humans.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Microsoft had their big Ignite conference yesterday and of course AI took

center stage. I'm going to run down sort of the consumery stuff first and then hit what may be the biggest news at the end.

First, Microsoft is rebranding Bing Chat as Microsoft Co- Pilot to better take on ChatGPT, pitching Co-Pilot to better take on ChatGPT pitching Co-Pilot as the free version and

co-pilot for Microsoft 365 as the paid version quoting the verge.

Microsoft launched its big AI push earlier this year as part of its Bing search engine

integrating a chat gepet like interface directly into its search results.

Now less than a year later it's dropping the Bing Chat branding and moving to co-pilot, the new name

for the chat interface you might have used in Bing, Microsoft Edge, and Windows 11.

Microsoft initially talked up the Google Search competition for its AI ambitions earlier this year,

but it now looks like it has its site set on chat gPT.

Instead, the Bing chat rebranding comes just days after Open AI revealed 100 million people are using

chat geepti on a weekly basis despite a close partnership worth billions

Microsoft and Open AI continue to compete for the same customers seeking out AI assistance and

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