TNB Tech Minute: Microsoft Unveils AI-Focused PC
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | While you're listening to this podcast, I'm causing mischief. |
| 0:05.0 | Like creeping past sleepy granddad to sneak a pot of Petty Faloo from the fridge. |
| 0:12.0 | Because Petty Falue fuels the mischief. |
| 0:15.0 | Boom! |
| 0:16.0 | Mom says that Petty forlue is made with calcium and vitamin D for healthy bones. |
| 0:24.4 | She knows best, most of the time. |
| 0:27.8 | Fuelling mischief with petty flu. Here's your TnB Tech Minute for Monday, May 20th. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:39.0 | Microsoft has unveiled a new Windows platform optimized for artificial intelligence. |
| 0:45.2 | The company says its new Co-Pilot Plus PCs, equipped with Qualcomm X-series chips, have improved performance, battery life, and enhanced AI features. |
| 0:56.9 | Our senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern spoke exclusively with Microsoft CEO Santia |
| 1:02.4 | Nadella about the new platform. |
| 1:04.8 | You can hear more from that conversation on tomorrow's Tech News briefing. |
| 1:08.7 | Or in the meantime, check out the video on W.S.J.com. We exclusively report Elon Musk the person. The US Food and Drug Administration signed off on the company's proposed fixes for a problem that occurred in the first test participant. |
| 1:29.0 | The fixes include embedding some of the devices ultra-thin wires deeper into the brain. |
| 1:34.8 | That's according to a person familiar with the company and a document viewed by the |
| 1:38.2 | Wall Street Journal. |
| 1:39.9 | And Open AI is pausing the use of a voice for its AI tool that sounded like Scarlet |
| 1:45.2 | Johanson. |
| 1:46.9 | Johanson voiced an AI assistant in the 2013 sci-fi romance Her. |
| 1:51.4 | The company said the voice, which it called Sky, was the natural voice of another |
| 1:55.6 | actress whom it hired. In a tweet, the company said it was pausing the use of Sky while it worked |
| 2:00.9 | to answer questions about how the voices in chat geepte were chosen. |
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