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Microsoft introduced Windows 365 three years ago, a service that lets the company cut partners out of the money-making loop by providing virtual PCs to customers. Rather than provide only the operating system or the OS and bits of other software — notably productivity applications in the form of Office — Microsoft also serves up ersatz hardware,…
Hollywood unions OK AI-cloned voices in commercials
Hollywood actors’ union SAG-AFTRA said it has signed an agreement with talent marketplace Narrativ to let advertisers buy the rights from actors to recreate their voices using AI. According to Reuters, the agreement allows the actors themselves to set the price for the digital voice copy, provided that it is at least equivalent to SAG-AFTRA’s minimum wage…
Zoom Docs brings AI document creation to Workplace
Zoom has added a document creation tool that uses generative AI (genAI) to help create and manage information related to meetings. First announced last year, Zoom Docs is now generally available within Workplace, Zoom’s an all-in-one collaboration app, the company said in a blog post Monday. Docs is pitched as a word processor that can be used…
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Apple’s insistence on taking a slice of subscription sales made on iOS from Patreon seems short-sighted, as it effectively takes money from the pockets of creatives who probably aren’t earning that much. Of course, from Apple’s point of view, its rules have to apply consistently and apparently it has not been consistently applying these against Patreon, which…
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For almost as long as it has existed, Google has been at the center of controversies around its data strategy, ranging from privacy concerns, data retention with its related cybersecurity implications, and compliance, to the debate about what kind of limits there should be for leveraging data. A series of Google internal documents, which were…