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Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
The free market.

Meta is booting rival AI companies out of WhatsApp to reduce the competition for its own Meta AI assistant, a classic sign of confidence.

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A product so good the producer has to protect people from alternatives lol

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Elissa Welle
Elissa Welle
Yet another AI personal shopper: Microsoft Copilot.

Microsoft, just like OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity, has announced new AI shopping updates, as US users of Copilot in Edge will have access to Cashback, Price Comparison, Price History, Product Insights, and Price Tracking features. It also says Copilot’s AI will now proactively tell you if there’s a cheaper deal elsewhere.

Microsoft launched shopping features to Copilot in Edge for US users.
Microsoft launched shopping features to Copilot in Edge for US users.
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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Notepad is getting tables.

The feature is rolling out for Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels, according to Microsoft. I like using tables in Apple Notes, so I think they’ll be pretty useful in Notepad, too.

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David Pierce
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
This one’s for the Zork dorks.

Yesterday Microsoft announced it’s making the classic Zork games open-source, and apparently some folks have gotten a little excited about it.

alectrem:

no need to fork zork when you can uncork zork straight from the zork zource, its like the opposite of zork divorce in zork court due to a zork tort

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