The new ChatGPT integration for Microsoft PowerPoint, like an earlier add-on for Excel and Google Sheets, adds a sidebar where users can create or edit presentations using chatbot prompts along with documents, images, and other source material.
The feature is available now in beta for ChatGPT users with Business, Enterprise, Edu, Teacher, K-12, Free, Go, Pro, and Plus plans.
As Politico reports, Trump postponed signing an executive order on government oversight and access to AI at the last minute on Thursday, saying it “could have been a blocker” for the jobs and “tremendous good” he claims AI is creating. Trump also said China was a factor:
We’re leading China. We’re leading everybody, and I don’t want to do anything that’s going to get in the way of that.
Amazon launched AI-generated audiobooks last year, and now Spotify is launching its own AI audiobook narration feature, Audiobook Creation Tools. Starting in June, self-published authors will be able to use the beta feature to create audio versions of their books using AI voices from ElevenLabs.
The company reported record overall revenue of $81.6 billion and record data center revenue of $75.2 billion, driven by continued demand for its chips in AI data centers.
Nvidia says its next-generation Vera Rubin AI chip is “on track for the second half of this year, starting in Q3,” but noted that PC sales are down due to the RAM shortage and price hikes.
[NVIDIA Newsroom]
But the nonprofit Public Knowledge argues its changes could make the National Broadband Map less effective. Public Knowledge broadband policy director Alisa Valentin:
Today, the Commission is once again invoking the term ‘streamlining’ as justification for creating a permission structure that allows providers to evade accountability while consumers experience the consequences of distorted broadband maps.
