Wed. 09/23 – Microsoft “Exclusively” Licenses GPT-3

All the announcements and headlines from Microsoft’s Ignite 2020. Microsoft is exclusively licensing Open AI’s GPT-3. Google has debuted an Airtable rival called Tables. Ming-Chi Kuo thinks we’ll see an iPad with mini-LED by the end of the year. What happened during Tesla’s “battery day.” Pinterest has launched Story Pins and how Spotify is enabling SEO spam in audio form.

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Links:

• Microsoft challenges Twilio with the launch of Azure Communications Services (TechCrunch)
• Azure Orbital launches Microsoft into cloud-based space race with Amazon (GeekWire)
• Microsoft Teams is getting virtual commutes and Headspace meditation (VentureBeat)
• Google launches a work-tracking tool and Airtable rival, Tables (TechCrunch)
• Swift language tools now available for Windows 10 (iMore)
• Kuo: Mini-LED Displays to Debut in Apple's Next iPad Pro (MacRumors)
• Tesla CEO Elon Musk says company can build a $25,000 self-driving car within three years (CNBC)
• Elon Musk promises $25,000 Tesla and says Model S 'Plaid' is coming soon (CNN)
• Pinterest officially launches new Story Pins format in beta (TechCrunch)
• Why Spotify Has So Many Bizarre, Generic Artists Like ‘White Noise Baby Sleep’ (OneZero)