Want to talk with Copilot? If you do, Microsoft is testing an intuitive little tweak to allow you to do so. On March 10, Microsoft launched a new shortcut that is rolling out as part of the Copilot app on Windows: a "long press" combination of Alt SPACE as a press-to-talk shortcut to open the Copilot app. But who would remember that? Now, Microsoft is testing a smarter alternative as part of the Windows Insider Beta Channel, launching a "press-to-talk" voice chat by holding down the Copilot key for two seconds instead.

Microsoft has finally made all Copilot PCs--not just the Snapdragon ones--eligible for all of its AI-powered Copilot features. If you've been paying attention, you know that the Windows world is badly fragmented. Not only are users split between Windows 10 and Windows 11, but Windows 11 users aren't even all on the same version. Now, over the past year, AI has added another wrinkle with Microsoft mainly developing its Copilot PC features for Qualcomm's Snapdragon X platform while neglecting AMD's Ryzen AI 300 and Intel's Core Ultra 200 series processors. On Monday, Microsoft wrote in a blog post that PCs powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 series, Intel Core Ultra 200V, and Snapdragon X series processors are all eligible for "exclusive Copilot PC experiences like Live Captions, Cocreator, Restyle Image, and Image Creator."

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OpenAI's new image generator is available for all users in ChatGPT and Sora, whether you're a subscriber or using the free version. However, the move comes just days after widespread backlash to the online wave of Studio Ghibli-style AI art generated by the tool. CEO Sam Altman announced the rollout in a post on X on Tuesday, April 1, a date that instantly makes journalists think everything is a prank. However, the news is indeed true, with the GPT-4o model-driven image generation feature now open for anyone to use. I was able to access the generator without a ChatGPT Plus subscription at the time of writing.

Brain computer interfaces (BCIs) are electrodes put in paralyzed people's brains so they can use imagined movements to send commands from their neurons through a wire, or via radio, to a computer. In this way, they can control a computer cursor or, in few cases, produce speech. Recently, this field has taken some strides toward real practical applications. About 25 clinical trials of BCI implants are currently underway. And this year MIT Technology Review readers have selected these brain-computer interfaces as their addition to our annual list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies.

ChatGPT's built-in image generation feature is now available to everyone. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said last week that the company is delaying its rollout to free tier "for a while," because the tool was way more popular than they had expected. But the company made the feature available to free users over the weekend, allowing them to generate images from within ChatGPT and without having to switch to OpenAI's DALL-E generator. Prior to its rollout to the free tier, the tool was only available to Plus, Pro and Team subscribers. Altman previously said that free users will get a limit of three images per day.

A March 20 article in The Atlantic served as the letter's impetus. It reported that Meta had used LibGen, a pirated collection of over 7.5 million books, to train its AI models. Anyone on the internet over the last few weeks has likely seen videos of distraught authors learning that their work is available on the database (and potentially used by Meta without their permission). A lawsuit in the US alleges Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved the use of LibGen's data to train its AI. The lawsuit's plaintiffs include writers Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

SAVE 200: As of April 1, the Google Pixel 9 is on sale for 699 at Amazon. Amazon's Big Spring Sale is over, but there are still plenty of discounts to be found. There's a lot to consider, but we really love this latest deal on the Google Pixel 9. It's a great all-rounder -- just check out our review to see what we thought. As of April 1, you can find this model at Amazon for 22% off, now just 699. This deal is for the 256GB option in obsidian, porcelain, peony, and wintergreen. This is also the lowest price it has been so far this year.

Amazon has sprung a bunch of seasonal deals on shoppers over recent weeks. The retail giant's weeklong Big Spring Sale ran through Monday, March 31, delivering discounts on "end-of-season winter items" and "springtime favorites" across more than 35 categories, per its press release. The Big Spring Sale was Amazon's first major savings event of the year, and unlike its flagship summer Prime Day sale, the deals were not exclusive to Prime members. Prime members did get access to a handful of special offers, which were identified with a "Prime Spring Deal" badge. Is there anything left over from the sale?

Despite Google's model's speed, it took Imagen 3 about 10 times longer than HART to generate the picture, which shows the pace of HART. I have tested most of the text-to-image models on the market, and HART is the quickest.