Microsoft AI PCs 🪟, AI Energy Crisis⚡ Unity's Muse Chat 💬

Today's TechToks: Massive updates from Microsoft, groundbreaking diamond synthesis, reports on AI's energy consumption, Muse Chat LLM integrations in Unity Editor, trending repositories on GitHub, Product Picks, and more!

🤯 Game Changers

The most impactful articles of the day

Highlights from Microsoft's annual flagship event for developers: Microsoft Copilot the AI business assistant, the Copilot stack framework for building AI apps or copilots, and launch of Copilot+ AI-powered PCs. In a Demo, Microsoft Copilot helped a co-worker on minecraft gaming by watching their screen and interacting with voice, a competitor with Google's Project Astra. Other news include Azure AI with GPT-4o and RAG at scale, Real-Time Intelligence SaaS for business decisions, Azure Compute Fleet, and much more

🧐 Daily Picks

Curated picks and most shared articles on techtok.today

Scientists have developed a new technique to synthesize diamonds at normal atmospheric pressure and without a starter gem, allowing for faster and potentially more scalable diamond production compared to existing high-pressure and high-temperature methods.

Generating an image can require as much energy as charging up your phone, and asking for a thousand images to Stable Diffusion XL produces as much carbon dioxide as driving four miles in a gas-powered car. Although benchmarks greatly vary accross use case— from the same study, creating text a thousand times only required 16% energy for an average smartphone charge— projections from the International Energy Agency Electricity report consumption from data centers, AI, and cryptocurrency could reach double 2022 levels by 2026.

✨ "Too long don't README"

GitHub trending repos of today

Amber is a programming language that compiles to Bash, making it easy to create shell scripts, particularly well-suited for cloud services.

The CodiumAI Cover Agent repository aims to help efficiently increase code coverage by automatically generating qualified tests to enhance existing test suites, utilizing Generative AI models to simplify and expedite the testing process.

Khoj is an open-source, personal AI assistant that allows you to extend your digital brain by sharing your notes, documents, and other files, and provides fast, accurate semantic search, image generation, and speech understanding capabilities.

Open source data anonymization and synthetic data orchestration for developers: Neosync is an open-source software designed to anonymize PII, generate synthetic data, and sync environments for improved testing, debugging, and developer experience.

📱 Product Picks

Curated products from Product Hunt

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Arrange is an AI-powered copilot that can generate a plan for anything and add it to your calendar in seconds.

Today from Engineering Blogs

Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies

Muse Chat, an AI assistant built into the Unity Editor, uses a pipeline of LLM integrations to provide relevant and reliable responses by retrieving and contextualizing information from a knowledge base of over 800,000 chunks, with the goal of addressing both the challenge of retrieving relevant information and ensuring it is usefully embedded in the response based on the conversation context.