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This year, Microsoft announced a new partnership with the Nvidia-backed startup, Figure, as part of a broader trend towards the development of humanoid robots for various industries.

But yesterday, Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, outpaced the competition by announcing that Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus, may be ready for sale by the end of next year.

Optimus, or Tesla Bot, is a humanoid robot currently in the developmental stages at Tesla, Inc. Its unveiling took place during the company's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Day event on August 19, 2021, with a prototype showcased in 2022.

Elon Musk envisions a future where Optimus will possess the capability to handle "anything that humans don’t want to do," a concept that may evoke both excitement and serious apprehension.

Loop users can now click the “Detail view” icon in every table cell to open an expanded view. The expanded view includes an area in which users can write notes specifically for that cell.

In the expanded view, users can also add new columns and insert information into each column on the selected row.

To try the detail view option, head over to Microsoft Loop. There, type “/table” to create a new table, and hit Enter on your keyboard.

You’ll find the detail view icon by hovering over the cells.

Microsoft has announced new partnerships with Cognizant, an IT services and consulting company, and Coca-Cola.

This partnership with Cognizant has the potential to deliver substantial innovation for enterprise customers, contributing to the projected $1 trillion AI injection into the U.S. GDP over the next decade.

As part of the partnership, Cognizant purchased Microsoft 365 Copilot seats for its associates and clients, with plans to deploy them to a million users globally.

The partnership focuses on driving industry-specific transformation, with examples including solutions for emergency physicians, remote engineering diagnostics, personalized digital content in education, and streamlined business processes in communications.

Meanwhile, Microsoft’s strategic five-year partnership with the Coca-Cola Company is aimed at aligning Coca-Cola's core technology strategy systemwide, fostering innovation, and enabling global productivity.

Coca-Cola committed $1.1 billion to the Microsoft Cloud and its generative AI capabilities.

The partnership focuses on experimenting with cutting-edge technology, including Azure OpenAI Service, to develop innovative AI use cases. Coca-Cola migrated all its applications to Microsoft Azure and has been innovating with generative AI for nearly a year.

Microsoft has joined forces with Thorn, All Tech is Human, and other leading companies to prevent the misuse of generative AI technologies in perpetuating sexual harms against children.

This initiative aims to implement preventative and proactive measures into Microsoft's generative AI technologies and products.

These measures include:

Microsoft also pledges to prevent its services from scaling access to harmful tools, invest in research and future technology solutions, and fight against child sexual abuse material (CSAM), AI-generated CSAM (AIG-CSAM), and child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) on its platforms.

In Microsoft Teams, each channel has its own dedicated email address. But when emails are sent to the channel address, the emails don't appear in the channel members’ Outlook inboxes. Instead, emails appear in the channel as a message.

For this week’s top tip, we’ll show you how to make channel emails work like real email addresses by leveraging flows in PowerAutomate.

Here’s the video:

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