🥟 Chao-Down #281 Microsoft announces a new Copilot for Finance, Spotify releases 'Song Psychic' that answers questions with music, Elon Musk sues OpenAI for abandoning original non-profit mission

Microsoft’s just released its latest AI Copilot, and this time it’s for an industry vertical.

The company just announced a new AI assistant for finance professionals, called Copilot for Finance, that can automate data tasks and provide suggestions in Excel and Outlook. The assistant is built on top of Microsoft’s existing Copilot tech and focuses on three main finance scenarios: audits, collections, and variance analysis.

Microsoft claims that Copilot for Finance can help finance teams be more efficient and access their business data in the apps they use every day. The assistant is currently in public preview and expected to be generally available later this year.

For people working in finance, what do you think of this latest Copilot?

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

China rules that an AI bot infringed copyrighted material (Semafor)

Spotify’s new ‘Song Psychic’ is like a Magic 8 Ball that answers your questions with music (TechCrunch)

Is ChatGPT making scientists hyper-productive? The highs and lows of using AI (Nature)

Ethical AI Isn't to Blame for Google's Gemini Debacle (TIME)

Elon Musk sues OpenAI for abandoning original mission for profit (Reuters)

How many news websites block AI crawlers? (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Your startup only needs one growth channel (substack.com)

Ask HN: Slow thinkers, how do you compensate for your lack of quick-wittedness? | Hacker News (ycombinator.com)

AI and Design Systems (Brad Frost)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

thu-coai/ShieldLM: ShieldLM: Empowering LLMs as Aligned, Customizable and Explainable Safety Detectors (Github)

simulatrex/simulatrex-engine: Enable decision-making based on simulations (Github)

argilla-io/distilabel: ⚗️ AI Feedback framework for scalable LLM alignment (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

MegaScale: Scaling Large Language Model Training to More Than 10,000 GPUs (arxiv)

Accurate LoRA-Finetuning Quantization of LLMs via Information Retention (arxiv)

sail-sg/GDPO: Graph Diffusion Policy Optimization (Github)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Subscription services are changing our relationship to gaming (The Verge)

Restaurant Prices Keep US Diners at Home, Slowing Sales (Bloomberg)

How Tech Fails Late-Career Workers (mit.edu)

The dangers of parents sharing their children’s lives on social media (PBS NewsHour)

Majority of food giants’ profit in UK comes from junk food (thetimes.co.uk)

The “Disney adult” industrial complex (New Statesman)

One Last Bite 😋

Marriage rates fall to their lowest in Japan: