AI.News Roundup: Copilot Updates, Slacks AI Assistant, and Workday Next Gen

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Back with some AI news you might be able to use! 

• Microsoft announced updates to Copilot which will include features such as new autonomous agents that can automate and execute business processes, reports SiliconANGLE.
• ZDNet – Slack's new AI-powered assistant aims to streamline your busy work week and VentureBeat reports on Slack’s new feature, ‘Agents for Slack’ which will bring Salesforce’s AI agents, third-party agents from partners and Slack customers’ own agents into the chat platform
• In an exclusive piece in The Information, reporter Erin Woo writes about how Google’s Gemini is too difficult for app developers and businesses to use compared to competitor technology.
• Workday is unleashing a host of new artificial intelligence in its flagship platform, reports SiliconANGLE

And from last week:

• Wall Street – Silicon Synergy: Nvidia’s Bold Vision for Human-AI Collaboration
• Bloomberg – OpenAI Nears Release of ‘Strawberry’ Model, With Reasoning Capabilities
• WIRED – Apple Intelligence Promises Better AI Privacy. Here’s How It Actually Works