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Microsoft Copilot is taking over Teams. Here's how AI will shape your daily workflow

Thomas Trutschel/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Microsoft announces more Copilot features within Teams. AI agents will assist in Teams meetings and messaging channels. These features solidify companies adopting agentic AI tools to increase employee productivity. Productivity-centered AI tools for enterprises are becoming commonplace -- a recent study hailed Microsoft as one of the most dominant sources of AI-powered productivity too

Microsoft is filling Teams with AI agents

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft is adding a whole load of AI agents to Teams today, promising Copilot assistants for every channel, meeting, and community. The new agents will also work across SharePoint and Viva Engage, and are rolling out for Microsoft 365 Copilot users. Facilitator agents will now sit in o

Zoning out in meetings? Google Meet's new feature can catch you up in real time

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Ask Gemini is now available for some Google Meet users. It offers meeting notes, key takeaways, and live summaries. The AI assistant protects user privacy and has some limitations. Your Google Meet meetings are about to get more helpful, thanks to additional Gemini features built into the platform. According to Google, new Ask Gemini features include real-time summaries of what someone

Zoom's New AI Tool Will Tell You What Meetings to Skip

The next time your boss asks you why you skipped a meeting, you could blame it on Zoom. The video conferencing company unveiled a host of new AI upgrades on Wednesday, all aimed at improving its AI to do tasks for you. Zoom introduced its AI companion two years ago, letting people use it to take notes, transcribe meetings or ask its chatbot follow-up questions after a meeting is over. Now, Zoom is upgrading it to what it calls AI Companion 3.0. The tool will be more agentic, meaning it is built

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You can soon attend Zoom meetings as your AI avatar

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Zoom’s vision of filling meetings with AI clones has nearly arrived. On Wednesday, the video conferencing app announced that you’ll soon be able to create a “photorealistic” avatar of yourself in case you aren’t “camera-ready.” That means your AI avatar can appe

Zoom launches a cross application AI notetaker, AI avatars and more in its latest update

Zoom on Wednesday launched new products at its Zoomtopia conference, including an upgraded AI companion that can work across meeting apps, as well as the ability to add your own notes, AI-powered meeting scheduling, and AI avatars that resemble users. With these features, the company aims to compete with verticalized meeting startups and productivity suites. The company has long offered an AI bot that can record and transcribe Zoom meetings. However, cross-application meeting notetakers like Re

Kayak co-founder takes on Calendly with new Supercal scheduling platform

Kayak co-founder Paul English is back with a new venture—this time, he’s taking on Calendly. The entrepreneur has launched Supercal, a free scheduling platform that’s designed to make booking meetings more efficient and simple. Supercal was born out of English’s personal experience with the challenges of booking meetings. As a member of eight boards of directors, English says he and others often struggled to coordinate schedules. He then set out to create an email system for booking group meeti

'We will do better.' Microsoft CEO Nadella admits company has to rebuild trust with employees

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella departs following a meeting of the White House Task Force on AI Education in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Sept. 4, 2025. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees in a meeting on Thursday that the company has work to do to smooth relations with employees after announcing several rounds of layoffs and a mandated partial return to in-person work. In the meeting that was held online, an employee asked executives to speak about a perceived lack of

Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts

Hey HN, we're David and Amanda from Recall.ai ( https://www.recall.ai ). Today we’re launching our Desktop Recording SDK, a way to get meeting data without a bot in the meeting: https://www.recall.ai/product/desktop-recording-sdk . It’s our biggest release in quite a while so we thought we’d finally do our Launch HN :) Here’s a demo that shows it producing a transcript from a meeting, followed by examples in code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4croAGGiKTA . API docs are at https://docs.recall

Anker's coin-size AI recorder can transcribe and summarize your meetings - in one click

Anker Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's takeaways Anker's new AI voice recorder is about the size of a quarter. The device can summarize and transcribe meetings automatically. It will cost $100 plus an optional monthly subscription. Anker wants to make recording your meetings simpler than ever. The company announced its newest device today, the Soundcore Work. A small AI-powered voice recorder that's designed to be worn at meetings, the device can summarize a

Trump confirms US government’s 10% stake in Intel, stock climbs

After hinting at it earlier this week, President Trump confirmed today during a World Cup press briefing, that the U.S. government will take a 10% stake in Intel, capping a pretty eventful two-week stretch. Here’s how that happened. A bit of context Two weeks ago, Trump called for Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s resignation due to “highly CONFLICTED” ties with China: before joining Intel, Tan led Cadence Design, a firm that recently pleaded guilty to an investigation by the Justice Department over char

Otter.ai Sued for Allegedly Recording Work Calls Without Consent

Otter.ai, the maker of AI-powered transcription and note-taking tools, is facing a class-action lawsuit in California over alleged privacy violations. The suit, filed Friday in federal court by San Jacinto resident Justin Brewer, claims that Otter.ai is recording private conversations without obtaining consent from all the calls’ participants and then uses those recordings to train its AI. According to the complaint, Brewer doesn’t have an Otter account but joined a Zoom meeting in February whe

Class-action suit claims Otter AI records private work conversations

Class-action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private work conversations toggle caption Source: Otter A federal lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses Otter.ai of "deceptively and surreptitiously" recording private conversations that the tech company uses to train its popular transcription service without permission from the people using it. The company's AI-powered transcription service called Otter Notebook, which can do real-time transcriptions of Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft

Intel CEO turns Trump around, but his job still hangs in the balance

Last week, President Trump called for the dismissal of Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan over “highly CONFLICTED” ties to China, further escalating an already difficult situation for the executive. Today, following a meeting, Trump appeared to soften his stance, even if partially. A quick recap Before joining Intel, Tan worked as CEO for Cadence Design Systems, a firm that just pleaded guilty to an investigation by the Justice Department over charges of “selling its chip-design products to a Chinese milit

Small Changes That Made Our Daily Stand-Ups More Useful

Daily stand-ups are a cornerstone of agile software development – but often they’re seen as a burden or a distraction. Why? Because they frequently devolve into long status reports that bore participants and add little real value. Others see it as a waste of time or such regular part of their day, that it doesn’t deserve a second though. During the past two years, together with my team, I worked on improving our daily to transform it to a tool that helps every participant to kickstart their da

Apple exec says Siri will get ‘much bigger upgrade than we envisioned’

Apple’s Siri-related news hasn’t been great so far this year, but the company sounds confident it can turn things around. Here’s the Siri update that software head Craig Federighi reportedly shared in Apple’s all-hands meeting. Last week, Apple reported huge quarterly earnings. But concerns around the company’s AI efforts were still clearly on Wall Street’s minds. And no doubt those questions were partly what prompted a rare all-hands meeting at Apple Park shortly afterwards. That meeting, whi

Tim Cook holds company-wide meeting to address Apple’s AI woes

Just one day after revealing its financial results and fielding questions about Apple’s lag in AI, Tim Cook turned inward, holding what Bloomberg described as an ‘hourlong pep talk’ during a company-wide all-hands meeting. Here are the details. ‘Apple must do this. Apple will do this. This is sort of ours to grab’ As reported by Mark Gurman, Tim Cook held a company-wide meeting today at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park, and stated that “the AI revolution is ‘as big or bigger’ as the intern

What would an efficient and trustworthy meeting culture look like?

Published: April 26, 2025 FOMO - Fear of missing out The goal of an exceptional meeting culture is to allow for people to constructively decline meetings by fully understanding the consequences of their action. Let me explain! It is common knowledge that office workers in general suffer from a situation of too many meetings. To be more precise; too many meetings where the value of their attendance is vague or unclear, either for input or output or both. Meetings tend to be slow, take forever

The Meeting Culture

Published: April 26, 2025 FOMO - Fear of missing out The goal of an exceptional meeting culture is to allow for people to constructively decline meetings by fully understanding the consequences of their action. Let me explain! It is common knowledge that office workers in general suffer from a situation of too many meetings. To be more precise; too many meetings where the value of their attendance is vague or unclear, either for input or output or both. Meetings tend to be slow, take forever

Jitsi privacy flaw enables one-click stealth audio and video capture

Jitsi is an open-source web conferencing application. Jitsi also hosts a public instance, with millions of monthly active users. Attack scenario Let’s walk through an example. An attacker runs a meeting called `MiniGinger` on the public Jitsi instance meet.jit.si. When a user visits the attacker controller webpage `CuteCats.com`, in the background they are redirected to: https://meet.jit.si/MiniGinger#config.prejoinConfig.enabled=false If the user visited any other Jitsi meeting before and

Org tutorials

This tutorial describes a workflow for running a series of meetings, for example of a commission or any other group, and for keeping track of the groups tasks. Link to the tutorial. You may also want to check this message by Christian Egli about his own setup for taking notes during meetings.

Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network

If you have the Notion Desktop App installed, you may have started to notice a "In a meeting? Start AI Meeting Notes" notification pop up exactly when you are joining a virtual meeting (e.g. joining a Google Meet on Firefox). At first, I assumed it must have been using my Google Workspace account to snoop on my calendar. But then I started to notice it would notify exactly when I joined even if I was late and the meeting had previously started. This was the response from Notion Support after t

Get more done with less effort — These productivity-boosting gadgets now start from $119

Many people use AI tools to enhance their work efficiency and productivity, but very few can do it all. If you’re looking for a handy AI assistant to elevate your meeting experiences with useful transcriptions, summaries, to-do lists, and so much more, viaim has you covered. And, did we mention that these come in the ultra-portable form of wireless earbuds or PC accessories? Viaim’s AI-powered earbuds and meeting tools are a must-have if you regularly attend meetings or take online classes. And

Zoom’s new Meta Quest app encourages taking video calls in VR

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Zoom has rolled out a standalone app for Meta Quest headsets. With the app, you can join or host meetings in virtual reality while appearing as your Meta Avatar. Zoom launched an app for the Quest in 2023, but it was only available through Meta’s Horizon Workspaces app, and users could also only host a meeting if they had a Zoom subscription. Zoom’

AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings

Clifton Sellers attended a Zoom meeting last month where robots outnumbered humans. He counted six people on the call including himself, Sellers recounted in an interview. The 10 others attending were note-taking apps powered by artificial intelligence that had joined to record, transcribe and summarize the meeting. Some of the AI helpers were assisting a person who was also present on the call — others represented humans who had declined to show up but sent a bot that listens but can’t talk in

The Zen of Quakerism (2016)

Q uakers and Buddhists have a few things in common. Most importantly, they share a common humanity and a commitment to creating peace in the world. They are both enlightenment religions. Both George Fox and the Buddha experienced a transformative, liberating awareness through the dedicated practice of quiet contemplation. My life is an intersection of these religions. I was born a Quaker, to Quaker parents with Quaker grandparents and great-grandparents. I attended Friends schools through colle

Meta is offering multimillion-dollar pay for AI researchers, but not $100M ‘signing bonuses’

Meta is definitely offering hefty multimillion-dollar pay packages to AI researchers when wooing them to its new superintelligence lab. But no one is really getting a $100 million “signing bonus,” according to a poached researcher and comments from a leaked internal meeting. During a company-wide all-hands meeting on Thursday leaked to The Verge, some of Meta’s top executives were asked about the bonuses that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Meta had offered to top researchers. Meta’s CTO Andrew Bos

Meta is offering multi-million pay for AI researchers, but not $100M ‘signing bonuses’

Meta is definitely offering hefty multi-million-dollar pay packages to AI researchers when wooing them to its new Superintelligence Lab. But no one is really getting a $100 million “signing bonus,” according to a poached researcher and comments from a leaked internal meeting. During a company-wide all-hands meeting on Thursday leaked to The Verge, some of Meta’s top executives were asked about the bonuses that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Meta had offered to top researchers. Meta’s CTO Andrew Bo

All childhood vaccines in question after first meeting of RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel

A federal vaccine panel entirely hand-selected by health secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gathered for its first meeting Wednesday—and immediately announced that it would re-evaluate the entire childhood vaccination schedule, as well as the one for adults. The meeting overall was packed with anti-vaccine talking points and arguments from the new panel members, confirming public health experts' fears that the once-revered panel is now critically corrupted and that Kenned

viaim RecDot AI earbuds now on Amazon — with more smart meeting tools to come

AI is everywhere. And while the goal is to help people work smarter and more efficiently, it’s not the most easily accessible. Different tools perform different tasks, so you’re either struggling to find the best option or stuck footing a hefty bill for various services. What if there was a device that could take your work efficiency to the next level, making attending virtual meetings a breeze, and you could carry it around in your pocket? That’s exactly what you get with the viaim Recdot AI e