Zoom’s AI will soon help you do busywork, too

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’s AI Companion is getting an “agentic” upgrade at the end of this month, allowing it to identify and perform tasks on users’ behalf. Workspace users will be able to access the feature within a new Tasks tab in Workspace, where they can have Zoom’s AI schedule follow-up meetings, generate documents from meetings, and create video clips. Some other updates are coming to Zoom too, including a new voice recorder for the Zoom Workplace mobile app that will record, transcribe, and summarize in-person meetings when it launches this month. Zoom is also rolling out live notes in May, which will generate real-time summaries during Zoom meetings and phone calls. The app’s AI Companion and these new features will be available at no additional cost to Zoom Workspace users. Zoom’s AI Companion will surface a list of tasks based on your meeting. I ... Read full article.