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JinkoSolar Holding Co Ltd (JKS) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript
JinkoSolar Holding Co Ltd (NYSE: JKS) Q4 2022 earnings call dated Mar. 10, 2023 Corporate Participants: Stella Wang — Investor Relations Li Xiande — Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Gener Miao — Chief Marketing Officer Pan […]
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: ‘Bay Area, Seattle and New York are losing million-dollar homes fastest.’ But in other cities, high-end properties are holding their value.
Microsoft is holding a ‘future of work’ AI event on March 16th
Now that Microsoft has outlined how AI will reshape Bing search, it’s ready to detail how the technology will influence your workplace. The company is holding a “Future of Work with AI” event on March 16th at 11AM Eastern. While Microsoft isn’t saying much about what the news will entail, CEO Satya Nadella and Microsoft 365 lead Jared Spataro are hosting the presentation. As it stands, rumors may give an idea of what to expect.
A February leak from The Vergesuggested Microsoft may introduce AI-equipped versions of Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook and Word. While the exact functionality isn’t known, The Informationclaims Outlook could use AI to improve search results and suggest email replies. Word, meanwhile, may make writing suggestions.
The company is launching some enterprise-oriented AI features today. Dynamics 365 and Viva Sales now have an AI “Copilot” that helps reply to customer chats and emails, summarize Teams meetings and explore marketing data. These rely on an existing Azure OpenAI service where the rumored Microsoft 365 features may draw on the Prometheus AI model used in Bing.
The expansion won’t come as a surprise. Microsoft has been integrating AI into services like Teams for a while, and has been investing in OpenAI for years. It recently committed to a years-long funding deal for that’s reportedly worth $10 billion, and will see Microsoft host OpenAI cloud services. The company is in a race to establish itself as an AI leader, and the event will likely support that strategy.
There’s plenty of competitive pressure. Other companies are building OpenAI’s ChatGPT directly into their products. Google, meanwhile, has unveiled Bard as its ChatGPT equivalent amid reported concerns AI could pose a threat to its core search business. An expanded use of AI could theoretically help Microsoft fend off rivals and take an early lead in use of the fledgling technology.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-is-holding-a-future-of-work-ai-event-on-march-16th-165818278.html?src=rss
Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript
Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA) Q4 2022 Earnings Call dated Feb. 23, 2023. Corporate Participants: Rob Lin — Head of Investor Relations Daniel Zhang — Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Toby Xu — Deputy Chief Financial […]
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Microsoft Rips Internet Explorer Away From Users Still Holding On
Internet Explorer had a great run, but the writing has been on the wall for years. Microsoft officially said goodbye to the long-running browser back in June. Today, it confirmed that a new Microsoft Edge update would permanently disable Internet Explorer on Windows 10 and send it into retirement.
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Microsoft is holding a press event tomorrow, with ChatGPT expected to feature heavily
You might not have to wait long to see how Microsoft and OpenAI deepen their relationship. Microsoft has confirmed plans for an event tomorrow (invitations were sent out last week) at its Redmond headquarters at 1PM Eastern. The company will only say that chief Satya Nadella will share details on some “exciting projects,” but it’s expected to show its integration of ChatGPT into Bing and other uses of the conversational AI technology.
Microsoft is already heavily invested in OpenAI’s ecosystem with a DALL-E graphic design app, a natural language programming tool and a Teams Premium service with AI translations and chapters. ChatGPT is coming to Azure cloud services, too, and Microsoft just released a GPT-based text generator trained on medical literature. The rumored Bing feature may be its most prominent OpenAI collaboration yet, however. Rumors suggest Microsoft’s search engine will use ChatGPT for conversation-style answers to questions. You might get exactly the information you need rather than cards and a list of search results.
Microsoft first invested in OpenAI in 2019, and backed the startup again in 2021. Last month, it committed to a “multibillion dollar” deal that’s unofficially believed to be worth $10 billion over several years.
The news comes shortly after Google offered a first look at Bard, its take on a ChatGPT-style service. While Google eventually plans to make Bard public, it’s starting out by offering a limited version to a handful of trusted users before scaling up. The firm wants to be sure Bard meets high standards for “quality, safety and groundedness” to avoid some of the ethical and factual problems seen with OpenAI’s product.
Both Google and Microsoft are under pressure. While Google was initially reluctant to release its description-based AI to the public, reports suggested the company had a change of heart after seeing ChatGPT as a threat to its search business. Microsoft, meanwhile, has long struggled to compete in search and faces fierce rivalries in both the cloud and productivity realms. OpenAI’s tech theoretically gives Microsoft an advantage Google and others might not match for a while.
Google is holding an event about search and AI on February 8th
Google is about to share more about its work in artificial intelligence. Next week, Google will be holding an event about how it’s “using the power of AI to reimagine how people search for, explore and interact with information, making it more natural and intuitive than ever before to find what you need,” according to an invite sent to The Verge. The 40-minute event will be streamed on YouTube on February 8th at 8:30AM ET.
The timing of the event is interesting given that Google CEO Sundar Pichai just announced that the company is planning on letting people “interact directly” with its “newest, most powerful language models as a companion to search” soon. Google, long the de facto way to find information on the internet, is likely facing…
What’s Holding Back Wind Energy in the US?
And yet 17 wind-power projects in the eastern U.S. are facing “considerable” resistance, while shareholders “are pressuring companies not to invest in more projects beyond the wave that has already begun, said Paul Zimbardo, an analyst at Bank of America.”
Surging costs from inflation and labor shortages have developers saying their projects may not be profitable. A raft of lawsuits and pending federal restrictions to protect sensitive wildlife could further add to costs. The uncertainty has clouded bright expectations for massive growth in U.S. offshore wind, which the Biden administration and several state governments have bet big on in their climate plans. “We’re trying to stand up an entire industry in the United States, and we’re having natural growing pains,” said Cindy Muller, a lawyer who runs the Houston office and co-chairs the offshore wind initiative at the law firm Jones Walker.
State leaders and the Biden administration have homed in on the industry because the power of offshore winds can produce a rare round-the-clock source of greenhouse-gas-free electricity — and one difficult for future administrations to undo once turbines are in the ground. The administration set a goal for 30 gigawatts of new power from offshore wind by 2030. That is about 3 percent of what the country needs to get to 80 percent clean electricity by that time, according to estimates from a team led by University of California at Berkeley researchers…. Delays make it unlikely that the Biden administration will meet its 2030 goal, lawyers and analysts said.
The article notes that last fall three wind developers”moved to renegotiate their contracts, saying they can no longer afford to deliver power for the prices promised because of soaring costs.” And meanwhile a massive wind project south of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts “is years behind schedule amid regulatory delays and litigation from opponents.”
Though the project has finally started laying cable, now an oil company-funded advocacy group “is providing the financial backing and legal expertise for litigation…taking up the cause of the whales in court.” (This despite the fact that America’s ocean-montoring agency, the NOAA, says whales aren’t affected by wind power.) The Post notes that the project’s construction finally began “a little more than a year ago…in the same area where a die-off of humpback whales began seven years ago.” NOAA says about 40% of the whales showed evidence they’d been struck by a ship or entangled in nets, and both whales and fishermen “may be following their prey (small fish) which are reportedly close to shore this winter.”
Ironically, the Sierra Club tells the Washington Post that “The biggest threat to the ocean ecosystem is climate change.”
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