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In today’s edition:

• ChatGPT Adds Tasks for Reminders and Scheduling

• Microsoft Launches AutoGen v0.4

• Gmail Adds Insert Button for AI-Suggested Replies

• Google DeepMind Launches PaliGemma 2

• And more AI news….

Top Developments

ChatGPT

ChatGPT Adds Tasks for Reminders and Scheduling

The Gist: ChatGPT now offers a "Tasks" feature, allowing users to set reminders and schedule recurring actions directly within chats. The feature is currently in beta and rolling out to select subscribers.

Key Details:

• Users can set one-time or recurring reminders, like weekly news updates or workout routines.

• ChatGPT can suggest tasks based on conversations, requiring user approval to activate.

• A new task management page lets users edit task names, instructions, and schedules.

• Available for Plus, Team, and Pro subscribers, with plans for broader rollout.

Microsoft

Microsoft Launches AutoGen v0.4

The Gist: Microsoft has unveiled AutoGen v0.4, a major update to its multi-agent AI framework, featuring an asynchronous, modular design to improve usability, debugging, and cross-language support.

Key Details:

• Introduces an asynchronous, event-driven architecture for flexible multi-agent collaboration.

• New tools include AutoGen Bench for benchmarking and AutoGen Studio for rapid prototyping with real-time updates.

• Modular components allow customization with custom agents, tools, and models, supporting Python and .NET.

• Features enhanced debugging, observability, and OpenTelemetry integration for monitoring workflows.

Google

Gmail Adds Insert Button for AI-Suggested Replies

The Gist: Google has added an insert button to Gmail's Gemini panel on Android, allowing users to directly add AI-suggested email replies without copying and pasting.

Key Details:

• The insert button is located alongside the like, dislike, and copy options in the Gemini panel.

• Users can directly insert all AI-generated replies into the reply window, saving time.

• Some limitations remain, as all suggested replies are inserted, requiring manual adjustments.

• Available with the latest Gmail app update (v2025.01.05.715468168); rollout may vary.

Quick Gist

Microsoft is partnering with NVIDIA to enhance DirectX with cooperative vectors, improving performance for neural shading technology on RTX hardware and potentially reducing VRAM requirements for games (Read More).

Persistent Systems launched ContractAssIst, an AI-driven contract management solution integrated with Microsoft technologies to enhance enterprise efficiency and reduce operational complexity (Read More).

Meta is planning to lay off about 3,600 employees, or 5% of its workforce, targeting low performers while also increasing investments in artificial intelligence (Read More).

Google launched 'Titans,' new neural long-term memory modules that outperform Transformers in handling large data sequences, designed to enhance AI's problem-solving capabilities over time (Read More).

Google DeepMind launched PaliGemma 2, a family of vision-language models that set new state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmarks and features enhanced capabilities for generating detailed image descriptions (Read More).

Samsung is enhancing its AI-powered Sketch to Image tool to allow users to create detailed images from both sketches and descriptions using text or voice commands, ahead of the Galaxy S25 series launch (Read More).

THAT’S IT FOR TODAY!