In today’s 2-Minute Tech Briefing, Slack upgrades Slackbot into a personalized AI assistant for workplace productivity, private equity giant BlackRock acquires Aligned Data Centers for $40 billion in a move that reshapes access to AI infrastructure, and Microsoft introduces Copilot Actions, giving its AI assistant the ability to work autonomously on Windows devices.
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Hello and welcome to 2-Minute Tech Briefing from Computerworld. I'm your host. Jason Robinson, reporting from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Here are the top IT news stories you need to know for Tuesday, October 21st. All right, let's dive in!
Slack's Slackbot is getting a major upgrade. It's now a fully fledged AI assistant.
The new Slackbot can draft content, schedule interviews and answer questions using data from Slack conversations, files and connected apps like Google Drive, OneDrive and Salesforce, accessible from a new button at the top of the app.
Slackbot can now deliver personalized help across the entire workspace, making it a smarter, context aware, teammate for everyone.
From CIO.com Blackrock is leading a $40 billion acquisition of Aligned Data Centers in what's being called the largest data center deal in history.
The deal signals a power shift in who controls access to AI infrastructure enterprise CIOs may soon find themselves competing for limited data center access, and often after hyperscalers reserve what they need years in advance.
The consortium will control more than five gigawatts of capacity across 50 campuses in the US and Latin America, the transaction is expected to close in 2026.
And from Computerworld, Microsoft's Copilot is learning to work on its own.
The new feature called Copilot Actions, lets the AI send emails, update documents and even organize files on local Windows machines without user input, Microsoft says uses AI vision and reasoning to literally click, type and scroll like a human assistant.
Copilot Actions for local files will roll out soon to Windows Insiders in Copilot Labs. That's today's 2-Minute Tech Briefing for more enterprise tech news. Visit Computerworld and CIO and don't forget to like and subscribe to TechTalk on YouTube.
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