🤖 Amazon Files Over 9,000 AI-Related Patents?!

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In today’s AI Report:

• 📦Amazon Files Over 9,000 AI-Related Patents?!

• ⚙️The Next Wave of Microsoft 365 Copilot

• 📋Turn Documents into Presentations

• 🛠Trending Tools

• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

AMAZON AND WALMART

📦Amazon Files Over 9,000 AI-Related Patents?!

Amazon and Walmart are leveraging AI models to implement aggressive innovation strategies that improve customer, member, and employee experiences.

Key Details:

• Walmart has filed over 3,000 AI-related patents, with over 20% filed within the past three years.

• Amazon has filed more than 9,000 AI-related patents, with over 50% filed within the past three years.

• During Walmart’s FY2025 Q2 Earnings Release, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon announced AI add-ons to customer search engines and seller support systems.

• For example, Walmart customers can use an AI shopping assistant on the retail giant’s website to guide purchasing decisions.

• Walmart employees have mobile AI devices to locate inventory and restock shelves quickly.

• Amazon uses AI models to reduce the amount of labor and materials required to produce products or provide services (i.e., “Variable Cost Per Unit”).

• For example, Amazon’s AI-assisted Just-In-Time (JIT) inventory system optimizes inventory levels to meet demand while minimizing oversupply.

Why It’s Important:

• Amazon and Walmart’s AI-driven innovation strategies outline a blueprint for an AI-based future in the retail sector.

• Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas explained: “People are lazy. A better product should be one that allows you to be more lazy, not less.”

🩺 PULSE CHECK

MICROSOFT

⚙️The Next Wave of Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft unveiled the next wave of Microsoft 365 Copilot, an AI assistant that saves time, amplifies productivity, and drives business operations.

Key Details:

• Microsoft 365 Copilot brings together “Web + Work + Pages” across Microsoft 365 apps like Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, Word, and OneDrive.

  1. Copilot Pages: A collaborative space for AI-assisted teamwork.

  2. Copilot Agents: Creates a variety of AI assistants that automate specific business processes on your behalf.

  3. Narrative Builder: Generates presentation layouts in PowerPoint.

  4. Brand Manager: Deploys branded templates across Microsoft 365 apps to create enterprise-ready and on-brand visuals.

  5. Copilot in Excel with Python: Runs Python (i.e., a programming language) within Excel to perform more data analysis for deeper insights.

  6. Prioritize My Inbox: Analyzes emails in Outlook to prioritize messages that matter the most in a cluttered inbox.

• “If we were building a Financing campaign, it would’ve taken us three months to generate the content. With Microsoft 365 Copilot, it takes us less than one month,” said Joerg Klueckmann, Head of Corporate Marketing and Communications at Finastra.

Why It’s Important:

• Microsoft is making it easier than ever for non-technical people to create AI-enabled workflows that boost productivity and automate mundane tasks.

• Marketers at Finastra use Microsoft 365 Copilot to transition from content ideation to production 75% faster. On average, Honeywell employees save 92 minutes weekly or 74 hours annually using Microsoft 365 Copilot.

🚨Watch Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel with Python here.

AI TIPS

📋Turn Documents into Presentations

Gamma’s AI-powered design partner can build and share dynamic content effortlessly, including a free “AI Presentation Builder” to help users create presentations in seconds.

Here’s How You Can Use It:

1. Head over to Gamma here.

2. Click “Sign up for Free.”

3. Continue with a Google Chrome profile or an Email Address.

4. Click “+ Create New AI” and choose “Import a File or URL.”

5. Navigate to “Upload a File” and select a document.

6. Choose “Presentation” and click “Continue.”

7. Pick a theme and select “Generate.”

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💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• Osavul secures a $3M Seed Round to fight disinformation with AI.

• Kinetix creates a $1M User-Generate Content (USG) Fund to boost game development.

• BlackRock plans to launch a $30B Mega Fund focusing on energy infrastructure to support AI applications.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• Pinterest (Palo Alto, CA): Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2025

• Patreon (San Francisco, CA): Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2025

• Dow Jones (New York City, NY): Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2025

• WeRide (San Jose, CA): General Software Engineer, New College Grad 2025

• Medtronic (Los Angeles, CA): Software Engineer I, Mobile Apps, New College Grad 2024/2025

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