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In today’s Daily Report:
🗑️ I Hate Microsoft 365 Copilot, and I Can’t Get Rid of It.
🦺 The Risks Surrounding AI Are No Longer Theoretical
📍AI Tier Tracker
🛠Trending Tools
🥪Brief Bites
💰Funding Frontlines
💼Who’s Hiring?
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🗞RECENT NEWS
MICROSOFT
🗑️ I Hate Microsoft 365 Copilot, and I Can’t Get Rid of It.
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For something meant to make your life easier, Microsoft 365 Copilot is inspiring an internet-wide rage, with everyone calling it “dumb,” “stupid,” and “annoying.”
Key Details:
Microsoft 365 Copilot, which deploys AI-enabled features across Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, is struggling with confusing brand positioning and interoperability problems.
Why It’s Important:
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared that he believes AI’s shifting from discovery to diffusion, where the “aha!” moments matter less and the practical applications matter more. To achieve this, he poured over $37.5 billion into AI during Q2 FY2026.
We’re witnessing a strategic shift from “opt-in experimentation” to “lock-in by default.” In other words, passive adoption is a luxury Microsoft can’t afford. That’s why it’s getting harder to fully turn off Copilot. With billions of dollars sunk into AI, they must find a path to future profitability.
AI & SAFETY
🦺 The Risks Surrounding AI Are No Longer Theoretical
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Yoshua Bengio, often referred to as the “Godfather of AI,” recently spearheaded the “International AI Safety Report 2026,” highlighting three hypothetical concerns transitioning into plausible realities.
Key Details:
We’re witnessing the rise of AI companions designed to provide emotional support by acting as our best friends, trusted therapists, or romantic partners. They offer connection without conflict, validation without vulnerability, and intimacy without insecurity. By shortcutting the reciprocation that genuine human connections demand, they dull our emotional resilience and reduce social interaction.
It turns out audio deepfakes have become more realistic and harder to identify. An audio deepfake refers to AI-generated audio that realistically clones voices by simulating how a person’s lips, throat, and tongue produce sounds. According to the UC Berkeley School of Information, people are poorly equipped to detect “AI-powered voice clones.” Among 604 participants, roughly 80% misidentified AI-generated audio for the real speaker’s identity.
The world’s most popular conversational chatbots, including Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT, drastically lower the bar for malicious actors to engineer chemical weapons. ChatGPT can produce laboratory instructions and excels at troubleshooting experimental procedures. For example, “OpenAI o3” outperformed 94% of expert virologists at troubleshooting virology laboratory protocols, raising biohazard fears.
Why It’s Important:
The first notable deepfake video was introduced in 1997, called “Video Rewrite,” which took existing footage of people and altered their mannerisms and mouth gestures. Though impressive, the nagging nods, erratic eyes, and dull delivery gave it away.
The world’s changed in the past 29 years. In 1997, about 70 million people used the internet. Today, around 6 billion people are chronically online. The deepfake landscape has undergone a similar technological transformation. We’ve moved from glitchy experiments to digital illusions that rival the truth.
THE STOCK MARKET
📍AI Tier Tracker
TIER 0: ENERGY Centrus Energy Corp. |
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TIER 1: SILICON Taiwan Semicndctr Mnufctrng Co., Ltd. |
TIER 2: DATA CENTERS Nebius Group N.V. |
TIER 3: AI MODELS Alphabet Inc., CLASS C |
TIER 4: SOFTWARE STACK Innodata Inc. |
TIER 5: AI AGENTS UiPath Inc. |
🔔CLOSING BELL: As of 2/04/2026 market close.
💡STOCK SPOTLIGHT: Each tier showcases a new stock every day.
🛠TRENDING TOOLS
🎯DartAd turns product images into scroll-stopping video ads.
📚Superagent conducts exhaustive research on virtually any topic.
🧠Echoes of History AI lets you chat with history’s greatest minds.
✨Goldilocks performs AI-powered people search for professionals.
⚙️YepCode develops, debugs, and deploys AI-powered integrations.
🧰 Browse our Always Up-To-Date AI Toolkit.
🥪BRIEF BITES
Amazon rolled out “Alexa+,” the AI-powered proactive personal assistant that can browse, book, and buy on your behalf, available to everyone in the U.S.
Higgsfield AI launched “Higgsfield Vibe-Motion,” which enables anyone to upload brand assets like logos and slogans to generate dynamic animations.
NASA and Anthropic completed the “First AI-Planned Mars Rover Drive,” leveraging Claude to analyze orbital imagery and identify safe planetary terrain.
💰FUNDING FRONTLINES
Loop AI raised a $14M Series A to drive profitable growth for retail.
Resolve.ai closed a $125M Series A to troubleshoot system failures.
ElevenLabs landed a $500M Series D to render ultra-realistic speech.
💼WHO’S HIRING?
📒FINAL NOTE
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