* Microsoft and BlackRock are forming a group to raise $100 billion to invest in AI data centers and power. For perspective, this amount of cash is bigger than the entire annual revenue of Disney, and bigger than the market cap of Boeing.

cnbc.com - Microsoft blackrock form gaiip to invest in AI data centers energy

* OpenAI has released its latest LLM called o1, which can "think" and write the code for a video game from a single prompt.

pcguide.com - Openai unveils new o1 AI model that thinks and it can code a video game from a single prompt

* Zoom has an AI companion where you give it the meeting audio recording, and it gives you a meeting summary, plus key action items and follow-ups that can be emailed to all participants. No more taking meeting notes.

zoom.com - AI assistant

* GenAI is already having a big impact in the fashion industry. AiDA (short for AI-based Interactive Design Assistant) reportedly can produce a dozen fashion templates within 10 seconds. Cala, a fashion supply chain interface that includes gen AI in its design tools, can help designers produce more than 100 sketches in a single day.

businessoffashion.com - The state of fashion report generative AI artificial intelligence technology creativity

* A new study found that ChatGPT performed about as well as human doctors in diagnosing patients, when both are given the same set of clinical information.

usnews.com - Chatgpt equals doctors in diagnosing emergency department patients