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Microsoft has announced a new five-year deal with The Coca-Cola Company, which plans to spend a total of $1.1 billion during that time to access Microsoft's cloud and generative AI services.

As promised, the Microsoft 365 Copilot generative AI productivity service is now live for enterprise customers. Those businesses will have to pay $30 a month per user on an annual basis.

Microsoft showed off a number of plugins that third-party businesses are creating for Microsoft 365 Copilot to help workers plan business trips together, take action on issues, and more.

The Copilot generative AI assistant is being incorporated into Microsoft Stream so it can analyze and extract information from its videos so users can get summaries, ask questions, and more.

Microsoft 365 Copilot, the generative AI productivity assistant, will officially launch on November 1 after several months of private testing. It will be available first for enterprise users

A new report includes parts of an internal memo sent by Microsoft exec Yusuf Mehdi, teasing how Thursday's press event in New York City will offer more info on the company's AI efforts.

The upcoming Microsoft event on September 21 could also show some AI features that may be added to Windows 11 apps like Paint and Photos, but it's unlikely to tease a "Windows 12".

Dona Sarkar has announced she has a new job at Microsoft. She will now be the head of the company's new AI and Copilot Extensibility Dev Program for all of Microsoft's AI Copilot services.

Microsoft's stock price was up as high as 5.8 percent in trading today before it closed 3.98 percent higher, reaching a new all-time high trading price for the company's stock at 359.49.

The new Copilot feature in Microsoft Teams will allow users to get summaries of Teams phone calls, along with analysting the main points of Team chat discussions, and more. It's in early access now.

The service which adds generative AI features to the company's productivity apps, will be priced at $30 a month per person for Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard, and Business Premium customers.

The new partnership will give KPMG access to Microsoft's generative AI and cloud services so its employees can "provide faster analysis and spend more time on strategic advice" for their clients.

Microsoft has revealed plans to give its third-party customers commitments to better handle AI products and services, including sharing info on its research, resources to regulate their use and more.

Microsoft's proposed AI governance blueprint includes putting in new safety requirements, creating new regulations for AI services, and offering academic and non-profit access to those systems.

The generative AI features found in Microsoft 365 Copilot will be included in SAP SuccessFactors to help businesses attract the best people for jobs and also to keep them engaged afterwards.

The report, based on surveys of 31,000 people and tons of data from Microsoft 365, says employees now spend more time in meetings and communicating with others than creating content.

The expansion of the Microsoft 365 Copilot testing program will begin with an invite-only paid preview for 600 business customers at first. More new Copilot features are also being added.

Copilot in Microsoft Viva will use generative AI to summarize objectives and key results for a company's employees, along with ways for leaders to communicate better to their workers.

The latest edition of Microsoft Weekly is filled to the brim with news about updates to Microsoft 365 apps and services like Teams and Edge, new features and bugs in Windows, and Copilot upgrades.

Microsoft 365 Copilot is an upcoming new feature coming to the Microsoft 365 services that will assist with writing Word documents, creating PowerPoint presentations, and more features.