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Microsoft’s AI-Powered Chat Assistant, Copilot, Is Now Available on Android
As a new enhancement for Android users, you are getting a new AI-powered chat assistant, “Copilot,” available in the Google Play Store. Undoubtedly, it takes the initiative to use chat assistants powered by Microsoft and OpenAI models, including GPT-4 and DALL·E 3.
Microsoft, without any notification, has silently debuted a dedicated ‘Copilot’ application for Android by making it available in the Google Play Store, also delivering access to the AI-powered Copilot of Microsoft, not even needing the Bing mobile application. It has come to light that Copilot on Android has been available for a couple of days, but here’s the catch: an iOS version is not available yet.
In a way, the Copilot application is quite similar to ChatGPT on Android, along with access to chatbot abilities, picture generation from DALL-E3, and the facility to draft text for emails and documents as well. Noticeably, it is also delivering free access to the latest GPT-4 model of OpenAI, but in this scenario, if you are using ChatGPT, then you have to pay.
Microsoft first rebranded Bing Chat to Copilot, and then, after a while, it launched the Copilot application for Android. It initially debuted its AI push in the first quarter of this year inside its Bing search engine, integrating an interface like ChatGPT within search results. However, Microsoft has shot down the Bing Chat branding and permitted Copilot to be more of a standalone experience that also exists on its own specific domain over at copilot.microsoft.com, pretty similar to ChatGPT.
The catchable fact is that no sign of an iOS version of Copilot has been spotted yet. Whereas the debut of the smartphone application for Copilot appears to be an incredible tool for expanding the ways of the Copilot experience, specifically as Bing Chat Enterprise was also rebranded to just Copilot.
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ByteDance wants to kick off TikTok in the US market rather than selling it to an American firm
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, would have to shut down TikTok in the US market rather than sell it to an American firm. Following many assertions and statements for years, finally, it appears that ByteDance wants to ditch TikTok from the US market. Menahile, earlier reports significantly suggested that eventually TikTok will get banned in the US and was officially approved by the US House, Senate, and President of the US, Biden.
According to a source shared by Reuters via Android Police, ByteDance, which is the parent company of TikTok, seems looking up to ditching TikTok in the US completely rather than selling it to an American firm, while after the official approval, ByteDance was given the last 270-day deadline that either the company needs to release TikTok from its ownership forever or completely stop TikTok in the US market.
ByteDance counts a small part of TikTok’s revenue, though:
Meanwhile, the company is currently eyeing over some other legal options, but if all the legal options proved unsuccessful, then it’s quite clear that TikTok would be leaving the US market forever. On the flip side, some sources also reveal that the highly engaging properties of TikTok are due to its core algorithms, while these core algorithms are the most essential section of ByteDance’s technology. Moreover, this ditching of TikTok in the US will not really impact ByteDance’s current operations in the US market, as the company accounts for a small part of revenue through the app.
Sources further added that last year, TikTok gained about 25% of its revenue from the US market, which significantly means that it could be a sudden decrement within the revenue stream. However, ByteDance’s dedicated app, Douyin, which is certainly a Chinese version of TikTok, Also, no American firm is willing to pay billions to acquire TikTok without its core algorithms. Meanwhile, all these factors significantly indicate that if the legal efforts proved to be a failure, TikTok would have to leave the US market for sure.
Over the years, Google has made several improvements to its most crucial application, the Google Play Store, and it constantly provides new utility features and improvements. Now, with the latest development, the company is working on a new capability to handle multiple application downloads.
According to the information, Google is looking to bring a new capability to download multiple applications together. Previously, when you tap on the install button of the applications, it starts downloading them one by one. When one application fully downloads, it starts downloading the second application.
However, it is worth noticing that the phenomenon of multiple downloading is limited to only two applications, meaning if you tap on more than three applications to download, it will start downloading two applications while the third one is still pending.
Additionally, the simultaneous download is limited to the new installs, but it will not apply to the update section. We hope that Google may expand the multiple downloads to update phenomenon and may increase the number of downloads together in the next developments.
As per the information, the new change has already started working on several devices, at least for the Android 14 installed devices with the latest version of the Play Store (40.6.31).
Good Lock plays a key role in providing a platform for all the customizing applications or plugins of the Galaxy devices. For information, it provides several types of plugins like NavStar, QuickStar, LockStar, Camera Assistant, and many more. With these plugins, users can perform several customizations for the smartphone UI, including navigation bars, lock screens, home screens, notifications, and many more. To manage these plugins more conveniently, the company has started rolling out the update for Good Lock.
Good Lock is receiving a new update, version 2.2.04.95. With the latest update, the company has introduced some new changes that will fix the phenomenon of installation and deletion of modules, so users can easily manage them according to their requirements.
Along with this, the changelog also says to bring some fixes for the security-related functionalities, so if you are also having some issues while using any of the functions of Good Lock or want to get some performance enhancements, then you should go for the latest Good Lock update.
If you want to install the latest version of Good Lock, you can check its availability from the Galaxy Store. If it is available, tap on the update button, but if it isn’t available, you can also sideload the application through some external sources.