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By Christine Hall and Haje Jan Kamps

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

If you're joining us at Disrupt next week, here's an incentive for turning up early — we're recording our podcasts live onstage, and you can be in the audience! Fun fun fun! — Christine and Haje

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The TechCrunch Top 3

  • Automation nation: Jacob Bank knows what time it is. Paul writes that after selling his last startup to Google in 2015, Bank is back with Relay, a tool that wants to give people back some time by automating mundane tasks, particularly when it comes to the task we all love to hate — meetings.
  • “Bring your ideas to life”: Microsoft's Ignite conference was today (get the nitty-gritty in Big Tech Inc.), and Kyle has been following all things DALL-E, including Microsoft's investment in the AI-powered system for its new Designer and Image Creator tools.
  • Cuts run deep: Manish reports on the latest for Indian edtech giant Byju’s, which said today it would be eliminating another large chunk of jobs, this time 2,500, writing that the move was in efforts to "clear its debts and other balances in recent months."

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Big Tech Inc.

Check out what happened when Taylor's virtual torso went to Meta Connect 2022, where Meta announces legs (as Lucas reported), and Amanda shows you what you might have missed.

Meanwhile, as we noted above, Microsoft held its Ignite conference today, where Brian, Frederic and Kyle found lots to write on. For example, hybrid work setups, more Apple integrations, avatars for Teams, new Power Automate features, invite-only access to DALL-E 2 for select Azure OpenAI Service customers, automated document and data processing services, updates to Microsoft Edge, new cloud security services and upgrades to Microsoft's suite of laptops and desktop computers.

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