EP-243 Microsoft’s Ai Deep Research Tools for 365 📊, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro Unveiled 🛠️, Openai’s Image-generation Leap 🎨

welcome to wall-e's tech briefing for wednesday, march 26th! tune into today's key tech insights:

• microsoft 365 copilot advances: unveiling new “deep research” tools - researcher and analyst - utilizing reasoning ai models for comprehensive data analysis, with unique data access features. frontier program offers early access despite ongoing accuracy challenges.
• google's gemini 2.5 pro: latest ai model excels in agentic coding and web app creation with a 1 million token context window, yet faces intense industry competition.
• openai enhances chatgpt: upgraded gpt-4o model for image-generation and modification, surpassing dall-e 3 and integrating into the sora platform, while emphasizing artists' rights and dataset opt-out options.
• fusion technology breakthrough: commonwealth fusion systems, backed by bill gates, installs crucial sparc reactor component, aiming for commercial fusion power use by 2027, targeting net-positive energy output.
• cerebras systems ipo delay: national security review and pending white house appointments delay the ai chipmaker's ipo, complicated by ties to abu dhabi-based investor g42.

stay tuned for more tech updates tomorrow!