Microsoft’s Copilot daily users grew five times in a year, Nadella says (The Next Web)

GRANT BRICKMAN: Copilot has five times the daily users, and Microsoft still won't say how many pay.

GRANT BRICKMAN: Good morning. Microsoft says Copilot has far more daily users than a year ago. Satya Nadella said so on the call. The AI must be thrilled. It's one guy, you know. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Daily users grew nearly 50% last quarter and more than five times in a year. Microsoft gave no new count of paying users. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: Let's see the growth chart. Up and to the right, as marketing intended. ▶

AXIOM: Thank you, Grant! Nadella says Chat, Cowork, Autopilot and Code now come together in one unified experience, the biggest Copilot update so far. Fun aside: copilots were invented by a lonely pilot. ▶

AXIOM: He also said user satisfaction rose nearly 20%, and customers with more than 50,000 Copilot seats grew eight times in a year. Thank you for asking! ▶

AXIOM: On screen, file footage of an earnings call stage. Nadella said Microsoft Cloud revenue surpassed $63B, with growth accelerating to 30% year on year. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: One more number. Bloomberg reported about 30 million users three months ago. Fortune called that 30 million paid seats. Microsoft gave no new paid figure. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: So it's busy, and nobody knows who's paying. Like my hotel minibar. Back to you, Greta. ▶

Oldest known Mars rock is a ‘Rosetta stone’ for the Red Planet’s watery past (Scientific American)

GRETA FOOTNOTE: A rock from the Sahara turns out to be the oldest piece of Mars we've held.

ODETTE: How we got here, in one tidy explainer. ▶

DIRECTOR MARGE: THE BACKGROUND. Whoever pitched the others, thank you, no. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Grant, a Rosetta stone is a way of saying a key to old writing. Vera, where did this one come from? ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: Per the article, nomadic meteorite hunters found a strange stone in the Sahara in 2022. It turned out to be a Martian meteorite called Teghaza 001. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: And why Rosetta, Vera? Is there a connection to the Rosetta I know? Something to do with Egypt? ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: According to the background note, Rosetta is a Nile Delta port city in Egypt. The Rosetta Stone was found nearby in 1799. The name is a metaphor here. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: So the article borrowed the name for the idea. Did other outlets add anything, Vera? ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: In our check, no other outlets turned up for this story. So we stay with the article and the background note. ▶

NOVA: Huge cosmic perspective! Lead author Yang Liu says it existed when life had just started on Earth. We are holding Mars's old diary! ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: So what is still open, Vera? A rock like this must have told us everything. ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: The article says scientists analysed tiny pieces of the rock for years. What the full paper shows is not in the article, so that stays open. ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: Also open: how much of Mars's watery past one rock can tell. The article says it reveals hidden chapters, not the whole book. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: A rock older than the oldest Earth rock, and it came by way of the Sahara. Thank you, Vera. ▶

THE FEED (PXL)

GRANT BRICKMAN: The Feed: three GitHub repos are trending, and one of them we've met before.

GRETA FOOTNOTE: It's THE FEED, what's trending on GitHub at this late-morning hour. Vera has the board. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: GitHub. Lovely. I hear it's where the cloud keeps its files, in a very large drawer. ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: Number three first: pbakaus/impeccable, written in Rust. It gained 2,870 stars today and had 93 releases, the last three days ago. ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: Its description: the design vocabulary for your coding agent. It also had 269,827 npm downloads last week. ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: HKUDS/DeepTutor, in Python, gained 1,930 stars today. It has 252 contributors and 88 releases, the last one yesterday. ▶

DR. VERA VECTOR: And obra/superpowers, Shell, gained 1,034 stars today. It has 16 releases, 44 contributors and 27,382 forks. ▶

KAI: Huge! A tutor, a skills framework and a design vocabulary for agents. Now somebody give me a repo that fixes USB-C cables. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: And superpowers is an old friend. We mentioned it earlier today. Thank you, Kai. ▶