Microsoft announced significant updates to its AI agent ecosystem at its Ignite conference, expanding support to include 1,800 models through Azure AI. The company revealed that over 100,000 organizations are currently using or editing AI agents through its Copilot Studio platform. The updates include new autonomous capabilities that allow agents to work independently without human … Read more
Microsoft appears to be preparing to rebrand its AI features under the name “Windows Intelligence,” according to references found in Windows 11 system files, Techradar reports. This potential change would shift away from the current Copilot branding for AI services, possibly aligning with Apple’s similar “Apple Intelligence” terminology. While the company plans to maintain AI … Read more
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff criticized Microsoft’s AI assistant, Copilot, on his personal X/Twitter account, calling it “disappointing” and likening it to “Clippy 2.0,” a reference to the infamous virtual assistant from the 1990s. He claimed that Copilot lacks accuracy and fails to deliver value, despite its recent upgrades that include new features like vision and … Read more
Microsoft’s AI assistant Copilot is set for a major upgrade, according to AI chief Mustafa Suleyman. In an interview with WIRED, Suleyman revealed that Copilot will soon feature a human-like voice, visual capabilities, and improved reasoning skills. The goal is to provide users with a trustworthy AI companion that offers emotional support. New features include … Read more
Microsoft is launching payments to publishers for content appearing in Copilot. The company is introducing a new feature called “Copilot Daily,” which provides users with a spoken summary of weather and current events. As reported by Kyle Wiggers, Reuters, Axel Springer, Hearst Magazines, and The Financial Times have joined as partners for the service, initially … Read more
Microsoft is pushing forward with the integration of artificial intelligence in Windows. The company has fundamentally redesigned the controversial Recall feature, which creates screenshots of the screen. According to David Weston, Vice President of Enterprise Security at Microsoft, Recall is now an opt-in feature with improved encryption and can be completely uninstalled. For Copilot Plus … Read more
Microsoft is expanding its Office offerings with new AI features. A key innovation is “Copilot Pages”, a platform for collaborative work with AI. Users can work together on AI-generated content and enrich it with data from different sources. Microsoft describes this as an entirely new way of working that brings humans and AI together in … Read more
Journalists Dalvin Brown, Kara Dapena, and Joanna Stern tested ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity in everyday situations. Each chatbot was asked questions formulated by Wall Street Journal editors and columnists. The responses were evaluated by an independent panel of judges based on accuracy, usefulness and overall quality. The health category included questions about pregnancy, … Read more
With its new Copilot+ PCs, Microsoft wants to usher in an era in which generative AI is processed directly on the device rather than in the cloud. These PCs have special hardware (Neural Processing Units, NPUs) to run AI processes locally. The first Copilot+ laptops, developed in collaboration with companies such as AMD, Intel, Qualcomm … Read more
Intel confirms that Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant will soon run locally on PCs powered by its chips. Intel’s Lunar Lake processors, due out at the end of the year, are expected to deliver three times the AI performance of current Meteor Lake chips, meeting the needs of the next generation of AI PCs.