Microsoft has announced a significant update for its AI assistant, Copilot, introducing a range of new features designed to make it more collaborative, personal, and deeply integrated into its products. The updates include a shared chat function called Copilot Groups, an optional “real talk” mode for more personality, and a new animated character named Mico. …
Microsoft is integrating new generative AI features into its Windows 11 operating system, making them available to all users, not just those with new, specialized hardware. The company states its goal is to fundamentally change how people interact with computers. The updates introduce three core capabilities: The company emphasizes that while it is promoting a …
Microsoft AI has announced MAI-Image-1, its first text-to-image generator developed entirely within the company. The model has already secured a position in the top 10 on LMArena, a public benchmark platform where human users compare and vote on the quality of outputs from different AI systems. According to the official post, MAI-Image-1 is designed to …
Microsoft has launched Agent Mode for Excel and Word, along with Office Agent in Copilot chat, marking a significant expansion of AI capabilities in its productivity suite. The company calls this approach “vibe working,” comparing it to the concept of “vibe coding” where users create complex outputs through simple prompts. Agent Mode represents a more …
Microsoft is developing a marketplace to compensate publishers for their content used by artificial intelligence. Axios reports that the company is in talks with several U.S. publishers about a pilot program. The project, called the Publisher Content Marketplace, would launch with Microsoft’s Copilot assistant. This move would make Microsoft the first major tech company to …
If you’re a content creator, your browser is more than just a window to the web. It’s basically your office. And for many of us, it’s a pretty messy one! Picture your screen right now. How many tabs are open? Ten? Twenty? A chaotic mix of Google Docs, a competitor’s blog, SEO tools, a thesaurus, …
Microsoft’s AI assistant Copilot faces an uphill battle against OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which has reached 900 million downloads compared to Copilot’s 79 million. Bloomberg reporter Matt Day highlights the software giant’s challenges in capturing consumer attention despite spending tens of billions on artificial intelligence infrastructure. CEO Satya Nadella told employees in May that Microsoft aims to …
A critical clause in the partnership agreement between Microsoft and OpenAI could void the deal if OpenAI develops artificial general intelligence (AGI). This provision is now a central point in renegotiations between the two companies. In an article for Wired, journalist Steven Levy reports that this clause has become a source of significant tension. The …
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is winning over corporate customers at the expense of Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant, creating tension between the two partner companies. Bloomberg reporters Brody Ford and Shirin Ghaffary reveal how this competition is reshaping the enterprise AI market. Drugmaker Amgen initially planned to deploy Microsoft’s Copilot to 20,000 employees but switched to ChatGPT after …
Microsoft has made OpenAI’s Sora AI video generator available for free through its Bing Video Creator feature on mobile devices. The tool allows users to create five-second videos from text prompts without requiring expensive ChatGPT subscriptions that cost up to $200 monthly, according to a report by Carl Franzen. Users can access the feature through …