Microsoft has started stripping Copilot branding out of Notepad in Windows 11, replacing the old Copilot menu with a more generic "writing tools" label

Firefox maker warns old web tactics are now shaping AI at the expense of user choice Firefox-maker Mozilla is calling out Microsoft after Redmond said it would scale back some Copilot features in Windows, arguing the rollback shows the company pushed AI too far without enough regard for user choice

Microsoft has rolled out a Notepad update for Windows Insiders that removes the Copilot branding and icon from within the app, Windows Central has reported

Mozilla says this means Firefox often never even gets the opportunity to handle those links, which quietly shifts user activity back into Microsoft's ecosystem. The company also points to Microsoft's aggressive rollout of Copilot as another example of platform power being used to push Microsoft services

Microsoft promised to hone Windows 11's RAM usage but confusingly the new Copilot app is a memory hog

Microsoft's terms of service for Copilot AI has some very surprising language about the AI chatbot.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: AI skeptics aren't the only ones warning users not to unthinkingly trust models' outputs -- that's what the AI companies say themselves in their terms of service. Take Microsoft, which is currently focused on getting corporate customers to pay for Copilot

An AI aficionado has put together a chart of all the Copilot products they could find

According to Copilots official terms of use, updated last October, Microsoft states that Copilot's Terms of Use (updated last October) state that Copilot is "for entertainment purposes only" and should not be relied upon to provide advice

Daripada skala 1-10 apakah tahap kepercayaan anda dengan pelbagai sistem kecerdasan buatan (AI) di pasaran sekarang? Bagi saya ia amat bergantung kepada model yang digunakan. Jika anda pengguna tegar Copilot anda mungkin perlu memikirkan semula penggunaannya selepas penafian yang dikeluarkan sendiri oleh Microsoft

(The lucky reporter will "support the launch and scaling of AI-assisted local journalism in a major U.S. metro," working with tools including Copilot and Perplexity, pioneering possible future expansions and "AI-enabled newsroom operations that support and augment human-led journalism.") And Google is already sponsoring a "publishing innovation award"..

Microsoft's terms say Copilot is for 'entertainment purposes only' does the ad team know?

Microsoft notes Copilot is for "entertainment purposes only" and to be used "at your own risk," but nothing has changed to its availability

Microsoft Copilot's terms of service explicitly say that it's "for entertainment purposes only," but its marketing says otherwise

Microsoft pada ketika ini menggunakan model kecerdasan buatan (AI) OpenAI untuk menguasakan sistem CoPilot kerana melakukan pelaburan ke dalam syarikat tersebut beberapa tahun lalu

Analysts have said adoption of the $30-per-month Microsoft 365 Copilot is in the early stage.

After months and months of waiting, Android Auto users are all of a sudden getting access to Gemini in their vehicles.

Terms admit it is for entertainment only and may get things wrong A recent surge of interest in Microsoft's Terms of Use for Copilot is a reminder that AI helpers are really just a bit of fun.

The tech company will be the focus of an investigation by the regulator to see if it can be assigned strategic market status (SMS). The CMA already has "a major concern" with Microsoft's alleged limiting of competition in the cloud space via productivity software like Word and Excel, chat app Teams, AI companion Copilot and even Windows itself

It has spent more than a decade designing its own chips. Since 2024, Microsoft has mandated 16GB of RAM and 256GB of solid-state storage for PCs that are part of its Copilot+ AI program

Developers were (understandably) furious with Copilot and other ads appearing in their pull requests now GitHub has reversed its decision

what matters most is strong product thinking and a deep focus on the customer," he wrote. "If you've built great apps on any platform and care about crafting meaningful user experiences, I'd love to hear from you." Huyn later said in a reply on X that the new Windows 11 apps will be "100% native." TechSpot reports: The description stands out at a time when many of Microsoft's built-in tools, including Clipchamp and Copilot, rely on web technologies and Progressive Web App architectures

Letting Copilot alter others' PRs was the wrong judgment call, says product manager Microsoft has done a 180

Microsoft Copilot is reportedly injecting promotional "tips" into GitHub pull requests, with Neowin claiming more than 1.5 million PRs have been affected by messages advertising integrations like Raycast, Slack, Teams, and various IDEs

Microsoft's Copilot is getting even better at research thanks to a new feature that combines the power of both OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude

Were seeing small examples of AI resistance already. Just look at the viscerally negative response to NVIDIA's DLSS 5 AI upscaling ; Microsoft's recent plans to pull back on Copilot AI features in Windows 11 ; or OpenAI shutting down its Sora AI video generation app

It turns out people don't actually love having Copilot shoved into their faces

Microsoft's Clippy for 21st century deployed to evaluate returns? Industry Wales chair brands it just 'wrong' The Welsh government used Microsoft's Copilot to help write a review of an industry liaison body that it then scrapped, its chairman has told a Senedd committee

The new Core Ultra chips are some of Intel's first processors made with its new 18A process and pitched as the company's comeback. Razer says the new chip es 16 cores and an integrated NPU that "provides up to 50 TOPS" for things like image generation and live translation, which the Razer Blade 16 supports natively as a Copilot+PC

'HP IQ' can chat, share files, and record and summarize meetings Youve heard the call of Apple Intelligence, jumped for joy over Google Gemini, and cuddled up with Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft promises serious improvements to Windows 11 performance, reliability, and updates

"Reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points" is one of Microsoft's action items.

Most notably, Microsoft ease up on the AI pedal. "You will see us be more intentional about how and where Copilot integrates across Windows, focusing on experiences that are genuinely useful and well-crafted," writes Davuluri

Microsoft has somehow decided it was a good idea to use its Copilot AI to generate a half-baked, inaccurate depiction of Windows 11 as a demonstration of how to use its operating system's features

AI hallucinations can often be a problem, and they certainly are with the images Copilot has created on the Windows Learning Center

Microsoft AI CEO will focus on developing superintelligence models as Copilot teams come into alignment

Jacob Andreou takes reins in latest reshuffle Microsoft has rearranged the deckchairs on the RMS Copilot, sending Mustafa Suleyman to seek out superintelligence, and putting Jacob Andreou in charge of Copilot across consumer and commercial

Automatic deployment of Redmond's assistant halted for now Microsoft has paused plans to force the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on users, halting automatic installations for an unspecified period.

Microsoft is doubling down on its superintelligence group to build models, while consolidating engineering efforts for its Copilot assistants.

March 17 (Reuters) - Microsoft said on Tuesday it is reorganizing its Copilot teams by unifying its commercial and consumer versions, as the tech giant rushes to improve its artificial intelligence assistant to drive better adoption

Admins may be even more exhausted by then, because securing Microsofts AI helper is not a trivial job Gartner analyst Dennis Xu has half-jokingly suggested banning use of Microsofts Copilot AI on Friday afternoons, because he fears at that time of week users may be too lazy to properly check its possibly offensive output

Microsoft stops trying to cram Copilot bloat into some parts of Windows 11 but it has a heck of a fight on its hands to win me back from macOS

The ASUS ExpertBook Ultra B9406CAA is a fascinating piece of hardware. It represents a significant pivot for ASUS ExpertBook series, moving their business flagship into the “Copilot+ PC” era with Intels latest Panther Lake architecture

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: A top Senate administrator on Monday gave aides the green light to use three artificial intelligence chatbots for official work, a reflection of how widespread the use of the products has become in workplaces around the globe. The chief information officer for the Senate sergeant-at-arms, who oversees the chamber's computers as well as security, said in a one-page memo reviewed by The New York Times that aides could use Google's Gemini chat, OpenAI's ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, which is already integrated into Senate platforms

Coding education may become a bit more challenging, but the economics lesson is free You don't get what you don't pay for! Microsoft's GitHub is dialing back on expenses by removing several costly premium models from its free GitHub Copilot Student plan

35-year staffer comes from time before company's cloud and Copilot obsessions Microsoft Executive Vice President (EVP) for Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, is retiring from Microsoft after more than 35 years at the Redmond grindstone.