Copilot

Microsoft's efforts to monetize its huge investments in generative AI are now catching up with consumers.As reported by the Wall Street Journal, the price of the company's 365 service is going up in regions including Australia and parts of Asia due to the inclusion of the company's Copilot AI assistant. Charging for Copilot isn't new;…

Microsoft released tools to address security issues with its AI assistant Copilot.Copilot's indexing of internal data led to oversharing of sensitive company information.Some corporate customers delayed Copilot deployment due to security and oversharing concerns.You know when a colleague overshares at work? It's awkward at best.Microsoft's Copilot has been doing an AI version of this behavior,…

Microsoft is betting big on AI and spending billions to create tools like its flagship Copilot assistant. But now, some of the people working on the tools are wondering if it's worth the hype.Read the original article on Business Insider

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff criticized Microsoft for it's AI-powered agents.Benioff said Microsoft Copilot was inaccurate and compared it to "Clippy 2.0."Salesforce recently announced a pivot to Agentforce, its own product that inlcudes custom AI agents. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. download the app…

Enlarge / Microsoft's Arm-powered Surface Laptop 7. We're still waiting for Arm chips to make their way into cheaper PCs.Andrew Cunningham For the first time in the decade-plus that Microsoft has been trying to make Arm-powered Windows PCs happen, we’ve finally got some pretty good ones. The latest Surface Pro and Surface Laptop (and the…

Enlarge / A rendering of the Copilot button. Microsoft Microsoft is all-in on its Copilot+ PC push right now, but the fact is that they'll be an extremely small minority among the PC install base for the foreseeable future. The program's stringent hardware requirements—16GB of RAM, at least 256GB of storage, and a fast neural…

Enlarge / Recall is part of Microsoft's Copilot+ PC program.Microsoft Microsoft will be delaying its controversial Recall feature again, according to an updated blog post by Windows and Devices VP Pavan Davuluri. And when the feature does return "in the coming weeks," Davuluri writes, it will be as a preview available to PCs in the…

Enlarge / The Recall feature as it currently exists in Windows 11 24H2 preview builds.Andrew Cunningham Microsoft’s Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs come with quite a few new AI and machine learning-driven features, but the tentpole is Recall. Described by Microsoft as a comprehensive record of everything you do on your PC, the feature is pitched…

If you're shopping for a new PC or 4K TV during Memorial Day weekend, Best Buy is offering a two-for-one deal that could be just what you're looking for -- especially if want a Microsoft Copilot Plus PC. The retailer is offering a free 50-inch 4K TV with the purchase of select devices from Samsung,…

Microsoft Here at Ars, we’ve been around long enough to chronicle every single time that Microsoft has tried to get Windows running on Arm-based processors, instead of the Intel and AMD-made x86 chips that have been synonymous with Windows for more than three decades. The most significant attempts happened in 2012 with Windows RT, which…