Microsoft Copilot’s new cross-platform assistant Copilot Daily is rolling out this week, with the company partnering with major news publications for the AI tool.
Copilot Daily will provide users with a summary of news and weather and will pull from authorized content sources, all read in the distinctive Copilot voice.
To make this happen, Microsoft says it will be working with partners such as Reuters, Axel Springer, Hearst Magazines, USA TODAY Network, and the Financial Times with a plan to add more sources over time.
According to TechCrunch, Microsoft will be paying the publishers for the content that will appear in Copilot Daily. It has long been compensating publishers in the form of content-licensing deals for its MSN platform which showcases the latest news. But those licensing agreements haven’t previously covered the technology giant’s AI products.
This comes at a time when news publishers and journalists are having to grapple with the emergence of artificial intelligence and the potential threats it poses to their work.
Writers and organizations have previously filed copyright suits against companies that build generative AI technologies. Microsoft itself, along with OpenAI, is involved in a lawsuit that alleges it used New York Times articles to train chatbots that now compete with the organization.
The new Copilot app is like talking to your dog, except what it says back isn’t just in your head. https://t.co/qToCe5coPA pic.twitter.com/geCHHvcT6q
— Microsoft Copilot (@MSFTCopilot) October 1, 2024
Copilot Daily started being rolled out in the United States and the United Kingdom on Tuesday (October 1) with more countries to see the AI tool soon.
Microsoft Copilot gets range of new AI features and additions
The news comes amid other upgrades and updates to Copilot, including an easier way to access it from the Microsoft Edge browser. Now, you simply type @copilot into the address bar and the features will pop up.
Copilot Vision has been introduced too which the company describes as being a “profoundly new way of interacting with a computer” as it can see “what you see and can talk to you about it in real time.”
These sessions are opt-in only, with none of the content Copilot Vision engages with being stored or used for training purposes. The team says that the moment you end your session, data is permanently discarded.
“It understands the web page you’re viewing, both text and images, and can answer questions about its content, suggest next steps and help you without disrupting your workflow.”
Another change is that Copilot can now “reason through more complex questions” as its Think Deeper update means it can deliver detailed and step-by-step answers to challenging questions.
For those who wish to test and experiment upcoming changes, Copilot Labs has been launched to give people that very opportunity.
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