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David Pierce @ The Verge · 10/04/2024 09:43 EDT

Get ready to meet your AI best friend

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge


The new Microsoft Copilot is a big departure. It shed some of its Bing-y styling and its increasingly corporate vibes in favor of something warmer and friendlier, all in an effort to be more than just a work tool. It might just be a website redesign, but it feels like a shift in how Microsoft perceives the future of AI assistants.
On this episode of The Vergecast, we try to make sense of that future. Everyone seems to believe in the potential for “agentic” AI, which ca

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