Copilot

Your browser just got a lot smarter — and a lot nosier. Microsoft rolled out one of the most ambitious Edge updates in years on May 13, transforming Copilot from a chatbot sidebar into a memory-equipped, context-aware AI companion. It reads your tabs. It remembers your preferences across sessions. It clicks buttons and fills out forms on websites for you. The reaction has been swift and polarized. PCWorld called parts of it “replacing browser history with AI slop.” CNET flagged Microsoft’s own warning to “avoid using sensitive or personal information” with the agentic features. Meanwhile, early adopters on Reddit are raving about an AI that pulls up quarterly revenue figures from Power BI reports they viewed weeks ago — without opening a single tab. ...

It’s no longer a partnership announcement. It’s shipping. Microsoft officially launched Copilot Cowork today through its Frontier early-access program, and the headline feature is exactly the one that raised eyebrows three weeks ago: GPT and Claude working the same pipeline, where one drafts and the other rips it apart for accuracy. This isn’t two models duct-taped together. It’s adversarial collaboration baked into enterprise infrastructure — and the early numbers suggest it actually moves the needle. ...

Microsoft stopped being an AI assistant company today. It became an AI agent company. On Monday, Microsoft announced Copilot Cowork — built in close collaboration with Anthropic — a tool that autonomously handles complex, multi-step tasks inside Microsoft 365. No babysitting. No back-and-forth prompting. You hand it a project brief, and it gets to work. This isn’t another product update. This is the world’s largest software company admitting that Anthropic built something so good, integration beat competition. And in doing so, Microsoft may have just fired the starting gun on the enterprise AI agent wars. ...