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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. ...

Yesterday we wrote about the White House considering pre-release AI oversight. Today, it’s happening. The Center for AI Standards and Innovation — CAISI, sitting under the Department of Commerce — has announced formal agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk’s xAI. The deals give the government access to conduct pre-deployment evaluations of their most powerful AI models. Combined with renegotiated agreements with OpenAI and Anthropic from 2024, every major American AI lab is now operating under some form of government review. ...

On Sunday, OpenAI and Microsoft announced the end of their exclusive partnership. By Monday, OpenAI’s models were live on Amazon Web Services. The speed tells you everything about how long this was in the making. This isn’t a cloud provider swap. It’s OpenAI declaring independence — while juggling missed revenue targets, an $852 billion valuation, a looming IPO, and a trial against Elon Musk happening simultaneously. What Actually Changed On April 27, OpenAI and Microsoft jointly announced a restructured deal: ...

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. ...

There’s a concept in economics called diffusion — the moment a technology stops being a novelty and starts propagating through the entire economy. Steam had its moment. Electricity had its moment. The internet had its moment. February 2026 is that moment for AI. And the evidence is no longer debatable. Spotify’s Engineers Stopped Writing Code Spotify CEO Gustav Söderström dropped a bombshell in early February: the company’s top developers “have not written a single line of code” in 2026. Not because they’re slacking. Because they’re supervising AI instead. ...