Consumer AI

The option turns Copilot into your portal to the web, with each new tab opening a chat window where you can either ask a question, conduct a search, or enter a URL.

Copilot Mode ties Microsoft’s AI assistant more closely to Edge, as it combines AI-generated responses, search results, and navigation into one window. It also draws from all of your tabs — not just the one you’re on — allowing you to ask Copilot to summarize the information in all of your open windows or compare products in each one.

Though Microsoft previously launched Copilot Mode as an experimental feature, it’s now available for everyone to try, alongside a few new features available in a limited preview. That includes an agentic Copilot Actions feature that can do things like unsubscribe from marketing emails or book a reservation on your behalf.

Just like the other AI browsers out there, Copilot’s agentic features just aren’t totally reliable yet. Copilot displays a warning before taking action that says the tool is “intended for research and evaluation purposes” and “can make mistakes.”

Gaming Copilot screenshots gameplay, extracts text, and sends the data to undocumented Microsoft Azure endpoints.

His report added a critical detail: network traffic persists even when the Game Bar widget is closed, suggesting the data collection is not limited to active use.

Baltimore county high schools last year began using a gun detection system using school cameras and AI to detect potential weapons. If it spots something it believes to be suspicious, it sends an alert to the school and law enforcement.

An artificial intelligence system (AI) apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.

Taki Allen was sitting with friends on Monday night outside Kenwood high school in Baltimore and eating a snack when police officers with guns approached him.

“At first, I didn’t know where they were going until they started walking toward me with guns, talking about, ‘Get on the ground,’ and I was like, ‘What?’” Allen told the WBAL-TV 11 News television station.

Allen said they made him get on his knees, handcuffed and searched him – finding nothing. They then showed him a copy of the picture that had triggered the alert.

close up of hands using a laptop keyboard Inside San Francisco’s new AI school: is this the future of US education? Read more “I was just holding a Doritos bag – it was two hands and one finger out, and they said it looked like a gun,” Allen said.

In the first known federal search warrant asking OpenAI for user data, reviewed by Forbes after it was unsealed in Maine last week, Homeland Security Investigations revealed it had been chatting with the administrator in an undercover capacity on the child exploitation site when the suspect noted they’d been using ChatGPT.

The suspect then disclosed some prompts and responses they had received

“AI should not be used to put words in anyone’s mouth,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren told NOTUS. “AI is creating something that does not exist, and when our politics head down that path, we’re in trouble.”

Democratic Sen. Andy Kim told NOTUS that adopting AI in political ads could lead politics “down a dark path.”

“We need to be very strong and clear from the outset that it would be wrong and really disastrous for our democracy when we start to see those types of attacks,” Kim said.