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Microsoft’s new animated AI face, Mico, arrives as a deliberate attempt to give Copilot a friendly, expressive presence while avoiding the missteps that made Clippy a cautionary lesson in user annoyance and over-eager assistance. Background Clippy’s reputation as an annoying, intrusive...

Microsoft is rolling out Mico, a cheerful, sunshine‑hued mascot for Copilot designed to make generative AI feel less abstract and more human‑centered — an animated “spot” that changes color and facial expression in real time during voice conversations, reacts to the user’s tone, and surfaces in...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot rollout gives the assistant a literal face — Mico, a small, animated, non‑human avatar that appears in voice interactions — and the move crystallizes a strategic shift: Copilot is being recast from a faceless query box into a persistent, multimodal companion that...

Microsoft has given Copilot a visible personality: an animated, customizable avatar named Mico that listens, emotes, and — if you poke it enough — briefly transforms into the legendary paperclip, Clippy. Background / Overview Microsoft introduced Mico at its Fall Copilot Sessions event...

Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, is Microsoft’s most visible attempt to put a friendly, animated face on AI while explicitly trying to avoid the interruption, annoyance and brand damage that Clippy famously caused decades ago. Background / Overview Microsoft introduced Mico as part of a...

Microsoft's Copilot has gained a face: a deliberately nonhuman, animated avatar named Mico that Microsoft describes as a human-centered attempt to make conversational AI feel warmer, more approachable, and easier to live with across Windows, GroupMe, Edge, and the Copilot experience. Background...

Microsoft’s Copilot is getting a face — and the move from terse text boxes to animated personalities marks a significant shift in how millions of Windows users may soon experience AI assistance across the desktop, browser and productivity suites. The new visual companions — variously tested as...

Microsoft’s Copilot just got a face: an experimental feature called Copilot Portraits places stylized, animated human‑like avatars into live voice sessions so the assistant not only speaks but also appears to speak, moving its mouth, blinking, nodding and showing micro‑expressions in real time...

Microsoft has started testing Copilot Portraits, a new Copilot Labs experiment that gives the AI a set of animated, stylized faces you can actually talk to in real time — a move that brings expression, lip-sync, and head motion to voice conversations with Copilot and signals Microsoft’s next...

Microsoft has quietly begun testing a new way to make conversations with Copilot feel more human: animated, stylized “portraits” that move and lip‑sync in real time while you speak. The experimental feature, Copilot Portraits, is rolling out through Copilot Labs to a limited set of users in the...

Microsoft is putting a face — deliberately stylized, tightly guarded, and experiment-first — on Copilot by rolling out a new Copilot Labs feature called Portraits, a real‑time animated portrait system that lip‑syncs, nods, and emotes during voice conversations and is currently available only to...

Microsoft is quietly testing a Copilot Labs experiment called Portraits that would let users pick from 40 animated, non‑photorealistic 3D avatars — powered by Microsoft Research’s VASA‑1 — and speak to them in voice mode, according to an internal description surfaced by testers; the rollout...

Zoom’s AI push at Zoomtopia 2025 marks a pivot from helper tools to agentic assistants and lifelike synthetic presence — the company unveiled AI Companion 3.0, cross-platform note-taking and search, and photorealistic meeting avatars alongside a raft of video-performance upgrades intended to...

For many years, artificial intelligence interfaces have struggled with user acceptance due to their mechanical and impersonal nature. Microsoft’s Copilot, a flagship example of the company’s commitment to AI integration across devices and platforms, has long excelled in language understanding...

Microsoft's AI assistant, Copilot, has taken a significant leap forward with the introduction of "Copilot Appearance," an experimental feature that endows the AI with real-time facial expressions and gestures. This development aims to create a more natural and engaging user experience, moving...

Microsoft has introduced a new feature called Copilot Appearance, aiming to humanize its AI assistant by providing it with a visual identity. This development is currently being tested with select users in the U.S., U.K., and Canada through Microsoft's Copilot Labs. The Copilot Appearance...

Microsoft's AI division, under the leadership of CEO Mustafa Suleyman, is charting a transformative course for its AI assistant, Copilot. The vision is to evolve Copilot from a functional tool into a personalized companion that integrates seamlessly into users' daily lives. This initiative was...

Public speaking, or glossophobia, affects approximately 75% of individuals to some degree, making it one of the most prevalent phobias worldwide. In professional settings, this fear can be particularly debilitating, with some employees going to great lengths to avoid presentations, including...

Fujitsu has set a new benchmark in digital communication and productivity with its latest innovation: the Fujitsu AI Auto Presentation technology. This next-generation platform leverages the power of artificial intelligence to redefine how presentations are created, delivered, and managed...

Fujitsu has once again positioned itself at the forefront of digital transformation with its latest unveiling: the AI-powered "Fujitsu AI Auto Presentation." This technology, announced on June 19 by Fujitsu Limited, is not just another incremental improvement within workplace productivity tools...