Microsoft’s Copilot AI kept its hot streak rolling into Week 5 of the 2025 NFL season, delivering another winning slate of straight-up picks as USA TODAY Sports continued its experiment of asking the chatbot to pick winners and scores for every game on the schedule.
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Microsoft’s Copilot produced a wildly entertaining — and instructive — first-round mock of the 2026 NFL Draft after Week 1, exposing both the speed and the limits of conversational AI when it tries to translate fuzzy, fast-moving sports data into roster decisions.
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