OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been extended with a conversational shopping-research capability that transforms a simple product query into an interactive buying guide: users describe what they want, ChatGPT asks follow-ups about budget and preferences, then scans the publicly available web to return...
Microsoft Copilot’s Week 10 card for the NFL — published as part of USA TODAY’s ongoing experiment — reads like a fast, tidy primer for bettors and casual readers: one-line winners, precise final scores, and a compact explanation for each pick. The experiment again showcased the assistant’s...
Microsoft’s Copilot — when asked to pick every game in an NFL week and give a final score — has become more than a novelty: it’s a live experiment in where conversational AI fits in sports journalism, editorial workflows, and even the betting ecosystem. USA TODAY’s sports desk ran Copilot...
Microsoft’s Copilot produced a full Week 3 slate of NFL score predictions for USA TODAY — a tidy, repeatable experiment that reveals as much about modern large language models as it does about football forecasting.
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USA TODAY ran a simple, repeatable workflow: prompt...
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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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USA TODAY's decision to run every Week 1 matchup through Microsoft Copilot produced a tidy, headline-friendly slate of predictions — and a revealing window into how modern large language models reason about sports: they reward established quarterbacks, prize defensive strength and coaching...