Microsoft’s Copilot produced a striking Week 8 slate of NFL predictions for USA TODAY, extending a run that included a near‑perfect Week 7 card and raising fresh questions about where conversational artificial intelligence fits in sports journalism, editorial workflows, and the betting...
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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