Microsoft’s short, firm clarification — that Gameplay screenshots captured by Gaming Copilot are taken only when a user actively invokes the feature and are not used to train Microsoft’s AI models — settles part of the debate but leaves a larger set of technical and governance questions...
Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot has arrived in Windows 11’s Game Bar as a beta overlay that promises an AI “personal sidekick” for players — offering voice-first queries, screenshot-aware troubleshooting, achievement tracking and on‑the‑fly recommendations — but its early rollout has exposed thorny...
Microsoft has issued a clear — if not fully satisfying — response after users flagged that the new Gaming Copilot in Windows 11’s Xbox Game Bar appeared to be capturing screenshots and OCR’d text from games and sending that data off the machine, with at least one forum poster claiming the data...
Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot — the new Copilot-branded assistant built into the Windows 11 Game Bar — is at the center of a fast‑moving privacy controversy after multiple hands‑on reports and community captures suggested the feature may be taking gameplay screenshots, extracting on‑screen text via...
Microsoft’s new Gaming Copilot — the in‑overlay AI assistant in the Xbox Game Bar — can capture screenshots, extract on‑screen text with OCR, and on at least some Windows PCs appears to have been configured so that the Copilot “Model training on text” option was enabled by default, creating a...
Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot, rolled into the Windows 11 Game Bar, promises fast, in‑game AI help—but early public beta users report that the feature’s screenshot-based context and default training settings raise meaningful privacy flags and can also measurably tax system resources, with the worst...
When Microsoft closed the Windows 10 support window on October 14, 2025, it did more than flip a lifecycle switch — it forced an operational reckoning for organisations that still run significant numbers of older PCs, industrial systems, and bespoke endpoints that cannot meet Windows 11’s...
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Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot, the AI sidekick Microsoft has folded into the Windows 11 Xbox Game Bar, is now at the center of a privacy storm: multiple hands‑on reports and community network captures show the Copilot widget can capture screenshots and extract on‑screen text during gameplay, and in...
Microsoft’s new Gaming Copilot—shipped into the Windows 11 Xbox Game Bar as a beta in mid‑September—can capture screenshots, perform OCR on on‑screen text, and (unless you opt out) send that extracted text and related captures back to Microsoft where they may be used to improve AI models...
Microsoft’s new Gaming Copilot — the in‑overlay Copilot assistant that lives in the Windows 11 Xbox Game Bar — has been observed capturing screenshots and extracted on‑screen text and, unless users opt out, sending that content back to Microsoft where it can be used to improve models, a...
Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot — the Copilot-branded assistant inside the Windows 11 Xbox Game Bar — is capturing on‑screen text from players’ screenshots and, unless users opt out, feeding that text into Microsoft’s model‑training pipeline, with at least some testers finding the relevant “Model...
Windows 11’s new Gaming Copilot has landed in the Game Bar as a beta “personal gaming sidekick,” and it’s already generating more heat over privacy chatter and performance haircuts than praise for convenience.
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Microsoft launched Gaming Copilot as a Game Bar widget to give...
Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot — the AI assistant now embedded in the Windows 11 Game Bar — can capture screenshots, listen to voice interactions, and collect conversation and personalization data while you play, and those inputs can be used to train Microsoft’s AI models unless you explicitly opt...
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update stitches a familiar set of AI upgrades into the places you actually use: File Explorer, Widgets, Narrator, Game Bar and the Xbox PC app, with an eye toward lowering friction across everyday tasks and play sessions while pushing more capability onto devices...
Elon Musk’s public push to have xAI build “a great AI‑generated game before the end of next year” and an at‑least‑“watchable” movie is both an audacious product promise and a clear signal of the company’s broader ambition to move from chatbots into agentic, multimodal creative systems that can...
Microsoft is testing an experimental Copilot agent called Copilot Actions that can autonomously operate desktop and web apps on Windows — including sending emails, updating local documents, resizing photos, organizing files, and running multi‑step workflows — all from within a contained, opt‑in...
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Microsoft’s October 2025 Windows 11 update pushes Copilot out of the sidebar and into the operating system itself, adding hands‑free voice, expanded on‑screen vision, experimental agentic actions, and a gaming‑focused Copilot that together mark the most aggressive AI infusion into Windows to...
Microsoft’s latest update to Windows 11 marks a deliberate pivot: the operating system is being reframed as an AI-first platform, with Copilot graduating from a sidebar chatbot to a multimodal, permissioned assistant that can listen, see, and — under controlled conditions — act on your behalf...
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Microsoft’s push to graft Copilot into every corner of Windows — now including a “Gaming Copilot” inside the Xbox Game Bar — marks a deliberate attempt to make AI the default assistant for players, not just knowledge workers; the problem is that the current implementation too often treats...
Microsoft’s September platform refresh for Xbox shipped with more than a few tidy UI fixes — but also with clear strategic intent: make Xbox’s services feel less like separate islands and more like one living, cross-device ecosystem built around discovery, cloud saves, and on‑demand AI help. The...