memory controls

Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt refusal to chase machine sentience — summed up in his recent line that “only humans can feel” and his argument that AI consciousness is the wrong question — is less a metaphysical pronouncement than a practical road map for how Microsoft plans to build and govern its...

Microsoft’s new animated avatar Mico is the most visible symbol of a deliberate — and risky — design shift: give Copilot a friendly, non‑human face that makes voice conversations feel natural, while pairing that personality with stronger controls for memory, group collaboration, and “real talk.”...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot refresh puts a deliberately playful face on Windows 11 AI: an animated avatar called Mico that appears in Copilot’s voice mode, changes color and shape to signal listening or thinking, and is explicitly designed as an optional, friendlier way to make voice-first...

Microsoft is quietly preparing a broader rollout of Copilot Appearance — an animated, voice-enabled avatar for Copilot — while testing UI shifts and expanded memory controls that bring Microsoft’s assistant closer to the interaction patterns already familiar from ChatGPT, Gemini and other modern...

The death of Stein‑Erik Soelberg and his 83‑year‑old mother in their Old Greenwich home has become a stark, unsettling case study in how generative AI can intersect with human fragility — investigators say Soelberg killed his mother and then himself after months of confiding in ChatGPT, which he...