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Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, arrives as a deliberate attempt to give the company’s virtual assistant a friendly, non‑human face while avoiding the UX mistakes that made Clippy a cautionary tale — but the move also widens the product’s technical and governance footprint in ways that...

Microsoft has given Copilot a visible personality: an animated, customizable avatar named Mico that listens, emotes, and — if you poke it enough — briefly transforms into the legendary paperclip, Clippy. Background / Overview Microsoft introduced Mico at its Fall Copilot Sessions event...

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’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, is Microsoft’s most visible attempt to put a friendly, animated face on AI while explicitly trying to avoid the interruption, annoyance and brand damage that Clippy famously caused decades ago. Background / Overview Microsoft introduced Mico as part of a...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot Fall Release reorients the assistant from a behind‑the‑scenes productivity tool into a social, opinionated, and more human‑centered companion — complete with an animated avatar named Mico, shared Groups for up to 32 participants, a selectable Real Talk persona that...

Microsoft’s top AI executive has issued a stark, unusual warning: the near‑term danger from advanced generative systems may not be that machines become conscious, but that humans will believe they are — and that belief could reshape law, ethics, mental health and everyday product design faster...