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Microsoft announced on May 13, 2026, that it is retiring Copilot Mode in Microsoft Edge and moving its core AI browsing features directly into the standard Edge experience across desktop, iOS, and Android. That is the official story of simplification: one less named mode, fewer visible seams...

Microsoft said on May 13, 2026, that it is retiring Copilot Mode in Microsoft Edge and moving its AI browsing features directly into Edge on desktop and mobile, including multi-tab reasoning, screen-aware voice assistance, Journeys, quizzes, podcasts, and writing help. The change is less a...

Microsoft has added a Copilot feature to Edge that can read across a user’s open browser tabs, compare information, and produce a consolidated answer from the current browsing session, with optional use of history and past chats for added context. The feature sounds like a small convenience...

Microsoft announced on May 13, 2026, that it is retiring Copilot Mode in Edge and moving its tab-aware, voice, vision, writing, study, journey, and browsing-history features directly into the browser across desktop and mobile. The label is going away, but the product strategy is not. If...

Microsoft announced on May 13, 2026, that Edge will let Copilot reason across a user’s open tabs on desktop and mobile, while adding study tools, AI-generated audio summaries, browsing-history personalization, long-term memory, and a redesigned new tab page. The practical result is that Edge is...

Microsoft announced on May 13, 2026, that Copilot features in Edge are expanding across Windows, Mac, and mobile, bringing multi-tab reasoning, browsing-history personalization, Voice and Vision, Journeys, and new productivity tools directly into the browser while retiring Copilot Mode. The move...

Microsoft began rolling out new Edge updates on May 13, 2026, adding Copilot-powered “Journeys” to the browser’s desktop and mobile experience so Edge can group past browsing activity into topic cards and suggest AI-assisted ways to resume unfinished web research. The feature arrives as...

Microsoft announced on May 13, 2026, that it is retiring Copilot Mode in Microsoft Edge while moving many of its AI browsing features directly into Edge on desktop and mobile. The important part is not that Microsoft is backing away from AI in the browser. It is doing the opposite: removing the...

Microsoft announced on May 13, 2026, that it is retiring Copilot Mode in Microsoft Edge, the experimental AI browsing mode it introduced in July 2025, while moving many of its capabilities directly into Edge across desktop and mobile. The headline sounds like a retreat, but the product move is...

Microsoft announced on May 13, 2026, that it is rolling new Copilot-powered Edge features across Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone, and iPad, while retiring the separate Copilot Mode branding and moving those AI experiences directly into the browser. The change is less a retreat from AI than a...

Microsoft’s consumer-app problem is newly visible because Satya Nadella told investors in late April 2026 that Microsoft is doing “foundational work” to win back fans across Windows, Xbox, Bing, and Edge. The trouble is that Windows users do not experience a strategy deck; they experience the...

Microsoft published CVE-2026-7904 for Microsoft Edge on May 7, 2026, after Google fixed a high-severity Chromium font-processing flaw in Chrome 148.0.7778.96 and later, a bug that could let a remote attacker read memory through a crafted HTML page. The short version for Windows users is simple...

Google and Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-7933 on May 6, 2026, as a medium-severity Chromium WebCodecs out-of-bounds read flaw fixed in Google Chrome before version 148.0.7778.96 and tracked by Microsoft for Chromium-based Edge users through MSRC. The bug is not a headline-grabbing browser...

Google and Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-7944 on May 6, 2026, as a Chromium flaw in Persistent Cache fixed in Google Chrome before version 148.0.7778.96 and tracked for Microsoft Edge because Edge inherits the Chromium codebase. The bug is not the loudest item in Chrome 148, but it is one of the...

CVE-2026-7957 is a medium-severity Chromium Media out-of-bounds write flaw disclosed by Chrome on May 6, 2026, affecting Google Chrome on Mac and iOS before version 148.0.7778.96 and incorporated into Microsoft’s May 7 Edge security update stream. The short version is simple: patch the browser...

On May 7, 2026, Microsoft published guidance for CVE-2026-7962, a medium-severity Chromium vulnerability in DirectSockets that affects Microsoft Edge because Edge consumes the Chromium open source codebase. The flaw was fixed in Chromium before Chrome 148.0.7778.96 and is addressed in Edge...

Google and Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-7965 on May 6, 2026, as a Chromium DevTools input-validation flaw fixed in Google Chrome before version 148.0.7778.96 and tracked for Chromium-based Microsoft Edge through MSRC. The bug is not the loudest flaw in Chrome 148, and that is precisely why it...

CVE-2026-7984 is a newly published Chromium use-after-free vulnerability in Chrome’s ReadingMode component, fixed in Google Chrome 148.0.7778.96 for Linux and 148.0.7778.96/97 for Windows and macOS after disclosure on May 6, 2026, and tracked by Microsoft because Edge inherits Chromium security...

Google and Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-7989 on May 6, 2026, describing a medium-severity Chromium DataTransfer validation flaw fixed in Chrome before version 148.0.7778.96 and relevant to Chromium-based browsers, including Microsoft Edge, on Windows, macOS, and Linux. The bug is not the...

Google and Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-8002 on May 6 and May 7, 2026, describing a use-after-free flaw in Chrome’s Audio component on macOS before version 148.0.7778.96 that could let a remote attacker execute code inside Chrome’s sandbox through a crafted HTML page. The oddity is not that...