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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Satya Nadella’s short public playbook — five repeatable prompts he says he uses inside Microsoft 365 Copilot — is more than a CEO productivity trick: it’s a clear demonstration of how next‑generation copilots can become an executive’s persistent, context‑aware chief‑of‑staff.
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Satya Nadella says he now runs parts of his day with GPT‑5 inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, sharing five concrete prompts that have moved the assistant from a helpful tool to a strategic layer in his schedule, meeting prep, project assessment and risk spotting.
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