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Microsoft’s latest Copilot refresh recasts the assistant as a social, opinionated, and operating companion: an optional animated avatar called Mico, an opt‑in “Real Talk” conversation style that will push back politely instead of always agreeing, new group collaboration features and Learn Live...

Microsoft’s Copilot just got a face — an animated, customizable avatar called Mico — and it arrives as part of a larger “Copilot Fall Release” that stitches together long‑term memory, shared group sessions, browser agent tools, and new conversational styles aimed at making AI feel less like a...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot Fall Release pushes the company’s assistant from “useful search widget” toward a persistent, social, and opinionated companion — complete with an optional animated face called Mico, a selectable Real Talk personality that will push back when appropriate, group chats...

Microsoft’s Copilot is taking a deliberate step away from being a neutral utility and toward becoming a more conversational, social, and personality-driven assistant with today’s update: group chats that bring multiple people into a single Copilot session, a selectable “real talk” mode that adds...

Microsoft's Copilot has been reshaped into a far more social, expressive, and agentic assistant today, with a cluster of updates — from collaborative group chats and an expressive avatar called Mico to a new "Real Talk" personality, smarter memory, and browser-driven "Journeys" — that together...

Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, is Microsoft’s most visible attempt yet to give AI a friendly face — and an explicit rebuke to the memory of Clippy — as the company rolls personality, group collaboration, and “Real Talk” disagreement modes into Copilot while trying to thread a narrow...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update pushes the assistant further toward a personality-driven, multimodal helper — introducing a tactile avatar called Mico (with a built‑in Clippy easter egg), an argumentation-style Real Talk mode, expanded Advanced Search, and new group chat capabilities that are...