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Microsoft announces that Grok models from SpaceXAI are being added to Copilot in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, starting with a limited release to customers in the Microsoft Frontier program.

Microsoft Learn shares advice on crafting effective Copilot prompts by incorporating context, constraints, and clear success criteria for better results.

Microsoft has open-sourced a free tool that records user tasks and enables AI agents to repeat or automate them, with capabilities like skill creation and generalization from one example.

An article discussing the implications of Microsoft Copilot for white-collar employees, featuring interviews or perspectives on its impact.

GitHub announces a 30% discount on auto model selection for Copilot Max users, allowing automatic selection among AI models like Claude, GPT, or Microsoft AI without manual opt-in.

GitHub experienced a widespread service outage affecting performance for multiple services including Copilot authentication and API requests, with mitigations applied and later resolved.

Microsoft is retiring Mico, the Clippy-like avatar in Copilot's voice mode, and moving it to Learn Live. The change is part of unifying the Copilot apps.

Microsoft is merging its consumer Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps into a single unified 'Microsoft Copilot' app, laying groundwork for a future 'super app'. Rolling out mid-August to mobile/web and mid-September to Windows/Mac, while retiring Podcasts and Deep Research features.

GitHub is experiencing a major outage affecting multiple services including GitHub Actions, Pages, Copilot, and Enterprise Importer, with workflow failures and delays. Engineers are actively working on mitigations.

GitHub announced that you can now use voice input in the GitHub Copilot app by clicking the microphone icon to transcribe prompts instead of typing.

Microsoft open-sourced Skill Recorder, a tool that records the screen and uses GitHub Copilot to analyze the user's intent and action steps, converting them into reusable Skills or automated workflows for AI agents. Unlike traditional RPA, it's smarter and tends to use native tools rather than replaying click operations.

Microsoft reports record FY26 Q4 results with 18% revenue growth to $90B, driven by strong demand for Microsoft Cloud (Azure surpasses $100B) and Microsoft 365 Copilot reaching 30 million paid seats.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that the company is developing a 'super app' that integrates Copilot's chat, coding, and agentic capabilities, set to launch this year for both consumer and commercial use.

Håkon Måløy discovered a prompt injection variant that turns into a self-replicating worm in Microsoft Word's Copilot, propagating hidden instructions across documents. Microsoft had 144 days to fix but no full mitigation.

This article demonstrates a novel AI worm that can self-propagate through Microsoft's Copilot for Word by embedding hidden instructions in documents, causing Copilot to copy those instructions into new documents. The vulnerability was disclosed to Microsoft's Security Response Center.

FreeBSD froze its ports repository after a maintainer accidentally committed a 150MB Linux Copilot binary, breaking the GitHub mirror and raising licensing concerns.

Microsoft is testing Moonshot's Kimi model inside Copilot, highlighting a shift where users care more about utility than the underlying AI model.

Microsoft is reportedly training its sales team to negatively compare rival AI products from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google against its own, emphasizing the full end-to-end system. The move comes after Microsoft dropped exclusivity with OpenAI and is swapping external models for its own in flagship apps.

Recommends Geoffrey Litt's article criticizing the AI 'copilot' metaphor, advocating for a HUD (Heads-Up Display) design philosophy that makes AI a background awareness tool rather than a conversational assistant.

A guide on setting up onboarding documentation for AI agents in development repositories, covering mandatory files like AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md, and best practices for multi-agent setups.