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Internal Microsoft documents reveal the company's strategy for its new AI assistant Scout is to intentionally make users addicted before expanding it into an agentic platform.

Microsoft Build 2026 featured major announcements including a new Surface dev box with Nvidia Arm chip, Windows improvements like native Linux utilities and Intelligent Terminal, an AI assistant called Scout, and seven new in-house AI models including the reasoning model MAI-Thinking-1.

Microsoft launches Scout, an AI assistant built on the OpenClaw framework, designed as an always-on agentic assistant integrated into Microsoft 365 with persistent memory, customizable skills, and security protections.

Microsoft is set to launch a revamped Copilot super app; leaked screenshots show it powered by an AI agent named Scout.