Copilot

Copilot is an AI-powered assistant developed by Microsoft, integrated into its products to help users with tasks like writing, coding, and data analysis. It is being positioned as an AI operating system for enterprise workflows.

Why it’s in the news: It is in the news due to a major strategic rethink by Microsoft, concerns over user privacy, and its expansion into a super app with metered usage.

Latest on Copilot

• Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system
• Microsoft is giving Copilot more control over Windows and your files
• Encrypted instructions trick Copilot CLI into spilling developer secrets
• Zombie instructions on carefully constructed web pages could trick GitHub Copilot CLI into sharing secrets
• Nubank Alum Launches Decade to Give Money an AI Copilot
• Inside Microsoft’s big Copilot rethink
• The feature uses Copilot to generate charts and metrics from workbook data.
• Microsoft updated its Copilot service on September 17, 2024, to include code generation and agentic AI tools.
• Microsoft's Copilot now generates code with a 40% error rate on complex functions.
• Error 1016 kept the chatbot quiet for 100 minutes
• Microsoft stated in legal filings that its Copilot chatbot rarely reproduces full sentences from news articles and books
• The attack exploits the AI's tendency to respond to indirect prompts by tricking it into mapping out internal systems and defensive mechanisms.

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