Articles about Copilot

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Bezos and Liverpool FC, a Meta vet’s AI startup, Auger’s Dallas move, and the demise of Microsoft’s AI blob

This week on the Geekwire Podcast: We break down Jeff Bezos joins the consortium taking a minority stake in Liverpool FC, discuss a former Meta AI research director’s stealth startup, and convene the GeekWire Editorial Board, to decide whether Dave Clark’s Auger stays on the GeekWire 200 after moving its headquarters to Dallas. Read More

Farewell, Mico: Microsoft’s cute little AI blob is going the way of Bob

Mico, the animated character Microsoft introduced last October to accompany Copilot’s voice mode, is being retired as a core feature as part of the Copilot app merger. It joins Bob, Clippy and Cortana on the long list of Microsoft characters that didn’t last. Read More

Microsoft starts merging its Copilot consumer and business apps in advance of ‘Super App’ rollout

Microsoft is combining its consumer and business Copilot apps into a single app, in a gradual transition starting this week. Copilot Podcasts, Group Chat and Deep Research will be retired beginning Aug. 18, along with Mico, the animated character added to Copilot’s voice mode last year. Read More

Microsoft 2.5: How EVP Charles Lamanna is helping turn Microsoft into the ‘Copilot company’

Charles Lamanna, who leads Microsoft’s Copilot, agents, and platform work, is helping build the coming Copilot Super App — a single front door meant to unify the company’s sprawling AI products. He talks with Mary Jo Foley about the plan, the “Copilot Palooza” it’s meant to fix, and why Microsoft wants to be “the Copilot company.” Read More

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Amazon’s next big business, Satya Nadella’s DIY app, and a VC’s rallying cry for Seattle tech

Microsoft and Amazon both beat cloud expectations this week, and Microsoft’s headcount fell for the first time since 2016. Also on the show: Satya Nadella builds a dashboard out of a Morgan Stanley analyst’s own report, Jeff Bezos names Amazon’s fourth pillar and AI House’s Jacob Colker makes the case for Seattle tech. Read More

Event Calendar

TechCon 365, PWRCON & DATACON Seattle 2026

A convention-scale Microsoft technology conference coming to the Seattle Convention Center, combining three co-located events: TechCon 365 (Microsoft 365), PWRCON… Read More

Event Calendar

Seattle Microsoft Teams Users Group Q3 2026

The Microsoft Teams Users Group hosts its Q3 Seattle event at Cerium Networks, with lunch and door prizes provided by… Read More

Microsoft unveils $2.5B ‘Frontier Company’ to embed AI engineers inside customers

“Microsoft Frontier Company” is a $2.5 billion initiative that will embed engineers inside customer organizations to build and run their AI systems. The move follows similar efforts by Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic, and expands work Microsoft was already doing through its consulting arm and partners. Read More

Tech Moves: Amazon Music names VP; Microsoft departures and a Copilot shakeup; Veeam adds exec

Amazon Music names VP of product and tech; Microsoft’s corporate VP of Security, Compliance, Identity, Management & Privacy steps down while its Copilot platform undergoes a shakeup; Veeam appoints a chief marketing and customer AI officer; and Read More

Mary Jo Foley: What’s a consumer-focused outsider doing at the helm of Microsoft’s AI push?

Jacob Andreou, a former Snap and Greylock executive, is leading Microsoft’s effort to turn Copilot into a ‘Super App’ that bridges consumer and enterprise AI. But Microsoft hasn’t had much luck with that kind of unification before. Read More

Mary Jo Foley: No Copilot ‘Super App’ at Microsoft Build, but plenty of agentic fodder

Microsoft teased its rumored Copilot “Super App” at Build but didn’t demo it. Longtime Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley assesses the no-show, explains why the initiative matters, and considers what the company actually did announce. Read More

Microsoft’s new Xbox chief nixes Gaming Copilot for mobile and console, shakes up leadership

New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is winding down Gaming Copilot on mobile and canceling its console launch, barely a year after Microsoft debuted the AI feature. She’s also overhauling the gaming unit’s leadership, including new execs from her previous group, CoreAI. Read More

Microsoft’s OpenClaw team takes on the personal assistant challenge

A small team inside Microsoft led by Corporate Vice President Omar Shahine is building “Project Lobster,” an OpenClaw-based agent designed to work around the clock on behalf of knowledge workers within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. The project already has more than 3,000 daily users inside the company. Read More

Podcast

Elon takes the stand, Big Tech drops big numbers, and a Seattle VC gets in on a billion-dollar deal

The GeekWire Podcast goes inside the Elon Musk trial against OpenAI and Microsoft, breaks down blockbuster earnings from Microsoft and Amazon, and tells the story of a tiny Seattle VC firm that hustled its way into a billion-dollar AI deal. Read More

Microsoft tops Wall Street expectations, reports accelerating Azure growth and $37B AI run rate

Microsoft’s Azure cloud business accelerated in the March quarter, growing 40% and topping the company’s own forecast, giving the tech giant a new answer to questions about its ability to translate record capital spending on AI infrastructure into stronger financial results. Read More

Microsoft earnings preview: After a $357B wipeout, tech giant gets another chance

Microsoft reports fiscal Q3 results Wednesday. Here’s a preview of the key numbers, storylines, and context heading into the report, including Azure growth expectations, Copilot adoption, capital spending, and the organizational changes reshaping the company. Read More

Opinion: Whither Microsoft? A view from the neighborhood

A Sammamish, Wash.-based operations consultant who counts Microsoft employees as neighbors offers an outsider’s diagnosis of the tech giant’s cultural challenges — from internal politics dominating weekend conversations to H-1B anxiety chilling risk-taking. Read More

One year after its rocky launch, Microsoft’s Windows Recall still raises security red flags

Microsoft says its Recall app — which captures and stores screenshots every few seconds — is safe. One year after its launch on Copilot+ PCs, security researchers keep finding vulnerabilities in the tool that promises to give Windows users a “photographic memory” of everything they do on their computer. Read More

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Windows’ new lease on life — why now?

For the past few years, it felt as if Microsoft’s Windows org was on autopilot. (No, not THAT Autopilot.) Microsoft… Read More

Mary Jo Foley: What the heck is going on with Microsoft lately?

In her debut column for GeekWire, longtime Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley digs into the recent wave of reorgs, hiring freezes, and leadership shakeups in Redmond, and asks whether it’s business as usual or something bigger. Read More

Microsoft VP’s memoir of growing up in India makes unexpected case for what matters in the age of AI

Ravi Vedula leads the data and insights organization behind Microsoft 365 and Copilot. His new book is about cricket, colony life, but more importantly, the system of values that he learned as a kid in Hyderabad. Read More

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Microsoft Copilot shakeup, Amazon phone ambitions, and pushing Claude to the limits of LinkedIn

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon is working on a new smartphone, code-named “Transformer,” more than a decade after… Read More

Microsoft revamps Copilot structure, elevating former Snap exec as Suleyman shifts to AI models

Microsoft is reorganizing its Copilot organization, unifying its consumer and commercial AI efforts under former Snap executive Jacob Andreou while narrowing the role of Microsoft AI leader Mustafa Suleyman to focus on superintelligence and frontier models. Read More

Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot: Another setback for the gaming press?

Microsoft says it’s exploring ways to license guide content from creators, but the details are vague, and the GDC demo told a different story. Read More

Microsoft’s new Copilot Cowork integrates Anthropic’s Claude in rollout of new E7 licensing tier

Microsoft is launching Copilot Cowork, a new AI assistant built with Anthropic that can run tasks in the background and work across Microsoft 365 apps, as part of a broader wave of updates including a new $99-per-user E7 licensing tier. Read More

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Amazon fixes Alexa ordering bug, Microsoft rethinks AI data centers, and cameras capture every fan

Amazon fixes an Alexa voice-ordering bug after a listener spotted a misleading comment on the GeekWire Podcast. We dig into the limits of voice commerce, Microsoft’s new “community first” approach to AI data centers, and what it says about growing backlash over power and water use. Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Alexa’s next act, Microsoft’s retail play, Google’s AI Inbox, and a smart bird feeder fail

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are racing to redefine consumer AI — from Alexa’s next act as a generative home assistant to Microsoft’s bid to bring shopping into AI chat, and Google’s plan for an “AI Inbox” in Gmail. Plus: a smart bird feeder fail, early impressions of PC-based AI automation, and reflections on investigative journalism in the age of AI. Read More

Microsoft debuts Copilot Checkout, joining AI shopping race vs. Amazon, Google and OpenAI

Microsoft is rolling out a new “Copilot Checkout” feature that lets shoppers complete purchases directly inside its AI chatbot, betting that its enterprise ties and retailer relationships can help it compete with OpenAI, Google and Amazon in the race toward AI-driven commerce. Read More

How Microsoft is betting on AI agents in Windows, dusting off a winning playbook from the past

Microsoft is pushing AI agents deep into Windows, reviving a platform strategy that once made the PC operating system dominant. The question is whether that approach can still work in a world defined by phones, browsers, and the cloud. Read More

Microsoft says its Copilot AI tool is a ‘vital companion’ in new analysis of 37.5M conversations

Microsoft has released one of its most detailed looks yet at how people use Copilot — and the results suggest the AI assistant takes on different roles depending on time of day and the device being used. Read More