It's not surprising to see Microsoft promoting Copilot over rival AIs in Edge - but I'm still disappointed by this latest 'nudge'.

AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity's Comet, and Opera Aria are redefining how users explore the internet. Here's how they work, why they matter, and what's next for intelligent web browsing.

Microsoft has unveiled “Mico,” a new animated avatar for its Copilot AI that brings back shades of Clippy. The expressive blob acts as a friendly, customizable face for the chatbot.

Microsoft unveils Mico AI, a friendly animated avatar for Copilot that reacts, learns, and even turns into Clippy in the new fall update.

AI assistants routinely misrepresent news, raising concerns about misinformation and public trust in the digital age.

Gemini was the worst at news out of the models tested. The researchers found that it had issues in 76% of its responses, at more than double the rate of the other models. Copilot was the next worst at 37%, followed by ChatGPT at 36% and Perplexity at 30%.

SquareX has demonstrated how malicious browser extensions can impersonate AI sidebar interfaces for phishing and other nefarious purposes.

The report by the European Broadcasting Union tested four of the most widely used AI assisstants  – OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini, and Perplexity