Microsoft’s Copilot can now browse the web and perform actions for you

In front 50th birthdayMicrosoft teaches its AI-driven Copilot Chatbot a few new tricks.

Copilot can now take action on ‘most websites’, says Microsoft, so that it can book tickets, restaurants and more reserve. De Bot has had the opportunity to remember specific things about you, similar to the Chatgpt from OpenAi, such as your favorite food and films. And it can now analyze real -time video of your phone and answer questions in the context of what it ‘sees’.

The upgrades come as Microsoft is Reportedly Consciously a makeover of Copilot, who has traditionally been powered by AI models from OpenAi, with more of his own internal technology. Copilot is often left with Rivals Chatgpt and Google’s Gemini, who have only increased the pace of function in recent months.

From Friday, Copilot can complete tasks on the internet in the lines of how “agent” tools such as OpenAi’s operator do it. Microsoft says it collaborated with 1-800-Flowers.com, Booking.com, Expedia, Kayak, Opentable, Priceline, TripAdvisor, Skyscanner, Viaator and VRBO for day-one. Enter a prompt in-for example “Send a bouquet to my partner” and Copilot will try to check that specific tasks items from your list.

Copilot now takes a page from the book of the Permexity search engine and can now also follow online deals. Tell the bone to search for price decreases and sell on an item, and it will inform you when they happen – and you present a link to buy.

How well Copilot does different chores is not clear. Microsoft gave few details about how the possibility works, and, unlike some of his competitors, did not publish data that indicate areas where Copilot might struggle or needs a person to intervene.

It is probably possible that websites also block Copilot, just as they can block the Operator of OpenAi. A company can do this if so For example, it was concerned that fewer people visit the app directly Can damage his advertisement.

Fortunately, the other new functions of Copilot are less vague and possibly loaded with controversy.

The improved Copilot can generate “podcasts” that are comparable to the audio overviews in Google’s NotebookLM. Given a website, study or another source, Copilot will create a dialogue between two synthetic hosts. Just like with audio overviews, you can interrupt the hosts at any time to ask a question, and they will acknowledge and respond.

On Android and iOS, Copilot can now see what is in the camera of your phone or in your photo gallery and questions about it (for example: “What is this weird flower?”). And on Windows, the renewed Copilot app can see what is on the screen of your desktop to search, change settings, organize files and more. It is first rolled out for members of the Windows Insider program that starts next week.

This reporter would hope that there are reasonable guarantees to prevent Copilot from reading private files or errors on the desktop -breaking. But information was difficult to come prior to time.

Elsewhere, Copilot has a new project consolidation pages that get a lot of inspiration from chatgpt-canvas and the tool of Anthropic’s Claude Artifacts. Pages places notes and research in a canvas that can help Copilot organize and convert it into a document.

Complementary to pages, the new in -depth research function of Copilot finds, analyzes and combines information from online sources, documents and images to answer more complex questions, just like Chatgpt Deep Research and Gemini’s deep research.

Finally, Copilot can now remember more about you. Microsoft says the BOT will notice your preferences while dealing with it and ‘customized solutions’, ‘proactive suggestions’ and reminders.

If the prospect of a chatbot that remembers intimate details about your conversations from the past, you are astonished, there is a way to remove or to unsubscribe individual ‘memories’, Microsoft notes.

“Second pilot [gives] You check via the user dashboard and the option to choose what types of information it remembers about you or to report completely, “Microsoft wrote in a blog post to WAN.” You remain control. “