Microsoft just announced Mico, a new expressive avatar interface for Copilot that will appear when you talk to it. It can emote, change shape, and float around the Copilot interface while you chat, ...

Close enough: Welcome back, Clippy. Microsoft Copilot announced it has updated its AI companion to bolster its personality and appearance — and it has given it a name. Say hello to Mico. "Copilot now ...

As an elder millennial, I remember Clippy well. I don't remember Microsoft Office's animated paperclip fondly, but I'll never forget him. The rarely helpful assistant would pop up to make suggestions ...

Microsoft is changing how we engage with artificial intelligence with its Copilot Fall Release. With several new features, the company also launched Mico (Microsoft Copilot), a friendly, emotive ...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update brings a familiar little metal office supply back to life. Clippy—the infamous paperclip assistant from the early 2000s—has returned as an easter egg inside Copilot’s ...

Microsoft's Clippy has been resurrected for a cameo appearance in the company's latest Copilot update, which broadly aims to make its AI assistant more friendly, warm, and human-centered in its ...

What if Clippy were powered by AI? That seems to be the pitch behind Microsoft's new "expressive, customizable and warm" face of Copilot's voice mode. The friendly blob listens, reacts and changes ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Microsoft wants to make Copilot more personal, and the way it's trying to accomplish that is by introducing an animated character for users to talk to when using the AI chatbot. The new character ...

The takeaway: As the industry shifts toward agentic browsers and more human-like AI companions – such as OpenAI's new Atlas and Anthropic's latest Claude models – Microsoft wants Copilot to remain the ...

Clippy, the animated paper clip that annoyed Microsoft Office users nearly three decades ago, might have just been ahead of its time.Microsoft introduced a new artificial intelligence character called ...