Microsoft merges consumer and workplace Copilot in a business-focused reboot

Bloomberg reports that Microsoft is combining the consumer and workplace versions of Copilot into one product aimed at corporate customers, ceding the personal chatbot market to OpenAI, Google and Meta. Fortune describes a central interface for chatting with AI bots, writing code and accessing Autopilot. The Straits Times says Autopilot can handle automated tasks continuously on its own and reports deeper Word and Excel integration.