"Microsoft is previewing a new AI-powered "Copilot Tasks" designed to take care of busywork for you in the background, the company announced on Thursday. The feature takes the load off your device using its own cloud-based computer, allowing it to work across a browser and apps to handle a variety of jobs ranging from scheduling appointments to generating study plans."
"You can describe what you need to Copilot Tasks using natural language, and assign Copilot Tasks to complete jobs on a recurring, scheduled, or one-time basis. You can call upon Copilot Tasks to do things like organize your subscriptions and cancel the ones you don't use, as well as turn emails, attachments, and images from your inbox into a slide deck."
"Microsoft says that Tasks will ask for permission before performing "meaningful actions," like making a payment or sending a message for you. For now, Copilot Tasks is only available in a research preview with a "small group" of testers."
Microsoft announced Copilot Tasks, an AI-powered feature designed to automate routine work in the background. Users describe tasks using natural language and assign them on recurring, scheduled, or one-time bases. The feature operates on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure, working across browsers and applications. Capabilities include organizing subscriptions, converting emails and images into presentations, surfacing urgent messages, planning events, and monitoring listings. Copilot Tasks requests permission before performing significant actions like payments or sending messages. Currently available as a research preview to a limited group of testers, the feature represents Microsoft's competitive response to similar agentic AI tools from other companies.
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