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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 ...

Remember Microsoft's Clippy, the annoying animated assistant featured in Office, until it was retired in 2004? Like most people, I found Clippy variously unnerving, obnoxious, and superfluous. Which, ...

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

Kevan Atteberry, the man behind Microsoft Word's virtual assistant, had no idea how big Clippy would be today, especially after the growing disdain for the anthropomorphic paperclip throughout the ...

Remember Clippy? It was the animated paperclip that "helpfully" assisted Microsoft Office users if they were typing up a Word document, making a PowerPoint, or working on an Excel Spreadsheet.