{
  "id": 11405546,
  "title": "Microsoft debuts new Copilot – these are the new features",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/microsoft-debuts-new-copilot-these-are-the-new-features",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-02T09:09:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Citizen",
    "slug": "the-citizen",
    "url": "https://www.citizen.co.za/lifestyle/technology/microsoft-debuts-new-copilot-these-are-new-features/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Microsoft has unveiled a major redesign of its Copilot AI assistant, introducing three new capabilities: Home, Code, and Autopilot. The new Home feature consolidates Copilot's Chat and Co-work functions into a single interface, allowing users to view recent activity, continue ongoing work, and access AI-powered assistance from one location. Additionally, Microsoft is integrating Word, Excel, and PowerPoint directly into Copilot through the Office in Copilot feature, enabling users to create or update documents, spreadsheets, and presentations without switching between applications. Another significant addition is the Code feature, which lets users create applications, dashboards, automations, and workflows using natural-language prompts, powered by the same underlying technology as GitHub Copilot. Lastly, Autopilot, previously known as Scout, is an AI agent that can carry out ongoing work without repeated prompts, monitoring projects, managing recurring tasks, following up on work, and operating within Teams, Outlook, chats, and documents. Microsoft also announced updates to its AI infrastructure, expanding Copilot through Microsoft IQ and introducing new \"FinOps for AI\" tools to help organizations monitor and manage AI-related spending.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}