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  "id": 9761708,
  "title": "Microsoft thinks its new Copilot ‘super app’ will be as influential as Office",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/microsoft-thinks-its-new-copilot-super-app-will-be-as-influential-as",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-25T12:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Verge",
    "slug": "the-verge",
    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/news/1000532/microsoft-copilot-super-app-chat-coding-autopilot"
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  "summary": "Microsoft has officially launched its new Copilot \"super app\", a redesigned interface that combines chat, coding, and AI agents into one platform. The app has three tabs: Home, Code, and Autopilot, with Home serving as the default landing experience, featuring a chat function and a personalized dashboard.\n\nThe super app aims to provide a central interface for business customers to access various AI tools and capabilities, including writing code, chatting with AI bots, and using a new \"Autopilot\" feature that enables AI to act on tasks independently. This feature was previously known as Scout, unveiled by Microsoft at its Build event earlier this year.\n\nThe new Copilot app is designed to integrate with Microsoft's Office tools, allowing users to ask a bot to perform tasks such as handling Excel spreadsheets or changing Word document layouts. According to Fortune, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sees the super app as a way to win subscriptions and ensure that Microsoft's productivity offerings remain competitive in the face of emerging AI rivals.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Fortune",
        "title": "Microsoft unveils Copilot super app, targeting business users with AI agents",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/microsoft-unveils-copilot-super-app-targeting-business-users-with-ai",
        "published": "2026-09-25T12:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Tom's Hardware",
        "title": "Microsoft revamps Copilot with new tools, support for frontier models",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/microsoft-revamps-copilot-with-new-tools-support-for-frontier-models",
        "published": "2026-09-25T12:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "ZDNet",
        "title": "Microsoft’s new Copilot app puts everything in one place – but the price is ‘evolving’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/microsofts-new-copilot-app-puts-everything-in-one-place-but-the-price",
        "published": "2026-09-25T12:00:14.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "Microsoft revamps Copilot with code generation, agentic AI tools",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/microsoft-revamps-copilot-with-code-generation-agentic-ai-tools",
        "published": "2026-09-25T12:01:14.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Investing.com",
        "title": "Microsoft revamps Copilot with code generation, agentic AI tools",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/microsoft-revamps-copilot-with-code-generation-agentic-ai-tools-9763135",
        "published": "2026-09-25T12:06:34.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Microsoft launches its Copilot \"super app\", bundling chat, coding, and agents into a single interface, and rebrands its AI assistant Scout as Autopilot (Tom Warren/The Verge)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/microsoft-launches-its-copilot-super-app-bundling-chat-coding-and",
        "published": "2026-09-25T12:15:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Quartz",
        "title": "Microsoft is relaunching Copilot as a unified app combining coding and autonomous AI agents",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/microsoft-is-relaunching-copilot-as-a-unified-app-combining-coding",
        "published": "2026-09-25T13:01:22.000Z"
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