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Copilot Just Got a Massive Upgrade 🦾
AI Experts Q&A: How Every Industry Is About to Be Transformed by Humanoids
Gina Acosta
April 05, 2025
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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
As Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary, it’s rolling out a major Copilot update packed with new features — bringing it closer to rivals like ChatGPT and Claude.
Let’s jump right in!
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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
Chart of the week: Which AI Chatbots Collect the Most Data About You?
Microsoft Updates Copilot with Powerful New Features
Free Resources
AI tools to check out
Video of the week
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Chart of the week
Which AI Chatbots Collect the Most Data About You?
The graph uses data from Surfshark, which identified the most popular AI chatbots and analyzed their privacy details on the Apple App Store.
Google’s Gemini takes first place, collecting 22 different data points across 10 categories from its users — including general diagnostics (which all bots in this study collect) and access to contacts (which no other bot identified collects).
xAI’s Grok collects the fewest unique data points (7), while China’s DeepSeek sits comfortably in the middle of the pack with 11.
AI News
MICROSOFT
Microsoft Updates Copilot with Powerful New Features
At its 50th anniversary event today, Microsoft introduced several new features for its AI chatbot, rolling them out all at once — showing that the company is committed to keeping up with the competition.
Memory: Copilot can now track your preferences, interests, and details to personalize responses, offer tailored advice, and make proactive suggestions. Similar to OpenAI’s version, users can choose what information Copilot remembers or opt out entirely.
A new "Actions" feature will allow the AI assistant to complete online tasks for you. Using simple chat prompts, these actions can be performed in the background while you focus on other tasks.
Copilot Vision is now expanding to Windows and mobile apps. On Windows, Copilot can “see” what's on your screen across apps and files to answer questions or interact with content. On iOS and Android, it can analyze what's visible through your phone camera or photos in your camera roll.
Deep Research allows Copilot to analyze large sets of documents or online sources for complex projects. Its research capabilities are now integrated with Bing, delivering AI-powered responses within the search engine.
Copilot can also now generate podcast-style audio to explain a topic (similar to NotebookLM Audio Overview), while a new Pages feature organizes notes and research into a single canvas across documents.
Many of the new features are starting to roll out today in “initial versions,” with improvements expected over the coming weeks and months. Availability will vary by feature, platform, and region.
AI Findings/Resources
👉 ChatGPT Plus is free for students now - how to grab this deal before finals
🤔 ChatGPT is now really good at faking receipts – and OpenAI says that could be a good thing
⛏️ AI masters Minecraft: DeepMind program finds diamonds without being taught
👀 The hottest AI models, what they do, and how to use them
AI Tools to check out
📹 WUI.AI: Repurpose your content into viral video clips.
📖 Speechify: Text to speech reader. Use AI to listen to PDFs, emails, books, and more.
🔍 Findr: One platform to organise, search, and utilise information scattered across apps, bookmarks, links, notes, and files.
👀 BildAI: Understand Blueprints with AI.
🧠 Metabrain: A platform for founders that combines your insights and context with an AI cofounder.
Video of the week
AI Experts Q&A: How Every Industry Is About to Be Transformed by Humanoids
A Q&A session with AI experts Vinod Khosla, entrepreneur and venture capitalist with an estimated net worth of $9.2 billion, and Brett Adcock, founder of Figure, an AI robotics company at the forefront of developing general-purpose humanoid robots.
The discussion covers the future impact of humanoid robots across various sectors, including healthcare, agriculture and even space exploration.
The experts also explore the debate between customized and general-purpose robots, the potential effects of automation on employment, and concerns about the safety and security of advanced AI and robotics.
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