Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot
Mico is headed to Learn Live.| Image: Microsoft Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot's voice mode.…
In a support page, Microsoft says it's going to move Mico to its Learn…
Mico launched in Copilot's voice mode last October, with Microsoft AI …
" The blob would react to what you say in real-time, complete with fac…
‘That is not acceptable’: Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier
One month after Epic Games and Google seemingly stopped fighting over the future of Android app distribution, they were back in a San Francisco courtroom today - where Judge James Donato just ordered Google to make it easier to install rival app stores on Android.…
It's been nearly three years since a jury unanimously decided that Goo…
Donato ordered Google to carry rival Android app stores inside its own…
Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works
The surveillance company announced it's making a tool called "Audit Assistance" mandatory for all customers, claiming it's already helped catch abuse.…
But the company has yet to explain how the tool works in detail, raisi…
Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto Is 6,500-Words—and Barely Says Anything
AI is shifting the culture, from tech CEO manifestos to 1 am job interviews. We unpack some of the latest, along with the top findings from Black Hat and Defcon, this week on Uncanny Valley.
Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs
Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price.
