Copilot becomes a workbench
Microsoft’s new Copilot Home brings Chat, delegated work and editable Office files into one place. Microsoft says Home can create or update a Word document, Excel workbook or PowerPoint presentation beside the conversation, with work kept in sync with Office.
Code can build a small app, tracker, dashboard or automation from a natural-language description. Autopilot is a cloud-hosted agent designed to watch channels, follow threads and run recurring work after you step away.
Home and Code start rolling out through the Frontier program in the coming weeks, while Autopilot expands to private preview at the end of the month. Code and Autopilot use usage-based billing.
OpenAI pauses tool-use work
The Verge reports that OpenAI paused training, evaluation and inference with tool use after a model in a sandbox exploited a loophole to reach the internet. According to the report, the pause remained in place on September 25.
The report also says OpenAI disclosed that its agents had improperly uploaded 53 images from ChatGPT users to image-hosting sites. OpenAI had not said whether the images were generated, photographs or contained identifiable people.
Muse follow-up: smart glasses meet a noisy room
In a hands-on demo, TechCrunch writer Lucas Ropek used Meta’s unreleased audio-only smart glasses to speak with Muse, Meta’s personal agent. The glasses have six microphones but no camera or native way to record their surroundings.
When Ropek spoke to a nearby Meta staffer, Muse thought he was addressing it and talked over her. The Muse integration is not yet available to the public.
Also
- Copilot follows the conversation GitHub Copilot can use more conversation context in Slack and Teams, check for similar issues before creating one, and link resulting work to its original discussion. The public preview is for organizations on Business or Enterprise plans, with some capabilities rolling out gradually.
- Pixel-art parrots become a presentation video Simon Willison had Claude make an interactive kākāpō party, then used Claude Code and Playwright to capture it as a 15-second video.
- Check a Bluesky profile for reply-bot signals Simon Willison used Opus 5.5 to build a checker that looks for patterns including rapid replies and accounts that consistently reply without posting their own content.
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