Microsoft introduced new features in its digital assistant Copilot on Thursday, including collaboration and deeper integration with other applications such as Outlook and Google, beefing up its AI services to stave off competition.

SquareX has demonstrated how malicious browser extensions can impersonate AI sidebar interfaces for phishing and other nefarious purposes.

AI assistants routinely misrepresent news, raising concerns about misinformation and public trust in the digital age.

Widely used AI chatbots—including Grok and ChatGPT—warned a bubble may soon burst, but also argued the problem isn’t the technology.

Gemini was the worst at news out of the models tested. The researchers found that it had issues in 76% of its responses, at more than double the rate of the other models. Copilot was the next worst at 37%, followed by ChatGPT at 36% and Perplexity at 30%.

A major study [PDF] led by the BBC on behalf of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) found that OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Perplexity misrepresented news content in almost half of the cases.

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The report by the European Broadcasting Union tested four of the most widely used AI assisstants  – OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini, and Perplexity