Microsoft’s new Copilot key echoes antitrust controversies

Microsoft and its partners are adding a new key to the keyboard that will call on GenAI assistant Copilot. (Image: Microsoft/screenshot)

Ben Moore

Wed, 10 Jan 2024

Microsoft has started the new year with a move that hints at what will come for artificial intelligence in 2024.At this year’s CES conference, the big tech company announced that future Windows computers will have a dedicated keyboard key that calls up its generative artificial intelligence-powered assistant, Copilot.This is the first time a new button has been added to the standard Windows keyboard layout since 1994, when the Windows key was added.However, how the button will be implemented could raise the spectre of anticompetition, whi...

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