Microsoft has announced an update to Copilot, the company’s all-in-one AI assistant. “Wave 2,” as Microsoft calls it, is a series of updates that gives Copilot more capabilities within popular Office applications, Copilot agents for businesses, and even a new feature called Copilot Pages.
Let’s start with Pages first. Microsoft calls it a “dynamic, persistent canvas” that’s designed for “multiplayer” collaboration, built right into Copilot. Microsoft has been busy integrating Copilot into most every application imaginable, but think of Pages as a way of allowing you to get more done without having to ever leave Copilot itself.
It’s a quick and convenient place to pull stuff out of Copilot and save it somewhere that’s easily accessible. More than that, collaborators can easily jump in and contribute to that same Page. In some ways it feels duplicative of what you can do elsewhere, but for Microsoft, it’s a way of enticing people to spend more time with Copilot, which represents the company’s big bet on AI.
Microsoft puts it this way: “Pages takes ephemeral AI-generated content and makes it durable, so you can edit it, add to it, and share it with others.”
Copilot Pages is a free update to Microsoft Copilot, but it requires having access to a Microsoft Entra account. Microsoft says it’ll roll out “in the coming weeks,” and it did not comment on whether the feature would roll out more broadly.
In addition to Pages, Microsoft is also updating Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and OneDrive. They’re small tweaks, but Microsoft hasn’t left any app out of the Wave 2 update. Here’s the breakdown of what’s new in each app:
Lastly, Microsoft is announcing Copilot agents and agent builder, a new feature of Copilot Studio. This isn’t something most people have access to, but for large organizations, these Copilot agents can be designed to complete work autonomously.
Here’s how Microsoft describes what they can do: “They range in capability from simple, prompt-and-response agents to agents that replace repetitive tasks to more advanced, fully autonomous agents.”
That description certainly sounds interesting and useful, but many of us will likely never experience how these agents work in their current form. Still, once developers and large organizations get their hands on these AI agents, they could be a game-changer.
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.