Microsoft’s new Copilot wants to be your AI best friend

On this episode of The Vergecast, we try to make sense of that future. Everyone seems to believe in the potential for “agentic” AI, which can use apps and devices on your behalf, but most current tech along those lines feels woefully unfinished. As they get warmer and fuzzier, though, maybe the whole Getting Things Done aspect of AI doesn’t matter so much. We try to figure out where we’re headed next and how long it’ll take to get there.

You know who else needs to figure out where we’re headed next? OpenAI, which just raised $6.6 billion and now needs to prove it can spend it wisely. We talk about that for a while, too.

If you want to know more about everything we discuss in this episode, here are some links to get you started, beginning with Copilot and all things AI:

And in the lightning round: