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Microsoft 365 Copilot updates: From audio overviews to DIY AI agents, here's what Satya Nadella revealed

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently took to social media platform X to share insights on the latest Microsoft 365 Copilot updates.

“Copilot has truly become the UI for AI — and for me, it’s the scaffolding for my workday,” he wrote.

Nadella also detailed some of the newest features he’s been using and how they are shaping the way he works.


Researcher and Analyst agents

Nadella highlighted how the Researcher agent allows users to collect and summarise information from both web sources and enterprise data, helping them quickly produce “super insightful” reports on virtually any topic.

Meanwhile, the Analyst agent is designed to process raw data from various sources, transforming it into detailed insights, forecasts, or easy-to-understand visualisations.

“With our new Agent Store, you can easily find a range of additional agents from our many partners too,” he added. “And with Copilot Studio you can create your own agents. It’s as straightforward as creating a Word doc or Excel sheet.”

Notebooks

Nadella also introduced the Notebooks feature, which enables users to gather and organise project-related content—such as Pages, documents, websites, and meeting notes—in one place. Copilot can then tailor its support based on this structured information.

“And this might be the best part: I can turn it all into a new modality like an audio overview. For example, I can collect all the latest things I’m reading about agents and agent frameworks, and then I can listen to it,” he explained.

Search

The search capability within Copilot has also been significantly enhanced. It now goes beyond Microsoft’s own ecosystem, allowing users to pull information from services such as Google Drive, Slack, Jira, and ServiceNow.

Copilot delivers a summarised response along with links to the original content—removing the hassle of searching across multiple platforms.

Create

On a lighter note, Nadella described one of the creative features in Copilot.

“This one is fun’” he said. “Turn a PowerPoint into an explainer video, or generate an image from a prompt in Copilot with just a few clicks.”

He added that the company has added new features to make Copilot more personalised and built a redesigned app for human-agent collaboration.
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