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The latest Privacy coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Parental Controls Arrive This Fall—What Windows Users and Schools Must Do Now
OpenAI will roll out a suite of parental controls for ChatGPT in October, a direct response to mounting legal pressure and growing evidence that teens are using the AI chatbot for emotional support...
Microsoft Store Plants Copilot Agents in AI Hub, Lets Insiders Launch Publisher Apps Directly
Microsoft began rolling out a Microsoft Store update to Windows Insiders this week that plants Microsoft 365 Copilot agents directly into the Store’s AI Hub and enables launching of...
£3.4M Fuels UK’s First Doctoral AI Network to Set Research Standards
A £3.4 million Research England Development Fund award will power a four-year project to map how publicly available AI tools are infiltrating doctoral research in the UK, with the twin goals of...
Dev Build 26220.6682 Delivers On-Device Copilot Prompts, Selective Emoji 16, and Game-Changing Narrator Upgrades
Microsoft dropped Dev Channel build 26220.6682 (KB5065782) on September 12, 2025, and it’s packed with three distinct threads: a locally inferred Copilot prompt box inside Click to Do, a...
Microsoft Opens 25H2 Validation with Insider Builds Packed with Copilot AI and eKB Activation
Microsoft has pushed a coordinated batch of Windows 11 Insider Preview builds into the Dev, Beta, and Release Preview channels, marking the first public availability of the near-final 25H2 feature...
Microsoft Edge Beta Delivers AI-Powered Video Dubbing, but You'll Need 12GB RAM to Use It
Microsoft Edge’s latest beta and Canary builds now include a preview of real-time audio translation for videos, capable of generating simultaneous subtitles or even dubbing spoken content into...
Microsoft's Copilot Labs Gets Verbatim 'Scripted Mode' Powered by In-House MAI-Voice-1 AI
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman announced on September 10, 2025, that Copilot Labs now features a new "Scripted Mode" for audio generation, letting users have text read verbatim by the...
Microsoft Draws a Line in the Agentic AI Sand: Copilot Studio Gets a Lite and Full Experience
Microsoft has officially split its Copilot Studio into two distinct tiers, a move that signals a deliberate shift from a one-size-fits-all agent builder toward a persona-driven platform designed to...
From Policy to Practice: How Gray, Maine Uses Microsoft Copilot for Government Meeting Recaps
Gray, Maine, a small town with a population of roughly 8,000, has begun using Microsoft Copilot to produce faster, more accessible meeting recaps for its Town Council meetings. Director of...
Microsoft’s Personal Shopping Agent Preview Brings Brand-Safe AI to Retail—at a Security Cost
Microsoft has quietly launched one of its most ambitious retail tools yet: a headless, embeddable Personal Shopping Agent now available in public preview through Microsoft Copilot Studio. The agent...
8 Windows 11 Privacy Settings to Change Right Now: Stop Telemetry, Ad Tracking, and Location Sharing
Microsoft's Windows 11 ships with a host of cloud-connected features that, by default, share your location, app usage, and even an advertising ID with Microsoft and third-party apps. While these...
Microsoft’s Copilot Labs Debuts Scripted Audio Mode with MAI-Voice-1 AI, Claiming 60-Second Speech in Under a Second
Microsoft has quietly added a Scripted mode to its experimental Copilot Audio Expressions sandbox, allowing the assistant to read written text aloud verbatim—no dramatic rephrasing, no...