Web Grounding
The latest Web Grounding coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Gets Granular Web Control: Admins Can Exclude Specific Sites from Grounding
Microsoft shipped a long-awaited governance tool for Microsoft 365 Copilot that lets administrators block specific websites from shaping AI-generated answers. The domain exclusion feature, listed...
Microsoft launches Web IQ at Build 2026, a Bing-powered API giving AI agents structured web evidence to reduce hallucinations.
Microsoft today at its Build 2026 developer conference pulled back the curtain on Web IQ, a new Bing-powered grounding system designed to arm AI agents with fresh, real-world information from across...
Azure HorizonDB and Web IQ: Microsoft's New AI Infrastructure Takes on Vector Search and Web Grounding
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft used the opening keynote of its Build 2026 developer conference on June 2 to pull back the curtain on two critical pieces of AI infrastructure that have been running...
Excel Agent Mode Desktop Arrives: AI-Powered Automation with Web Grounding
Microsoft has officially launched Agent Mode for Excel on the desktop, marking a significant evolution of its AI-powered automation capabilities beyond the browser-based version. This expansion...
Google Bard's Web Grounding: How Live Search Transforms AI Chatbots vs. ChatGPT
The AI chatbot landscape shifted dramatically when Google unveiled Bard in February 2023, representing the tech giant's direct response to OpenAI's explosive success with ChatGPT. While both systems...
Gemini vs Copilot: Web Task Showdown Reveals Surprising Winner for Windows Users
A recent comprehensive hands-on comparison between Google's Gemini 3 and Microsoft's Copilot has revealed a surprising winner in everyday web-grounded tasks, with implications for how Windows users...
Microsoft Embeds Copilot Chat Pane in Office Apps, Turning AI Into a Workplace Utility
Microsoft has flipped the switch on a long-anticipated overhaul of its productivity suite, planting Copilot Chat directly inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. The move, part of a...
NewsGuard’s De-Anonymized Audit Exposes How Chatbots Like ChatGPT and Copilot Amplify Fake News at 35% Rate
A year-long red-teaming audit by NewsGuard has laid bare a startling deterioration in AI chatbot accuracy: the top 10 consumer chatbots now repeat false claims in 35% of their news-related responses,...
Azure AI Foundry: Revolutionizing Enterprise Research with AI-Powered Automation
The digital transformation of enterprise research is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, with Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry emerging as a game-changing platform for organizations seeking to...