Microsoft Edge is adding a new feature that will allow its Copilot AI chatbot to gather information from all your open tabs. When you start a conversation with Copilot, you can ask the chatbot questions about what’s in your tab, compare products you’re looking at, give a summary of your open articles, and much more.
In its announcement, Microsoft says you can “choose the experience you want or skip the one you don’t.” The company is also shutting down CoPilot mode, which can pull information from your tab but offers some agentic features, like the ability to book reservations on your behalf. Microsoft has since added these agentive capabilities to its “Browse with CoPilot” tool.
There are several other AI features coming to Edge, including an AI-powered “Study and Learn” mode that can turn the article you’re viewing into a study session or interactive quiz. There’s a new tool that turns your tab into an AI-powered podcast, like you’d find on NotebookLM, and an AI writing assistant that will pop up as you start entering text on a webpage.
According to Microsoft, you can also allow Copilot to access your browsing history to provide more “relevant, high-quality answers.” CoPilot in Edge on desktop and mobile will come with a “long-term memory” that can tailor its responses based on your past conversations. And, when you open a new tab, you’ll see a redesigned page that adds chat, search, and web navigation, along with the Journeys feature, which uses AI to organize your browsing history into categories you can revisit.
Meanwhile, an update to Edge’s mobile app will allow you to share your screen with CoPilot and talk through questions about what you’re seeing. Microsoft says you’ll see “clear visual cues” when CoPilot is activated, “so you know when it’s taking action, helping, listening or watching.”
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