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Ep 741: Microsoft Copilot Tasks: Hands on with the Powerful AI Platform No One’s Talking About
Inside Copilot Tasks, OpenAI's next model could accelerate the economy, Judge questions Pentagon's fight against Anthropic, OpenAI kills Sora and more.
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March 25, 2026
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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: Everyone’s glued to OpenClaw and Claude Cowork as autonomous powerhouses. Did Microsoft sneak in a serious contender with Copilot Tasks? Give today’s show a watch/read/listen to learn more.
🕵️♂️ Fresh Finds: Claude rolls out auto mode, OpenAI releases open soure tool to protect teens, Oracle makes big AI agent play and more. Read on for Fresh Finds.
🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: OpenAI's next model could accelerate the economy, Judge questions Pentagon's fight against Anthropic, OpenAI kills Sora and more. Read on for Byte Sized News.
💪 Leverage AI: Copilot tasks is free, powerful and can run on your scheduled. We break down the basics. Keep reading for that!
↩️ Don’t miss out: Miss our last newsletter? We covered: Anthropic Lets Claude Control Your Computer, Apple Teases AI at WWDC, Google DeepMind Brings AI to Robots, and more. Check it here!
Ep 741: Microsoft Copilot Tasks: Hands on with the Powerful AI Platform No One’s Talking About
Everyone's talking OpenClaw, Claude Code/Cowork/Dispatch and the new ChatGPT Superapp.
Yet, Microsoft just very quietly shipped an autonomous AI agent that's fast, free and can do your work for you whenever you want.
Yeah, this is kinda how the AI world goes now. While the startups grab headlines with fancy features, the behemoth ships a product to no fanfare that can legit do your tasks for you.
So, what the heck is Copilot Tasks? And what did Microsoft really undersell with its latest offering?
Also on the pod today:
• Copilot tasks: Microsoft’s secret weapon 🛠️
• Editable presentations, AI-generated 🎨
• Scheduled tasks and auto document creation ⏰
It’ll be worth your 38 minutes:
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Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:
New AI Tool Spotlight – Agentplace lets you build AI agents like teammates, Pendium helps you understand what AI chatbots are saying about your brand, LayerProof uses AI to uniquely repurpose social posts.
Claude Code — The new Auto mode lets Claude auto-approve safe actions; risky ones blocked; preview.
AI in Education — An AI-driven school with no teachers is opening up a new location in Chicago this fall.
Oracle Agents — Oracle just rolled out Fusion Agentic Applications, embedding AI agents into finance and ops to act on unified workflows.
Open Source Tools — OpenAI released plug-and-play teen-safety prompts to help apps block risky content for users under 18. See how it works.
AI Datacenters — Northern Kentucky farmers turned down $26M for half their 1,200-acre farm. See why.
AI and Music — AI-made impostor tracks slipped onto profiles, so Spotify is beta-testing Artist Profile Protection to let artists approve or block releases.
AI Threat Detection — Databricks just launched Lakewatch, an open, agentic SIEM that unifies petabyte-scale security data for AI-driven detection and response at up to 80% lower TCO.
1. OpenAI says new model "Spud" could accelerate the economy 🏃
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees that pretraining for a new model codenamed Spud is complete and the company expects a "very strong model" within weeks that could accelerate economic activity, a sign the company is pushing to stay competitive.
To prioritize Spud and other projects, OpenAI is reallocating resources by renaming Fidji Simo's product group to "AGI Deployment" and shutting down the video app Sora to free computing capacity. The company appears to be preparing Spud as the backbone for a planned desktop superapp combining ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas, a move aimed at closing ground with Anthropic, which has momentum with agent-based systems for businesses.
2. Meta taps CTO Andrew Bosworth to drive companywide AI at work ⚒️
Meta announced this week that CTO Andrew Bosworth will lead its “AI for Work” push, accelerating rollout of AI tools across the company to boost employee productivity and reshape internal workflows.
Bosworth, who took the CTO role in 2022 after years running metaverse efforts, says early pilots and fast adoption created momentum and his goal is to give every employee powerful AI tools. The move accompanies a separate team he oversees supporting large language model development and follows Meta’s recent shift of resources from metaverse staffing to AI projects.
3. Trump taps Zuck, Jensen and other tech titans for AI advisory council 🧑⚖️
The White House announced that President Trump will appoint Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, among an initial 13 industry members, to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, signaling a rapid push to shape U.S. AI policy.
The council, which could expand to 24 members, will help Washington respond to accelerating global AI competition, especially with advancements from state-backed firms in China. Naming high-profile corporate leaders highlights a clear tilt toward industry expertise to guide policy on AI and related issues
4. OpenAI pulls the plug on Sora app 🎥
OpenAI announced it is shutting down Sora, its short-form AI video app, saying creators will get guidance soon on preserving their work; the move comes months after the app went viral and sparked serious concerns about nonconsensual images and realistic deepfakes.
The decision marks a swift retreat from a high-profile experiment to capture short-video attention and ad dollars, and follows backlash that forced tighter limits on AI-generated portrayals of public figures. Disney, which had partnered with OpenAI to bring its characters to Sora, said it respects the company’s choice to exit the video generation business and shift priorities.
5. Judge Questions Pentagon’s Move to Blacklist Anthropic ⚖️
A federal judge pressed the Justice Department Tuesday over the Pentagon’s recent designation of Anthropic as a “supply chain risk,” calling the effort “troubling” and suggesting it may have gone beyond legitimate national security concerns by effectively trying to cripple the company, according to CBS News.
The dispute stems from Anthropic’s insistence that its Claude model not be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons, while the administration argues the military must be able to use the technology for all lawful purposes.
Every executive is out here burning budget on clunky OpenClaw setups and expensive beta agents.
Meanwhile, Microsoft quietly dropped a completely free agent that natively browses the web, reads your inbox, and builds recurring strategy documents entirely on autopilot. (And sorry…. your competitors are prolly already using it to steal your market share.)
Reading this gives you the exact blueprint to bypass expensive vendor lock-in and automate your team's most soul-crushing workflows by tomorrow morning.
We broke this down on today's Everyday AI show during our AI at Work Wednesdays segment, handing you the keys to an autonomous sleeper that’s ready to go to work for you.
There is absolutely no guarantee Microsoft keeps this tool free forever, so you gotta move fast. If you ain't leveraging this yet, you are just subsidizing someone else's efficiency.
1. The Agentic Holy Trinity Delivered 🔥
Let's talk about the absolute gnarliest reality of your tech stack right now.
Every business leader wants a capable language model combined with a computer-using agent and actual document creation.
Most platforms charge a premium subscription for all three, but Microsoft Copilot Tasks gives you that exact holy trinity for free. It actively browses the internet, navigates complex interfaces, and synthesizes live market data directly into editable presentations.
That is wild.
Your competitors are spending massive budgets on custom development to get this exact functionality.
This free agent integrates directly with your workspace, meaning you get fully formatted documents instead of generic answers rotting in a chat box. This level of native access is kinda the ultimate competitive advantage for teams executing fast.
Try This
Stop paying for basic research aggregation software today.
Navigate to the Copilot online interface, locate the Tasks pane, and hit the plus button.
Input a detailed prompt requiring multi-step analysis, like comparing three competitor products using live search volume.
Click the chain of thought button to see every website the agent visited to verify the output.
Make this automated workflow your default Monday morning habit before you ever open a blank spreadsheet again.
2. Command Work From Your Phone ⚡
Agentic tools that chain you to a desktop computer all day are fundamentally just fancy chatbots.
If your shiny AI agent requires you to physically sit at a computer to get useful work done, that is a massive operational whiff. Copilot Tasks actually meets you where you already work, allowing you to simply verify your phone number and text it highly complex tasks from absolutely anywhere.
You can literally dictate a prompt while walking to your car and ask it to build a comprehensive presentation.
When you connect your Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive accounts, the agent gets exponentially smarter by referencing your actual company data. Every piece of this infrastructure is triggerable by a basic text message, completely removing the friction from delegation.
Your team is falling severely behind if they wait until they are back at their desks to execute strategic moves.
Try This
Open the Copilot Tasks settings menu and verify your mobile phone number immediately.
Save Copilot as a primary contact and send a simple introductory task to test the connection.
You can explicitly ask it to summarize your most urgent emails from today while you commute.
(It is sorta magical watching a synthesized executive summary arrive via standard text message.)
Once you trust the system, trigger a complex task by text to draft a team-wide update.
That is the exact delegation shift you need.
3. Automate The Daily Inbox Slog 🚀
Manual inbox management is systematically destroying your absolute most valuable corporate resource.
Leaders are out there treating their email clients like sacred texts, manually sorting through garbage while the actual strategic work rots on the vine.
Your current process is cooked.
Copilot Tasks handles recurring scheduled actions by connecting directly to your inbox, meaning you can literally schedule it to run in the background every single day. It will autonomously search your messages for the most important items from the last 24 hours, synthesize the context, and draft highly accurate replies. It will even review lengthy industry newsletters and extract exactly 12 fresh finds specifically curated for your strategic goals.
Yep.
The businesses that are gonna win this next era of artificial intelligence are quietly building invisible workflows that operate while competitors sleep. There are still minor beta workarounds needed for auto-sending, but the core scheduling foundation is fully functional right now.
Try This
Connect your primary email client and calendar accounts within the designated connectors menu.
Set up a recurring scheduled task to run autonomously every single morning at exactly seven AM.
Command the agent to aggressively surface urgent emails and draft ready-to-send replies based entirely on your recent communication threads.
(You will save at least two hours a week just by letting this one setup run in the background.)
Review the drafted emails in the integrated text editor, make any necessary human adjustments, and simply hit send.
This is exactly how you clear your morning backlog instantly and focus on work that drives revenue.
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