Microsoft’s annual developer conference, Build, opened in Seattle on Tuesday, a day after the company unveiled its “Copilot+ PC” laptops. If Monday was about hardware, Tuesday was about putting the Copilot AI assistant into every product it sells. The conference runs until Thursday; these were the announcements from the opening keynote that will actually reach ordinary users.
Team Copilot
Copilot has so far been a personal assistant; Team Copilot makes it a participant. Added to a Teams meeting it keeps the agenda, takes notes visible to everyone, writes the summary and produces a transcript of every speaker — so someone who joins late, or misses the meeting, gets the whole thing without asking. The same assistant works in Teams chats and in Loop documents. It arrives in preview later this year for Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers.
Edge translates videos as they play
The Edge browser gains real-time AI translation of video: play a lecture on YouTube, LinkedIn or Coursera and Edge produces translated captions — and, later, dubbed audio — live. The launch languages are a short list that includes English, German, Hindi and Italian, with more promised.
Agents that do the job
The word of the year is agent: a Copilot configured, in Copilot Studio, to work like a virtual employee — reading incoming email and acting on it, walking new staff through onboarding, chasing a process from start to finish without a human prompting each step. Microsoft framed it carefully as “under your supervision”, but the direction is clear: the assistant that answers questions is becoming the assistant that finishes tasks.
Smaller things
Teams will let users create custom emoji (with the group admin’s permission). Windows File Explorer will understand coding projects, showing Git status and letting developers search across a repository from the file manager. And the Copilot+ PCs from Monday get their software story: on-device AI for the Recall feature, live captions and image generation, running on the new Snapdragon X chips.
The gap to notice
Hindi is in Edge’s first translation batch; Bangla is not. It is the pattern of every AI launch this year — Bangla, the sixth most-spoken language on Earth, arrives a year or two behind. Until it does, the video translation is a feature for watching English lectures in Hindi, not for the 170 million people who would rather have them in Bangla.
Source: The Verge, via Prothom Alo.
