Microsoft expands Copilot AI assistant with project manager skills

AI appears to be coming for the jobs of project managers, and Microsoft says its Copilot AI assistant can now assign tasks to team members, organize meetings and tracking deadlines. — Photo: Franziska Gabbert/dpa

LONDON: Microsoft’s Copilot virtual assistant it to be expanded beyond being a personal assistant so it can support entire teams.

The US tech giant said it would start rolling out a version of the chatbot later this year called Team Copilot, which can “participate and collaborate with, along with the team” across Microsoft’s productivity apps.