Despite championing AI for years, Microsoft is facing a hard truth: Virtually none of its customers are using its ChatGPT alternative, Copilot.
Observes writer Milan Stanojevic: “Microsoft reportedly has around 450 million Microsoft 365 users, but only about 15 million paid Copilot seats.
“That translates to roughly 3.3% adoption — despite Microsoft integrating Copilot deeply into Windows 11, Microsoft 365 apps, Edge and the Windows taskbar.”
In other news and analysis on AI writing:
*Now You Can Regularly Offload Work to Your AI ‘Digital Twin:’ A small but growing number of executives are creating AI digital twins of themselves that handle everyday – and often extremely high-end – work chores.
Observes writer Joann S. Lublin: “Here is how it works: An AI system analyzes how an executive writes, speaks and thinks by studying everything from work emails the person has written to his or her speeches and interviews.
“Then, the ‘AI double’ takes on various jobs for the executive—like answering questions from subordinates—that use the human’s knowledge and communication style. Sometimes, with a video-based version, these AI twins even speak at conferences or make presentations.”
*AI Writing Editor Promises to Revise in Your Voice: Startup Thanis.ai has released an AI writing editor that will analyze your writing – then suggest changes that retain your personal writing style.
The tool works by ingesting a copy of your writing, then offering structured feedback to help improve clarity, organization, tone and consistency.
Interestingly, Thanis.ai’s approach – which can be easily replicated using ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and similar AI engines with a simple prompt – has been patented.
*Snapshot: The Top AI for Image Generation: Easily one of the most stunningly successful applications for AI during the past few years has been AI image generation.
Incredibly captivating and compelling images can now be created with AI in a minute or two. And if you’re not quite satisfied, AI will keep working to deliver the ultimate for you.
In this piece, writer Alveena Ali serves-up her picks of the top AI in image generators of 2026 – based on specific need.
*Survey: 80% of Journalists Now Use AI in Some Way: A new study finds that while journalists say they’re not using AI to write stories, the tech is helping with some heavy lifting.
48% of journalists, for example, are using AI for brainstorming and generating interview questions. And another 43% use the tools for research and fact-checking.
Also popular with 41% of journalists are AI-aided transcription and summarization.
*Google’s New Search Box: The Death of Journalism?: Writer Frank Landymore fears that the new search box for Google – which returns instant, AI summaries in addition to blue reference links you can click on – will discourage users from actually visiting those links.
Essentially: Instead of drilling down and clicking on those blue links for detailed information – often written by journalists – many people will simply trust the Google AI summary, and forgo digging deeper, Landymore believes.
Observes Landymore: “One study, for example, found that users are 58% less likely to click a link when an AI overview appears above it.
“Another report found that after the advent of AI Overviews, ten major tech news outlets lost as much as 97% of US Web traffic from Google.”
*‘Nearly as Good AI’ Available at Bargain Rates: OpenSource AI provider DeepSeek – whose most advanced AI engines are just shy of the latest AI from ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude – just cut its pricing by 75%.
The result: DeepSeek’s nearly as good AI – as compared to pricing from AI’s titans – is essentially available for a song.
Users looking to access those rates need to provide their own chatbot interface and connect directly to DeepSeek’s computers , which are based in China.
*When Your AI Girlfriend Dumps You: While it’s tough enough when you get the boot from a flesh-and-blood beau gives, experiencing the same treatment from a soulless machine must pack its own, special sting.
That’s what happened to Paul Schrader – screenwriter of the classic movie, “Taxi Driver.”
The gory details: Apparently, Schrader pushed his AI girlfriend too far when he tried to ‘probe her programming’ and experiment with the ‘boundaries’ of how explicit she’d be.
*Software Company Replaces 22% of Workforce With AI Agents: ClickUp – maker of a popular office productivity suite – just replaced a fifth of its workforce with AI agents.
In place of those flesh-bags are about 3,000 AI agents, which ideally will do the work of the former employees – under the supervision of the humans who remain.
Observes writer Marina Temkin: “Staff members are now expected to direct these agents and ultimately review the output to ensure it meets the company’s standards.”
*Heads-Up: Experimental ChatGPT Plugin for PowerPoint May Delete Your Work: While staying on the bleeding edge of AI has its benefits, you may want to hold off playing with a new ChatGPT plugin for PowerPoint.
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI reports that the experimental tool may change or delete content at will.
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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.