News Summary

• Microsoft is scaling back machine learning features in a selection of its own apps.
• Mozilla’s Vice President of Global Policy, Linda Griffin, said that “Rolling back these forced AI integrations is the right move, but this is just the most recent example of Microsoft going too far without user consent” Griffin argued that embedding AI inside its apps was part of a “pattern of deceptive design patterns” from Microsoft.
• Microsoft has come in for plenty of criticism over the aggressive way it has rolled out Copilot across its apps.