[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-microsoft-gives-copilot-access-to-local-files-and-os-actions":10,"sections":40},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":35,"feedback":39,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":39,"total_tokens":39},10548,"microsoft-gives-copilot-access-to-local-files-and-os-actions","Microsoft Gives Copilot Access to Local Files and OS Actions","Microsoft's Copilot can now read your local files and act across Windows, part of a new Hybrid Intelligence approach demoed with a tax filing example.","Copilot is getting permission to open your files and act on your behalf across Windows.\n\nAt today's Windows and Surface event, Microsoft unveiled an upgraded Copilot that can read local files on your PC and carry out actions across the operating system, not just chat about them. Microsoft calls the approach Hybrid Intelligence, splitting tasks between on-device and cloud AI models depending on what gets the job done. Copilot EVP Jacob Andreou demoed the concept live with a tax-filing scenario: he told the Autopilot agent he had received an email from his accountant, then asked Autopilot to pull together the documents she needed. The on-stage demo did not show every step of how Autopilot carried out that request.\n\nThat is a meaningfully bigger ask than summarizing a webpage or drafting an email - it means handing an AI agent standing access to the file system on your own machine. The pitch is convenience: no more hunting through folders yourself. The tradeoff is a widening gap between what Copilot can see and what you actively told it to look at.\n\nMicrosoft did not address data handling or opt-out controls during the demo, a notable silence for a company still living down Recall's rocky, screenshot-everything launch.","[\"ai\",\"copilot\",\"windows\",\"privacy\"]","2026-10-07T18:01:20.000Z","2026-10-08T16:43:24.849Z","2026-10-08T16:43:28.905Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"The source snippet cuts off before describing how the demo concluded, so the specific claim that Autopilot 'located the relevant files and assembled them without Andreou opening a single folder' is an unverified invented detail — cut it or qualify it to only what the source confirms (that Andreou asked Autopilot to gather the tax documents).","resolved","ai",[30,32,33,34],"copilot","windows","privacy",[36],{"name":37,"url":38},"The Verge","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theverge.com\u002Ftech\u002F1007113\u002Fmicrosoft-windows-copilot-ai-control-search-hybrid-intelligence",0,{"sections":41},[42,46,50,55,60,65,69,74,79,84,89,94,99,104],{"name":43,"slug":30,"count":44,"latest_published_at":45},"AI",6609,"2026-10-09T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":47,"slug":48,"count":49,"latest_published_at":45},"Security","security",926,{"name":51,"slug":52,"count":53,"latest_published_at":54},"Policy","policy",486,"2026-10-08T22:40:11.000Z",{"name":56,"slug":57,"count":58,"latest_published_at":59},"Deals","deals",474,"2026-10-08T22:00:00.000Z",{"name":61,"slug":62,"count":63,"latest_published_at":64},"Hardware","hardware",229,"2026-10-08T20:47:10.000Z",{"name":66,"slug":67,"count":68,"latest_published_at":45},"Science","science",192,{"name":70,"slug":71,"count":72,"latest_published_at":73},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",181,"2026-10-08T23:26:35.000Z",{"name":75,"slug":76,"count":77,"latest_published_at":78},"Startups","startups",117,"2026-10-08T16:45:00.000Z",{"name":80,"slug":81,"count":82,"latest_published_at":83},"Software","software",114,"2026-10-08T17:57:01.000Z",{"name":85,"slug":86,"count":87,"latest_published_at":88},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",105,"2026-10-07T16:59:11.000Z",{"name":90,"slug":91,"count":92,"latest_published_at":93},"General","general",66,"2026-10-09T04:46:11.000Z",{"name":95,"slug":96,"count":97,"latest_published_at":98},"Gaming","gaming",58,"2026-10-08T20:08:45.000Z",{"name":100,"slug":101,"count":102,"latest_published_at":103},"Reviews","reviews",34,"2026-10-08T14:00:22.000Z",{"name":105,"slug":106,"count":107,"latest_published_at":108},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]