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Microsoft is quietly pulling the plug on Copilot support for smart TVs, nearly two years after LG and Samsung made headlines at CES twenty twenty five by integrating the AI assistant into their latest sets. The news came not through any official announcement, but through an on-screen notification — a low-key exit for a feature that arrived with considerable fanfare.
That story connects to a broader question about where AI actually delivers, and a writer at Wired decided to put it to a practical test. They handed control of a fantasy soccer team to OpenAI's Codex, and the results were instructive. The system initially tried to bench Erling Haaland — one of the best strikers on the planet — before course-correcting. Promising, but not ready to replace human judgment just yet.
And on a different kind of platform altogether, country artist Brad Paisley says he watched the online response to his Ukraine solidarity song flip dramatically after release. His team tracked the shift from overwhelmingly positive to largely negative and attributes the change to Russian bot networks posing as American listeners — a reminder that the information environment around music, like everything else, is a contested space.
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