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Microsoft adds AI key in first change to PC keyboard in decades

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Microsoft adds AI key in first change to PC keyboard in decades
The shortcut will help users create images, write emails and summarise text with the help of AI. Photo: Bloomberg
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Microsoft Corp. is adding a button to the Windows keyboard to activate its AI Copilot service, with the first devices to sport the new key available this month.

The Copilot key, which will sit to the right of the space bar, is the first change to the Windows keyboard layout since Microsoft added the Windows/Start key in 1994, underscoring the company’s commitment to artificial intelligence (AI). Microsoft’s hardware partners will show off Windows 11 computers with the Copilot button over the coming days at the CES technology conference and, over time, it will become a required feature.

The shortcut will help users create images, write emails and summarise text with the help of AI. 

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