Microsoft Copilot assistant can now access your Google account—if you let it (www.techradar.com)

Microsoft is pushing Copilot beyond the Microsoft stack with a Windows update (rolling out now to Windows Insiders via the Microsoft Store) that lets the assistant connect to third‑party accounts — Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Outlook, OneDrive and more — if users opt in. Once linked, Copilot can search across inboxes, drives, calendars and contacts with a single prompt (“Find my school notes from last week,” “What’s Sarah’s email?”) and can natively export content into Word, Excel, PowerPoint or PDF files on demand. Longer replies (over ~600 characters) include a built‑in export button; Copilot can also convert text tables into Excel sheets and package notes into slides, reducing the need to switch apps. For the AI/ML community this signals a shift from isolated assistants toward platform‑agnostic productivity hubs that orchestrate multimodal personal data and automated document generation. Technically it’s notable for cross‑service indexing and on‑device integration inside a “Windows‑shaped sandbox,” but it raises clear privacy and trust implications: linking Copilot grants broad access to emails, contacts and documents, and Microsoft is testing user consent flows and safeguards prior to a wider rollout. Finally, practical limits remain — Copilot still hallucinates and generated documents require human proofreading — but the update points to increasingly central roles for LLM assistants in everyday workflows.