How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography

The GNU C compiler is excellent with reasoning about Boolean values. It may be too clever. Like Microsoft Clippy-level clever ...
Euronews

Microsoft hopes Mico succeeds where Clippy failed as tech companies warily add personality to AI

Clippy, the animated paper clip that annoyed Microsoft Office users nearly three decades ago, might have just been ahead of its time. Microsoft has introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) ...
Indiatimes

'Clippy Is Back': Hidden nostalgic feature in Microsoft’s new AI goes viral

Microsoft's beloved virtual assistant Clippy is back. Users discovered the friendly paper clip as a hidden feature within the new AI companion, Mico. This return has sparked nostalgia and excitement ...
The Columbian

Microsoft hopes Mico succeeds where Clippy failed as tech companies warily imbue AI with personality

Clippy, the animated paper clip that annoyed Microsoft Office users nearly three decades ago, might have just been ahead of its time. Microsoft introduced a new artificial intelligence character ...
Daily Mail

Clippy is BACK! Microsoft's paperclip mascot delights users as it returns - 18 years after it was axed from Office

It was the original virtual assistant, released years before Siri, Alexa, and Bixby. Now, almost two decades after it was axed, Microsoft's Clippy is officially back. The friendly anthropomorphic ...
PC Gamer

Microsoft resurrects Clippy in Copilot, presumably because it's intrusive, doesn't understand context, and is god damn annoying

AI Microsoft AI CEO curiously omits 'Microsoft AI CEO' from list of white collar jobs that will be replaceable by AI in next 18 months AI Did they hit a nerve? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's response to ...
CNET

Microsoft Launches Mico, an Official Clippy Successor, in Its Copilot AI Fall Release

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...
TechCrunch

Microsoft’s Mico is a ‘Clippy’ for the AI era

Microsoft has a new Clippy, and it’s an AI friend called Mico. At the company’s Copilot fall release press event on Thursday, the company introduced a range of new features and updates for its AI ...