- Microsoft implements Copilot -Prompter on Edge’s new tab -page
- It also rolls an ability to trigger a web search to happen with copilot rather than bing
- Movements in Test to get Copilot to take over the new tab -page still seems to be in the pipeline
Microsoft Edge gets more copilot where the AI assistant comes to the new tab (or NTP) in a more prominent way.
NTP is what you see in the web browser when you open a new tab that serves as a place to start to explore what you might want to do in edge – as usual, but not always, be a web search.
Instead of the traditional query in the search box (which fires up a bing search, surprisingly), Microsoft prefers you to use copilot as there is an icon for the AI assistant right next to the said web search setting.
Click on that icon brings Copilot up online, ready for your query, but with the latest update to Edge Version 136 (which was implemented earlier this month), Microsoft is rolling a fuller integration of AI into NTP.
Windows latest reports that Microsoft explains in the release notes for the Update to Kant that: “From the end of May 2025, users can see suggested work and productivity-related copilot prompts from their search box on the NTP page.”
These proposed prompt are efforts towards ‘Get Council’ or ‘Write a first draft’ that invokes copilot to achieve the specified task.
Microsoft also notes that some of the Edge users can also see the copilotic icon in the search box, and when clicked triggers this triggers the current search query, but sends it to copilot rather than having Bing Resole it.
Analysis: Copilot context
In short, Copilot is slowly getting a grip on the new tab page, although the capabilities mentioned are part of what Microsoft calls a “controlled functional development” and I imagine this will be a rather slow and tentative affair. I don’t have this feature yet on my edge browser, nor windows latest.
The company is likely to want to implement this implementation at a relaxed pace because there are some Windows 11 users who are wary of watching AI creep into several corners of us and its various apps, which is definitely a target Microsoft’s intention to pursue. So it is likely to move slowly and regularly to take the temperature of feedback.
More AI probably comes to Microsoft’s browser, though in the form of the Edge Copilot mode stained by Windows latest (hidden in the flags menu, as an experimental feature at the edge).
This seems to be Microsoft’s plan, already seen in tests, making the new tab’s side far more copilot-focused-read more about this (and see the above screen for a glimpse of what this might look like). It also dumps the MSN feed in favor of copilot, which I feel is a good trade-off (although your opinion of it may vary, of course).
Another part of this copilot mode can be a less popular addition, namely so -called ‘context leader’ that presses the web page you are visiting and your web history to allow AI to give better and more personal answers.
A few a few privacy red flags appear at this point, but we do not know how (or even if) this feature will be implemented – although it certainly seems to give copilot access to your browsing story. As such, it will certainly be an optional (and opt-in) capacity if any of this is realized with Edge.
Remember, all this is still in testing, except for the changes in NTP, which Microsoft has confirmed, now rolls out with the EDGE V136.
