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1. 18 August 2026NotableAnnounced

   Microsoft retired Deep Research in the consumer Copilot app for free users and for subscribers on any plan other than Microsoft 365 Premium; Premium subscribers were pointed to Researcher, and Personal and Family subscribers kept read access to earlier reports. The Podcasts feature was retired in the consumer app the same day.

   Confirmed by provider. Microsoft's support page says Deep Research is being retired in the Copilot app for consumers starting August 18, 2026; Thurrott reported both retirements on July 21.

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Microsoft on the record

• Copilot app: memory, your data, price and leaving, graded →
• Agent Framework memory, on the memory systems shelf →
• Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, on the open models shelf →

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