I recently got an upgraded work laptop and the NPU from what I can tell can be used to offload the background blurring function on my camera. Which the GPU could do too. And in my old laptop, the CPU handled the task, though poorly. Seems like a solution looking for a problem.

It was so obviously transparent that MS issued a directive that all bonus structure for PMs was tied to implementing copilot somewhere in the product, and the value of the brand was almost immediately destroyed. The copilot+ PC were especially bad after the Recall disaster.