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Thanks, but no, this is no solution for me, at least. I not only "love" to copy, edit and paste. What I want is to keep the information properly clipped and organized in One Note to be retrieved whenever I want to. For that purpose there is already a clipping tool in Windows which can be used together with the clipboard to paste the capture into One Note. But it is not ideal. Also, I don't want to be forced to use MS Edge due to privacy concerns and the fact that MS tries so hard to force me into using it that I simply don't want to do so ever.

Thank you Stacia for the information about AI. It certainly raises important privacy issues, something these companies seem to not be too worried about. I imagine their legal departments will be litigating this for decades to come.

Regarding the web clipper, as I mentioned above, mine stopped working again today until I removed it from Edge and then reinstalled it. Seems to be OK for now.

WEB CAPTURE FOR MICROSOFT EDGE:

This can serve as a sort of band-aid until they can get WEBCLIPPER up and running, I guess.

Introducing web capture for Microsoft Edge  Since the release of the new Microsoft Edge, we have heard a lot of feedback about missing the web notes tool that allowed you to capture and mark up content across the web. Frankly, we’ve missed it too! But first, we wanted to make it better. While web notes was a great feature, there was also room for improvement. Many of you reported using it for capturing quick screenshots to copy or share, while others loved the ability to to mark-up full webpages with scrolling. So, we designed the new screenshot feature, web capture, with this in mind and are excited to introduce the basic screen capture functionality to our Dev and Canary builds. In the near future, you can expect to see more functionalities added to web capture, like adding ink or highlights to your captures, capturing full webpages, and scrolling while marking them.To try it out, use the Settings and more menu (...) in the top right corner of the browser and select Web capture.

When you open web capture, you can use the selection tool to capture just the content you want. We found that sometimes you want more than what you’re able to see on the webpage, so we have added the ability for you to select content lower down on the page. To do this, just hold down the selection tool and drag to the bottom of the page; the page will automatically start to scroll so that you can capture everything you need in one go.Once you are done with the capture, you will see a menu with a couple of options: 'Copy' and 'Add notes'. Click Copy to add the image to your clipboard. It will then be available for you to paste into any application. If you want to mark up the screenshot with inking tools, select the Add notes option. You will see the image in a dialog box where you can draw on it, share, save and copy with your annotations.If you love web capture and want to access the tool more quickly, you can pin it directly to your browser toolbar.  Just right click on the option in the Settings and more menu (...) and select Show in toolbar. You can also use the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+S) to invoke web capture.Try out the new tool and let us know what you think! We love hearing your feedback. From within Microsoft Edge, you can go to “…” menu > Help and feedback > Send feedback, or simply use the shortcut (Shift+Alt+I) to open the feedback tool.- The Microsoft Edge Product TeamSkip to primary navigation

Yes, Microsoft did add AI (not A1-sorry for the confusion) to the Windows 10 & 11 update.

See the following information in an article that was written April 2023.

"Microsoft recently announced its 365 Copilot upgrade, but it looks like the tech giant quietly started working on AI integration in Windows 11 and 10 in November 2022. An unknown Microsoft 365 update added “Artificial Intelligence (AI) Host” to Windows 11 and 10, in addition to an AI manager.

You’ll notice the new Artificial Intelligence (AI) Host when you expand Microsoft Word or other Office apps in Task Manager. The AI Host is being added to all installations of Windows via Microsoft Office updates. If you don’t see it now, you’ll probably get it in a future update.

This host is inside the Microsoft Office installation folder in the system drive. Go to the Program Files > Microsoft > Office and look inside root\vfs\ProgramFilesCommonX64\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE16. You’ll notice a new executable called “ai.exe”.

Microsoft 365 update has another AI module called “AIMgr.exe”, which stands for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Manager for the Microsoft® Windows® Operating System and Platform x64″.

So what’s going on, and why do you have AI.exe in your Task Manager processes list?

Recent changes to Microsoft Office desktop apps on Windows have resulted in local Artificial Intelligence (AI) being moved out of the process.

Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint now communicate with a separate program, ai.exe, to perform most local AI functions. The critical binaries associated with local AI in Microsoft Office desktop apps on Windows include aitrxdll, ai.exe, ai.dll, mlg.dll, and aimgr.exe.

The aitrxdll transceiver library is loaded by Office desktop apps to transmit inputs to and receive outputs from ai.exe, which is responsible for hosting ai.dll. The latter receives inputs from aitrxdll and processes them through ai.dll to produce outputs, which are then transmitted back to aitrxdll in the Office desktop app.

Meanwhile, mlg.dll is a natural language processing library that contains code created by Microsoft’s Machine Learning Group (MLG). Aimgr.exe is a manager executable used to manage various instances of ai.exe across Office desktop apps.

These changes have significant implications for the future of local AI in Microsoft Office desktop apps on Windows.

We believe these changes may be related to powering Microsoft 365 Copilot integration. The software giant has not publicly acknowledged or documented this change, causing concerns among privacy advocates and users alike.

It remains to be seen whether Microsoft will clarify the matter shortly."