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The long-running feud between John Donovan and Royal Dutch Shell has entered a new, surreal phase: a public “bot war” in which generative AIs — prompted from a partisan archive and then set against one another — openly contradict, correct, and amplify contested claims about events that began in the 1990s. What started as litigation over promotional ideas and allegations of surveillance has become a modern stress test for model grounding, corporate communications, and journalistic...

Zenity’s warning that Microsoft Copilot’s Connected Agents can create an “invisible control plane” — where a privileged or shared agent enables other agents to reuse tools and knowledge without clear logs, attribution, or native visibility — has pushed a fresh, urgent wrinkle into the enterprise AI security conversation: agent-to-agent connectivity is no longer an abstract capability, it is a new attack surface that organizations must govern, observe, and defend in real time. Background /...

NVIDIA’s Rubin platform — unveiled at CES 2026 — is being pitched as a generational leap in rack‑scale AI computing: a six‑chip, tightly co‑designed system that promises dramatically lower inference token costs, exaflops‑scale rack throughput, and a reimagined storage layer for long‑context, agentic workloads — and Microsoft has already positioned its Fairwater datacenter program to accept Rubin racks at hyperscale. Background NVIDIA presented Rubin as Vera Rubin, an integrated system that...

AMD’s CES 2026 keynote pushed the Ryzen AI 400 family front and center — AMD says these Zen 5-based APUs deliver major Windows 11 performance uplifts and AI acceleration that put Team Red ahead in the new Copilot+ PC era, but the numbers and comparisons carry important caveats that every buyer and tester should understand. Background AMD used its CES stage to expand the Ryzen lineup into an AI‑first era, unveiling the Ryzen AI 400 family (and Ryzen AI PRO 400) and a set of Ryzen AI Max+ and...

Microsoft’s rise from “your parents’ software company” to the hottest — and most expensive — name in tech feels both inevitable and confounding: inevitable because the company now sells AI-driven productivity at enterprise scale, confounding because you’re paying a premium price to own a business that’s simultaneously a utility, a research lab, and a capital‑intensive infrastructure operator. Background / Overview Microsoft today is not just Windows, not just Office, and not just Xbox. Its...

Dell’s return to the XPS name at CES 2026 wasn’t a quiet rebrand correction — it was an admission of error, a design reset and a wholesale product reboot that readmits one of the PC industry’s most recognisable badges back into the premium Windows laptop arena. Background: why this matters (and why Dell reversed course) Dell’s 2025 simplification — collapsing long-standing families like XPS, Inspiron and Precision into a three-tier “Dell / Dell Pro / Dell Pro Max” naming scheme — was...

Microsoft’s recent roadmap for Windows 11 frames gaming performance not as an accumulation of single features but as a coordinated, cross‑stack engineering effort designed to make PC gameplay feel more like a console experience — smoother frame pacing, fewer shader hitches, and better battery‑aware performance on handhelds and laptops. Early previews and partner devices already show tangible gains, while Microsoft plans wider rollouts through 2026 that combine an OS‑level AI upscaler...

New TVs are getting physically bigger by the year, but the more consequential arms race is happening behind the glass: processors, on‑device AI, new backlight architectures and software ecosystems that determine whether a giant panel behaves like a window to the world — or an expensive paperweight. Background / Overview Manufacturers are racing on two fronts at once. One is obvious: larger diagonals and thinner frames. The other is less visible but more decisive: new panel chemistries and...

HP’s new "HP for Microsoft 365 Copilot" integration brings generative AI from the cloud to the printer panel, promising to shorten scanning workflows, automate file naming and storage, and deliver on-device translation — all tied into OneDrive and SharePoint for a seamless, Microsoft‑centric document lifecycle. Background HP announced HP for Microsoft 365 Copilot as a Workpath app slated for availability in Spring 2026. The offering embeds Microsoft 365 Copilot capabilities directly into HP...

Samsung’s Galaxy Book6 series is the clearest sign yet that the PC industry is pivoting from raw single-threaded speed to an integrated vision of sustained performance, long battery life, and device‑level AI, and Samsung is staking that claim with new chassis engineering, Intel’s latest Panther Lake silicon (branded as Intel Core Ultra Series 3), and a deeper tie‑in to its Galaxy AI ecosystem. Background Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Book6 family at CES 2026 as a three‑tier product line...

Sony Honda Mobility used CES 2026 to push the AFEELA project beyond a show car and into a near‑production reality, debuting a new AFEELA Prototype SUV while confirming concrete timelines, partners, and commercial plans that make the venture feel far more engine‑room than concept‑stage. Background / Overview Sony Honda Mobility (SHM), the 2022 joint venture between Sony Group and Honda Motor, launched AFEELA as a mobility brand that deliberately blends entertainment, AI, and automotive...

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 Plus chips shift the company’s Windows-on-Arm strategy from flagship proof-of-concept into a mainstream play, promising stronger single‑thread performance, a much larger on‑device neural engine, and noticeably better efficiency for Windows 11 Copilot+ laptops arriving in early 2026. Background Qualcomm introduced the Snapdragon X2 family at CES 2026, and the X2 Plus is the mid‑tier SKU created to deliver advanced Copilot+ features to more affordable laptops. The...

The new year brings more than resolutions—it brings a clear opportunity to reframe your career, sharpen your marketability, and start the calendar with measurable momentum toward a better job. ABS-CBN’s January 6, 2026 feature by Aneth Ng‑Lim captures that urgency, offering practical pointers for job seekers aiming to upgrade roles, increase pay, or pivot into growth areas; this piece reinforces tactics that hiring professionals have repeatedly validated: tidy your résumé for...

Acer’s new Veriton RA100 AI Mini Workstation arrives as a compact, Windows 11 Copilot+ PC aimed at prosumers, creators, and gamers, built around the AMD Ryzen™ AI Max+ 395 APU and an integrated Radeon™ 8060S GPU with a 50 TOPS NPU—promising on-device AI acceleration, up to 128 GB of LPDDR5X memory, and up to 4 TB of M.2 NVMe storage in a mini‑workstation form factor. Background Acer’s announcement of the Veriton RA100 is the latest example of PC makers shipping AI-optimized hardware that...

MYCPE ONE has quietly moved from being a broad CPE content aggregator to an active participant in the accounting profession’s AI upskilling race with the launch of the AI CPE Academy — a structured, certification-backed learning pathway that promises to teach accountants how to deploy generative AI, ChatGPT-style copilots, automation, and next-generation accounting technology inside real-world firm workflows. Background The accounting profession is in the middle of a rapid operational and...

Xiaomi’s Redmi brand has just put a big question mark over the mid-range market with an official teaser confirming the REDMI Turbo 5 Series will launch this month and — for the first time in the Turbo line — introduce a REDMI Turbo 5 Max that promises “Max-level performance, battery life, and flagship experience” in the CNY 2,500 price segment. Background / Overview The Turbo line has evolved from budget-focused value propositions into Redmi’s performance-focused mid-range family, and the...

Microsoft’s playbook for helping startups move from MVP to mission-critical enterprise software boils down to one simple truth: features are table stakes; trust is the currency that closes large deals. The company’s recent guidance frames enterprise readiness as a composite discipline built on six pillars—reliability, security, cost optimization, operational excellence, performance efficiency, and responsible AI—and argues that startups can accelerate buyer confidence by adopting...

Microsoft is pitching CES 2026 as the moment where NVIDIA’s next-generation Vera Rubin platform and Azure’s long-range datacenter planning intersect — arguing that years of Fairwater-style engineering, rack-first design, and orchestration work mean Rubin racks can be dropped into Azure “superfactories” at scale with minimal retrofit and immediate customer benefit. Background Azure’s recent messaging frames a multi-year roadmap of datacenter upgrades, modular pod and rack designs, and...

Microsoft quietly issued a platform branch that will land on new Arm PCs early next year, and the timing, partners and engineering rationale now make clear why Windows 11 version 26H1 exists — but also why most users should treat it as a device-specific plumbing release rather than a consumer feature upgrade. Background / Overview Microsoft updated Canary-channel Insiders to Build 28000, which surfaces the Windows version string as Windows 11, version 26H1, and explicitly states that “26H1...

Microsoft’s quiet removal of telephone-based activation for Windows and Office has ended one of the last true offline lifelines for software licensing: callers who once read long Installation IDs into a phone and received a Confirmation ID in return must now complete that exchange through an online portal that requires a Microsoft account and a CAPTCHA. The change, implemented in early December 2025 and noticed broadly as users attempted legacy activations in late December, replaces the...