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Microsoft’s latest pricing ripple has reached an audience few players think about: game developers now face a higher barrier to build for Xbox as Microsoft raises the price of its official development kits from $1,500 to $2,000 — a 33% hike that the company says “reflects macroeconomic...

Microsoft has planted a new, animated face inside Copilot — a shape‑shifting avatar called Mico that listens, reacts, and, if you prod it enough, briefly turns into the long‑dead paperclip known as Clippy — a move that’s equal parts deliberate design choice, nostalgia play, and a lightning rod...

Microsoft’s late‑October Copilot Fall Release marks a deliberate reframe: Microsoft is pushing its assistant from an intermittent productivity widget into a persistent, socially aware companion—complete with an optional animated avatar, shared group sessions, long‑term memory, grounded health...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update repositions the company’s AI assistant as a social, persistent, and personality-driven companion for everyday computing — and yes, there’s a new animated friend called Mico that can wink at the old Office paperclip. The fall release bundles roughly a dozen...

Denver’s tech leadership has quietly been recast: the city’s chief information officer, Suma Nallapati, now carries the formal title Chief Artificial Intelligence and Information Officer (CAIO) — a change the administration says is meant to accelerate responsible AI adoption across city services...

Dozens of Pentagon correspondents packed boxes, turned in press badges, and walked out of the building rather than sign a new set of reporting restrictions imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — a confrontation that has immediate operational consequences for Pentagon coverage and raises...

A coordinated audit by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the BBC has delivered a blunt verdict: when asked about current events, popular AI assistants—including ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and Perplexity—produce answers that contain at least one significant problem nearly...

Microsoft Edge has quietly begun nudging users away from rival AI services and toward Microsoft’s own Copilot assistant by surfacing a small “Try Copilot” prompt in the browser chrome when users visit sites such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, or DeepSeek — a subtle UI nudge that turns browsing behavior...

Artificial-intelligence assistants now produce news answers with troubling frequency of error, a coordinated audit by European public broadcasters has concluded, and the findings demand immediate attention from newsrooms, platform builders, IT managers and everyday users who rely on...

A major transnational audit of conversational AI assistants by public broadcasters has delivered a stark verdict: widely used chat systems are producing unreliable news answers at scale, with nearly half of sampled responses containing at least one significant problem — a result that should...

Microsoft’s push to steer more of your AI traffic toward its own assistant has quietly shifted into a new, browser-level nudge: the Edge address bar now feels like part product placement, part built-in assistant, and part pressure to stop using rival AI services. Observers report Edge will...

Microsoft’s latest push to weave generative AI deeper into Windows 11 moves the operating system from assistantable to assistant-first, bringing voice activation, on-screen vision, autonomous web actions, and tighter hardware-software integration that together redefine how users will interact...

Microsoft’s new “Hey Copilot” voice mode turns Windows 11 into a hands‑free, conversational desktop assistant — a convenience for many, a potential privacy and governance headache for others, and a tactical nudge to buy newer, NPU‑capable hardware. Background / Overview Microsoft rolled the Hey...

When an app moves from novelty to necessity, the metrics that once measured its success change shape — and the latest telemetry suggests ChatGPT is undergoing exactly that transition. New analysis circulating this month argues ChatGPT’s mobile expansion has peaked: monthly download growth is...

Microsoft is testing an experimental Copilot agent called Copilot Actions that can autonomously operate desktop and web apps on Windows — including sending emails, updating local documents, resizing photos, organizing files, and running multi‑step workflows — all from within a contained, opt‑in...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update pushes Copilot out of the sidebar and squarely into the way you interact with your PC: you can now wake the assistant with “Hey, Copilot,” let it see selected windows with Copilot Vision worldwide, and—if you opt in—allow experimental Copilot Actions to...

Elon Musk’s public push to have xAI build “a great AI‑generated game before the end of next year” and an at‑least‑“watchable” movie is both an audacious product promise and a clear signal of the company’s broader ambition to move from chatbots into agentic, multimodal creative systems that can...

Microsoft’s latest update to Windows 11 marks a deliberate pivot: the operating system is being reframed as an AI-first platform, with Copilot graduating from a sidebar chatbot to a multimodal, permissioned assistant that can listen, see, and — under controlled conditions — act on your behalf...

Microsoft’s Copilot on Windows has taken a decisive step from chat assistant to document workhorse: the Copilot app can now generate Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and PDFs directly from a chat session, and it can link to personal email and cloud accounts so it can...

Microsoft’s short, teasing post — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday.” — may be the clearest signal yet that Windows 11 is poised to push voice and conversational AI from an accessible add‑on into a mainstream, system‑level...