ai assistant

Firefox’s latest stable update, Firefox 143, pushes two headline features into the hands of users: an AI chat provider shortcut that surfaces Microsoft Copilot inside the browser’s AI sidebar, and a Windows-only web‑app (pinned‑site) workflow that lets you add sites to the taskbar and run them...

Google’s experimental Windows app aims to remove the friction of switching windows to look something up — a floating, Spotlight‑like search bar you summon with Alt + Space that can search local files, installed apps, Google Drive, and the web, and that folds in Google Lens and the company’s AI...

Microsoft’s consumer Copilot is quietly evolving into a more ChatGPT‑like assistant — one that can remember user preferences and access third‑party files — with a new memory management toggle and the promise of Google Drive as a connected data source for the assistant. Background / Overview...

Microsoft’s latest push stitches a unified, content‑aware Copilot chat directly into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote — surfacing a persistent side pane that can read the file you’re working on, search other files with an inline “/” picker, accept multiple images, and give wider...

Microsoft’s Copilot is quietly evolving from a conversational assistant into a multi-modal, transactional platform — and recent test-build evidence shows the company is explicitly styling that evolution around three pillars: search that surfaces explicit references, shopping and order...

The UK government’s recent trial of AI coding assistants has delivered striking headline figures — developers reporting almost an hour saved per working day, equivalent to roughly 28 working days a year — but the programme also exposes the tough trade‑offs that come with rapid AI adoption in...

Microsoft’s Copilot Veja concept cracks open a larger debate about the future of augmented reality: do we need another screen strapped to our faces, or should intelligence quietly live in devices we already accept? The ear‑worn Copilot Veja — a personal concept by Microsoft designer Braz de Pina...

The Czech Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has quietly ushered in a new digital era for welfare delivery — combining an AI chat agent, a secure citizen portal and a cloud analytics stack built on Microsoft Azure technologies — a package that Microsoft says now helps roughly 100,000 people a...

Microsoft’s Copilot is getting quietly practical: you can now turn a Word document into a ready-to-edit PowerPoint slide in seconds — and for anyone still running Windows 10 there’s a second, much louder message: upgrade planning is no longer optional. This dual moment — an incremental but...

Comscore’s latest dataset signals a decisive shift: consumers are moving many AI assistant interactions off desktops and onto phones, with mobile reach rising to 73.4 million users in the March–June window while PC usage declined — a trend driven by rapid mobile gains for Microsoft Copilot...

Mobile usage of AI assistants has taken a measurable lead over desktop in recent months, with Comscore reporting mobile reach for AI tools rising to 73.4 million users (a 5.3% increase) while PC usage fell roughly 11.1%, and the largest mobile growth rates concentrated in Microsoft Copilot...

Microsoft’s push to fold generative AI into everyday file management just moved a major step closer to most Windows users: Microsoft 365’s Copilot is now integrated with OneDrive inside Windows, letting subscribers invoke Copilot actions from File Explorer and the OneDrive Activity Center on the...

Microsoft’s AI unit has shipped two first‑party foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marking a clear acceleration of in‑house model development even as the company continues to integrate and promote OpenAI’s frontier models such as GPT‑5 across its product stack. The launches are...

A U.S. federal judge has ordered Google to open parts of its search infrastructure to rivals and banned a range of exclusive distribution agreements, while stopping short of the dramatic breakups the Department of Justice sought — a ruling that preserves Chrome and Android in Google’s hands but...

JetBrains has pushed a major architectural change into ReSharper 2025.2 that moves most heavy analysis out of Visual Studio’s UI process into a separate 64‑bit worker process — a shift the company says reduces cumulative UI freezes during solution startup by roughly 61 percent in its lab tests...

When a single AI service becomes central to millions of workflows, a short outage stops more than casual conversation — it exposes systemic fragility and forces users to choose alternatives they may previously have ignored. Recent market shifts and intermittent service interruptions have pushed...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly taken a big step toward true multi-document reasoning: recent hands‑on reports and company disclosures show the assistant on Windows 11 and the web can now synthesize information across multiple uploaded files in a single request, enabling workflows that...

Microsoft quietly bolstered Copilot’s document smarts this week, enabling multi-file analysis that lets the assistant reason across multiple uploads in a single request rather than treating each file in isolation — a ChatGPT-style capability now visible in the Copilot web and Windows 11 app and...

Microsoft’s Copilot now promises to do the heavy lifting of a first‑round literature review: produce multi‑page, citation‑backed Deep Research reports in minutes that synthesize web content, documents, images and PDFs into a structured deliverable you can drop into Word, PowerPoint or a...

Microsoft's Copilot has quietly received one of the most consequential behind-the-scenes upgrades since its rollout: the free tier now runs on OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo, bringing a much larger context window, a fresher knowledge base, and a set of performance fixes that address earlier complaints...