ai assistants

  1. Perplexity Email Assistant: Premium AI Inbox Agent at $200/mo for Windows Pros

    Perplexity’s new Email Assistant promises to turn an overflowing inbox into a working assistant that schedules meetings, drafts replies in your voice, and auto-prioritizes messages — but it arrives as an exclusive, high-cost feature with real privacy and reliability trade‑offs that every Windows...
  2. Share with Copilot: Windows 11 Taskbar Button for Vision AI

    Windows 11 Insiders are now seeing a new, unexpected entry in the parade of Copilot entry points: a floating “Share with Copilot” button that appears when you hover over an open app on the taskbar and use the window preview. The button launches Copilot Vision against the contents of that window...
  3. Windows 11 for Seniors: A Compassionate, Accessible Guide to Copilot and Safety

    A new, age-focused guide to Microsoft’s latest desktop — promoted in a recent press release distributed via EIN Presswire and republished on regional outlets — aims to tackle one of the fastest-growing barriers to digital inclusion: tech anxiety among older adults. The announcement positions...
  4. Copilot Expands: Search Mode, Shopping, and Google Drive Connectors in Windows/Edge

    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...
  5. Copilot Veja: An Ear-Worn, Audio-First AR Vision

    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...
  6. AI Assistants Go Mobile: Copilot, Gemini, and ChatGPT Lead the Shift

    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...
  7. Mobile AI Assistants Surge: Copilot, Gemini, ChatGPT Lead Comscore Growth

    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...
  8. Microsoft MAI-Voice-1 & MAI-1-Preview: In-House AI with Orchestrated Copilot

    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...
  9. Gemini vs ChatGPT GPT-5: Which AI Helper Fits Research, Coding, and Creativity?

    Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT have both pushed generative AI into everyday workflows, but they take markedly different approaches to features, ecosystem integration, pricing, and privacy — and those differences matter when deciding which assistant to use for research, creative work...
  10. Copilot vs ChatGPT: Choosing the Right AI for Windows, Office, and Your Work

    Microsoft’s push to fold OpenAI’s latest models into Windows and Office has hardened an uncomfortable choice for many users: do you pick the deeply integrated productivity assistant (Microsoft Copilot) that lives inside Word, Excel, Outlook and the Windows taskbar, or the more general-purpose...
  11. Surveys Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot: AI-powered survey workflow in Frontier

    Microsoft’s latest push to fold everyday feedback workflows into its AI assistant stack landed this week with the public preview of Surveys Agent, an AI-powered agent inside Microsoft 365 Copilot that promises to let teams design, launch, monitor, and analyze surveys from a single conversational...
  12. Eight Free AI Apps for Android in 2025: Copilot, Perplexity, Claude & More

    Android phones quietly run a constellation of AI services every day — from autocomplete and face unlock to route planning — and in 2025 a small set of free Android apps now make that intelligence easily accessible to anyone with a smartphone. This feature distills a TechCabal roundup into a...
  13. Personality-Free AI: Practical Design for Neutral OS Assistants

    The Case for Personality‑Free AI A practical, ethical, and technical argument for keeping our assistants professional — and how to design AI that helps without pretending to be human By WindowsForum.com contributor — August 15, 2025 Summary: As AI moves from isolated tools into always‑on...
  14. Windows 2030: Multimodal AI, voice control, and the hybrid desktop

    Microsoft’s newest public framing of Windows isn’t merely about faster updates or refreshed icons — it’s a clear signal that the desktop is being rewired around generative AI, voice control, and computer vision, and that the humble mouse and keyboard will likely shift from default inputs to one...
  15. GPT-5 Arrives Across the Microsoft Ecosystem: Copilot Smart Mode, Microsoft 365, GitHub, Azure

    Microsoft has recently announced the comprehensive integration of OpenAI's latest language model, GPT-5, across its entire product ecosystem. This strategic move aims to enhance the capabilities of Microsoft's AI-driven tools, including Copilot, Microsoft 365, GitHub, and Azure AI Foundry, by...
  16. Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Launches for K-12 Students: Safe AI in Education

    Microsoft has taken a major step forward in democratizing artificial intelligence for younger learners by announcing the general rollout of Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat for students aged 13 and up. This move marks a significant expansion of generative AI’s reach into K-12 educational environments...
  17. NITRO Studio AI: Transforming Microsoft 365 Automation with Intelligent Features

    Crow Canyon Software has unveiled NITRO Studio AI, a comprehensive update to its automation platform for Microsoft 365 environments. This next-generation release is packed with artificial intelligence-powered features, integrating dynamic advancements across forms, workflows, and communication...
  18. Microsoft’s Vision for Windows in 2030: AI-Driven Security, Quality, and User Experience

    Microsoft’s vision for Windows in 2030 is boldly reshaping the foundation of personal and enterprise computing, centering artificial intelligence as the catalyst for a seismic evolution in how users interact with their machines. In the first of a compelling new video series, leadership at...
  19. Microsoft Launches GPT-OSS-20B for Windows: Open-Source AI for Local Text Tasks

    Here are the key points from the Daily Jang article on Microsoft rolling out the gpt-oss-20b model to Windows users: Model Details: Microsoft has made OpenAI’s new free and open GPT model, called gpt-oss-20b, accessible to Windows 11 users via the Windows AI Foundry platform. Platform: Windows...
  20. Microsoft's Windows 2030 Vision: The Future of Human-Centric, AI-Powered Computing

    The unveiling of Microsoft's “Windows 2030 Vision” marks a pivotal moment in the evolution of personal computing, signaling a seismic shift away from legacy input methods and toward an era powered by multimodal artificial intelligence. According to Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of...