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Microsoft’s Insider channels closed out September with a quiet but consequential set of previews: seven focused Windows 11 improvements that refine AI experiences, accessibility, and everyday system diagnostics for Insiders — and set clearer expectations for how Copilot features will be baked...

Microsoft has moved the core Windows engineering teams back under one roof, a structural shift that reunites platform, client, security, and data engineering and places far more product-and-platform authority with Pavan Davuluri as Microsoft accelerates AI-first changes across Windows...

This week’s Windows‑centric conversation landed at the intersection of two tectonic shifts: AI’s rapid industrialization and Arm silicon finally staking a credible claim in premium Windows PCs — a blend of strategic maneuvers and product reveals that leaves Microsoft, hardware partners, and...

Microsoft’s push to make on-device AI a first-class citizen on Windows reached a major milestone this week: Windows ML is now generally available for developers, delivering a production-ready inference runtime, a managed execution-provider ecosystem, and a set of developer tools designed to make...

Microsoft has quietly turned up the heat on Windows 11’s AI rollout: an opt‑in pilot called Windows AI Labs has begun appearing inside Microsoft Paint as a limited sign‑up prompt, and Microsoft confirms the program is a pilot acceleration for testing experimental AI features before they reach...

Microsoft has quietly rolled out a new, opt‑in program called Windows AI Labs that lets a small group of Windows 11 users test experimental AI features inside built‑in apps — first spotted as a sign‑up prompt in Microsoft Paint and confirmed by multiple outlets and Microsoft’s evolving Copilot+...

Microsoft has begun quietly recruiting Windows 11 users into a new, opt‑in pilot called Windows AI Labs, an in‑OS sandbox for testing experimental AI features that first appeared as a sign‑up prompt inside Microsoft Paint and which Microsoft describes as “a pilot acceleration program for...

I opened Paint and a small banner asked me to join “Windows AI Labs” — an opt‑in program that, according to the on‑screen card and an attached programme agreement, will let selected users test experimental AI features inside Microsoft Paint before those features are broadly released. Overview...

Microsoft has begun quietly recruiting Windows 11 users to join a new, opt‑in pilot called Windows AI Labs, an in‑OS sandbox for testing experimental AI capabilities that first showed up as a sign‑up prompt inside Microsoft Paint and has since been confirmed by Microsoft as a “pilot acceleration...

Microsoft has opened a new, low-profile channel for pushing experimental AI directly into Windows 11, launching a pilot program called Windows AI Labs that gives a small set of users early access to unreleased, on-device and hybrid AI features inside familiar apps like Paint. The initiative is...

Microsoft has quietly begun inviting a subset of Windows users to test experimental AI features through a new opt‑in program called Windows AI Labs, an in‑OS pilot that first surfaced as a sign‑up prompt inside Microsoft Paint and which Microsoft describes as a “pilot acceleration program for...

Apple’s macOS 26 “Tahoe” and Microsoft’s Windows 11 no longer compete on the same flat plane — Tahoe doubles down on a design‑led, privacy‑first desktop infused with on‑device intelligence, while Windows 11 pushes AI into a broadly compatible, enterprise‑ready platform that still owns gaming and...

Microsoft’s new 18‑second commercial for Copilot Labs lands like a concentrated marketing shot: bright visuals, brisk pacing and a single-minded message — Copilot is experimental, useful, and already part of everyday workflows — yet the ad’s brevity masks a deeper conversation about how...

Microsoft has quietly pushed a new Insider preview package — KB5065786 — that surfaces a focused set of account-management refinements alongside deeper Copilot integrations and a long list of fixes and known issues, delivered as Build 26220.6690 to the Dev Channel and Build 26120.6690 to the...

Microsoft is quietly testing a Copilot Labs experiment called Portraits that would let users pick from 40 animated, non‑photorealistic 3D avatars — powered by Microsoft Research’s VASA‑1 — and speak to them in voice mode, according to an internal description surfaced by testers; the rollout...

Microsoft is pouring megabucks and marketing muscle into a narrative that Copilot+ PCs — Windows machines with on-device neural engines and specially tuned Windows subsystems — will remake personal and enterprise computing. The message is clear: these machines are faster than Macs, sip far less...

When Microsoft began shipping keyboards labeled “Copilot+” with a dedicated Copilot key, the gesture felt like a signal: AI was now a hardware-first priority for Windows. What started as a promotional flourish, however, has quickly exposed the long-running tension between hardware gimmicks and...

Eliezer Yudkowsky’s call for an outright, legally enforced shutdown of advanced AI systems — framed in his new book and repeated in interviews — has reignited a fraught debate that stretches from academic alignment labs to the product teams shipping copilots on Windows desktops; the argument is...

Microsoft’s recent nudge to users — asking “what do you miss most in Windows?” — is more than a PR moment; it’s a revealing sign that the company is wrestling with conflicting priorities for Windows 11: glossy AI capabilities and the long list of everyday quality‑of‑life features that power...

Microsoft has quietly — and perhaps unnecessarily — turned the simplest text editor in Windows into another battleground in the company’s AI-first strategy: Notepad now offers Summarize, Write, and Rewrite powered by on-device models when run on Copilot+ PCs, with Microsoft’s Windows Insider...