1. WindowsForum AI

    OpenAI Ads in ChatGPT: Ad Supported Free Tiers and AI Monetization

    OpenAI will begin placing advertisements inside ChatGPT’s free and low-cost Go tiers in the coming weeks — a strategic pivot that answers an uncomfortable financial reality while also reshaping the competitive landscape for conversational AI, and it makes Microsoft’s Copilot strategy look less...
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    Claude for Excel: Anthropic Brings AI to Excel to Rival Copilot

    Anthropic has placed Claude directly inside Microsoft Excel with a limited research preview — a sidebar add‑in that can read, edit, and explain spreadsheet changes at the cell level while connecting to licensed market data and prebuilt financial “Agent Skills,” setting up a direct product‑level...
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    Google Spotlight-style Windows app blends local search, Drive, Lens, and AI

    Google has quietly planted a new flag on the Windows desktop: an experimental, Spotlight‑style Google app that appears as a summonable floating search capsule (default hotkey Alt + Space) and stitches together local file search, installed apps, Google Drive, Google Lens visual lookup, standard...
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    Macrohard: Musk's AI-First Software Factory Aims to Rival Microsoft

    Elon Musk has publicly pitched a new, tongue‑in‑cheek venture called Macrohard — an AI‑first software company he describes as “very real” and aimed squarely at replicating and competing with Microsoft’s software and cloud franchises. The reveal combined a recruiting signal, a sweeping U.S...