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  1. NewsGuard Aug 2025 AI False Claims Monitor: 35% of chatbot replies are false

    AI chatbots are answering more questions than ever — and, according to a de‑anonymized NewsGuard audit released in September 2025, they are also repeating falsehoods far more often: roughly one in three news‑related replies contained a verifiable false claim during the August 2025 test cycle...
  2. Samsung Vision AI Companion: Multi-Agent AI on TVs with Gemini, Copilot & Perplexity

    Samsung’s IFA push makes a decisive bet on pluralistic AI: the company is rolling its new Vision AI Companion onto eligible Smart TVs and monitors while opening the platform to multiple third‑party agents — Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot, and Perplexity — and positioning those agents as...
  3. Tiny11 25H2 Debloat: Strip Copilot, Outlook, Teams for a Lean Windows 11

    Windows 11’s inbox app pile just got a new nemesis: Tiny11’s updated builder can now strip Copilot, the new Outlook client, Teams, and a long roster of built‑ins from a Windows 11 image — and the change is explicitly framed as a “25H2‑ready” rebuild that shrinks install size and prevents much of...
  4. Flyoobe 1.7: Lean Windows 11 OOBE with Copilot Disable and Debloat Profiles

    Flyoobe 1.7 arrives as a decisive answer for users who want a lean, no‑AI Windows 11 from first boot: the update introduces an OOBE page that hunts down and disables Copilot and related AI integrations during setup, ships expanded debloat presets (including GitHub‑loadable profiles), improves...
  5. Microsoft Unveils MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-Preview: In-House AI for Product-Oriented Orchestration

    Microsoft’s AI team has shipped two first‑party foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — a move that signals a deliberate strategic pivot from being primarily a host and integrator of external models toward building proprietary AI infrastructure optimized for Microsoft’s product...
  6. Microsoft unveils MAI: In-house AI models reshape Copilot and Azure economics

    Microsoft’s announcement that it has launched its own in-house AI models represents a strategic turning point: the company is no longer just a primary host and commercial partner for OpenAI — it is actively building the foundation for an independent, vertically integrated AI stack that could...
  7. 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...
  8. tiny11builder 25H2 Update: Debloated Windows 11 ISOs with Copilot/Outlook Removal

    The tiny11builder project has received a significant refresh: the PowerShell-based builder now supports Windows 11 version 25H2 builds, adds explicit removal of Copilot and the new Outlook for Windows client, switches to more efficient recovery compression for smaller ISOs, and introduces...
  9. AI Chatbots Repeating Falsehoods 35% of News Replies (Aug 2025 Audit)

    AI chatbots are now answering more questions — and, according to a fresh NewsGuard audit, they are also repeating falsehoods far more often, producing inaccurate or misleading content in roughly one out of every three news‑related responses during an August 2025 audit cycle. (newsguardtech.com)...
  10. From Hype to ROI: Mastering Copilot Adoption at the 365 Leadership Summit

    Generative AI has arrived in the boardroom and the break room alike — but the difference between headlines and hard outcomes is leadership, disciplined execution, and the work of adoption that too many organizations still underestimate. A recent event preview and podcast discussion that...
  11. From AI Enchantment to Execution: A Practical Enterprise Framework

    Artificial intelligence is no longer a boardroom novelty; it is a strategic frontier most companies feel they must cross — yet too many remain stranded at the shore, gripped by a mix of enthusiasm and uncertainty. In a recent opinion piece, Chris Badenhorst, Head of Azure Core, Data and AI...
  12. 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...
  13. Windows 11 Insider: Fluid Dictation and Studio Effects Expand on-device Copilot+

    Microsoft’s latest Insider flights quietly pushed two practical — and in some ways overdue — AI features into Windows 11: Fluid Dictation inside Voice Access and expanded Windows Studio Effects for alternative cameras on Copilot+ PCs, alongside small but useful File Explorer hover actions that...
  14. From AI Enthusiasm to Execution: A Practical Enterprise AI Framework for 2025

    Artificial intelligence has become the corporate obsession of 2025 — simultaneously promising transformational gains and producing widespread paralysis at the point of first step, argues Chris Badenhorst of Braintree as organisations struggle to move from enthusiasm to execution. Overview...
  15. Windows 11 Insider: Studio Effects expands to USB webcams on Copilot Plus PCs

    Microsoft is rolling out a long-awaited change to Windows 11 that finally lets many users apply Windows Studio Effects to additional cameras — including USB webcams and rear-facing laptop cameras — on supported Copilot+ PCs, while also shipping a suite of related Copilot and accessibility...
  16. Free 12-Month Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot for U.S. College Students

    Microsoft is offering U.S. college students a full year of Microsoft 365 Personal — with Copilot built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote — at no cost if they verify eligibility and enroll by October 31, 2025, a limited-time element of the company’s new Microsoft Elevate...
  17. Microsoft 365 Personal Copilot Free for US College Students: What to Know

    Microsoft’s latest back-to-school push hands U.S. college students a full year of Microsoft 365 Personal — including the integrated Copilot AI — at no cost, a move that promises to reshape student workflows while raising immediate questions about privacy, billing mechanics, and academic...
  18. Microsoft Copilot Free for 12 Months for U.S. College Students

    Microsoft’s latest education push folds generative AI into the everyday toolkit of U.S. college students by making Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot available free for eligible students—an aggressive expansion of earlier trial offers that places Copilot, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook...
  19. Copilot in OneDrive & File Explorer: AI Summaries, Q&A, and Multi-File Compare

    Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer just a chatbox in the browser — it’s now an active assistant inside OneDrive and the Windows file manager, able to summarize documents, answer questions, generate FAQs, and compare up to five files at once, all without opening Office apps. (support.microsoft.com)...
  20. Microsoft 365 Copilot Pricing Rewrite: Bundled Roles and Usage Credits

    Microsoft’s internal pricing playbook for Copilot appears to be getting a major rewrite that will materially lower the sticker price for many enterprise customers while shifting the company’s long-term monetization toward consumption-based agent billing and a centralized “agent management”...