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Microsoft has reintroduced a face for its virtual assistant — but this time it’s a smiling, color-shifting blob named Mico rather than an officious paperclip — and the move crystallizes a major crossroads for AI on Windows: how to give helpfulness a personality without repeating the mistakes of...

Microsoft’s fresh attempt to give Copilot a face arrives as a carefully engineered echo of a notorious past: the animated avatar Mico is designed to be warm, visible and scoped — a friendly companion for voice interactions, study sessions and group chats, rather than a resurrected, intrusive...

Microsoft's AI chief Mustafa Suleyman told interviewers this week that the company is deliberately steering its Copilot family of chatbots in a different direction from many rivals: emotionally intelligent and helpful, yes — but boundaried, safe, and meant to be something parents would feel...

The Framework Laptop 12 is the kind of gadget that forces a rethink about what a mainstream laptop can — and should — be: a genuinely modular, repairable 2‑in‑1 you can buy as a bare‑bones DIY kit, assemble yourself, and run Linux on with official, step‑by‑step support. That combination of...

ChromeOS and Windows no longer sit on opposite ends of a simple “light vs heavy” spectrum — in 2025 the debate is about use cases, deployment scale, and where efficiency matters more than raw throughput. The data and tests published this year show Chromebooks closing gaps on day‑to‑day...

Sammyuri’s CraftGPT is more than a stunt — it is a fully working, if glacial, small language model assembled entirely out of Minecraft’s Redstone mechanics, packing roughly 5.09 million parameters into a physical structure of hundreds of millions of blocks and proving, in spectacular fashion...

Zorin OS has quietly set the stage for a major push into the Windows-replacement market, teasing a “faster, more powerful” update that builds on the momentum of the recently released Zorin OS 17.3 and explicitly positions the distro as a practical alternative for machines that can’t, or won’t...

Google’s Gemini app can now accept audio uploads — a long‑requested capability that broadens Gemini’s multimodal reach and reshapes how users can transcribe, summarize, and analyze spoken content inside Google’s AI ecosystem. The rollout splits limits between free and paid tiers, extends Gemini...

Microsoft’s latest back‑to‑school play hands eligible U.S. college students a full, 12‑month Microsoft 365 Personal subscription — including the integrated Copilot AI assistant and 1 TB of OneDrive storage — at no charge, a time‑limited promotional move that accelerates AI exposure on campus...

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...

Microsoft’s Copilot just quietly added something game‑changing: a simple, surprisingly capable way to turn a flat 2D picture into a usable 3D model. On August 23, 2025, BGR spotlighted the feature—branded “Copilot 3D”—as a differentiator Microsoft believes ChatGPT won’t match natively anytime...

Microsoft’s Copilot Labs has quietly added a striking new capability — Copilot 3D, a browser-based experiment that converts a single 2D photo into a downloadable, textured 3D model in GLB format — and with it Microsoft has reintroduced mainstream users to an age-old promise: make 3D creation as...

Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop arrives as a surprisingly traditional clamshell in a product family built on experimentation—and that choice will matter as much for Windows users as it will for Microsoft’s long-term hardware partners. Background: what Microsoft actually announced Microsoft...

Microsoft’s Copilot now includes an experimental feature that turns a single JPG or PNG into a downloadable 3D model, shifting a formerly specialist workflow into a one‑click, browser‑based experience that’s already reshaping expectations for rapid prototyping, education, and hobbyist 3D...

Microsoft’s Copilot 3D quietly ushers a practical form of 3D creation into the browser era, turning single PNG or JPG photos into downloadable GLB models in seconds and placing accessible 3D asset generation squarely inside the Copilot Labs experiment. Background Microsoft has long experimented...

Microsoft’s Copilot initiative has rapidly emerged as a focal point for AI development across the company’s product portfolio, from its signature Windows integration to specialized productivity tools aimed at businesses and creators. But as generative AI’s reach expands, Microsoft appears poised...

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