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Lenovo and Motorola today unveiled Qira, a system-level, cross-device AI assistant that the companies say will begin rolling out on select Lenovo PCs in Q1 2026 and appear on Motorola phones and proof‑of‑concept wearables later in the year, positioning Qira as a “Personal Ambient Intelligence...

Dell and Microsoft’s latest announcements at Microsoft Ignite sharpen a growing industry trend: hybrid AI is moving from pilot projects to packaged, co-engineered services that promise enterprise-grade performance, integrated management, and tighter security for AI workloads that span cloud...

OnePlus has pulled the plug on its AI Writer tool inside the Notes app after users discovered the feature refused to generate text when prompts referenced politically sensitive topics such as Arunachal Pradesh, the Dalai Lama, and Taiwan — a behavior that sparked accusations of covert censorship...

The oil and gas sector has lived the digital paradox: an early, optimistic embrace of data-driven tools that often produced flashy pilots but limited long-term operational impact. After a quarter-century of "digital oilfield" experiments, the path to meaningful AI-driven production gains is no...

Microsoft's long-running experiment with desktop AI has moved decisively from sidebar novelty to a system-level assistant: Windows Copilot places an AI-powered helper directly on the taskbar, can read and act on screen content with user permission, integrates Bing Chat-style retrieval, and —...

Ubisoft’s Teammates demo is the clearest, most polished argument yet that voice‑driven, cloud‑assisted AI can be more than a novelty chatbot in games — but it also underlines how much careful design, editorial control, and technical guardrails are required before this technology can move from...

Microsoft’s PowerToys Advanced Paste has taken a decisive step toward local-first AI by adding on-device model support and multi-provider flexibility in the 0.96 update, turning a once-simple clipboard helper into a hybrid AI gateway that gives users faster transforms, reduced cloud costs, and...

Google’s multimodal juggernaut and the rising class of tiny on‑device models are not simply competing products — they represent two complementary architectural answers to the same demand: useful, fast, and trustworthy AI where users actually work. The gulf between Gemini and Nano AI is less a...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider builds are shipping a new, full-screen renewal prompt aimed at lapsed Microsoft 365 subscriptions — an eye-catching SCOOBE (Second‑Chance Out‑of‑Box Experience) screen that insiders and early reports describe as a full‑screen nag to renew rather than a...

Microsoft has quietly turned Notepad into a small but capable generative writing assistant by adding three on-device AI tools — Summarize, Write, and Rewrite — that run locally on qualifying Windows 11 machines without forcing users into a subscription. Background Notepad’s identity has long...

Microsoft's latest Insider flight quietly turns three of Windows 11’s most familiar utilities—Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad—into more capable, workflow‑focused apps by adding editable project files, in‑capture markup, and local AI editing that can run on Copilot+ hardware without a...

Microsoft and Cerence’s announcement at IAA Mobility 2025 that a voice-first, Microsoft 365 Copilot–powered assistant will run inside vehicles marks a decisive push to turn the car into a secure mobile office — but it also raises urgent questions about safety, privacy, enterprise governance, and...

The City of Montréal has quietly turned a classic municipal pain point—finding timely information on services, schedules and rules—into a 24/7 conversational surface by deploying a virtual agent built with Microsoft Copilot Studio that now answers citizen questions across the city’s public...

Samsung’s Copilot has quietly moved from pocket and desktop to the living room: select 2025 Samsung TVs and smart monitors now host a voice‑first, animated Copilot that speaks aloud, shows distance‑legible visual cards, and is designed specifically for shared, couch‑side interactions. ng and...

Samsung’s decision to bake Microsoft’s Copilot into a selection of its 2025 TVs and smart monitors is a clear signal that the next phase of consumer AI is aimed at the living room — but whether that makes your TV genuinely smarter or simply louder with AI features depends on how useful, private...

Samsung and Microsoft have agreed to bring Microsoft Copilot — the company’s generative AI assistant — to Samsung’s 2025 TVs and Smart Monitors, folding natural‑language AI into large displays via Samsung’s new Vision AI framework and a Copilot web experience built into the screens. This move...

Samsung and Microsoft have formally announced that Microsoft Copilot will be built into select 2025 Samsung TVs and Smart Monitors, folding a conversational, voice‑first AI companion into the company’s new Vision AI display platform and making the living‑room screen a first‑class place for...

Microsoft has unveiled a significant expansion of its artificial intelligence ecosystem by introducing OpenAI’s open-weight language models, gpt-oss, to both Azure AI Foundry and Windows AI Foundry. This move marks a pivotal shift toward openness, flexibility, and developer empowerment...

A paradigm shift is underway in scientific AI as Microsoft unveils a pioneering self-evolving reasoning system, promising unprecedented adaptability, controllability, and transparency in tackling complex scientific domains. Built to empower researchers with greater oversight and interactive...

The artificial intelligence community witnessed a significant turning point as OpenAI, in close partnership with Microsoft, officially released the GPT-OSS family of open-weight language models—gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b—integrated directly into Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry and Windows AI...