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Microsoft’s Copilot Labs is Microsoft’s public sandbox for trying experimental Copilot features — a place where the company surfaces early, sometimes rough, generative-AI tools so real users can test them, file bugs, and shape how those features evolve before they land in the mainstream Copilot...

Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT have both pushed generative AI into everyday workflows, but they take markedly different approaches to features, ecosystem integration, pricing, and privacy — and those differences matter when deciding which assistant to use for research, creative work...

OpenAI’s GPT‑5 is not a simple story of triumph or collapse; it is a complex product moment where measurable technical gains collided with human expectations, sparking both applause from analysts and a loud user backlash that left the company revising defaults and restoring legacy options...

Microsoft has pushed another incremental but important update for on‑device AI: KB5066125 upgrades the Phi Silica AI component to version 1.2508.906.0 for Qualcomm‑powered Copilot+ PCs, delivered automatically through Windows Update to qualifying Windows 11 (24H2) devices. Background / Overview...

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...

Satya Nadella says he now runs parts of his day with GPT‑5 inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, sharing five concrete prompts that have moved the assistant from a helpful tool to a strategic layer in his schedule, meeting prep, project assessment and risk spotting. Background Microsoft’s rapid roll‑out...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly gained the ability to accept multiple files and images in a single chat session — a practical, long-requested update that promises to speed workflows and make multimodal reasoning more useful — but early hands‑on tests expose important limits and some surprising...

Android phones quietly run a constellation of AI services every day — from autocomplete and face unlock to route planning — and in 2025 a small set of free Android apps now make that intelligence easily accessible to anyone with a smartphone. This feature distills a TechCabal roundup into a...

Microsoft's HoloLens may have been sidelined, but a Microsoft designer's fan-made vision — the Copilot Veja — shows how the next wave of mixed‑reality thinking could trade heavy headsets for discreet, AI‑supercharged earbuds that "see" the world and speak answers back in real time. Background...

Microsoft’s vision of a future Windows where you “talk to your PC” is less a finished product than an aggressive bet on changing workplace culture — and whether that bet pays off depends as much on human behavior as on silicon and software. Background: what Microsoft is saying — and what PCWorld...

Copilot Vision is the clearest sign yet that Microsoft wants your PC to be an active, visual partner — not just a passive tool — and that ambition already makes a meaningful difference in real-world workflows while raising important questions about reliability, privacy, and when to trust a...

For more than a decade the smartphone has been the indispensable center of personal computing—and now the world’s largest tech companies are openly designing a future where that center no longer belongs to a single glass slab, but to a distributed, AI‑driven fabric of wearables, spatial...

Microsoft Copilot is now a practical, multi-platform AI companion that can draft documents, summarize threads, generate images, read your screen, and act on your behalf — but getting the most from it takes more than a casual prompt. This guide explains what Copilot is, how to sign up (including...

OpenAI’s rollout of GPT‑5 has reshaped ChatGPT’s product landscape in ways that were predictable on paper but messy in practice: a unified, faster reasoning engine meant to simplify model choice accidentally erased a model many users loved, prompting an outcry that forced OpenAI to partially...

The August 16 tech roundup lands at the intersection of desktop refreshes, AI ambitions, and long-lived platform commitments — a single day that underlines how fast software vendors are reshaping both user experiences and the lifecycle expectations of devices. Major takeaways: Linux Mint 22.2...

OpenAI’s GPT‑5, Microsoft’s fresh wave of Windows 11 AI features, and ByteDance’s decision to open‑source Coze together mark one of the busiest weeks yet in consumer and developer AI—an abrupt convergence of model unification, desktop intelligence, and enterprise‑grade agent tooling that will...

OpenAI’s GPT‑5 arrived as a clear strategic push to make the next generation of large language models the default intelligence layer for consumer and enterprise apps — a unifying architecture that promises deeper reasoning, much larger context, and built‑in routing between fast and “thinking”...

The five technology companies that now steer global digital transformation—Amazon, Google (Alphabet), Microsoft, Apple, and IBM—are not merely the biggest names on the cap table; they are the engines that power cloud infrastructure, enterprise AI, consumer-device ecosystems, and the earliest...

Microsoft’s Windows team is sketching a future in which your PC is less a passive tool and more a conversational partner — one that lives in the cloud, understands voice and vision, and uses context to anticipate and act on your intent. That is the core of Pavan Davuluri’s message: Windows will...

Microsoft’s latest public remarks about the direction of Windows — voiced by Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s VP of Windows and Devices, and echoed by OS-security lead David Weston — sketch a future operating system that is ambient, agentic, and multimodal: one that sees what’s on your screen...