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Intel’s next‑generation desktop chips may be preparing one of the biggest shifts in on‑device AI since NPUs first arrived on client silicon: recent leaks claim the Core Ultra 400 “Nova Lake‑S” family will ship with an NPU6 block rated near 74 TOPS, a figure that would not only eclipse Intel’s...

AI-capable PCs are no longer a marketing label: they are a distinct engineering stack that mixes dedicated neural accelerators, heterogeneous compute (CPU + GPU + NPU), power/thermal trade‑offs, enterprise manageability and new software runtimes — and getting any of those elements wrong turns an...

Microsoft’s AI leadership is trending not because of a single dramatic event but because several high‑visibility threads converged at once: blunt public remarks from Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman, a strategic reframing by CEO Satya Nadella that invoked the cultural backlash term “slop,”...

Loss32 is a deliberately provocative thought experiment: what if a Linux distribution were not merely capable of running Windows programs, but was built from the ground up to be a Win32 runtime with the Linux kernel as its substrate? The idea — sketched by a developer who goes by the handle...

Dell’s blunt admission — that most buyers aren’t choosing laptops because of AI — landed like a splash of cold water across the CES 2026 stage, and the timing couldn’t have been worse for the Windows 11 AI story: while Dell quietly pulls back AI-first marketing, a highly visible Copilot fail in...

Microsoft hasn’t said “Windows 12” out loud, but the leaks, Insider breadcrumbs, and vendor roadmaps paint a clear theme: the next major Windows will be an AI-first, modular OS that leans on on‑device neural hardware, and many of the pieces are already being tested in Windows 11 and Copilot+...

Microsoft’s Copilot+ experiment has gone from bold to baffling: what began as a clear bet on on-device AI has morphed into a confusing mix of marketing, prescriptive hardware requirements, and a software ecosystem still scrambling to meet expectations. Analysts now say Microsoft should...

The era of the AI PC has arrived: laptop makers, silicon designers and Microsoft have reworked the basic architecture of Windows notebooks so that a dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU) sits alongside the CPU and GPU, and Microsoft’s Copilot+ stack is the first operating-system-level effort to...

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...

Microsoft’s recent Copilot+ conversation — and Paul Thurrott’s November 21 “Ask Paul” column — lay bare a pivotal tension at the center of Windows’ AI push: Microsoft wants every PC to become an AI PC, but it’s shipping premium, on-device Copilot+ features first to machines with dedicated NPUs...

Forty years ago a boxed copy of Microsoft Windows left a factory and quietly rewired how people work, play, and think about personal computers — a journey that runs from the tiled, mouse-driven experiments of Windows 1.0 to the AI‑steeped Windows 11 and Copilot era of today. Background /...

The 2025 roundup of “Intel Powered AI” laptops reframes the perennial laptop trade-offs: you can now get genuinely long unplugged runtimes, fast wakes and quieter fans, and practical on-device AI acceleration — but the reality behind marketing is nuanced and worth unpacking before you click buy...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update pivots the operating system from a passive platform into an actively interactive “AI PC,” folding voice, vision and early agentic automation directly into the desktop with Copilot at the center of the experience. The rollout introduces an opt‑in wake...

Microsoft’s short, teasing post — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday.” — may be the clearest signal yet that Windows 11 is poised to push voice and conversational AI from an accessible add‑on into a mainstream, system‑level...

Microsoft’s latest pitch for an “intelligent Windows” is being built around a tiny chip inside some new laptops — the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) — but the business case, user benefits, and long-term implications remain murky even as device makers rush to ship AI-capable hardware. Background...

Microsoft’s next push to make Windows “more intelligent” isn’t a UI tweak or a single app update — it’s a hardware-and-software architecture upgrade built around Neural Processing Units (NPUs) and a new device class called Copilot+ PCs that offloads AI inference to dedicated silicon, enabling...

I opened Paint and a small banner asked me to join “Windows AI Labs” — an opt‑in program that, according to the on‑screen card and an attached programme agreement, will let selected users test experimental AI features inside Microsoft Paint before those features are broadly released. Overview...

After decades of promises that never quite fixed Windows Search, Microsoft has finally shipped a working semantic search layer to Windows 11 — but it’s arriving in a very specific way: behind the Copilot+ hardware gate, previewed to Insiders, and baked into both the system search surfaces and...

Microsoft’s timing is deliberate: with Windows 10’s end-of-support deadline looming, Redmond is using the upgrade window to reposition Copilot+ PCs — and in particular Arm-powered machines such as the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 — as not just optional refresh buys but a strategic...

Microsoft has begun shipping a significant Windows 11 Notepad update to Windows Insiders that embeds on‑device generative AI — adding Summarize, Write, and Rewrite actions that can run locally on qualifying Copilot+ PCs with no subscription required, while preserving a cloud fallback for...