Microsoft's Research team has quietly pushed a milestone in on-device AI: Fara-7B, a 7‑billion‑parameter agentic small language model (SLM) built to see webpages and operate a PC by predicting mouse and keyboard actions, and it’s now available as an open-weight research artifact for hands‑on...
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...
DuckDuckGo’s Duck.ai giving users a free, anonymous window onto large open-weight models is a small but significant step in the evolving landscape of accessible generative AI — and it’s turned the question of “how to try big models without a GPU farm” into a practical reality for many Windows...
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After months of anticipation among the Windows community, Microsoft has unveiled a major update for Windows 11, signaling a decisive advance in how the operating system integrates artificial intelligence and refines some of its most-used features. This overhaul, which first rolls out to Windows...
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