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Microsoft has moved the core Windows engineering teams back under one roof, a structural shift that reunites platform, client, security, and data engineering and places far more product-and-platform authority with Pavan Davuluri as Microsoft accelerates AI-first changes across Windows...

Microsoft has quietly pushed KB5067464, an Image Transform AI component update that advances the on‑device Image Transform runtime to version 1.2509.1022.0 for Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11, version 24H2 — the package is delivered automatically through Windows Update, requires the latest...

Microsoft’s Photos app on Windows 11 just learned a tidy new habit: it will now automatically sort certain types of images into focused collections so you can find receipts, screenshots, IDs, and notes without digging through months of camera-roll clutter. This change — shipped as an Insider...

Windows 11’s push to make AI a first‑class, local capability has finally reached the hardware layer: a new class of laptops—Windows 11 Copilot Plus PCs—is built around dedicated Neural Processing Units (NPUs) and is explicitly designed to deliver on‑device AI experiences that ordinary laptops...

Microsoft has made Windows ML generally available, delivering a built-in, on-device AI inference runtime for Windows 11 that aims to let developers run ONNX models across CPUs, GPUs and NPUs without requiring cloud trips for every inference. Background: why this release matters Windows ML...

Microsoft’s Photos app will now sort your messy camera roll for you — but only on select Windows machines and with a handful of important caveats. Background Microsoft announced an AI-powered Auto‑Categorization feature for the Windows 11 Microsoft Photos app in a Windows Insider post by senior...

Microsoft’s Photos app for Windows 11 is getting an AI-powered tidy-up: a preview of Auto‑Categorization that automatically sorts images — screenshots, receipts, identity documents, and handwritten notes — into dedicated folders on supported machines, and Microsoft is currently testing the...

Microsoft’s new Auto‑Categorization for the Windows 11 Photos app begins a modest but practical assault on one of the most persistent annoyances of modern digital life: a chaotic photo library full of receipts, screenshots, IDs and scrawled notes. The feature—rolling out to Windows Insiders on...

TechRadar’s computing channel distills a sprawling, fast-moving world of laptops, desktops, peripherals and software into a single destination for readers trying to make the right buying, security and workflow decisions in an era defined by hybrid work and on‑device AI. Background / Overview...

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 announcement isn’t a modest refresh — it’s a full-throttle attempt to reposition Arm-based Windows PCs as contenders in the premium laptop and creator workstation markets, with jaw-dropping headline numbers (up to 18 cores, a record 5.0 GHz boost, an 80 TOPS Hexagon NPU...

Apple, Google, and Microsoft are racing to be the platform that powers your next search, email reply, meeting summary, and photo edit — but those conveniences come with sharply different approaches to where and how your data is processed, stored, and potentially reused. A recent ecosystem...

Microsoft is quietly rolling an AI-powered tidy-up inside the Windows 11 Photos app: a new Auto‑Categorization feature will scan your library and group images into four practical buckets — Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Notes — but it’s being tested only on Copilot+ PCs for now...

Microsoft’s new 13-inch Surface Laptop tries to boil the Surface formula down to its essentials: an ultra-light, attractively finished clamshell powered by Qualcomm’s Arm silicon, long battery life, and a thin, bright PixelSense touchscreen — all tuned to showcase Microsoft’s Copilot+ on-device...

Microsoft’s push to make on-device AI a first-class citizen on Windows hit a significant milestone with the general availability of Windows ML, a system-managed inferencing runtime designed to make it dramatically easier for developers to ship AI features that run efficiently across CPUs, GPUs...

Microsoft is rolling out a targeted, AI-driven organizational upgrade to the Windows 11 Photos app that automatically sorts images into four practical categories — Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Notes — and the capability is being previewed for Windows Insiders on Copilot+ PCs as...

Qualcomm’s claim that the Snapdragon X2 Elite family delivers “the fastest and most efficient processors for Windows” is ambitious—and the company backed it with numbers that, on paper, reshape the argument for Windows on Arm: a 3 nm‑class process node, up to 18 CPU cores in top bins, a...

Microsoft has begun previewing an AI-powered organizational upgrade to the Photos app on Windows 11 that automatically sorts images into four focused categories—Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Notes—and is currently available for testing on Copilot+ PCs enrolled in the Windows...

Microsoft has quietly begun rolling out AI-powered Auto‑Categorization inside the Microsoft Photos app, a targeted feature that uses on-device and cloud-capable models to automatically sort images into four tight categories — screenshots, receipts, identity documents, and notes — on Copilot+...

Microsoft’s Windows ML platform has moved out of preview and into general availability, positioning Windows 11 as a mainstream host for local, on-device AI inference and giving developers a managed, system-level inference runtime that automatically leverages the best silicon on a PC — CPU, GPU...

Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon X2 Elite family promises to rewrite the rules for Windows on ARM by delivering dramatically higher clock speeds, an 18‑core top bin, and an 80 TOPS Hexagon NPU — claims that put Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme squarely into contention with Apple’s...