on-device ai

Google’s move to bring Android off phones and onto full desktop PCs has crossed a new milestone: an internal project codenamed Aluminium OS is now the focal point of a multi-year plan to merge Android’s app-rich ecosystem with ChromeOS’s device management and familiarity. What was once a whisper...

Levi Strauss & Co. has quietly but decisively shifted a critical piece of its global employee experience: the company is standardizing on Microsoft Surface Copilot+ PCs to deliver a consistent, secure, and AI‑ready platform for thousands of knowledge workers and retail staff. What began as a...

ASUS’s new ExpertBook Ultra family promises to bring on-device AI, enterprise-grade security, and premium hardware into reach for small and medium-sized businesses — and the move could meaningfully change how SMBs equip hybrid teams for collaboration and productivity. Background / Overview ASUS...

Geekom’s A9 Max leads a clear trend in 2026: mini PCs are no longer novelty boxes for basic browsing — they’re legitimate desktop replacements that pack laptop-class H‑series silicon, on‑package NPUs for local AI, and surprising upgradeability into compact, VESA‑mountable chassis. Background /...

Microsoft says Copilot+ PCs are receiving a targeted update to the Image Transform AI component — a behind‑the‑scenes module that powers generative fill, object removal, and background reconstruction in Photos, Paint, and other integrated experiences. The update, listed in the headline material...

Microsoft has quietly pushed a focused Image Processing AI component update for Copilot+ AMD systems — KB5077532 — that ships Image Processing version 1.2601.1268.0 and, according to Microsoft, “includes improvements” to on-device image scaling and foreground/background extraction for Windows...

Microsoft has quietly pushed a targeted update—listed as KB5077530—to the Image Processing AI component for Qualcomm‑powered Windows 11 machines, delivering component version 1.2601.1268.0 and described simply as “improvements” for image scaling and foreground/background extraction on Copilot+...

I Am Worried About the New Batch of 2026 Windows PCs — a deep-dive (WindowsForum feature) By [YourName], Senior Features Editor, WindowsForum Published January 29, 2026 Lead: You watched the clip — a creator laying out why the 2026 batch of Windows PCs, shipped with Windows 11 and Microsoft’s...

When manufacturers once packed new Windows laptops with trial antivirus, toolbars, and a garden of “helpful” utilities, users learned a simple rule: uninstall first, ask questions later. The AI era is complicating that instinct. Recent reporting suggests PC makers — and a new generation of...

Microsoft’s latest Insider activity shows a deliberate, low‑level rework of Windows 11’s foundations — not a cosmetic update — and that engineering pivot is being staged as a device‑targeted platform branch (26H1) to support a new generation of Arm and hybrid SoCs, on‑device AI, and...

Microsoft quietly pushed a pair of modest but strategically significant updates to two of Windows’ most familiar utilities, Notepad and Paint, making both apps slightly smarter and notably more AI-capable for Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels. Notepad gains tighter Markdown parity...

Samsungsung’s Galaxy Book 6 family arrives as a bold Windows 11 refresh — promising Intel’s newest Core Ultra Series 3 silicon, redesigned vapor‑chamber cooling and headline battery numbers — yet Samsung has left a crucial commercial question unanswered for many buyers: UK pricing and exact...

Acer’s new Veriton lineup lands with a compact, AI‑first mini workstation — the Veriton RA100 — that pairs AMD’s Ryzen™ AI Max+ 395 APU, a beefy on‑chip neural engine and high‑bandwidth LPDDR5X memory to deliver Windows 11 Copilot+ experiences and on‑device model inference for prosumers...

Microsoft and Apple have staked out two contrasting blueprints for the AI era: Microsoft is building a cloud‑first, infrastructure‑led engine that turns enterprise seats and metered inference into recurring revenue, while Apple is doubling down on device‑anchored intelligence that keeps...

Microsoft’s grand narrative for 2026 — that the “AI PC” will finally transform everyday computing — is both closer to reality and further from useful than Microsoft wants you to believe: the hardware is arriving in force, but the software and ecosystem that would turn NPUs and Copilot+ marketing...

Lenovo’s Qira arrives as a new kind of personal AI: not a standalone chatbot but a system-level, cross-device “personal ambient intelligence” that follows you from phone to PC to future wearables, promises to reduce the costly friction of context switching, and orchestrates when and where AI...

PCMag’s “All About AI” series distills a messy, fast-moving industry pivot into a practical playbook for buyers, explaining why the new class of AI-capable PCs matters, what the hardware metrics actually mean, and which Windows features are likely to change day-to-day workflows. Background /...

PC hardware has never looked better — ultra‑thin, long‑lasting laptops, NPUs baked into mainstream SoCs, and GPUs that can produce playable frame rates on reasonable power budgets — yet the software side of the PC, most prominently Windows 11, feels increasingly at odds with that hardware...

PCMag’s “All About AI” framing arrives at a moment when the PC market is redefining itself around on‑device intelligence, and the result is a new purchasing calculus: raw CPU/GPU numbers still matter, but NPUs, TOPS, and Copilot+ integration now shape which machines deliver genuinely different...

Microsoft has quietly added a device‑wide Settings toggle in Windows 11 that provisions a contained runtime for on‑device AI agents — an “Agent Workspace” and per‑agent accounts — allowing Copilot Actions (and third‑party agents) to perform UI‑level tasks like opening apps, clicking buttons, and...