on-device ai

PCMag UK’s 2025 roundup of the lightest laptops crystallizes a simple truth: the ultralight category is no longer a playground for compromises — it’s a battlefield of trade-offs where display quality, battery life, local AI capability, and serviceability determine which models deserve the...

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...

The PC refresh your organisation schedules today will be remembered tomorrow not for a thinner bezel or a faster clock speed, but for whether it hardened your estate against the next generation of AI‑driven attacks and data‑loss scenarios — a security decision as consequential as an OS...

On November 20, 1985, a boxed copy of Windows 1.0 left the factory and quietly began a forty-year story that transformed personal computing from a command-line craft into an expectations-setting platform — and that same platform is now being reimagined as an AI-native workspace where silicon...

After six months living with the ThinkPad X9 15 Gen 1 Aura Edition, the clearest impression is this: Lenovo has intentionally traded heritage signifiers for a modern, thin-and-light execution that aims squarely at today’s AI-tuned, style-conscious knowledge worker — and most of the trade-offs...

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 quietly released PowerToys update for Windows 11 has turned one of the suite’s most humble utilities — the clipboard — into a showpiece for the company’s on-device AI strategy, enabling local model inference, multiple cloud-provider options, and a redesigned user experience that...

Microsoft’s PowerToys has quietly shipped one of the most consequential clipboard upgrades in years — and Apple’s Spotlight-based clipboard history in macOS Tahoe, while welcome, still falls short of the productivity and privacy controls that a native “Advanced Paste” experience could deliver...

Microsoft’s Copilot push has become a lightning rod — not because the technology is uninteresting, but because the messaging, demos and rollout cadence have repeatedly collided with an audience that’s tired of broken promises, privacy worries and an operating system that still feels unfinished...

PCMag UK’s 2025 roundup of ultraportable laptops makes one thing plain: the class has matured from “light and cheap” into a broad ecosystem of purpose-built machines that trade ounces for meaningful features — from on-device AI and OLED panels to repairable modular designs — and the choices now...

Forty years after Windows first shipped to manufacturers on November 20, 1985, Microsoft finds itself at an inflection point: a company-wide push to make Windows an “agentic OS” has reignited old frustrations about reliability, privacy and user control while promising a fundamentally different...

Microsoft’s latest push to make Windows 11 an AI-first operating system landed in plain sight this week: the platform is being reshaped to host autonomous, auditable AI agents that can run in the background, interact with apps, and act on local files — all inside a contained runtime Microsoft...

Lenovo’s Yoga 9i 14 Gen 10 Aura Edition tops PCMag UK’s 2025 list of the best 2‑in‑1 laptops, but the year’s roundup is far from a single‑device story: OEMs have pushed aggressively on OLED panels, on‑device AI (NPUs/Copilot+ readiness), and form‑factor variety — from dual‑OLED experiments to...

Dell’s 2025 laptop lineup is both familiar and brand-new: the familiar family of Inspiron, XPS, Latitude and Precision has been reorganized, while the company’s best models — from the mainstream Dell 14 Plus to the high-end Precision/Pro Max workstations and Alienware gaming rigs — remain the...

Microsoft’s latest Insider preview quietly lays the groundwork for a new class of on‑device automation: an Agent Workspace and an experimental toggle that prepares Windows 11 to let AI agents act on your behalf inside a contained session — a move that shifts the OS from suggestion to action...

Microsoft is bringing Sysmon — the long-favored Sysinternals tool for deep Windows telemetry — into Windows itself as an optional, native capability for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025, a change that promises to simplify deployment, add official support, and shift how enterprises collect...

AMD’s push to make Windows 11 PCs smarter and Microsoft’s decision to make Windows “agentic” collided this autumn in a pair of announcements that together redraw the boundaries between silicon, operating system, and security — and they raise as many questions as they promise solutions. AMD’s...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 roadmap is rolling out a tightly focused set of AI productivity tools that aim to make writing, dictation, message triage, and image accessibility faster and less painful — and they’re arriving with a split delivery model that uses cloud AI for broad compatibility and...

Microsoft’s plan to recast Windows 11 as an agentic operating system—one that anticipates needs and takes action via autonomous AI agents—has provoked an unprecedented wave of user and developer backlash, exposing fault lines in trust, privacy, and platform stewardship that Microsoft must...

Elon Musk’s blunt public rebuke of Microsoft’s Windows marketing has become the latest flashpoint in a months‑long debate over the direction of the PC platform — and it’s doing exactly what high‑profile criticism always does: forcing technical claims, marketing promises, and product trade‑offs...