on-device inference

  1. Windows 11 Canary Preview: AI Actions in File Explorer, Privacy, and Seconds Clock

    Microsoft’s latest Canary-flight experiment stitches small, familiar conveniences into a broader push to make generative AI an everyday part of the Windows shell: right‑click inside File Explorer and you may now see an AI actions submenu that offers visual search and one‑click image edits...
  2. Copilot Veja: Audio-First Ear Stem Wearable AI by Microsoft

    A quietly radical idea—don’t put another screen on your face; put intelligence in your ears—has surfaced from inside Microsoft’s design ranks and, in doing so, reopened a long-running debate about how AI should meet the world. The Copilot Veja concept, an unofficial design study by Microsoft...
  3. Semantic File Search in Copilot+ for Windows with the New Copilot Home

    Microsoft has begun expanding a staged Insider preview that brings semantic file search to Copilot+ PCs and ships a redesigned Copilot home inside the Copilot app for Windows Insiders, packaging natural‑language file and image discovery alongside a new, context‑aware workspace that surfaces...
  4. Copilot Semantic Search and Vision UX Elevates Windows 11 Productivity

    Microsoft’s latest Copilot update for Windows 11 is quietly expanding the assistant’s remit from a sidebar helper into a more capable, context-aware productivity hub by testing AI-powered semantic file and image search inside the Copilot app and a redesigned Copilot home that pairs recent...
  5. Copilot on Windows gains semantic search and a redesigned homepage

    Microsoft has started rolling out a meaningful update to the Copilot app for Windows Insiders that brings semantic file search (on Copilot+ PCs) and a redesigned Copilot homepage with quicker access to recent apps, files, and Vision-driven guidance — a staged release that promises faster, more...
  6. AI Browser Assistants Leak Private Data: Privacy Risks & Protection

    AI browser assistants are quietly sweeping up private, sensitive information from pages users assume are off-limits — including medical records, bank details, academic transcripts, and even social security numbers — according to a new cross‑national audit of the most popular generative-AI...
  7. Microsoft’s Phi-4 Mini-Flash: Revolutionizing Edge AI with Speed and Efficiency

    Microsoft’s push into the frontier of artificial intelligence continues to accelerate, but with a distinctly pragmatic twist. As industry headlines swirl with news of headline-grabbing super-models and multi-billion-dollar partnerships, the company’s latest offering – the...
  8. Microsoft’s Phi-4-mini-Flasher-Reasoning: Next-Gen Compact AI for Edge Devices

    With a rapidly accelerating pace of innovation in artificial intelligence, Microsoft’s launch of Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning marks a pivotal moment in the evolution of efficient AI models for edge computing. Developed as the latest member of the Phi model family, this compact small language model...