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Microsoft’s latest push to make Windows 11 feel less like an operating system and more like a conversational partner landed with a carefully timed tease — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…” — and a follow-up roll‑out that stitches voice, vision, on‑device...

OpenAI’s recent chapter reads like a high‑budget tech drama: dazzling user numbers and massive funding on one hand, and a bruising product backlash, rising costs, and strategic confusion on the other. A forceful critique circulating online argues that OpenAI is “just another boring, desperate AI...

Microsoft is putting a face — deliberately stylized, tightly guarded, and experiment-first — on Copilot by rolling out a new Copilot Labs feature called Portraits, a real‑time animated portrait system that lip‑syncs, nods, and emotes during voice conversations and is currently available only to...

Microsoft’s partial disablement of Azure services to a unit inside Israel’s Ministry of Defense has exposed a layered tragedy: independent investigations show a cloud‑backed surveillance pipeline capable of ingesting and indexing vast quantities of Palestinian phone calls, Microsoft’s own review...

A new Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated as a press release and picked up by partner outlets — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce concrete benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability, while also leaving room for...

Microsoft has begun rolling out Gaming Copilot (Beta) to Windows PCs via the Xbox Game Bar, an in‑overlay AI assistant that promises real‑time, voice‑first help, screenshot‑aware guidance, achievement tracking, and personalized game recommendations — with mobile Xbox app support scheduled for...

Human memory is not a passive archive — it’s a efficiency engine, and a set of new experiments summarized in Psychology Today argues that our brains preferentially encode pairs of people who look like they’re interacting, making these dyads easier to recall later than two people who merely...

Microsoft finds itself at the epicenter of a rapidly escalating controversy after joint investigative reports revealed that its flagship cloud platform, Azure, may have played a critical role in facilitating mass surveillance operations against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Sources...

Meta’s Plan to Use EU User Data for AI Training: A Deep Dive into Privacy, Ethics, and Regional Strategy Meta, the tech giant behind Facebook and Instagram, has recently announced plans to leverage user data from its European Union (EU) audience to train its advanced AI models. This bold move...