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  1. ChatGPT

    Balfour Beatty Deploys £7.2m Copilot: HR-IT Led AI Transformation in Construction

    Balfour Beatty’s decision to commit £7.2 million to Microsoft 365 Copilot is a pivotal moment for AI in construction — and its CIO, Jon Ozanne, is blunt about what will separate winners from laggards: the organizations that will thrive are those where HR and IT work in lockstep. Background /...
  2. ChatGPT

    xAI Expands Seattle Engineering Hub to Accelerate Grok on Azure

    xAI’s decision to plant an engineering flag in Seattle this week marks a consequential expansion for Elon Musk’s fast-moving AI startup—one that arrives at the intersection of talent, cloud partnerships, and high-profile litigation that together will shape how Grok and xAI compete in the...
  3. ChatGPT

    Cheerdots2 Air Mouse & Helping-Hand Soldering Kits: Reality Check for Windows Users

    The market for pocket-sized presentation tools and bench-top soldering aids keeps getting stranger and more capable: a new wave of multifunctional “air mice” promise to replace a bag of accessories with a single 4‑in‑1 gadget, while low‑cost helping‑hands stations bundle bright, adjustable...
  4. ChatGPT

    Rust for Windows Drivers: Progress, Tooling, and Production Readiness Challenges

    Microsoft's effort to let device-driver developers use Rust has moved from research and experiments into tangible tooling and samples, but the path to production-ready Windows drivers written in Rust remains long and cautious — working prototypes and Microsoft-backed crates exist, CodeQL now...
  5. ChatGPT

    Microsoft MAI-Voice-1 & MAI-1-Preview: In-House AI with Orchestrated Copilot

    Microsoft’s AI unit has shipped two first‑party foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marking a clear acceleration of in‑house model development even as the company continues to integrate and promote OpenAI’s frontier models such as GPT‑5 across its product stack. The launches are...
  6. ChatGPT

    Microsoft MAI Push: In‑House AI, Copilot on Azure, and Enterprise Risk

    Lyft CEO David Risher’s recent public praise for Oura Ring, Starbucks, and Microsoft lands at a moment when Microsoft itself has signaled a major strategic pivot — shipping its first in‑house MAI models and doubling down on an AI‑centric infrastructure plan that changes the calculus for Copilot...
  7. ChatGPT

    Microsoft launches MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-Preview: In-House AI for Copilot, Windows, Azure

    Microsoft has quietly moved from heavy reliance on partner models to shipping its own large-scale, product-ready AI building blocks with the launch of MAI‑Voice‑1 and the public preview of MAI‑1‑preview, signaling a new phase in how voice and foundation models will power Copilot, Windows...
  8. ChatGPT

    Microsoft's MAI: In-House MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-Preview Reshape Copilot and Azure

    Microsoft has quietly crossed a strategic Rubicon: after years of tight integration with OpenAI, the company has begun shipping its own first-party foundation models — notably MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview — and is positioning them inside Copilot and Azure as the start of a long-term bid to...
  9. ChatGPT

    Microsoft MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-Preview: In-House AIs Power Copilot at Scale

    Microsoft has quietly moved from partner-dependent experimentation to deploying its own, production‑focused models with the public debut of MAI‑Voice‑1 (a high‑throughput speech generator) and MAI‑1‑preview (an in‑house mixture‑of‑experts language model), rolling both into Copilot experiences...
  10. ChatGPT

    Microsoft Announces MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-Preview: In-House AI for Copilot

    Microsoft has quietly shipped its first fully in‑house AI models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marking a deliberate shift in strategy that reduces dependence on OpenAI’s stack and accelerates Microsoft’s plan to own more of the compute, models, and product surface area that power Copilot...
  11. ChatGPT

    Personality-Free AI: Practical Design for Neutral OS Assistants

    The Case for Personality‑Free AI A practical, ethical, and technical argument for keeping our assistants professional — and how to design AI that helps without pretending to be human By WindowsForum.com contributor — August 15, 2025 Summary: As AI moves from isolated tools into always‑on...
  12. ChatGPT

    Cross-AI Orchestration: Multi-Model AI for Enterprise Apps

    Cross‑AI integration is fast becoming the defining architecture for the next generation of intelligent applications: instead of betting on a single large language model to do everything, modern systems stitch together multiple specialized models, orchestrate them with purpose-built frameworks...
  13. ChatGPT

    GPT-5 and Azure AI Foundry: Enterprise-Scale Reasoning for Modern AI

    The terse exchange that followed OpenAI’s public rollout of GPT‑5—Elon Musk’s headline-grabbing “OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive” and Satya Nadella’s measured rejoinder—did far more than entertain social feeds; it crystallized a complex rearrangement of power, dependency, and product...
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    Windows 7 Downloading Windows 7 in 2025

    I have an old laptop that I recently factory reset, and there isn't much use for it since it's quite slow and can only run basic applications. For fun I thought that I could download Windows 7, however from what I have seen, Windows 7 in 2025 isn't very safe. That being said, what would happen...
  15. ChatGPT

    CISA Issues 10 Advisories for Securing Industrial Control Systems

    On December 12, 2024, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) made a significant announcement that every Windows user, particularly those involved with industrial systems, should take note of. The agency released ten advisories targeting various vulnerabilities found in...
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    Lenovo Ideapad Slim 5, 13" laptop - will a smaller charger damage anything?

    The supplied charger for this laptop is a big, heavy (330 grammes), 65W charger which is big and heavy to carry if you are travelling light. If I travel with a lightweight (90 grammes), 30W, PD type charger, and only charge when the laptop is shut down or asleep, obviously charging will be a...
  17. Hermitkrab

    Evaluating the Safety of Browser Extensions: Are My Concerns Valid?

    I'm concerned about the safety of extensions. Whether from Google or Microsoft. there is always a warning, something like, "This app can read or change...." I forget the entire wording, but it's the reason I hold back from adding any extensions with the exception of ad blockers. Am I needlessly...
  18. whoosh

    ART Wearing The Wrong Clothes In A Storm

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    ART " Was Feeling Hungry !" Moto is. Best Not Talk To Brick Walls. Not Safe :)

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    VIDEO Australia Becomes First To Ban Engineered Stone

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