Amazon Web Services has lost Jon Jones, its vice president who ran the global startups and venture-capital outreach, in a move that crystallizes a wider 2025 pattern of executive churn and intensifying competition for AI talent across the cloud sector.
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Jon Jones joined AWS...
Microsoft’s Mu model has quietly recharted what “local AI” can look like on a personal PC, turning Windows 11 from a cloud-first assistant host into a platform for high-speed, privacy-conscious on-device language understanding — and doing it by design for Neural Processing Units (NPUs) in...
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The collaboration between Nvidia and MediaTek, aimed at redefining high-performance laptop gaming with a revolutionary Arm-based processor, has encountered a substantial setback—its eagerly awaited debut is now postponed until late 2026 or early 2027. This delay represents more than a slip in...
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Microsoft’s Surface lineup has consistently served as a bellwether for the evolution of Windows PCs, steadily bridging cutting-edge hardware with the company’s ambitions for seamless, always-connected computing. The latest surface (and perhaps tectonic) shift appears on the horizon: rumors are...
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This week at WinHEC, we were able to talk to silicon, hardware, and device partners about the advances we are making in Windows 10 to simplify building Windows devices, drivers, and apps. Some of the key advances we disclosed this week include:
The Windows 10 device platform allows IHVs to...