Windows on Arm is now ready for gaming thanks to some big changes
Windows on Arm is now ready for gaming thanks to some big changes Last year Qualcomm promised that games would “just work” on its Snapdragon X Elite laptops, but in my testing I found that was far from the case. Now, a year on, Windows on Arm is a lot more ready for gaming, thanks […]
Microsoft is turning Windows into an ‘agentic OS,’ starting with the taskbar
Microsoft is turning Windows into an 'agentic OS,' starting with the taskbar Microsoft is trying to transform Windows into a “canvas for AI,” with new AI agents integrated into the Windows 11 taskbar. These new taskbar capabilities are designed to make AI agents feel like an assistant in Windows that can go off and control […]
Microsoft’s new Anthropic partnership brings Claude AI models to Azure
Microsoft's new Anthropic partnership brings Claude AI models to Azure Microsoft is announcing a strategic partnership with Anthropic today that will bring the AI startup’s models to Microsoft Foundry for the first time. As part of the deal, Anthropic is also committing to purchasing $30 billion of Azure compute capacity and “to contract additional compute capacity up […]
Talking to Windows’ Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent
Talking to Windows' Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent It’s not hard to understand the AI future Microsoft is betting billions on – a world where computers understand what you’re saying and do things for you. It’s right there in the ads for the latest Copilot PCs, where people cheerfully talk to their laptops […]
Valve just built the Xbox that Microsoft is dreaming of
Valve just built the Xbox that Microsoft is dreaming of Valve has created a PC-based game console that lives under your TV. The Steam Machine takes everything that’s great about the Steam Deck and adds the raw power to compete with the latest PlayStation and Xbox consoles. It also puts a huge amount of pressure […]
Google relaunches Cameyo to entice businesses from Windows to ChromeOS
Google relaunches Cameyo to entice businesses from Windows to ChromeOS Google aqcuired the Cameyo virtualization software (pictured) in 2024. After acquiring software virtualization company Cameyo last year, Google has relaunched a version of the service that makes it easier for Windows-based organizations to migrate over to ChromeOS. Now called “Cameyo by Google,” the Virtual App […]
Halo Infinite is about to get its last major update
Halo Infinite is about to get its last major update On November 18th, Operation: Infinite will be released for Halo Infinite players with a battle pass and lots of new customizations, but according to the team, that’s it for this game’s content updates: With multiple Halo titles in development, we’ll need our whole team’s combined […]
Microsoft AI says it’ll make superintelligent AI that won’t be terrible for humanity
Microsoft AI says it'll make superintelligent AI that won't be terrible for humanity Microsoft AI wants you to know that its work toward superintelligence involves keeping humans “at the top of the food chain.” In a lengthy blog post on Thursday, Microsoft AI head Mustafa Suleyman highlighted the formation of a new team dedicated to […]
Microsoft AI’s first in-house image generator MAI-Image-1 is now available
Microsoft AI's first in-house image generator MAI-Image-1 is now available Microsoft’s first in-house AI image generator, MAI-Image-1, is now available in two products, Bing Image Creator and Copilot Audio Expressions. The company announced the model in October. Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman wrote in a post on X that the text-to-image model will be “coming […]
The AI industry is running on FOMO
The AI industry is running on FOMO For Big Tech, a penny invested in AI is a penny earned… Maybe. After an indeterminate amount of time. Investors hope. On earnings calls last week, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta reported more than $350 billion this year on capital expenditures, or longer-tail investments in a company’s future. […]