Articles from August 2025
Browse all Windows news articles published in August 2025
Microsoft’s Homegrown AI Push: MAI-1-preview and MAI-Voice-1 Signal Strategic Shift from OpenAI Reliance
Microsoft has begun publicly testing its first fully in-house foundation model, MAI-1-preview, alongside a high-speed voice model called MAI-Voice-1, signaling a deliberate move to build a...
Microsoft’s MAI-1 AI Model Goes Public After Training on 15,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs
Microsoft has thrown open the doors to public testing of MAI-1-preview, its first homegrown large language model trained entirely in-house on a staggering fleet of 15,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. The model...
Microsoft Rolls Out In-House MAI Voice and MoE Models to Slash Copilot Costs
Microsoft has taken the wraps off its first homegrown, production-grade AI models—MAI-Voice-1, a speech generator that can allegedly synthesize a full minute of audio in under one second on a...
xAI's Macrohard Trademark: Can Elon Musk's AI Agents Really Outcode Microsoft?
Elon Musk’s xAI filed a U.S. trademark application for “MACROHARD” in early August 2025, a move that transforms a long-running internet joke into a serious engineering proposal: can a swarm of...
Xbox Game Pass Overhauled: Core Dies, Essential and Premium Rise, Cloud Streaming Now Plays Your Games
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Microsoft Drops Kerberos Compatibility Workarounds September 10: What You Must Do
On September 10, 2025, Microsoft will flip a permanent switch in Windows domain controllers: the temporary registry settings that have allowed weak certificate-to-user mappings will stop working, and...
HP’s AI PC Sales Hit 25% of Mix Ahead of Schedule, Lifting Margins as Windows 11 Refresh Accelerates
HP’s AI PC shipments have surged to over 25% of its personal systems mix, a quarter ahead of internal plans, as the Windows 11 upgrade cycle and higher average selling prices drove a 6% revenue...
Microsoft Teams August Update Brings Copilot Dictionaries, Emoji Reactions, and 24 More Features
Microsoft dropped a hefty August update for Teams on August 28, 2025, packing 26 new capabilities across chat, meetings, voice, hybrid workplace management, and AI-powered admin controls. The...
Silver Fox APT Weaponizes Microsoft-Signed Driver to Kill EDR, Drop ValleyRAT
A new in-the-wild campaign by the Silver Fox APT is rubbing salt into the persistent wound of Windows driver security: attackers are using a Microsoft-signed but functionally vulnerable kernel driver...
Windows 11 Snipping Tool Adds OCR and Redaction—But Mind the Privacy Risks
Microsoft’s Snipping Tool has quietly become a powerhouse for screen capture, now packing optical character recognition (OCR) and automatic redaction tools into Windows 11. The once-basic utility...
How to Move From Windows to Linux Without the Risks: 4 Expert-Backed Steps
The clock is ticking on Windows 10, with support set to end in October 2025. For millions of PC owners facing a forced upgrade to Windows 11 or an uncertain future on an unsupported OS, the...
Microsoft Ships In-House AI Models, Moving Copilot Beyond OpenAI Dependency
Microsoft has quietly deployed its first fully in-house AI models for consumer-facing Copilot experiences, a strategic pivot that reduces the company’s reliance on OpenAI’s technology and charts...