Articles from July 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in July 2026
Samsung Takes on Ray-Ban Meta with Intelligent Eyewear: Hands-Free Gemini, Android XR, and Fashion Partnerships
Samsung officially revealed its long-rumored AI smart glasses on July 22, entering the nascent market currently led by Ray-Ban Meta. Developed in partnership with Google and eyewear fashion...
Google’s New Beta Fix Stops Pixel Phones from Crashing When You Call Gemini
Google shipped Android 17 QPR2 Beta 1 on July 20, and the star of the show isn’t a flashy new feature—it’s a fix for a bug that caused Pixel phones to spontaneously reboot when Gemini was...
Microsoft Azure Deploys 3M's Dust-Resistant Fiber Connectors to Accelerate AI Data Center Buildouts
Microsoft has tapped 3M's Expanded Beam Optical (EBO) technology for its Azure AI data centers, aiming to speed up fiber-optic installations and reduce maintenance headaches. The partnership,...
TubeBuddy's New AI Generates Ranked Video Ideas by Analyzing Your Own YouTube Channel
GameSquare’s TubeBuddy today released an AI-powered ideation tool that tackles the most universal headache among YouTube creators: staring at an empty content calendar with no clue what to film...
Moonshot AI Accused of Distilling Anthropic’s Fable for Kimi K3 — Here’s What Windows Users Need to Know
The United States has accused Beijing-based Moonshot AI of stealing from Anthropic’s most advanced AI large language model, Fable, to help create its newly launched Kimi K3 system. Michael...
Musk Vows Grok Imagine Will Deliver a ‘Historically Accurate’ AI Odyssey by New Year's Eve
On July 22, 2026, Elon Musk declared that Grok Imagine—the AI image and video generation platform inside xAI’s ecosystem—will create a full-length movie adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey by...
Samsung's $2,099 Foldable Is a Warning: AI Is Driving Up Memory Prices for Phones and PCs
Samsung's new Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra costs $2,099.99 at launch, and every model in the company's sixth-generation foldable family is $100 more expensive than its predecessor. The reason isn't just...
Google Slashes AI Agent Costs with Gemini 3.6 Flash: What Windows Users Need to Know
On July 21, 2026, Google released three new Gemini models that quietly change the economics of AI agents. The launch of Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and the security-focused Gemini 3.5...
Google Chat Outgrown? How to Map Your Collaboration Needs to the Right Alternative in 2026
Sometime in 2026, your team will hit the point where Google Workspace’s built-in chat feels like a pair of handcuffs made of convenience. It’s free(ish), it’s right there in Gmail, and it’s...
Microsoft to Unify SharePoint News and Viva Engage Conversations by 2026
Microsoft has finally sketched a solution to one of the most stubborn headaches in enterprise communications: the schism between polished intranet articles and the social conversations they spark. A...
Microsoft Plans to Auto-Label Old SharePoint Files With Sensitivity Defaults by Late 2026
Microsoft will soon let organizations automatically apply default sensitivity labels to every file already sitting in a SharePoint document library—not just new uploads and recently edited...
Microsoft Kills Planned Purview Auto-Labeling Simulation Evaluation Before It Hits Preview
Microsoft has scrapped a planned enhancement to its Purview Information Protection auto-labeling simulation experience, catching many compliance teams off guard. The feature, listed under Microsoft...