Articles from 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2026
AMD's New Business Laptop Chip Barely Edges Out Its Predecessor, Early Tests Reveal
AMD's flagship new mobile processor for enterprise laptops, the Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro 470, delivers only negligible performance gains over last year's Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro 370, according to the first...
Run 120B AI Models Locally: MSI’s Tiny 4-Liter Desktop Delivers 128GB Unified Memory
MSI announced the PRO MAX EDGE AI+ 11M on July 26, 2026, a compact desktop that can run large language models with up to 120 billion parameters entirely on-device. At 4 liters in volume, it packs up...
Single Chip Generates Terahertz Vortex Beams, Eliminating Bulky Optics
In July 2026, a team of researchers quietly published a paper that could redraw the roadmap for ultrafast wireless, advanced imaging, and compact sensing systems. The reason? They built a...
Telangana Demands Priority in India’s Chip Mission: What ISM 2.0 Means for Your Next PC
IT Minister D. Sridhar Babu took the stage at the Rising Bharat Summit in Bengaluru on Sunday with a clear message for the central government: give Telangana priority status under India Semiconductor...
Maskless Electron-Beam Lithography Order Could Slash Wait Times for Future AI PC Chips
Multibeam Corp. has secured its first order from Taiwan for the MBX, a direct‑write electron‑beam lithography platform that eliminates photomasks during prototyping. The system will be installed...
AI Writes Code in Seconds, But Engineers Now Spend More Time Reviewing It
Manoj Agarwal, a veteran developer who has built systems at Microsoft, Twitter, and Stripe, says the hardest part of his job now isn't writing code—it's reviewing the flood of AI-generated code...
How Flameshot Adds Instant Annotations to Windows Screenshots (and Why It Matters)
It happens every day: you capture a screenshot, but the real work begins after you’ve pasted it into an editor. You need to circle a setting, blur a username, or add a numbered step before you can...
OpenAI, Google Join NVIDIA’s Open-Weight Letter, Shifting AI Landscape for PCs and Enterprise
The industry push to keep advanced AI models freely downloadable just got a lot broader. On July 24, 2026, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Meta, and 22 other organizations released a letter urging Washington to...
All-Chinese Silicon Runs Forza Horizon 5 at 62 FPS in First Practical Windows Gaming PC Without Intel, AMD, or Nvidia
A PC built entirely out of Chinese silicon has, for the first time, run a suite of demanding Windows games at playable frame rates without a single Intel, AMD, or NVIDIA component. The...
Lynote’s Free AI Tool Summarizes YouTube Videos and Detects AI Text — What Windows Users Need to Know
A new India-built productivity platform called Lynote is quietly winning over creators, students, and early-stage founders with a two-in-one pitch: an AI-powered YouTube summarizer that turns long...
A Politician Read AI Instructions in a Formal Speech—Here’s Why It Matters to You
A Canadian politician delivered more than he intended in a recent legislative speech when he inadvertently read aloud a chatbot’s editing instruction, turning a routine address into a viral...
Doctorow: Australia Risks Losing Irreplaceable IT Skills in the AI Bubble’s Wake
In an interview published Monday by The Guardian, technology critic and author Cory Doctorow issued a stark warning to Australian businesses and policymakers: when the AI investment bubble eventually...