Artificial Intelligence
The latest Artificial Intelligence coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
San Diego Suit Seeks to Force Microsoft to Provide Free Windows 10 Updates Until 10% Adoption
A California resident has filed a lawsuit in San Diego Superior Court seeking to force Microsoft to continue providing free security updates for Windows 10 until the operating system’s global...
Market’s AI Obsession Faces a Reckoning as NVIDIA’s Customer Risk and Tesla’s Slump Expose Fault Lines
NVIDIA’s latest quarterly results delivered staggering data center revenue growth, but the fine print revealed a fragile foundation: just a handful of cloud giants accounted for an outsized share...
Microsoft’s Secret Taskbar Companion Could Turn Windows 11 Into an Agentic AI Hub
Microsoft is quietly testing a new AI layer for Windows 11 that could fundamentally change how we interact with our PCs. Builds in the Insider and Windows Server channels have revealed code strings...
GitHub CEO Defends Microsoft's AI Performance Review Memo as 'Totally Fair Game' Days Before Announcing Resignation
Thomas Dohmke, the chief executive of GitHub, has forcefully defended a controversial internal Microsoft memo that urged managers to factor AI tool usage into employee performance evaluations,...
Microsoft's $80 Billion AI Bet and the 9,000 Jobs It Just Cut: The Full Picture
Microsoft is simultaneously pouring $80 billion into AI data centers and laying off 9,000 workers — a jarring paradox that cuts to the heart of how the tech giant envisions growth in the artificial...
Microsoft's Copilot Data Shows Which Jobs AI Will Transform First — And Which It Won't Touch
Historians, translators, and passenger attendants might seem like unlikely candidates for automation, but a new Microsoft study suggests their roles are among the most exposed to AI disruption. The...
Microsoft's 2030 Vision for Windows: AI Agents Replace Keyboard and Mouse, Quantum Security Arrives
Microsoft is sketching a radical blueprint for Windows that could make the mouse and keyboard relics of a bygone era. By 2030, the operating system will converse with you like a colleague, see what...
Mustafa Suleyman Orchestrates Microsoft's Raid on DeepMind, Luring Over Two Dozen AI Experts
Microsoft has pulled off a stunning talent heist, convincing more than two dozen artificial intelligence researchers and engineers to leave Alphabet's DeepMind and join its own AI division. The...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Now Open to Students 13+, with Privacy at Its Core
Microsoft has flipped the switch on access to generative AI for millions of K-12 students, officially rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat for learners aged 13 and up. The move, effective...
Microsoft's AI Coup: Suleyman Lures DeepMind Heavyweights to Boost Copilot and Bing
Microsoft has poached four senior artificial intelligence researchers from Google DeepMind, marking an aggressive escalation in the battle for elite AI talent. The hires, orchestrated by Mustafa...
Microsoft Poaches Over 20 Google DeepMind Experts to Supercharge Copilot and Bing
Microsoft has scooped up more than 20 top artificial intelligence researchers and engineers from Google’s DeepMind in a hiring blitz that marks one of the most aggressive AI talent grabs in recent...
Microsoft Gives Away GPT-5 for Free in Copilot, Integrates It Across Entire Product Line
Microsoft has flipped the switch on its most ambitious AI integration yet, embedding OpenAI’s GPT-5 model across every major product line and, critically, making it available for free in Copilot....