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Windows 11 25H2 Lands in Release Preview—IT Must Kill Legacy Scripts Before Upgrading
Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 version 25H2 to the Release Preview ring, marking the final validation stage before a broad production rollout. The upgrade arrives as a featherweight enablement...
Microsoft Beta Build 26120.5770 Adds Table-to-Excel AI and Braille Viewer
Windows 11 Insiders in the Beta Channel just got another serving of polish and productivity smarts with the release of Build 26120.5770 (KB5064089). This cumulative update, part of the 24H2 servicing...
August Windows 11 24H2 Update Brings AI Productivity Tools, Enterprise Backup, and Secure Boot Certificate Deadline
Microsoft’s August non‑security preview for Windows 11, version 24H2—KB5064081 (OS Build 26100.5074)—arrived Friday packing a suite of staged AI features, the general availability of Windows...
Microsoft's MAI-Voice-1 Generates 60 Seconds of Audio in Under a Second, Alongside New Text Model
Sixty seconds of natural-sounding speech, generated in less time than it takes to blink. That’s the headline claim Microsoft is making with MAI-Voice-1, a new speech synthesis model unveiled this...
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...
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...
Microsoft Unveils MAI-1 and MAI-Voice-1, Its First In-House AI Models to Challenge OpenAI
Microsoft just drew a bold line in the AI sandpit with the public debut of its first internally developed foundation models, MAI-1-preview and MAI-Voice-1. The move is a calculated punch against its...
Microsoft Unleashes MAI-1-Preview: 15,000 GPUs Power Its First In-House AI Model to Rival OpenAI
Microsoft this week publicly debuted MAI-1-preview, a homegrown large language model that marks its boldest move yet to decouple from OpenAI and put its own AI into Copilot. Trained on a staggering...
Microsoft’s Windows 11 AI Push Delivers Productivity Gains—and a Fragmented User Experience
Windows 11 users now face two different Copilot apps, an opaque credit system, and hardware-locked features—leaving many wondering if the AI revolution was worth the confusion. Microsoft’s...
Microsoft’s 200K-Chat Study Shows Which 40 Jobs AI Is Reshaping Now—and Which It Can’t Touch
Microsoft has quietly conducted one of the largest behavioral studies of generative AI in the workplace, analyzing more than 200,000 real Copilot conversations to map exactly where large language...