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Microsoft Is Racing to Merge Its Copilot Tools Into One App by Mid-2026
Microsoft is building a unified “super app” that will pull together its disjointed Copilot experiences—chat, coding, Microsoft 365, and autonomous agents—into a single interface, with a...
TSMC’s CoWoS Shortage Pushes AI Chip Orders to Intel and Taiwan Rivals
TSMC can’t keep up with demand for its CoWoS advanced packaging, pushing some AI chip orders to Intel and Taiwanese packaging firms. As first reported by Wccftech, customers unable to secure enough...
ASUS and Intel Pack Copilot+ and On-Device AI Into New Education PCs—But Privacy Isn't Automatic
At ISTE+ASCD 2026 in Orlando, ASUS and Intel lifted the curtain on a broad education hardware portfolio that stretches from rugged student laptops to a new Chromebox 6a with Wi‑Fi 7, and...
OpenAI Sanctions Fight: What It Means for Your Privacy, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot
On July 9, 2026, The New York Times, the New York Daily News, and 15 other media organizations asked a federal judge in Manhattan to sanction OpenAI, accusing the ChatGPT maker of deliberately...
Microsoft Copilot’s Outlook AI Requires Exchange Online — And That Changes Everything
A widely shared roundup of the “best AI email assistants” for 2026, published by AutoGPT.net on July 13, is missing a detail that matters enormously to the millions of people who live in...
Teams Meeting AI Toggle: How to Disable Copilot Mid-Call (and the Transcription Catch)
Microsoft will start rolling out a long-awaited in-meeting control for Teams that lets meeting organizers and presenters disable AI features live, the company confirmed this week. The toggle,...
Samsung Health’s AI Consent Prompt Could Delete Your Synced Data—Here’s How to Protect It
Samsung Health users are being met with a new in-app demand: agree to let Samsung use personal health records for AI training and modelling, or lose access to cloud synchronization—and watch...
Creative Fabrica Drops Free, Offline AI Image Tools for Windows—No Subscriptions Required
Creative Fabrica released a desktop app for Windows this week that puts AI image editing tools directly on your PC—no internet connection, no subscription fees, and no file uploads required. Called...
Microsoft-Enabled Open-Source AI Tools Take Aim at Alzheimer's 99% Failure Rate
A global consortium co-founded by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis launched three open-source AI tools on July 13 at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in...
No Patch, No Safe Workaround: Inside the 9.8-Severity WordPress SSO Plugin Flaw That Gives Attackers Admin Keys
No administrator wants to hear that the plugin responsible for single sign-on has become a wide-open door to a total site compromise. But that’s exactly the situation facing WordPress sites running...
Dual Retirement: Windows 11 24H2 and Office 2021 Both Exit Support on October 13, 2026 — What You Must Do Now
Microsoft has marked October 13, 2026, as the day when two of its most widely used products — Windows 11 version 24H2 Home and Pro editions, and Office LTSC 2021 — will simultaneously reach the...
Google’s New Setting Lets You Stop Media from Training AI—Here’s How
Google has started rolling out a Search Services History control that lets the company save and use your images, audio, video, and other media from Google Search products to train its generative AI...