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Microsoft’s newest AI agents can detail how they reason
If you’re wondering how AI agents work, Microsoft’s new Copilot AI agents provide real-time answers on how data is being analyzed and sourced to reach results. The Researcher and Analyst agents, announced on Tuesday, take a deeper look at data sources such as email, chat or databases within an organization to produce research reports, analyze strategies, or convert raw information into…
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Microsoft’s Recent Quantum Claims: Breakthrough or Overreach?
In February, Microsoft claimed it had created a new form of matter and used it to develop a quantum computer architecture that could potentially be put to work solving complex industrial problems within years. Since the announcement, some researchers and scientists have disputed these claims, saying Microsoft hasn’t actually achieved what it’s suggesting. The promise of topological qubits Microsoft stated…
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Is Microsoft’s Update a Feature or a Bug?
Microsoft’s March security update became the latest and perhaps most shocking mistake in a string of installation bugs plaguing users of the company’s Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems. Despite promoting 2025 as “the year of the PC refresh” and heavily marketing its Copilot+ PCs as “the fastest, most intelligent and most secure Windows PCs ever built,” Microsoft’s latest…
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Revisiting Windows 1.0: how Microsoft’s first desktop gracefully failed
Editor’s note: Ahead of Microsoft’s 50th’s anniversary, we’ve fixed the layout on this story — which we originally published in 2012 when Windows 8 launched. Now’s a good time to revisit our look at an operating system that helped shape personal computing over the years. Two years ago today, when Windows 1.0 celebrated its 25th birthday, we didn’t yet know…
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Microsoft’s Copilot AI gets better native Windows 11 app, but it’s still limited
The Copilot app to interact with chatbot AI is getting a new native app, and Microsoft is previewing it on Windows 11 through the Windows Insider Program. The new app has been built with XAML using the WinUI (Windows UI) framework, which is the primary framework that the company uses to build applications for the operating system. As a result,…
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Microsoft’s EU data boundary project crosses the finish line
Microsoft has completed work on a project that will allow EU data to stay in Europe while using the tech giant’s cloud services. The EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud, as the system is called, holds protected data within countries that are part of the EU or the European Free Trade Association, which extends the coverage to Liechtenstein, Iceland,…
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Analysts think Microsoft’s data center rollback is bad news for the AI boom – but the company says not to worry
Microsoft has reportedly ended leases for a significant amount of data center capacity, sparking debate over whether the AI boom is starting to falter. A note from analysts at TD Cowen claimed Microsoft had cancelled leases in the US at two separate data center operators, pulled out of yet to be signed leases, and shifted some of its international spending…
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Microsoft’s Plans to Make Games With AI Don’t Sound Great
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has recently touted how great the company’s recently introduced technology called Muse is. While this model is a big advancement, it’s nowhere near as good as the company makes it seem. While speaking on the Dwarkesh Podcast, Nadella claimed that Microsoft would eventually use this technology to make games. Something like a prompt system equivalent to…
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Microsoft’s new AI hub highlights apps that support NPUs – Computerworld
The NPU is an ancillary chip to a computer’s CPU and GPU, and is more power efficient when running generative AI (genAI)-based tasks such as image recognition, content creation, and voice transcription. “The NPU’s ability to offload these tasks from the CPU and GPU allows for faster, more efficient operation of the entire system,” Microsoft said. Microsoft introduced Copilot+ PCs…
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‘We’ve created an entirely new state of matter’: Satya Nadella hails Microsoft’s ‘Majorana’ quantum chip breakthrough
Microsoft has unveiled a new chip it says could deliver quantum computers with real-world applications in ‘years, not decades’. Majorana 1 is the world’s first Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) to be powered by a Topological Core, designed to scale to a million qubits on a single chip. The announcement is based on the development of the world’s first topoconductor –…
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