It is April 2025. My daughters are sprawled on the living room couch, Netflix humming in the background, texting their friends. A WhatsApp call buzzes on the side. Their digital lives flow seamlessly. They barely register what’s happening in the world of tech. Skype is being taken off life-support by Microsoft. May 5 is its…
We knew Microsoft was about to launch Recall for real this time, and now the software maker is making it available to all Copilot Plus PCs. Recall, a feature that screenshots almost everything you do on a Copilot Plus PC, will be available today alongside an improved AI-powered Windows search interface and a new Click…
Microsoft researchers claim to have developed the first 1-bit large language model with 2 billion parameters. The model, BitNet b1.58 2B4T, can run on commercial CPUs such as Apple’s M2. “Trained on a corpus of 4 trillion tokens, this model demonstrates how native 1-bit LLMs can achieve performance comparable to leading open-weight, full-precision models of…
Thousands of people swooned in a dark conference hall that felt more like a rock concert when a Microsoft product manager demonstrated the company’s latest feature: how to sum numbers in Excel, with the click of a button. “It was literally like Mick Jagger walked out,” said Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s consumer chief marketing officer, who…
Image: Microsoft Microsoft is officially retiring Skype on May 5, ending the app’s two-decade run as a pioneer in video calling. The move signals Microsoft’s full shift toward Teams, its all-in-one messaging and video platform. “At this point, putting all our focus behind Teams will let us give a simpler message and drive faster innovation,”…
ChatGPT maker OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, has announced “Stargate,” a $500 billion project aimed at building new AI infrastructure in the US over the next four years. This initiative, backed by SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX, plans to immediately deploy $100 billion. OpenAI claims Stargate will solidify American AI leadership, generate jobs and economic benefits,…
Bill Gates recently acknowledgment Microsoft‘s $400 billion mobile market failure. Android co-founder Rich Miner has reacted to attributing the loss of the smartphone wars to Android largely to Gates’ own decisions.“I literally helped create Android to prevent Microsoft from controlling the phone the way they did the PC – stifling innovation. So it’s always funny…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has taken a swipe at Microsoft chief Satya Nadella, calling for an “anytime, anywhere” AI duet between their companies’ models. Pichai was speaking at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit, where he talked about the pace of AI development and also the changes coming to search in 2025. Notably, Nadella, while…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates reflected on the value of real-world experiences and the evolving challenges of parenting in the digital age. Sharing a blog post recently, Gates recalled the freedom he enjoyed growing up, where his parents often didn’t know his whereabouts half the time. In the blog post, Gates also emphasized the importance of…
