Latest round of tech layoffs at Microsoft and Meta shows need for a working class movement to defend jobs

Hundreds of thousands of jobs are being cut as the ruling class seizes on the artificial intelligence boom to eliminate vast ...

10 Hacks Every Microsoft Edge User Should Know

Microsoft Edge is one of the most popular browsers on the planet. The spiritual successor to Internet Explorer, Edge is a ...
ZDNet

Microsoft just added AI agents to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - how to use them

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
The Motley Fool

Is Microsoft Back on Its Way to the $4 Trillion Club? Wall Street Seems to Agree on an Answer.

Microsoft has a large backlog of customers waiting for capacity on its cloud platform to become available. Microsoft projects that it will spend over $100 billion on capital expenditures this year. Q1 ...
PC Magazine

Microsoft Is Finally Fixing Windows 11's Web App Problem. It's About Time

Windows 11 is full of web apps that make your PC slower and less enjoyable to use, so I'm excited about the prospect of a team dedicated to "100% native" apps. I've been writing about technology for ...
TweakTown

Microsoft is forming a new team to replace web apps with 100% native apps on Windows 11

TL;DR: Microsoft plans to enhance Windows 11 by creating fully native apps built entirely on the WinUI framework, improving performance and responsiveness. A new team led by Rudy Huyn will focus on ...
TechSpot

Microsoft plans 100% native Windows 11 apps in major shift away from web wrappers

First look: Microsoft plans to build 100% native apps for Windows 11 and launch an initiative centered on a new team focused on native experiences instead of web-based wrappers. The company has also ...
Windows Report

Microsoft Brings OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 Agentic Coding Model to GitHub Copilot

OpenAI’s latest model has quickly found its way into Microsoft’s developer tools. Merely hours after OpenAI announcenced GPT-5.4 models, Microsoft rolled it out to GitHub Copilot. The company says ...
VentureBeat

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with native computer use mode, financial plugins for Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets

The AI updates aren't slowing down. Literally two days after OpenAI launched a new underlying AI model for ChatGPT called GPT-5.3 Instant, the company has unveiled another, even more massive upgrade: ...
VentureBeat

Microsoft built Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B to know when to think — and when thinking is a waste of time

Microsoft on Tuesday released Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a compact open-weight multimodal AI model that the company says matches or exceeds the performance of systems many times its size — while ...
Microsoft

Phi-4-reasoning-vision and the lessons of training a multimodal reasoning model

In this post, we share the motivations, design choices, experiments, and learnings that informed its development, as well as an evaluation of the model’s performance and guidance on how to use it. Our ...
MacRumors

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Brings Improved Coding, Computer Use, and Office Tasks

Anthropic today updated its Sonnet model to version 4.6, and the company says it is the most capable Sonnet model to date with upgrades across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent ...