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OpenAI’s ChatGPT may be crushing Microsoft Copilot, but Microsoft has a plan. And Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, offered up some clues about that plan on a podcast last week. He said OpenAI is interested in “superintelligence and AGI” — while Microsoft is interested in “craft and delight.” Microsoft wants to create AI life companions, and Suleyman’s appearance on The Colin and Samir Show provided lots of details about what that could look l

Once again, Microsoft software is at the center of a massive global attack that has victimized vital US government agencies and businesses around the world. This time, the security hole is in SharePoint, Microsoft’s widely used collaboration software used to build company and agency websites, manage files and documents, and help people share and work together on documents.  SharePoint also works with Outlook email and Microsoft’s Teams collaboration software, making the hack that much more dangerous. Only on-premises SharePoint servers have t

Every now and then, a new phone feature comes along that really makes you sit up and say: “Now, that’s cool.” Today, my fellow Android-appreciating animal, is one of those days — quite literally. No exaggeration: When I first found and tried out the feature we’re about to go over, just a few moments ago, I sat up straight in my chair, made that vaguely Robert-DeNiro-like weird-mouth face that you make when you’re impressed with something, and said out loud to no one in particular: “Now, that’s cool.” Luckily, I write this column. So what might otherwise come across as crazy can now come across as relatable instead.

When Indian energy giant Nayara Energy sued Microsoft on Monday for cutting off all paid-for services with no notice, it highlighted a relatively new risk for CIOs to worry about.  This goes beyond a vendor not delivering what it was supposed to, or outages that halt services. It raises the ugly scenario of a major partner deliberately cutting off services to an enterprise for any of a wide range of reasons.  In this instance, the cutoff was sought by the European Union (EU), in an attempt to pressure Russia to back off its assaults on Ukraine. But what if the requester was a government that just didn’t like what an enterprise said or did? What if the vendor itself was ups

Experimental AI browsers are previewing new ways of browsing the internet and Microsoft this week joined the fray. The company on Monday introduced “Copilot Mode,” an AI extension designed to automate web browsing and add context to internet content. Users can switch on “Copilot Mode” in Edge for summarization, personalized results, and to compare results across tabs. A chatbot helps users interact with search results and go deeper into searches. “With Copilot Mode on, you enable innovative AI features in Edge that enhance your browser,” said 

India is taking off in America, biting big chunks out of a smartphone market once served by Chinese manufacturing. This trend isn’t particularly surprising to any Apple watcher, but what might be of interest is the absolute speed with which the market is changing. The latest data tells us that the number of smartphones sold in the US, but made in China, tumbled in the second quarter from 61% to 25%. Apple has been a key component in this transformation with its decision to import iPhones for the US market from India. Apple is the “main driver” of change, 

Google is making a strategic play in the AI PC space in a bid to slow Microsoft’s generative AI (genAI) technologies in Windows 11 from gobbling up every desktop. The company is promoting its brand of AI PCs with Gemini AI services integrated into ChromeOS, which is a Linux-based OS in Chromebooks. The goal: make Gemini a viable alternative to Microsoft’s Copilot, which is prepackaged in Windows 11. Microsoft has classified AI PCs as laptops with specialized neural chips that can run genAI tools without an internet connection. The company 

Chinese AI firm Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu, has launched GLM-4.5, an open-source language model designed for intelligent agent applications, as competition heats up among China’s fast-growing generative AI startups.GLM-4.5 will be available in two versions, with the flagship model featuring 355 billion parameters and a lighter variant, GLM-4.5-Air, running on 106 billion parameters. “Its performance in reasoning, coding, and agentic capabilities has been evaluated on 12 representative benchmarks,” the company said in a statement. “Based on the average score across all these benchmarks, GLM-4.5 has secured third place globally and the first place among both domestic an

AI-powered AVs are increasingly honking, taking sharper turns, rolling through stop signs, or edging into crosswalks — mimicking human behavior that ironically could make them safer vehicles. The vehicles use AI to observe and shadow human behavior as they traverse millions of miles of roadways. Tesla’s Shadow Mode, for example, quietly monitors human driving, comparing it to the system’s own choices to improve autonomous performance over time, according to Jonathan Davenport, a Gartner senior director analyst. “However, this also raises an important question:

Windows 11 24H2 has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls out public preview builds to members of its Windows Insider Program, allowing them to test out — and even help shape — upcoming features. Skip to the latest builds The Windows Insider program is divided into four channels: The Canary Channel is where platform changes (such as major updates to the Windows kernel and new APIs) are previewed. These changes are not tied to a particular Windows release and may never ship at all. Li