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As Windows Turns 40, Microsoft Rebuilds It for the AI Era

While some companies claim they’re building an agentic operating system, Microsoft is doing it at a far larger scale—and you won’t need a Copilot+ PC to see it. At this year’s Ignite conference, the software maker is rolling out a broad slate of Windows upgrades, including deeper Copilot integration, AI-driven system management, expanded personalization and […]

Apps

Microsoft Edge Lets Developers Add AI to Web Apps Without the Cloud

Microsoft is upgrading its Edge browser with new AI capabilities. At this year’s Build conference, the company unveiled a set of AI APIs allowing developers to seamlessly integrate AI features into their web apps, powered by models built directly into the browser. This experimental API set includes methods for prompting and generating content. These are […]

Apps

AI Agents Are Coming to Windows—Here’s How Microsoft Is Making It Happen

Human-agent collaboration is moving beyond the cloud. It’s coming to the edge. At its 2025 Build conference, Microsoft unveiled the Windows AI Foundry, a development platform that will bring model building, fine-tuning, and local deployment capabilities to Windows 11. The company also announced native support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a framework that allows […]

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s New Phi-4 Variants Show Just How Far Small AI Can Go

Microsoft is doubling down on small language models with new Phi-4 variants that aim to prove a bold idea: small AI can think big. The new Phi-4-reasoning, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, and Phi-4-mini-reasoning models are optimized for complex tasks, such as math and coding, and outperform much larger models while running on devices with limited resources. While we […]