Articles from July 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in July 2026
EU Parliament Readies Internal AI Hub to Keep Lawmakers Off Public Chatbots
{ "title": "EU Parliament Readies Internal AI Hub to Keep Lawmakers Off Public Chatbots", "content": "The European Parliament is building an internal, secure AI platform to stop lawmakers and...
Moonshot’s Kimi K3 Surpasses Claude and GPT in Front-End Coding — Here’s What Windows Developers Should Know
On July 17, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model from Beijing startup Moonshot AI shot to the top of the Frontend Code Arena leaderboard, unseating Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s...
Anthropic's Claude Code Creator Says the 'AI Harness' Is Here — What Windows Developers Must Know
Boris Cherny, the head of Anthropic's Claude Code project, says the era of developers typing out every line is giving way to a new model where they instruct, supervise, and constrain AI agents that...
Augment CEO: Without Deep Project Context, Even the Smartest AI Coding Assistants Will Fail You
AI coding assistants can now generate syntactically flawless code in dozens of languages, but Augment CEO Scott Perneti warns that without a deep understanding of your specific project—its...
Don’t Let Users Archive SharePoint Files Without a Plan: Disable the Default Before Your Pilot
Microsoft’s SharePoint Online now includes file-level archiving for every site that has Microsoft 365 Archive enabled—and it’s turned on by default. Any employee with edit permissions can...
Samsung GAIA NPU: The Add-on AI Chip That Could Sidestep Microsoft's Copilot+ Rules
Samsung Electronics has begun testing a standalone neural processing unit (NPU) for Windows PCs with HP and Lenovo, according to a report from South Korean outlet ChosunBiz. The chip, codenamed GAIA,...
Bigdata.com Launches Token-Based Content Licensing: A 100× Cheaper Way to Ground Copilot?
On July 20, 2026, RavenPack lifted the lid on a content licensing overhaul that could reshape how Windows-centric organizations pay for Copilot’s external grounding. The new system, built into its...
Microsoft Ships Coreutils for Windows with Conflict Manager: A Safe Adoption Roadmap
Microsoft released Coreutils for Windows on June 2, 2026, bringing native Unix-style commands like ls, cat, and grep directly to the Windows command line. A June 16 servicing update added the...
Azure Taps AMD's Helios AI Racks to Ease Compute Crunch, but Capacity Details Remain Scarce
Microsoft committed to a large-scale deployment of AMD’s Helios rack-scale artificial intelligence infrastructure, giving Azure’s own services and its paying cloud customers access to...
VS Code 1.126–1.128 Bring Agentic AI Features by Default: How to Disable Them on Windows
Microsoft shipped three Visual Studio Code updates in rapid succession between June 24 and July 8, 2026, packing the releases with agentic AI capabilities that, in many developers' eyes, overshadow...
Microsoft Will Delete All Your AI-Generated Podcasts on August 18 – No Export Option Provided
On August 18, 2026, every podcast you’ve ever asked Microsoft Copilot to create will disappear permanently. Microsoft has confirmed it is retiring the Copilot Podcasts feature for consumers, and...
Riot's Status Page Should Be Your First Stop for League Login Errors, Not Windows Settings
A July 19 guide from Technobezz delivers a clear message for Windows players locked out of League of Legends: before you nuke your installation, reset your network, or start flipping Windows security...