Artificial Intelligence
The latest Artificial Intelligence coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft Copilot Study: The Real Jobs AI Is Transforming, and Why It's Not an Apocalypse
Microsoft researchers have crunched 200,000 real-world Copilot interactions to build a first-of-its-kind occupational map of AI disruption, and the results upend years of pundit speculation. By...
OpenAI Drops Apache 2.0 GPT-OSS Models: On-Device and Cloud AI Now Unified on Windows and Azure
OpenAI has completely upended its playbook. On Tuesday, the company released two new open-weight models—gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b—under the permissive Apache 2.0 license. It’s the first time...
Microsoft Debuts OpenAI's gpt-oss-20b on Windows 11 for Agentic Local AI — But Hallucinations Remain a Concern
Microsoft has quietly opened the door to a new breed of local AI on Windows 11 by making OpenAI's gpt-oss-20b, an open-source 20-billion-parameter language model, available through Windows AI...
Jim Cramer Hails Microsoft’s Dominance as AI Energy Crisis Looms
Microsoft’s stellar quarterly earnings and Jim Cramer’s effusive praise—he said the company is “doing incredibly well in every single phase of its business” on a recent broadcast—paint a...
Microsoft Azure Stores 200 Million Hours of Intercepted Palestinian Calls, Investigation Finds
Israel’s elite military intelligence unit has been using Microsoft Azure to build and operate a colossal surveillance system that hoovers up Palestinian phone calls on an industrial scale, a joint...
Microsoft’s Copilot Data Exposes 10 Jobs AI Can’t Replace—Yet
Microsoft’s latest deep dive into workplace AI has turned up a counterintuitive finding: while writers, translators, and customer service reps face mounting automation pressure, a distinct set of...
Forget Mouse and Keyboard: Microsoft’s Windows 2030 Will See, Hear, and Talk Back
By 2030, using a mouse and keyboard on Windows could feel as foreign as the MS-DOS command line does today, according to Microsoft’s head of OS security. In a rare and candid interview, David...
Microsoft Integrates Open-Source GPT-OSS-20B into Windows 11 for Privacy-Focused On-Device AI
Microsoft’s decision to integrate the open-source GPT-OSS-20B language model into Windows 11, via its Windows AI Foundry initiative, is poised to redefine what users can expect from mainstream...
Microsoft Study Reveals AI’s Disruptive Impact on Knowledge Work and Job Vulnerability
Few developments in the modern workplace have generated as much excitement—and anxiety—as the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI), especially generative tools like Microsoft Copilot and...
Microsoft CLIO: Revolutionizing Scientific AI with Self-Evolving Reasoning and Transparency
A fundamental transformation is underway in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly in how science is conducted and discoveries are made. Microsoft’s CLIO initiative stands out as a...
Microsoft and OpenAI Launch GPT-OSS-20B: A Breakthrough Open-Weight AI Model Integrated Natively in Windows 11
A new era of personal computing is unfolding as Microsoft and OpenAI deliver a major leap in artificial intelligence with the launch of GPT-OSS-20B—a powerful, open-weight large language...
UNSW Launches Scout: An AI-Powered Virtual Assistant Transforming Student Support in Higher Education
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney has become a vanguard in redefining student support for the digital age with the launch of Scout, an agentic AI-powered virtual assistant. Scout is...