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The latest Copilot coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft Launches MAI-1-Preview and MAI-Voice-1: First-Party AI Models Redefine Cost, Speed, and Audio
Microsoft has fired its opening salvo in the next phase of the AI arms race, but it isn't a declaration of war on its partners. Instead, the launch of the MAI model family—MAI-1-preview and...
Microsoft Bets on Specialized Agents with MAI-1 and Voice AI, Aiming to Slash Copilot Costs
Microsoft’s MAI initiative is no mere skunkworks project. In late summer 2025, the company began surfacing two homegrown models—a consumer-focused foundation language model and a high-speed...
Microsoft's Copilot Study Exposes AI's Grip on White-Collar Tasks — and Young Workers Are Paying the Price
Windows Central’s recent poll asking readers whether AI will jeopardize their careers struck a nerve, tapping into a raw, existential anxiety. But behind the poll’s emotional pull lies a rapidly...
People Over Code: Why Psychology Is the Real Barrier to Enterprise AI Success
The generative AI landgrab has produced a graveyard of stalled pilots. Autopsies almost always reveal the same cause: leaders bought the technology but forgot the humans. Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, a...
Windows 11 25H2 ISOs Land for Insiders as Microsoft Maps Out VBScript, EdgeHTML Deprecations
Microsoft pushed official ISO images for Windows 11 version 25H2 to the Insider download portal this week, giving enterprise imaging teams, OEMs, and security vendors the first clean-install media...
UK Trial Reveals Copilot's Productivity Promise Fails to Materialize, While ChatGPT Projects Go Free
A major UK government evaluation of Microsoft Copilot has concluded that, despite high user satisfaction and some time savings on routine tasks, the AI assistant does not deliver clear productivity...
Laid Off by Microsoft? Try Using ChatGPT to Cope, Xbox Exec Posted — Then Deleted It
A senior Xbox Game Studios producer published—and swiftly deleted—a LinkedIn post urging colleagues laid off by Microsoft to use generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Copilot to manage not just...
Waitaki’s AI Blueprint: 52 Licences, $21K, and a Human in Every Loop
When a Long-Term Plan consultation at Waitaki District Council drew 600 submissions—ten times the usual number—the small rural council faced a public-sector nightmare: a deluge of public input...
Unlocking Windows 11's Hidden Superpowers: Snap Layouts, Focus Sessions, and Beyond
Minutes lost to window resizing, notification spam, and repetitive copy-pasting add up. Windows 11 ships with a collection of built-in tools that many users never discover, yet they can reclaim that...
OpenAI’s Nonprofit to Get $100B+ Stake in For-Profit Arm Under Microsoft MOU
{ "title": "OpenAI’s Nonprofit to Get $100B+ Stake in For-Profit Arm Under Microsoft MOU", "content": "OpenAI has disclosed that its nonprofit arm could receive an equity stake exceeding $100...
Windows 11 Insider Update Delivers Smoother Auto-Hide Taskbar, Tests Copilot Suggestions in Start
Microsoft is using its latest Windows 11 Insider preview builds to simultaneously fix a years-old taskbar annoyance and experiment with turning the Start menu into a promotional surface for its...
Windows 11 25H2: Sudo, Wi-Fi 7, and Native Archives Arrive, but Copilot+ AI Still Gated
Microsoft began rolling out Windows 11 version 25H2 this week, delivering a lightweight enablement package that activates several practical features seeded into the 24H2 codebase—including a native...