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Microsoft's Build 27938 Brings AI Image Editing to File Explorer and a Seconds Clock
Microsoft gave Windows Insiders in the Canary Channel a new reason to right-click: on September 8, 2025, Build 27938 delivered AI-powered image editing directly within File Explorer. The experimental...
Microsoft Sneaks AI Image Editing into File Explorer as Canary Build 27938 Lands with Privacy Logs and a Seconds Clock
Microsoft's latest experimental Windows 11 build, 27938, quietly slipped into the Canary channel this week, but don't let the familiar feature list fool you. Beneath a right-click AI image editing...
Microsoft's Canary Channel Debuts AI Editing and Visual Search in File Explorer Context Menus
Microsoft has started rolling out AI-powered contextual actions directly within File Explorer's right-click menu, offering image editing and web search capabilities without leaving the file browser....
Alphabet Shares Jump as Judge Spares Chrome and Android from Sale, Mandates Data Sharing
Alphabet’s stock surged nearly 9% in a single trading session after a federal judge handed down a remedies ruling that steered clear of the most feared outcomes—a forced sale of the Chrome...
Microsoft’s AI Copilot Lands in Business, but Productivity Revolution Still Stalled
Generative AI is reshaping how companies work, but the promised economic boom has yet to materialize. A new analysis from Albanian news outlet Panorama underscores a stubborn reality: while tools...
69% of Job Seekers Now Use AI to Find Work, Pushing HR to Rewrite the Rules of Hiring
Sixty-nine percent of job applicants now use artificial intelligence to search for or match their work history with relevant job listings, according to the 2025 Job Seeker Nation Report by Employ,...
Thunder Lizard AI Roguelike Hits 10 FPS, But Real-Time Rendering's Latency and Consistency Barriers Remain
Jeff Schomay's weekend experiment—pumping the ASCII-based roguelike Thunder Lizard through generative AI models to transform its sparse characters into photorealistic, lava-lit jungles in real...
Microsoft Sued Over Windows 10 End-of-Life: AI Monopoly and E-Waste Concerns Mount
A Southern California man has filed a state lawsuit accusing Microsoft of deliberately orchestrating the end of Windows 10 support to force hardware upgrades, boost adoption of artificial...
Docler Layoffs Blamed on AI—Microsoft Data Exposes the Occupations Most at Risk
Docler Holding’s decision to lay off more than a hundred employees—and explicitly blame an “AI-driven reorganisation”—has dragged the quiet march of automation into the harsh light of a...
Microsoft’s 200K-Chat Study Shows Which 40 Jobs AI Is Reshaping Now—and Which It Can’t Touch
Microsoft has quietly conducted one of the largest behavioral studies of generative AI in the workplace, analyzing more than 200,000 real Copilot conversations to map exactly where large language...
Prompt Engineering for Good: How NetHope and Microsoft Are Training Nonprofits on Copilot in 90 Minutes
Nonprofits can now access free, CPD-certified training in Microsoft Copilot and generative AI through a new program designed to fit into a single afternoon. NetHope, with support from Microsoft, has...
San Francisco’s Copilot Chat Rollout Gives 30K Staff 5 Hours Back Weekly—at No Extra Cost
San Francisco has quietly executed one of the largest municipal deployments of generative AI in the United States, rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat—powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o—to roughly...