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How Google, Microsoft and OpenAI came to shape what US children learn

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On a humid afternoon in the summer of 2025, Microsoft representatives waited as about 200 teachers filed into a conference hall in downtown Manhattan. The subject was AI chatbots. The team presented Copilot and had the teachers practise using it to write emails to parents and customise lesson plans. They screened an explainer video from […]

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An okay laptop with 16GB of RAM is better than a nice laptop with 8GB, and this $520 HP OmniBook proves it

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Laptop prices are out of whack. $500 used to get you a tolerable laptop, and $900 got you a really good one. They often had similar CPU, RAM, and storage options because that stuff was comparatively cheap; the difference was often in build quality and screen rather than power. But RAMageddon has thrown everything off. […]

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Meta pays Microsoft hundreds of millions a year to rent AI models

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Meta is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year buying access to AI models through Microsoft’s cloud. The company runs trillions of tokens a week through Azure, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified. That makes Meta one of Microsoft’s largest AI customers. Both companies declined […]

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China is removing Microsoft’s Windows 10 from state agencies

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China is removing a government version of Microsoft’s Windows 10 from state agencies, earlier than planned. The Ministry of State Security recently told some state-linked entities to uninstall the customised software, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The instruction stemmed from data security concerns, they said. They did not specify the vulnerabilities involved. […]

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Cursor Origin is on by default for paid users, and its data terms are unpublished

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Cursor started rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, on Monday morning. About three and a half hours later GitHub fell over. The order matters, because most of the internet reversed it. Matt Palmer works at Cursor. He quote-tweeted his own company’s launch with a line that then travelled further than the product. Cursor […]

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GitHub disputes Wiz’s claim that Copilot Autofix wrote a Snowflake flaw

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A security company said on Monday that an AI wrote a critical flaw into Snowflake’s code, and that another AI found it and broke in. The second half holds up. The first half came apart in about eight hours. What is left is still worth your attention. It is just not the story that travelled. […]

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Microsoft is killing its AI mascot, ten months after building it

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The cull lands on Tuesday. Group Chat, Podcasts, Copilot Labs and consumer Deep Research all retire that day, according to Microsoft’s own support page. Mico goes at the same time, out of the voice experience and into Learn Live as a tutor. The whole thing sits inside a bigger change. Microsoft has started merging its […]

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Microsoft told Google it was overreacting in 2010. It has spent five years quietly leaving China

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Corporate filings show the closures, Reuters reported in an exclusive. The revenue figure is the one that explains the rest. China accounted for 1.5% of global revenue as of 2024. Microsoft has no current plan to exit. It has simply stopped growing there. Put 1.5% against the scale of the company and it almost disappears. […]

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Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot

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Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot’s voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it’s going to move Mico to its Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have “more to react to,” as reported earlier by GeekWire. Mico launched in Copilot’s voice mode last […]

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