After years leaning on OpenAI’s foundation models, Microsoft’s in-house AI division has this week underlined the software giant’s determination to strike out on its own. On Thursday, after months of speculation that something important was coming, Microsoft AI finally announced MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview, the first models developed and trained entirely in-house. MAI-Voice-1 is a natural

Ah, the cloud. It sounds so light, so fluffy, so worry-free — doesn’t it? Here in the real world, though, cloud services aren’t always so simple. With Google Drive, specifically, whether you’re storing and managing multimedia assets or dealing with documents and spreadsheets, there’s a decent chance you’ll run into some manner of murkiness along

A Windows launch isn’t the end a process — it’s really just the beginning. Microsoft continually works on improving Windows 11 by fixing bugs, releasing security patches, and occasionally adding new features. In this story we summarize what you need to know about each update released to the public for the most recent version of

Windows 11 24H2 has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls out public preview builds to members of its Windows Insider Program, allowing them to test out — and even help shape — upcoming features. Skip to the latest builds The

Your freedom and privacy are at risk as the UK government continues its dangerous attempt to drive a great hole into data security, despite the vast weight of warnings that doing so will make all of us far less safe.  In almost complete secrecy and without any mandate to do so, the UK has been demanding that

OpenAI is still reeling from the disappointing launch of its latest GPT-5 model. It’s being pelted with lawsuits from left and right, for alleged crimes like mass copyright infringement and colluding to ice out its competitors. More than ever, it’s being criticized for its chatbot’s alarming proclivity to not only give dangerous advice, but convince

That distant ringing? It’s the sound of the Taco Bell death knell, tolling for the restaurant chain’s shambolic AI-powered drive-thrus. We exaggerate, but only a little. The much-maligned tech experiment, which has been deployed at 500 Taco Bell locations across the United States, isn’t quite dead yet. But it’s received enough backlash since being unleashed on

In classrooms, reactions to the rise of artificial intelligence have ranged from abject horror from some educators to excited adoption from others. With ChatGPT approaching its three-year birthday, we’ve seen students and teachers alike issue all kinds of complaints and defenses — and this latest one might take the cake for the more extreme backlash we’ve

The New York Police Department is one of the most heavily equipped police forces on the planet. With over 48,000 full-time staff and a budget nearing $6 billion, the NYPD’s access to immense resources put it closer to the military force of entire countries like the Philippines and Iraq than a municipal agency. With that

A man murdered his mother and then killed himself after ChatGPT fueled his paranoid spiral. As The Wall Street Journal reports, a 56-year-old man named Stein-Erik Soelberg was a longtime tech industry worker who’d moved in with his mother, 83-year-old Suzanne Eberson Adams, in his hometown of Greenwich, Connecticut following his 2018 divorce. Soelberg, as the WSJ