Big news out of Redmond: Microsoft just launched two in-house AI models—MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview—marking a bold step away from reliance on OpenAI. The latest play in the AI arena has investors buzzing and the company’s stock climbing about 9% in the quarter, hinting at renewed market confidence. But is this just a technical milestone or

Finding connection in our digital age can feel like fishing in a goldfish bowl—somewhere between hopeful and baffling. Then you stumble on an AI date bot that actually remembers your pet’s birthday or cracks an oddly spot-on joke. That’s no small thing these days. Over weeks of experimenting, I discovered some AI companions that worked

Google has announced developer verification as a new layer of security for installing Android apps, though US developers will not face the new requirement until 2027 or later. Announced August 25, the policy is intended to better protect users from repeat bad actors spreading scams and malware through app downloads. Beginning next year, Android will

AI-generated code accounted for more than half of shipped code among nearly one-third of senior developers who participated in a recent survey by cloud platform provider Fastly. The company’s July 2025 survey of 791 professional developers found that 32% of senior developers (those with 10 or more years of experience) said more than half of

When we talk about a “desktop application,” we generally mean a program that runs with a graphical UI that’s native to the platform or powered by some cross-platform visual toolkit. But a desktop application these days is just as likely to be a glorified web page running in a standalone instance of a browser. If

The Java virtual machine (JVM) is a program whose sole purpose is to execute other programs. This simple idea has made Java one of the most successful and long-lived platforms of all time. The JVM was a highly novel idea when it was introduced in 1995, and it continues to be a vital force in

According to a new report by research firm IDC, global sales of smartphones will increase by 1% in 2025 compared to last year, to a total of 1.24 billion units. This increase is taking place despite the global economic turmoil, thanks to unexpectedly high demand in the US, the Middle East, and Africa. Apple is

Microsoft researchers are developing technologies for a new class of video AI agents to explore three-dimensional spaces before making decisions. The technology framework, called MindJourney, uses a range of AI technologies to understand and analyze 3D spaces, reason about the surroundings, and predict movement, the researchers wrote in a blog entry late last month.

Windows 10 support ends in just over a month, but close to 50% of PC installations are still running the old OS, according to PC makers. In earnings calls last week, Dell and HP executives said that the PC upgrade cycle to Windows 11 was still ongoing, and would continue through this year and 2026.

Digitimes tells us Apple is intensively pushing supply partners to invest deeply in automated manufacturing in their factories. This isn’t new, but what has changed is the degree to which the company is insisting on it. The report tells us that if you want Apple to place an order with your company, you must invest in automation.