1+ week, 1+ day ago   (170+ words) Project Zenith is a “developer-optimized Windows 11 experience” that will ship on “developer-class” PCs. For some reason. With a Project Zenith configuration, Windows 11 comes with a lengthy list of tools–Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, PowerToys, WinAppCLI, and the Windows Dev…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (247+ words) OpenAI released GPT -6 Astra yesterday, its latest frontier model that comes nearly two months after the general availability of the GPT-5.6 family of models. The ChatGPT developer described GPT-6 as “the world’s most intelligent and aligned model,” but it’s launching…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (556+ words) Paul Thurrott is an award-winning technology journalist and blogger with 30 years of industry experience and the author of 30 books. He is the owner of Thurrott.com and the host of three tech podcasts: Windows Weekly with Leo Laporte and Richard…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (754+ words) I spent much of the previous weekend catching up on Build 2026 session videos, with an emphasis on those related in some way to Windows 11. In doing so, a few themes emerged, but one stood out above all others. The sessions…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (217+ words) Proton announced this week that it has completed a major rewrite of Proton Drive that delivers major performance improvements and sets up a coming release on Linux. “We’ve been focused on making end-to-end encrypted cloud storage faster, smoother, and more…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (296+ words) Microsoft announced today the release of new in-house MAI models from its AI Superintelligence team. The main announcement is MAI-Thinking-1, which is the company’s first reasoning model designed to offer high efficiency at a low-token cost. MAI-Thinking-1 is available in…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (267+ words) Build 2026: Microsoft Unveils ‘Scout’ Personal Work Agent and New In-House AI Models Thurrott.com Microsoft has kicked off its annual Build developer conference today, and as expected, agentic AI is a big focus this year. The Redmond giant already launched…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (203+ words) Tied to the earlier Windows 11 developer news, Microsoft is also bringing more local AI capabilities to its Edge web browser too. “At Build 2025, we introduced the Prompt and Writing Assistance APIs in Microsoft Edge with the Phi-4-mini language model,…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (194+ words) Four weeks after its initial release, OpenAI has shipped a new version of its GPT-5.5 Instant AI model to address some issues. “We shipped a new version of GPT-5.5 Instant today,” OpenAI research lead Michelle Pokras tweeted. “The previous model…...