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Microsoft has been working on some Windows 11 updates that it’s starting to bring to all users after testing them with Windows Insiders. Among other things, the company said it made the operating system up to 20 percent more responsive, in part by improving memory efficiency and management. For instance, Windows 11 “can now keep…

Old-school physics-based weather forecasting and even new AI models typically become less reliable beyond two weeks, a problem Microsoft claims to have solved using machine learning. Researchers with the company say they’ve found a new, cost-effective way to make more accurate weather forecasts two to six weeks in advance — allowing farmers and emergency responders…

In an October 12, 2026 announcement, Microsoft Research introduced StudentSim, a research system that builds a personalized simulator for each individual student, capturing how that student answers questions and how the answers shift after a tutor’s guidance. The work also introduces StudentSimEval, a benchmark and evaluation protocol covering chess, second-language English writing, and mathematics, and…

Microsoft President Brad Smith is calling for urgent regulation of AI, and his argument is that consumer products like milk and washing machines have more oversight than the companies building artificial intelligence.

PostedOct 9, 2026 at 10:21 PM UTC R Richard Lawler Microsoft launches its new AI model for making decisions quickly.

Charles Lamanna, the Microsoft executive who oversees Microsoft 365 and the platform behind Copilot, says most business software will end up running behind AI agents rather than in front of users. That’s bad news for a lot of apps.

Microsoft has paused the rollout of the KB5002907 Microsoft 365 update after users report that it deactivated, or in some cases completely removed, perpetual Office 2016 and Office 2019 installations.

The event is focused on “Windows, NVIDIA RTX Spark, Surface, and the broader PC ecosystem.”

It’s been more than two years since the last major Windows event, so Microsoft is heading to San Francisco next month to outline the future of Windows and Surface devices. At an event on October 7th, the company says it will host a “conversation on how local AI will shape the next chapter of the…

Relay, an AI-powered workflow automation tool built as an alternative to Zapier, shut down entirely on Monday. The product let users automate email and task workflows using AI agents, but as OpenAI, Google, and other larger platforms built similar automation directly into their own tools, five-year-old Relay struggled to hold onto a reason to exist…