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  Microsoft Windows Users in Europe Can Now Uninstall Microsoft Store, Disable Microsoft Edge Default Prompts

  Microsoft is rolling out noteworthy updates to Windows 10 and 11 for users in Europe, to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act. The update disables prompts to set Microsoft Edge as the default browser and even lets users uninstall the Microsoft Store app, while still receiving application updates.

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  Anthropic’s Claude AI Chatbot Gets Voice Mode Feature, Offers Real-Time Two-Way Conversations

  Anthropic is finally adding Voice Mode capability to its Claude chatbot. On Tuesday, the artificial intelligence (AI) firm announced the rollout of the real-time two-way voice conversation feature, which will be available in Claude’s mobile apps. Similar to its recently released web search feature, the company is late to the voice mode party, wit...

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  Sundar Pichai Takes Subtle Swipe At Satya Nadella Over "Dance" Comment Amid AI Race

  "I think maybe only one of them has invited me to a dance, not the others," Pichai said with a smile.

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  Microsoft Recall Finally Rolls Out to Copilot+ PCs; New AI-Powered Productivity Tools Announced

  Microsoft unveiled three new artificial intelligence (AI) features for Copilot+ PCs on Friday. These new features are part of the company’s preview update for April 2025, with a plan to be rolled out to all users next month. Among them, the Redmond-based tech giant is finally rolling out Recall, an AI feature that takes periodic screenshots of th...

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  Motorola Adds New Features to Moto AI; Teams Up With Google, Microsoft and Perplexity

  Motorola announced major upgrades for Moto AI, the company’s in-house artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. Announced on Thursday, the Lenovo-owned brand is adding four new AI features to Moto AI — Next Move, Playlist Studio, Image Studio and Look and Talk. Additionally, the company is also partnering with major AI players such as Google, Meta,...

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  Motorola’s Upcoming Devices Will Reportedly Feature Perplexity, Microsoft AI Apps

  Motorola’s upcoming smartphones could reportedly come with artificial intelligence (AI) apps from Perplexity and Microsoft pre-installed. As per the report, a Google executive revealed the information during a testimony for the company’s ongoing antitrust case in the US. The Mountain View-based tech giant is accused of illegally monopolising th...

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  "We Missed What Google Executed Flawlessly": Satya Nadella On Microsoft's Biggest Mistake

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has admitted that one of his biggest mistakes was failing to predict the dominance of search, a market that Google successfully capitalised on.

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  Microsoft Hit by French Antitrust Probe Over Rivals’ Bing Access

  Officials from the French antitrust authority are probing Microsoft to see if it is unfairly dumping bad search results onto smaller engines that rely on Bing’s huge reservoir of search results, according to people familiar with the matter.

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  Microsoft Paint Gets a New Copilot Menu, Windows Search Expanded to Support OneDrive Files

  Microsoft released a new Windows 11 Insider Preview build on Friday that makes changes to the Paint app and improves the Windows Search functionality. The new beta update is currently available to Windows Insider users in the Canary and Dev channels. With this, Microsoft Paint’s artificial intelligence (AI) features are now available inside a new...

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  Microsoft Adds DeepSeek-R1 AI Model to Its Azure AI Foundry and GitHub

  Microsoft added support for the recently released DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model to its Azure AI Foundry and GitHub on Wednesday. The reasoning-focused AI model can now be accessed via these platforms. The Redmond-based tech giant also highlighted that it has conducted rigorous safety evaluations to ensure that the model is safe to ...

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  Microsoft Brings Semantic Indexing to Windows Search on Snapdragon-Powered Copilot+ PCs

  Microsoft released a new Windows 11 Insider preview build on Friday. The new update adds the improved Windows Search feature in preview to the Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs. These artificial intelligence (AI) enabled devices will now support natural language or semantic searches for files stored locally. This means users can type conversational c...

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  Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine Reportedly Spoofed Its Results Page to Make It Appear Like Google

  Microsoft Bing has reportedly changed the user interface of its search result page to make it appear like Google. As per the report, this particular result page design only appears when users search for “Google” on the Bing search engine. The result page reportedly imitates several elements from Google’s home page such as a doodle on top of t...

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  Google CEO Sundar Pichai Says Search Will "Change Profoundly" In 2025

  Mr Pichai also responded to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's earlier comment that Google should have been the "default winner" in the AI race.

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  Microsoft's AI-Powered Recall Finally Rolling Out to Copilot+ PCs With Windows 11 Insider Preview

  Microsoft is rolling out its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Recall feature with the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview update, the company has announced. The feature first debuted at the Microsoft Surface and AI event in May but its initial version faced criticism due to privacy and security concerns. and hence, its rollout to Windows Insider...

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  Meta Reportedly Developing an AI-Powered Search Engine to Take on Google and Microsoft’s Bing

  Meta is reportedly developing an artificial intelligence (AI) search engine. According to a report, the social media giant wants to compete with existing players such as Google, Microsoft’s Bing, and DuckDuckGo. The company reportedly plans to use AI for the search engine, likely giving it a Perplexity-like avatar. Key details about the platform...