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Microsoft is making OpenAI’s new free and open GPT model, gpt-oss-20b, available to Windows 11 users via Windows AI Foundry, the tech giant’s platform that lets users tap AI features, APIs, and popular open-source models on their computers. The company said in a blog post that gpt‑oss-20b is “tool-savvy and lightweight,” adding: “Optimized for agentic tasks like code execution and …

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OpenAI released a new free and open GPT model yesterday that can run on a PC, and now Microsoft is making that easy to do for Windows users. The lightweight gpt-oss-20b model is now available on Windows AI Foundry, and will be coming soon to macOS, too. You’ll need a PC or laptop with at least 16GB of VRAM, so …

Microsoft is considering a stricter policy on office attendance, and the software giant could implement this as soon as January for some employees, according to people with knowledge of the plans. Implementation dates could vary across Microsoft’s offices, but the company is considering requiring employees at its Redmond, Washington, headquarters to work from the office more often starting in January, …

Perhaps unsurprisingly at this point, Microsoft’s controversial Recall feature is once again in hot water. The service, which is designed to automatically capture screenshots of your Windows desktop on a Copilot+ PC, was supposedly patched to disable it from capturing screenshots of sensitive information like credit card numbers, passwords, and more, but a new report …

It turns out there’s more to Microsoft’s 40th birthday celebrations for beloved UK studio Rare than just an ugly controller. Xbox has now outlined its full anniversary plans, which include an Evercade cartridge collection, a four-disc vinyl soundtrack, Sea of Thieves bits, and more. These days, Rare is best known for Sea of Thieves, but before that it …

For a productivity-focused operating system, Windows 11 has quite a lot of nags and prompts that often irritate users with their uncalled appearances. One of them is the so-called SCOOBE or Second-chance out-of-box experience. It shows up when you log in and won’t let you get to the desktop until you get through all the extra prompts Microsoft throws at …

There are a ton of AI products out there to choose from today, but it’s pretty clear who the big players are. There’s Google’s Gemini, with its 400 million monthly users, which sounds like a lot, until you learn ChatGPT nets 700 million users every week. That’s really no match for even Microsoft, whose AI assistant Copilot garners a humble …

IN A NUTSHELL 🌍 Helion Energy starts construction of the world’s first nuclear fusion plant in Washington, aiming for clean and low-cost electricity. 🔌 The Orion project will connect to Washington’s primary power networks, supplying energy to Microsoft data centers. 💡 Backed by Sam Altman and SoftBank, Helion’s Polaris prototype advances the pursuit of sustainable fusion energy. 🌱 The initiative …

Andrey_Popov/Shutterstock It’s been impossible to miss the headlines that have popped up over the past couple of years, but many of them have had the same message: AI is coming for our jobs. While it’s easy to get lost in the doom and gloom of the “AI revolution” we’re currently experiencing, many …