Microsoft’s new Surface PCs are cheaper — but there’s a catch

Microsoft has introduced cheaper versions of its latest Surface devices, but the lower price comes with a notable compromise: less memory and no access to Copilot+ AI features.

Congress wants Big Tech to pay AI’s power bills
Congress wants Big Tech to pay AI’s power bills

Congress is moving to stop households paying for Big Tech’s AI power bills. A House panel votes this week on a package of measures. The aim is to put AI data centre energy costs back on the companies that create them. As AI drives up electricity bills,…

Your AI coding tools may soon cost more than you
Your AI coding tools may soon cost more than you

By 2028, the AI tools a developer uses could cost more than the developer’s salary, Gartner warns. AI coding costs are climbing fast, and most companies cannot even see what they are spending. The AI coding boom has a bill, and it is growing fast. By 2…

Mistral OCR 4 targets the enterprise back office
Mistral OCR 4 targets the enterprise back office

Mistral OCR 4 reads a document like a structured map, not a wall of text. It is cheap, speaks 170 languages, and can run entirely on your own servers. Europe’s AI champion is going after the enterprise back office. Mistral has a new model, and it is no…

OpenAI built its own AI chip. The target is Nvidia.
OpenAI built its own AI chip. The target is Nvidia.

OpenAI just showed off Jalapeño, its first home-grown AI chip, built with Broadcom. It is designed for inference, not training. And it is the clearest sign yet that the company most dependent on Nvidia wants a way out. OpenAI has a chip now. On Wednesd…

Laptop prices suck these days, but here are 25 Prime Day deals that help a little
Laptop prices suck these days, but here are 25 Prime Day deals that help a little

The RAM, storage, and component crunch has come for new laptop prices. Plenty of models have gone up in price after being on the market for months, and so have those that’ve been on shelves for over a year. Plus, many new models are releasing at higher prices than the previous generation. So, it really […]

Windows 11 is getting Copilot on Microsoft 365 Business accounts again, unless you’re in Europe

Microsoft made Copilot optional in April. It’s force-installing it again in June, this time through Office updates, and EU users are the only ones being spared.

Cloudflare teams up with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge on a privacy-first anti-bot protocol
Cloudflare teams up with Chrome, Firefox, and Edge on a privacy-first anti-bot protocol

Cloudflare has announced a joint initiative with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge to develop a new internet protocol that verifies whether web traffic is legitimate without tracking users. The protocol, called Private Access Control T…

Microsoft and Chevron plan one of the largest gas-powered data center projects in US

Microsoft inked a 20-year power purchase agreement with Chevron, locking in decades of carbon emissions from a new natural gas power plant.