Qualcomm listing sparks Xbox on Arm rumours
Next-gen Xbox won’t dump AMD for Snapdragon just yet
Speculation's swirling after a Qualcomm job listing hinted that Xbox might be dabbling with Snapdragon silicon. But insiders reckon you can stop panicking about your game library just yet, the next-gen Xbox isn't going Arm-native.
Microsoft buries Surface Laptop Studio
No successor in sight
Software King of the World, Microsoft has quietly killed off the Surface Laptop Studio 2, ending production without so much as a farewell tweet and offering no sign of a Surface Laptop Studio 3 to follow.
Nadella reckons DeepSeek finally gave OpenAI competition
Chinese AI startup's R1 model scored real points
DeepSeek’s R1 model has done what no one else has managed and gotten Microsoft's top brass to admit OpenAI might finally have a proper rival.
Fresh layoffs at Microsoft
More than 6,000 Voles to go
Software King of the World, Microsoft is sharpening the axe again, swinging for three per cent of its global workforce to strip out middle managers and trim its flabby international operations.
Microsoft and OpenAI bicker over AI
Reworking their multibillion-dollar bromance
OpenAI and the software King of the World Microsoft are reworking their multibillion-dollar bromance so the ChatGPT maker can flog shares in a future IPO without losing its golden pipeline to AI wizardry.
Chipzilla returning to greatness with 18A node
Nvidia, Google, and Microsoft sniff around Intel’s foundry comeback
Troubled Chipzilla might finally be catching a break. After years of being flattened by TSMC’s relentless march and its own comically late roadmap slips, Intel’s foundry arm may have stumbled onto its redemption arc with the 18A process.
Microsoft axes cheaper Surface configs
It’s not a price hike, just a price “clarification”
Software King of the World Microsoft has quietly booted the 256GB versions of last year’s 13.8-inch Surface Laptop 7 and 13-inch Surface Pro 11 off its store, leaving only pricier 512GB and 1TB options starting at $1,199.
Xbox buttoned up in black
Two versions, one secret handshake with Vole
Images from certification agencies have prematurely unboxed the Asus ROG Ally 2. The surprise is that one of them appears to be Vole's long-rumoured Xbox handheld.
Microsoft stuffs Windows 11 with AI
Windows 11 getting more AI tools than you can poke a stick at
The Software King of the World, Microsoft is flooding Windows 11 with new AI tools but only Copilot+ PCs with Snapdragon X chips can run them, with Intel and AMD hardware coming later.
Microsoft flogs AI to the cloud
Azure finally stops underachieving
The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street gave the software king of the world Microsoft a standing ovation on 1 May after the company finally managed to deliver what it had been teasing for months—decent cloud growth with an AI cherry on top.