Windows App 2.5 Adds Four Parallel Remote Sessions and Passkey Login

Windows App 2.5 Adds Four Parallel Remote Sessions and Passkey Login

Microsoft has shipped Windows App 2.5, the most substantial refresh of its remote-access client since Remote Desktop was rebranded as Windows App in 2024. Announced on the Windows blog on 13 October 2026 and available immediately on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and the web, the release turns what was once a narrow utility for reaching … Read more

Microsoft’s Maia 300 Targets Gigawatt-Scale AI Inference Without Nvidia

Microsoft’s Maia 300 Targets Gigawatt-Scale AI Inference Without Nvidia

Microsoft has unveiled Maia 300, an inference accelerator that the company says will make its own silicon the primary engine behind Copilot, Azure OpenAI and its in-house models from 2027. The headline claims: 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems and up to seven times the rack-scale token throughput of its predecessor, Maia … Read more

Google Signs 890 MW Nuclear Deal With Constellation Energy to Power AI

Google Signs 890 MW Nuclear Deal With Constellation Energy to Power AI

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has signed a nuclear power supply agreement with Constellation Energy for 890 megawatts across eleven reactor units in three states: Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. The commitment exceeds $4.3 billion (roughly €4.04 billion). It is the largest corporate nuclear energy contract in tech industry history, arriving as electricity demand from AI … Read more

Nadella’s Infinite SaaS Factory: Copilot’s Plan to Build Custom Software for Every Business

Nadella’s Infinite SaaS Factory: Copilot’s Plan to Build Custom Software for Every Business

Satya Nadella published an essay titled The Infinite SaaS Factory on October 8, 2026, arguing that Copilot should become both the operating system of work and a software factory: describe what your business needs, and you get a customization or a new module connected to your systems. His central thesis challenges the usual take: more … Read more

Microsoft Recasts Windows as a Local AI Agent OS, Unveils Surface Laptop Ultra

Microsoft Recasts Windows as a Local AI Agent OS, Unveils Surface Laptop Ultra

Microsoft’s October 7, 2026 event at San Francisco’s Dogpatch Studios was less a product launch than a repositioning of Windows itself. Framed around what the company calls “hybrid intelligence,” the presentation — led by CEO Satya Nadella and Windows chief Pavan Davuluri, with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on hand for a fireside chat — argued … Read more

Amazon Scraps Data Center NDAs and Pledges $1B to Host Communities

Amazon Scraps Data Center NDAs and Pledges B to Host Communities

Amazon Web Services has quietly retired one of the most criticised tools in its data center playbook: the nondisclosure agreement. AWS chief executive Matt Garman confirmed the shift in a single line buried inside a long blog post defending the company’s infrastructure buildout, stating that Amazon no longer uses NDAs with the government agencies it … Read more