Laurent Giret

Laurent is a Senior News Editor helping Paul Thurrott with daily tech news coverage since 2022. He's been writing about the technology industry for 10 years, mainly focusing on Big Tech companies. He also was the Editorial Manager of the Petri IT Knowledgebase from 2022 to 2023. You can follow Laurent on LinkedIn, Facebook, Threads, X (Twitter), Bluesky, and Mastodon.

Laurent Giret’s Recent Posts

Amazon Generative AI Listing

Amazon’s New AI Tool Lets Sellers Create Product Pages With a Simple Link

Amazon's new generative AI listing tool now lets sellers create detailed product pages using a…

YouTube app TV redesign

YouTube is Redesigning its TV Apps to Improve Engagement

A redesigned YouTube experience on TVs will roll out to all users in the coming…

Microsoft Teams unified client

Windows 11 24H2 Build 26080 Brings Unified Teams Client and Copilot Updates

The Windows 11 Insider build 26080 brings the unified Teams client that will ship later…

Microsoft Copilot for Security

Microsoft Copilot for Security To Become Generally Available on April 1

Microsoft Copilot for Security, the company’s new AI-powered security solution that uses a natural language…

European Union flag

EU Parliament Approves Artificial Intelligence Act

The European Parliament approved today the Artificial Intelligence act, the world’s first AI legislation aiming…

Spotify Music Videos

Spotify Adds Music Videos For Premium Users in Select Markets

Spotify has started rolling out music videos for Premium members in 11 markets today. Music…

Microsoft Surface AI PC Copilot

Microsoft Releases March 2024 Patch Tuesday Updates

The March 2024 Patch Tuesday Update for Windows 11 adds a new Snipping tool feature…

Skype Channels

Skype Doubles Down on News Content With New Channels Feature

Skype is adding a Channels feature allowing users to follow news from publications available on…

My iPhone 15 Pro Max

Apple Will Let iOS Users in the EU to Download Apps Directly From Websites

Apple will soon allow iOS users in the EU to download to download apps directly…

Copilot GPT Builder

Copilot GPT Builder Now Lets Copilot Pro Users Create Custom GPTs

With Copilot GPT Builder, Copilot Pro users can create custom versions of Microsoft’s Copilot assistant…

xAI Grok

Elon Musk Says xAI’s Grok Chatbot Will Go Open Source This Week

Grok, the AI chatbot launched by Elon Musk's new xAI startup in November will be…

Copilot Actions taskbar

New Windows 11 Beta Build Brings Copilot Actions to the Taskbar

The Windows 11 Beta build 22635.3276 adds new suggested actions for copied text when hovering…

Fornite Epic Games iOS iPhone

Apple Agrees to Restore Epic Games’ Developer Account Following EU Inquiry

Apple's decision to terminate Epic Games’ developer account earlier this week has now been reversed…

Hackers

Microsoft Says Russian State-Sponsored Hackers Accessed its Source Code

Midnight Blizzard, the Russian state-sponsored hacking group that has been Microsoft since November accessed its…

Apple Vision Pro

Apple Vision Pro Gets Mobile Device Management Features, More with visionOS 1.1

With visionOS 1.1, Apple's Vision Pro headset is getting new mobile device management features for…

Apple Will Let iOS Users in the EU Delete Safari Later This Year

Apple has detailed more upcoming changes to iOS in the EU to comply with the…

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