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

Epic Games Store New Architecture

Epic Games Teases New Store Architecture and Community Spaces

Epic Games is planning to rebuild its storefront, add new community spaces, and other top-requested…

YouTube app

YouTube Blocks Background Play on Mobile Web Browsers, But Brave is Resisting

YouTube has quietly pushed an update to its mobile website to block background playback on…

High on Life 2 Madden NFL 26 Game Pass

High on Life 2, Madden NFL 26, and More Are Coming to Game Pass

High on Life 2 is coming to Game Pass on day one in February, and…

OpenAI Codex app macOS

OpenAI Releases Codex App for Mac

Codex, the AI coding agent that OpenAI launched last year is now available as a…

Mozilla AI controls

Mozilla Details its New Controls for Blocking AI Features in Firefox

The new option to block all AI features in Firefox is coming soon to Nightly…

Apple Mac lineup

Apple Store Now Better Shows All Specs Choices to Mac Buyers

Apple has quietly updated its Apple Store website to better show Mac buyers all hardware…

OpenAI GPT-4o

OpenAI to Retire Several Older Models From ChatGPT in February

OpenAI is planning to retire several models from ChatGPT next month, including the popular GPT-4o…

Google Project Genie

Google’s Project Genie Can Generate Photorealistic Worlds You Can Explore

Google released yesterday Project Genie, an experimental tool that lets Google AI Ultra subscribers generate…

Windows 11 PC

Microsoft Pledges to Address “Pain Points” Reported by Windows 11 Users

The President of Windows and Devices at Microsoft said that the company heard the negative…

Spotify group messages

Spotify Now Supports Group Chats on Mobile

The Direct Messages feature that Spotify launched on its mobile app back in August now…

Nvidia GeForce NOW Linux app

Nvidia Launches Native GeForce NOW App on Linux

Nvidia has just released a native Linux app for GeForce NOW, its popular cloud gaming…

Apple

Apple Acquires AI startup Q.AI for $2 Billion

Apple is acquiring Q.AI, an Israeli startup working on technology to improve human communication “without…

Google Maps Gemini guidance walking cycling

Google Maps Now Offers Gemini Guidance for Walking and Cycling

The Gemini AI integration in Google Maps is getting better with the new support for…

YouTube Music Now Syncs ‘Now Playing’ Queue Across Devices

YouTube Music has started syncing your playing queue across devices, though the experience seems to…

Amazon office building

Amazon is Laying Off 16,000 Employees

Amazon announced today that it's eliminating 16,000 corporate jobs as it's seeking to "increase ownership"…

Google AI Overviews follow up questions

Google’s AI Overviews In Search Now Let Mobile Users Ask Follow-Up Questions

Google's AI Overviews on mobile now let users ask follow-up questions via the existing AI…

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