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

Microsoft Build 2026

Microsoft to Hold its Build Developer Conference in San Francisco on June 2-3

Microsoft is moving its annual Build developer conference from Seattle to San Francisco this year,…

Cyberpunk 2077 Game PAss

Cyberpunk 2077 and Planet of Lana II Are Coming to Game Pass

Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to Game Pass on March 10, but without its Phantom Liberty…

Apple Studio Display XDR

Apple Announces New Studio Display and Studio Display XDR

Apple announced today a new Studio Display and a more premium Studio Display XDR with…

Apple M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro

Apple Upgrades its MacBook Pros with M5 Pro and M5 Max Chips and Better SSD Storage

Apple is upgrading its 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros with new M5 Pro and M5…

Apple M5 MacBook Air

Apple’s New M5 MacBook Air Starts With 512GB of Faster SSD Storage

Apple is doubling the base storage on the new M5-powered 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air,…

ROG Xbox Ally Highlight Reels

ROG Xbox Ally X Handheld Can Now Use AI to Capture Gameplay Highlights

ROG Xbox Ally X owners can test a new ‘Highlights Reels’ feature that uses AI…

Qualcomm 6G

MWC 2026: Qualcomm Announces First Wi-Fi 8 Chip and Prepares For 6G Launch in 2029

Qualcomm announced today an “AI-native” Wi-Fi 8 chip that will support 10+ Gbps peak speeds,…

Apple M4 iPad Air

Apple Refreshes its 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Airs with M4 Chips

Apple’s mid-range iPad Air tablets are being refreshed today with faster M4 chips, the company’s…

Apple iPhone 17e

Apple Announces iPhone 17E with A19 Chip and MagSafe Support

Apple's iPhone 17e comes with a faster A19 chip, MagSafe support, and 256GB of storage,…

Windows 11 PC with Start Menu

Microsoft Does Another Friday Drop for Canary, Dev, and Beta Insiders

With today's Insider builds, Microsoft is improving its Shared Audio feature for Bluetooth LE Audio…

Spotify Audiobooks+

Spotify Launches Audiobook Charts in the US and UK

Spotify is launching weekly Audiobook charts in the US and the UK to surface the…

Copilot Tasks

Microsoft Brings Agentic AI to its Consumer Chatbot With New Copilot Tasks

The consumer version of Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot is getting a new agentic AI feature named…

OpenAI

OpenAI Announces $110 Billion Funding Round Involving Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank

OpenAI announced today that it closed a $110 billion funding round, with participation from Amazon,…

Tim Cook Confirms Apple Will Announce New Products Starting on Monday

Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed today that the company has "a big week ahead", with…

Google Nano Banana 2

Google Starts Rolling Out Nano Banana 2 Image Generation Model Across its Services

Google is releasing today Nano Banana 2, its latest image generation model that is now…

Asus Dell Cloud PC devices

Microsoft Reveals Two New Cloud PC Devices From Asus and Dell

Asus and Dell will soon launch their first cloud PC devices designed for Windows 365,…

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