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

Apple homeOS smart display

Report: Apple’s Upcoming Home Hub May Cost Around $350

Apple's upcoming home hub device could be much more expensive than competing smart displays from…

Threads Group Chats

Threads Expands Direct Messages to the EU, Adds Group Chats Support

Direct Messages in Threads will finally come to EU users over the next few days,…

Apple M5

Apple Announces New M5-Powered iPad Pro, MacBook Pro, and Vision Pro

Apple has just announced new iPad Pro, MacBook Pro, and Vision Pro models powered by…

OpenAI ChatGPT

OpenAI Wants to Make ChatGPT More “Human,” With Fewer Restrictions

OpenAI will release a new version of ChatGPT in the coming weeks that will bring…

YouTube Redesigned video player

YouTube Starts Rolling Out New Video Player

YouTube is getting a new video player across mobile, web, and TV devices designed to…

Spotify video podcasts Netflix

Spotify is Bringing Some of its Video Podcasts to Netflix

Spotify has teamed up with Netflix to bring some of its video podcasts to the…

Windows 11 PC

Microsoft Releases October 2025 Patch Tuesday Updates

The October 2025 Patch Tuesday updates are out for all supported versions of Windows, including…

Spotify Managed accounts

Spotify Expands Managed Accounts for Young Listeners to More Markets

Spotify is expanding access to the managed accounts feature that lets parents with a Premium…

Microsoft MAI-Image-1 Image generation model

Microsoft Reveals its First Image Generation AI Model

Microsoft announced yesterday MAI-Image-1, its first image generation model designed to create photorealistic imagery.

Nano Banana Google Search

Google’s Nano Banana Image Editing Model is Coming to Search, NotebookLM and Photos

Nano Banana, the powerful new image editing model that Google added to its Gemini app…

Xbox Series X|S consoles

Target and Walmart Won’t Stop Selling Xbox Consoles

After Costco recently stopped Xbox selling consoles, Target and Walmart just had to comment on…

Apple Clips

Apple is Discontinuing its Clips Video Editing App

Apple is discontinuing Clips, the free video editing app it launched on iOS back in…

Microsoft Releases New Windows 11 Builds for Dev and Beta Insiders

New Windows 11 Insider builds are out with minor improvements for the new AI agent…

Halo Studios

Halo Studios Veteran Departs Company With a Warning Message

A Halo Studios veteran recently left the studio after 17 years and posted a warning…

A Minecraft Movie

A Minecraft Movie Will Get a Sequel in July 2027

The first movie adaptation of Minecraft, which ended up grossing nearly a billion dollars around…

Call of Duty Black Ops 6

All Game Pass Members Can Play of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 for Free Until October 16

With EA's Battlefield 6 about to drop tomorrow, Microsoft is making last year’s Call of…

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