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.

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OpenAI Details New ChatGPT Experience for Teens

OpenAI is developing a new ChatGPT experience for teenagers under 18 that prioritizes safety.

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Visions of Mana, Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, More Are Coming to Game Pass

Visions of Mana, Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, and Hades headline the second wave of games…

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Xbox App on PC Now Integrates Games From Other Stores

Microsoft’s Xbox app for PC now lets gamers see and launch their games installed from…

Amazon Prime Big Deal Days

Amazon Announces Prime Big Deal Days on October 7–8

Amazon is bringing back its Prime Big Deal Days event on October 7-8, but some…

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Microsoft 365 Desktop Apps Are Getting a new Copilot Chat Sidebar

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is now available as a sidebar within Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook,…

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Apple Releases iOS 26, iPadOS 26, watchOS 26, and macOS 26 Tahoe

Apple has just released iOS 26 and the rest of its ’26 OS releases for…

PayPal Links peer-to-peer payments

PayPal Adds New Link System for Sending and Receiving Money

PayPal is launching today a new link system that simplifies how users can send and…

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Spotify Free Users Are No Longer Restricted to Shuffle Playback

Spotify is making its free offering much better today by dropping the Shuffle playback restriction…

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Amazon Announces Hardware Event on September 30

Amazon has started sending media invites for an upcoming hardware event on September 30, 2025,…

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New Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2 Builds Are Available for Insiders

Microsoft has just released three new Windows 11 Insider builds for Insiders on the Dev,…

Apple Watch Hypertension notifications

Apple Watch Hypertension Notifications Receive Clearance from US FDA

The new hypertension notifications Apple announced alongside its new Watch models on Tuesday have just…

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OpenAI and Microsoft Announce New Deal as the Startup Plans For-Profit Restructuration

OpenAI and Microsoft just announced a new deal as they prepare for the next phase…

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Live Translation with Apple’s AirPods Won’t Be Available in the EU

The Live Translation on AirPods feature that Apple announced alongside its new AirPods 3 earlier…

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Gmail Adds New Purchase Tracking View

Google is adding a new purchase tracking view in Gmail to help users keep track…

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Microsoft to Retire its Outlook Lite Android App in October

Microsoft is about to pull the plug on Outlook Lite, a lightweight version of its…

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YouTube Expands its Multi-Language Audio Feature to “Millions” of Creators

YouTube will soon allow millions of content creators on the platform to add multi-language audio…

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