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, Threads, X (Twitter), Bluesky, and Mastodon.

Laurent Giret’s Recent Posts

Meta Facebook Instagram

Instagram Crosses 3 Billion Monthly Active Users

Instagram has now crossed the 3 billion monthly active users milestone, just like Meta's Facebook…

Disney plus

Disney+ Subscriptions to Get More Expensive in the US in October

Disney announced upcoming US price increases for its Disney+ standalone plans, with bundles with Hulu,…

Google AI Mode spanish

Google’s AI Mode is Now Available in Spanish

Google’s experimental AI Mode now supports Spanish in addition to Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and…

Microsoft 365 Copilot Adds Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 Models

Microsoft is making two AI models from OpenAI rival Anthropic available with its business-focused Microsoft…

Google Photos Android conversational editing

Google Photos Makes Conversational Editing Available for All US Android Users

The new conversational editing feature in Google Photos, which first made its debut on the…

Perplexity Email Assistant

Perplexity Max Subscription Adds New Mail Assistant for Gmail and Outlook

AI startup Perplexity is launching a new Email Assistant to help Perplexity Max subscribers manage…

Windows 11

Microsoft Quietly Launches Windows AI Lab to Test Experimental AI Features

Microsoft has quietly introduced a new Windows AI Lab program on Windows 11 to test…

OpenAI ChatGPT

OpenAI’s Cheap ChatGPT Go Plan Launches in Indonesia

OpenAI has just made its cheap ChatGPT Go plan available in Indonesia after introducing it…

Google Gemini Google TV

Google’s Gemini Assistant is Coming to Google TV

Google is starting to roll out its Gemini assistant to select smart TVs running its…

Intel Arc GPUs

Intel Isn’t Giving Up on its Arc GPUs Despite Nvidia Partnership

Intel said that it's not giving up on its own Arc GPUs despite working with…

Microsoft Teams AI Agents

Microsoft Teams is Getting New AI Agents

Microsoft is launching a couple of new AI agents in Microsoft Teams that can summarize…

Google Gemini in Chrome

Google Gemini is Now Available in Google Chrome for US Users

The Gemini AI integration in Google Chrome that previously required a premium Google AI subscription…

Microsoft Gaming Copilot

Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot is Coming to the PC Game Bar on Windows 11

The new Microsoft Gaming Copilot that Microsoft has been testing with Xbox Insiders is starting…

Nvidia Intel

Nvidia to Invest $5 Billion in Intel and Help Co-Developing x86 Chips With RTX GPUs

Nvidia is partnering with Intel to co-design new x86 chips for data centers and consumer…

Meta Ray-Ban Display

Meta Announces New Ray-Ban Display AI Glasses With Neural Band

The new Meta Ray-Ban Display AI glasses feature a full-color display on the right lens,…

Microsoft 365 Copilot app for iOS

Microsoft 365 Copilot App for iOS is Losing the Ability to Edit Office Files

The Microsoft 365 Copilot app for iOS works will soon lose the ability to edit…

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