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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ChatGPT Image Generator

ChatGPT’s Image Generator is Now Available for All Free Users

OpenAI has made the new image generation capabilities in ChatGPT available for all free users…

Amazon Alexa+

Alexa+ Launches in Early Access in the US

Alexa+, the next-gen version of Amazon’s assistant, is launching in early access in the US…

Apple Intelligence devices

Apple Releases iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS 15.4

Apple has just released iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS Sequoia 15.4, which enable Apple…

Paint Cocreator Copilot+ PCs

Microsoft Highlights New AI Experiences on AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs

Microsoft is rolling out Live Captions and new AI features in Paint and Microsoft Photos…

Google Gemini 2.5

Google Gemini Pro 2.5 is Now Available for All Users

Google has made Gemini 2.5 Pro, its most advanced model for complex tasks free to…

Windows 11 Version 24H2

Microsoft Drops New Windows 11 Dev and Beta Builds With Lots of Changes

Windows Insiders on the Dev and Beta Channel can now test a new Speech Recap…

Google Play Store

Google Play Store Now Offers User Choice Billing in the UK

Google is enabling user choice billing in its UK Play Store, allowing developers to use…

Office

Office Apps on Windows Will Soon Launch Faster

Microsoft’s Office apps for Windows will soon launch faster thanks to an optional Startup Boost…

Facebook Friends tab

Facebook Goes Back to Basics With “Friends” Tab Without Suggested Content

Meta wants to bring back "OG Facebook" experiences this year, and it starts with a…

cloud photos AI-powered Windows Search

AI-Powered Windows Search is Now Available as an Optional Update on Copilot+ PCs

The new AI-powered Windows Search experience for Copilot+ PCs is now available to the public…

Amazon Luna EA Games

Amazon Luna Adds EA Games and Expands to More EU Countries

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and Dead Space are the first…

Xbox Cloud Gaming Stream your own game collection

Xbox Cloud Gaming Gets More Titles and Game Switching Improvements

Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming service is adding seven new games to the Stream Your Own…

Windows 11 PC with Start Menu

Windows Insider Canary Channel Gets a Bug Fixing Update

The Windows 11 Insider build 27823 is out on the Canary Channel with File Explorer…

Amazon Spring Sale best deals

Amazon Kicks Off Big Spring Sale, Here Are the Best Deals

Amazon kicked off yesterday a big Spring Sale with big discounts on Amazon, Apple, Google,…

Microsoft 365 Copilot reasoning agents

Microsoft 365 Copilot Adds Two Reasoning Agents for Work

Researcher and Analyst are two new AI reasoning agents that will soon be available for…

ChatGPT image generation GPT-4o

ChatGPT Now Supports Image Generation With GPT-4o

OpenAI is integrating image generation capabilities right into ChatGPT, and it’s doing so using its…

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