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

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Signal Windows App Now Protects Conversations From Screenshots by Default

Signal is adding a new “Screen Security” feature to its Windows app to hide chat…

Amazon audio product summaries

Amazon is Testing Audio Product Summaries on Some Product Pages

Amazon has started testing AI-generated audio product summaries on some product pages on its US…

Google Search AI Mode ads

Ads Are Coming to Google Search’s AI Mode

Google is now testing ads in its search engine's new AI Mode, which is now…

OpenAI Acquires Jony Ive startup io

OpenAI Acquires Jony Ive’s AI Device Startup for $6.4 Billion

OpenAI is acquiring io, the AI device startup co-founded by Jony Ive, Apple’s former Chief…

Xbox App GeForce Now integration

Xbox App on PC Adds GeForce Now Integration for Supported Games

A new update for the Xbox app for PC is adding the option to play…

Retro Classics Game Pass

Xbox Releases ‘Retro Classics’ Collection of Activision games Exclusively on Game Pass

A new Retro Classics anthology of old Activision games from the ’80s and ’90s is…

Hellblade II Senua's Saga PlayStation 5

Xbox Exclusive Hellblade II is Coming to PlayStation 5 This Summer

Hellblade II: Senua's Saga is the next Xbox-exclusive game that will be coming to PlayStation…

Metaphor ReFantazio The Division 2 Game Pass May 2025

Metaphor ReFantazio, The Division 2, and More are Coming to Game Pass

The critically acclaimed JRPG Metaphor ReFantazio is coming to Game Pass in May. Tom Clancy's…

Google I_O 2025

AI Mode in Search, New Gemini Features: The Biggest Announcements From Google I/O 2025

From new Gemini features to AI Mode coming to all Search users in the US,…

Apple Developers

Report: Apple to Let Third-Party Developers Use its LLMs to Create AI Features

Apple reportedly plans to let third-party developers use the large language models behind Apple Intelligence…

Spotify Premium Audiobooks

Spotify’s Latest iOS Update Lets US Users Purchase Audiobooks

Apple approved a new update for the Spotify iOS app that lets US users see…

Google NotebookLM App iOS Android

Google Releases NotebookLM App for iOS and Android

NotebookLM, the Google AI chatbot that can create audio overviews from articles and documents, is…

Click to do copilot+ PC

Microsoft Brings New Copilot+ PC Features to Release Preview Insiders

A new Windows 11 24H2 build for Insiders on the Release Preview Channel brings various…

Windows 11 Microsoft Store

Build 2025: Microsoft Store Improves Win32 Apps Support and Drops Onboarding Fees for Individual Developers

The Microsoft Store can now handle updates for all Win32 apps, and it's also dropping…

Microsoft Edge

Build 2025: Microsoft Edge is Getting PDF Translation, AI APIs for Web Apps

Microsoft Edge is adding support for PDF translation, and new AI APIs will let developers…

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Build 2025: New Microsoft Copilot 365 Features Start Rolling Out Today

A redesigned Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows PCs, Copilot Notebooks, and image generation features…

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