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2 weeks ago | 
extremetech.com | Josh Gulick |Devesh Beri
Credit: Jamie Lendino The first quarter of 2025 brought together a few disparate pressures on would-be PC buyers. Together, they seem to have driven PC sales up. According to Counterpoint Research (by way of Windows Central), PC shipments were up in Q1 2025 by 6.7% compared with the same time last year. Chinese PC maker Lenovo saw a noteworthy 11% increase in the same timeframe.
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2 weeks ago | 
extremetech.com | Josh Gulick |Devesh Beri
Hoo boy. Things are about to get tricky when talking about chip technologies. That’s because TSMC finally made good on its promise to change its name structure for sub-2nm chips to one Apple already uses for its own processors. TSMC is going from its N naming convention—as in, N2, its 2nm process—to A for chips smaller than 2nm. The first of these will be A16 and A14, the latter of which TSMC just highlighted at the North America Technology Symposium.
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2 weeks ago | 
extremetech.com | Devesh Beri |Josh Gulick
Microsoft Edge is getting its first big “AI” upgrade, as Copilot is now being added directly into the New Tab Page (NTP). This is currently rolling out in preview builds like Edge Canary and is activated automatically for users who have enabled experimental flags. The update is also moving away from the traditional MSN news feed and Bing search bar, as reported by Windows Latest.
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2 weeks ago | 
extremetech.com | Devesh Beri |Josh Gulick
Adobe has announced the new updates to its Firefly family of generative AI models. It now has new tools for image, vector, and video generation, as well as a newly designed web app that brings together its own AI models and competitors. The new Firefly Image Model 4 is said to be a big improvement over earlier versions in terms of quality, speed, and user control, as reported by TechCrunch.
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2 weeks ago | 
extremetech.com | Devesh Beri |Josh Gulick
Credit: Sightful Sightful has unveiled Spacetop for Windows, an AR workspace package for Windows AI PCs. It's a combination glasses-and-software package that projects a desktop image about 100 inches wide in front of you. You can only see this image when you wear the included glasses. It's optimized for modern Windows laptops with dedicated NPUs, including the Dell XPS, the HP Elitebook, and Microsoft's Surface Laptop for Business, among others.
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2 weeks ago | 
extremetech.com | Devesh Beri |Josh Gulick
Credit: Mojahid Mottakin/Shutterstock.com Microsoft has announced the Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 Spring release. The company says it's a big update to the Copilot experience that will help collaboration between humans and AI agents. Specifically, it's gaining new abilities that change how users interact with Microsoft 365 Copilot.
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3 weeks ago | 
extremetech.com | Josh Gulick |Devesh Beri
Credit: Zephyr/ X/ @realVictor_M Let’s take a break from burned GPU power connectors and cutting-edge hardware to marvel at the Radeon RX 6500, which seems to have made its first appearance long after the Radeon RX 6500 XT. As Videocardz points out, the RX 6500 was rumored to follow the XT version, but it…didn’t. Until now, apparently, thanks to Chinese graphics card maker Zephyr, which appears to have launched one.
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3 weeks ago | 
extremetech.com | Devesh Beri |Josh Gulick
OnePlus is preparing to launch the OnePlus 13T on April 24, 2025. The company has confirmed several details about the device, including its 6.32-inch flat OLED display, a weight of 185 grams, and a massive battery capacity of 6,280 mAh, as reported by 9to5Google. This battery size makes the OnePlus 13T one of the lightest devices with such a large battery. The phone will run on the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset and be available with up to 16GB of RAM and up to 512GB of storage.
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3 weeks ago | 
extremetech.com | Josh Gulick |Devesh Beri
Credit: Yuichiro Chino/Moment via Getty Images Microsoft’s new large language model (LLM) puts significantly less strain on hardware than other LLMs—and it’s free to experiment with. The 1-bit LLM (1.58-bit, to be more precise) uses -1, 0, and 1 to indicate weights, which could be useful for running LLMs on small devices, such as smartphones. Microsoft put BitNet b1.58 2B4T on Hugging Face, a collaboration platform for the AI community.
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3 weeks ago | 
extremetech.com | Josh Gulick |Devesh Beri
Credit: Yuichiro Chino/Moment via Getty Images Growing up, many of us were taught to say "please" and "thank you" when someone else did us a favor. But are these foundational interpersonal manners worth using with chatbots? Maybe not. According to one CEO, bookending queries with "please" and "thank you" is burning millions of dollars in electricity costs.
