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23. <p>French search engine Qwant has filed a formal complaint with France’s antitrust regulator alleging that Microsoft deliberately degraded the quality of search results delivered through its Bing platform.</p>
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27. <p>The privacy-focused search company is seeking interim action against the US tech giant while the regulator investigates the complaint, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/qwant-asks-french-watchdog-take-interim-action-against-microsoft-sources-say-2025-06-03/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Reuters reported</a>, citing sources with direct knowledge of the matter. Qwant, which relies on Microsoft’s Bing platform for its search services, wants the regulator to take interim action against the US tech giant while investigating its complaint.</p>
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31. <p>The complaint represents the latest challenge to Microsoft’s search syndication business model, coming amid heightened scrutiny of Big Tech platforms across Europe. The timing appears critical for Qwant, as competition enforcers only take interim action if there is evidence that a company abuses its market power and has caused serious and immediate harm to the complainant.</p>
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35. <p>Microsoft has dismissed the allegations outright, according to the report.</p>
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39. <p>The French competition authority, known as the Autorité de la concurrence, is now gathering input from the broader industry. The regulator has sought feedback from other search engines and will likely decide by September whether to take interim action and also whether to open a formal investigation into Microsoft.</p>
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43. <p>Autorité de la concurrence, Qwant, and Microsoft did not respond to a request for comment on the development.</p>
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47. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="the-hidden-power-of-search-infrastructure">The hidden power of search infrastructure</h2>
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51. <p>While Microsoft’s consumer search market share hovers around just 3-4% globally, its influence runs much deeper through the syndication model that powers alternative search engines across Europe.</p>
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55. <p>“Microsoft’s role in B2B search syndication presents a critical but underregulated point of leverage,” said Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst and CEO at Greyhound Research. “Through Bing APIs and Microsoft Advertising, it becomes the spine of monetisation and results delivery for privacy-focused rivals. This is not classical consumer market dominance — it’s infrastructural gatekeeping.”</p>
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59. <p>The complaint highlights how smaller European search engines typically rely on their bigger rivals’ back-end technology to deliver search and news results, creating dependencies that can be exploited.</p>
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63. <p>The technical nature of the allegations makes proving wrongdoing particularly challenging. “Microsoft can modulate the quality of search results it delivers to syndication partners via Bing APIs — through result latency, index scope, or algorithmic relevance. But proving such selective degradation is a regulatory minefield,” Gogia noted.</p>
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67. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="a-pattern-of-regulatory-trouble">A pattern of regulatory trouble</h2>
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71. <p>This isn’t Microsoft’s first encounter with European regulators. Just last month, the company offered to make its Office product without Teams cheaper than when sold with Teams, attempting to resolve a long-running <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3821613/microsoft-to-rejig-office-teams-cost-to-avoid-eu-fine.html?utm=hybrid_search">EU antitrust case</a> that could have resulted in massive fines. The Teams investigation, triggered by a 2020 complaint by Slack, has been a persistent challenge for Microsoft.</p>
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75. <p>Microsoft, which has accrued $2.3 billion in EU antitrust fines in the past years, then said it would align the options and pricing for its suites and Teams service globally if the EU regulator accepts its offer. But the challenges aren’t limited to Europe. In November, the <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3614495/ftc-opens-antitrust-investigation-into-microsofts-cloud-ai-and-cybersecurity-practices.html">FTC opened a broad antitrust investigation</a> into Microsoft, including its software licensing and cloud computing businesses.</p>
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79. <p>Microsoft isn’t alone in facing intensified antitrust scrutiny. Google, too, has faced similar allegations about browser dominance and market manipulation, both in the <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/1360915/eu-files-antitrust-charges-against-google-over-search-launches-android-probe.html?utm=hybrid_search">EU</a> and the US.</p>
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83. <p>The Department of Justice is calling for Google to divest its Chrome browser, following a ruling in August calling the company a <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3481539/google-is-a-monopolist-that-violated-antitrust-laws-court-finds.html?utm=hybrid_search">monopolist</a> in the search market. In April, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia held that Google violated antitrust law by monopolizing open-web digital advertising markets.</p>
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87. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="europes-digital-sovereignty-push">Europe’s digital sovereignty push</h2>
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91. <p>The case reflects broader European efforts to reduce dependence on US tech platforms. “As the world becomes more geopolitically fragmented and technology increasingly seems like it can be used for leverage, it’s reasonable to see many countries looking to develop independent stacks — be it in search or in other technology areas,” said Abhishek Sengupta, practice director at Everest Group.</p>
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95. <p>“For example, Germany wants to focus on creating native applications to ensure they are not overly dependent on US big tech,” Sengupta added, highlighting the growing trend toward digital sovereignty across Europe.</p>
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99. <p>Qwant’s efforts to build independence are already underway. In November 2024, the company <a href="https://betterweb.qwant.com/en/2024/11/08/ecosia-and-qwant-join-forces-to-develop-european-search-index/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">announced</a> a partnership with Ecosia to build the European Search Index, designed to provide more localized search results in French and German while reducing reliance on Bing and Google. However, this initiative is still in early stages.</p>
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103. <p>“The Qwant–Ecosia index is less about competitive parity and more about narrative control,” Gogia observed. “Until the index is robust enough to fully replace Bing and Google results—both technically and commercially—the initiative functions as a complement rather than a replacement.”</p>
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111. <p>For Qwant and other European search engines, this case could determine their long-term survival. Companies risk fines of as much as 10% of their global annual turnover for breaching French antitrust rules, creating significant pressure for compliance. For Microsoft, that could translate to billions in potential penalties.</p>
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115. <p>However, the complex technical nature of the allegations presents unique challenges for regulators. “The evidentiary bar remains high,” Gogia noted. “Unlike pricing abuse, degradation of service in digital syndication manifests in subtler ways—reduced index depth, slower query responses, or unexplainable result variance. These are difficult to benchmark externally, and even harder to attribute with certainty.”</p>
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119. <p>The September decision deadline will be closely watched by other European search engines, regulators, and Microsoft’s competitors. If France’s antitrust authority decides to take interim action, it could provide immediate relief to Qwant while setting a precedent for how search syndication disputes are handled across Europe.</p>
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135. <p id="E277">Windows 8 might have made waves for its short-lived removal of the beloved Start button, but the platform’s launch of an ill-fated storefront for streamlined app management was arguably Microsoft’s biggest blunder of all.</p>
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139. <p id="E-1037">With the Windows 8 Store, the company attempted to shrug off traditional Windows desktop software and leap toward an overly ambitious vision that almost immediately collapsed. But at its Build 2025 developers’ conference this year, Microsoft circled back to correct that mistake — and to announce something the company <em>should </em>have debuted decades ago.</p>
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143. <p id="E282">Microsoft had a <em>chance </em>to fix Windows’ long-messy application update process with the launch of that Store app alongside Windows 8 in 2012. Instead, it spent more than a decade flailing — training PC users to ignore the Store experience and forcing application developers to keep updating their apps the painful old-fashioned way.</p>
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147. <p id="E-2289">Thankfully, that’s all about to change — assuming, that is, that app developers actually sign on this time.</p>
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151. <p id="E288"><em>Interested in the future</em><em> — and present —</em><em> of Windows? </em><a href="https://theintelligence.com/windows-cw/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Sign up for my free Windows Intelligence newsletter</em></a><em>. </em><em>I’ll send you </em><em>free</em><em> copies of Paul Thurrott’s</em><em> Windows Field Guide</em><em>s </em><em>as a bonus</em><em>, too!</em></p>
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155. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="the-windows-app-updating-nightmare">The Windows app updating nightmare</h2>
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159. <p id="E305">The application updating experience has long been one of the worst-designed parts of Windows. Each application has to update itself — or not. In the best-case scenario, each application quietly installs its own security updates, but even then, you’re wasting system resources by running a mess of different updaters just to try to keep up.</p>
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163. <p id="E321">In the worst-case scenario, an app might not check for updates at all — or it could check for updates and then prompt you to install them manually. One of the worst things about using a Windows PC you haven’t used in a while isn’t just the Windows Update experience — it’s that each application you use prompts you for its own <em>individual </em>updates and requires clicking and clicking and waiting, often after you’re ready to start using it.</p>
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167. <p id="E329">For businesses, things are even worse. How does a business manage application updates on a fleet of PCs and ensure each application has the latest ones installed? There’s nothing built into Windows for that — and no single place a Windows user can go to check whether their PC’s software is all secure, either.</p>
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171. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="how-windows-8-botched-the-dream">How Windows 8 botched the dream</h2>
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175. <p id="E337">When Microsoft put together Windows 8, it created the Windows Store. It was <em>meant </em>to be an app-store-style experience for installing and updating software on Windows. But it only worked with Windows 8’s Metro apps — later called Modern apps or Store-style apps. (Microsoft never even nailed down an enduring name for them.)</p>
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179. <p id="E346">That meant traditional desktop apps were left out in the cold. Microsoft eventually let desktop apps into the Store with Windows 11, but by then, many users were well-trained to ignore the store — and many desktop apps in the Store were deeply set in using their <em>own </em>updater mechanisms, even when you installed them from the Store.</p>
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182. <div class="extendedBlock-wrapper block-coreImage undefined"><figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1-VLC-in-store.png" alt="VLC in Store" class="wp-image-4001014" srcset="https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1-VLC-in-store.png?quality=50&strip=all 768w, https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1-VLC-in-store.png?resize=150%2C150&quality=50&strip=all 150w, https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1-VLC-in-store.png?resize=298%2C300&quality=50&strip=all 298w, https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1-VLC-in-store.png?resize=692%2C697&quality=50&strip=all 692w, https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1-VLC-in-store.png?resize=167%2C168&quality=50&strip=all 167w, https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1-VLC-in-store.png?resize=83%2C84&quality=50&strip=all 83w, https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1-VLC-in-store.png?resize=477%2C480&quality=50&strip=all 477w, https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1-VLC-in-store.png?resize=358%2C360&quality=50&strip=all 358w, https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1-VLC-in-store.png?resize=248%2C250&quality=50&strip=all 248w" width="768" height="773" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">When the Store says an app is “Provided and updated” by the developer, that means the Store won’t help update it.</figcaption></figure><p class="imageCredit">Chris Hoffman, Foundry</p></div>
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186. <p id="E357">It didn’t have to be this way. The goal shouldn’t have been about creating an “app store” on Windows — it should have been about providing a unified <em>app update experience</em>. Linux figured this out decades ago with package managers like apt-get. The unified app installation and update experience was always one of the best things about the Linux desktop, even back in the days of Windows XP.</p>
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190. <p id="E362">Microsoft itself figured this out with a little-known package manager and software installation tool called Winget, but it never managed to bring it to the mainstream PC-using masses. Winget is hidden and designed only for power users — but it does actually provide a single place where you can update installed applications.</p>
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198. <p id="E374">While everyone was <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3990498/how-microsoft-wants-ai-agents-to-use-your-pc-for-you.html">talking about AI</a> after Microsoft Build 2025, one absolutely historic change to Windows didn’t get much press: “<a href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/introducing-a-unified-future-for-app-updates-on-windows/4416354" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a unified future for app updates on Windows</a>.”</p>
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202. <p id="E384">In a blog post, <a href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/users/angie_chen/1499408" data-type="link" data-id="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/users/angie_chen/1499408" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Microsoft’s Angie Chen</a> explains that Windows Update will soon handle not only operating system updates but also <em>any</em> update, including application updates and hardware drivers. Application developers will be able to “plug into” the Windows Update experience.</p>
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206. <p id="E393">Notably, that doesn’t mean that <em>all </em>app updates will be uploaded to Windows Update and distributed from Microsoft’s servers. Rather, it means an application like Google Chrome can stop using its own updater and use the built-in Windows frameworks to offer updates for Chrome. You could get updates for all your installed apps in a single spot, and the Windows Update user experience would provide that elusive unified user experience. Under the hood, though, Windows would actually still download and install an update for Google Chrome from Google’s own servers.</p>
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210. <p id="E402">Microsoft is calling this the “Windows Update orchestration platform,” and it’s in a private preview mode for developers to experiment with ahead of a wider release.</p>
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214. <p id="E406">Businesses managing fleets of PCs and home users with a single PC will all benefit from that approach. As an individual PC user, you’ll be able to check whether all your apps are up to date and update them in a single click — or maybe even <em>no </em>clicks. You won’t have a mess of updaters running in the background, wasting resources and requiring extra work.</p>
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222. <p id="E415">Of course, developers aren’t being forced to use this system, so even when the feature becomes more widely available, not every app on Windows 11 will work this way. But it’s a start. And it <em>could</em> represent a huge upgrade.</p>
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226. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="better-ways-to-update-apps-today">Better ways to update apps today</h2>
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230. <p id="E419">Until this new feature rolls out more widely and app developers embrace it, it’ll be the same old app updating experience on Windows 11. But there <em>are </em>still ways to make it less obnoxious. For example, you can use the aforementioned <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/1639416/how-to-use-the-secret-software-installer-on-your-windows-pc.html" target="_blank">Winget</a> — and not just the Winget command, but the swanky <a href="https://www.marticliment.com/unigetui/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">UniGetUI</a> interface for the tool (previously named WingetUI) — to update the apps on a Windows PC.</p>
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234. <p id="E446">There’s also the Microsoft Store app on Windows: If you do install an app from the Store, the Store will then automatically keep it updated. But many desktop apps are only distributed through the Store on Windows 11 the first time you install them — in other words, you can <em>download </em>them through the Store, but that’s it. The Store won’t update them, and the application is in charge of updating itself.</p>
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238. <p id="E458">Outside of tools included with Windows, there is a collection of third-party update-checkers. <a href="https://patchmypc.com/product/home-updater/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patch My PC Home Updater</a> is free — the company also sells a solution for businesses — and it’s probably <a href="https://theintelligence.com/39322/update-your-pcs-apps-with-this-free-tool/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the best third-party option</a> outside of UniGetUI. But even this tool isn’t perfect: For example, it can update “over 500 applications,” but that’s not everything on your PC.</p>
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245. <p id="E478">Businesses could use software such as Microsoft Intune to manage their fleet of PCs, but application updates on those PCs are a mess because there’s not one standardized way to handle the process — which is why Microsoft is changing it.</p>
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249. <p id="E483">For example, with Intune, Microsoft offers its own Enterprise Application Management feature — but it only works with <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/intune-service/apps/apps-enterprise-app-management" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a specific list of apps</a>. Businesses might also turn to manual configuration or tools like <a href="https://patchmypc.com/product/home-updater/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patch My PC’s enterprise solution</a>.</p>
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253. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Will Windows application updates ever <em>really</em> be fixed?</h2>
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257. <p id="E499">While the new Windows Update orchestration platform seems like a big step forward, it won’t change everything overnight. Even when it is available to the wider world of Windows app developers, not everyone will plug into it immediately. Many applications may never use it at all — perhaps some app developers will prefer to do things their own way.</p>
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261. <p id="E504">Does Google really want to abandon its own Chrome updater and embrace Microsoft’s built-in update experience, for example? Companies such as Google and Adobe have invested in their own updaters, which likely allow them to gather telemetry as well as handle everything in house. They’re probably not itching to abandon their proven solutions for a first-version Microsoft product. Why hand over critical infrastructure to Microsoft? At the very least, companies might wait and see for a while. And, if developer interest is low, Microsoft could axe it. However, at least those companies are already updating their own software.</p>
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265. <p id="E512">Other applications (like WinRAR and 7-Zip) don’t have built-in updaters at all — although that’s a huge security concern. Will they rush to embrace a new updater? They don’t even deliver updates directly, so why take a risk? For some developers, updates represent a way to get additional page views and ad revenue from their websites.</p>
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269. <p id="E516">In the future, it’s possible it’ll still be unclear which apps on your PC are even getting updated through Windows Update, which are getting updated through their own updaters, and which aren’t even bothering to check for updates at all.</p>
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273. <p id="E518">Let’s hope Microsoft creates a clear user interface where Windows Update tells you which apps it’s updating — and which it isn’t. Without that, even PC geeks won’t have to worry about what’s happening on their systems.</p>
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277. <p id="E525">Until then, one thing you can do is be smart about the applications you install. For example, when I wrote up <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3848140/10-free-upgrades-for-built-in-windows-apps.html">my list of free downloadable upgrades to built-in Windows apps</a>, I recommended NanaZip over 7-Zip and WinRAR because NanaZip is automatically updated through the Store. It’s a good idea to stick to a trusted list of applications that actually update themselves.</p>
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281. <p id="E545"><em>Want more in-depth Windows analysis and useful PC tips?</em><em> </em><a href="https://theintelligence.com/windows-cw/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Sign up for my free Windows Intelligence newsletter</em></a><em> today.</em><em> </em><em>I’ll send you </em><em>three new things to try </em><em>each</em><em> Friday</em><em>.</em></p>
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287. <title>3 ambitious Android advances still on the horizon</title>
288. <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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297. <p>It’s a weird time for Android-watching.</p>
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301. <p>Already, we live in a world where <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3837733/android-15-upgrade-report-card.html">Android upgrade availability varies wildly</a> from one phone to the next — thanks to certain device-makers’ less-than-commendable commitments in that area. A new Android version might show up on a Google-made Pixel phone at the time of its launch, as you’d expect, but not make its way to a Samsung Galaxy gizmo ’til <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/2079780/android-14-upgrade-report-card.html#:~:text=year%20after%20year.-,Samsung,-Google/JR">more than six months later</a> (and let’s spare ourselves the embarrassment of even <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/2079780/android-14-upgrade-report-card.html#:~:text=could%20be%20worse.-,Motorola,-Google/JR">acknowledging Motorola</a>).</p>
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304.  
305. <p>That makes it tricky enough to <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3564973/android-15-features-google-pixel-phone.html">talk about new Android features</a> without including an awful lot of <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3852795/20-advanced-android-15-tips.html#:~:text=you%E2%80%99re%20keeping%20an%20eye%20out%20for%20the%20update%20to%20reach%20you%20hopefully%20any%20day%20now%20(oh%2C%20Samsung%E2%80%A6)%2C">asterisks</a>. And now, on top of that, Google’s (a) moving to a <em>twice</em>-annual cadence for new <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/1714347/android-versions-a-living-history-from-1-0-to-today.html">Android versions</a> and (b) putting an ever-increasing emphasis on the quarterly feature drops it sends out in <em>between </em>those releases.</p>
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308.  
309. <p>If even just reading that paragraph has your shiny head a-spinnin’, believe me, you aren’t alone. (I’m frankly not even sure where I am or why I seem to be surrounded by suspiciously savvy squirrels following that dizzying description.) And, for better or for worse, things aren’t gonna get any less confusing anytime soon.</p>
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312.  
313. <p>To wit: As we speak, El Googeloo’s on the brink of wrapping up and rolling out its latest and greatest Android version, Android 16. The software — set to show up sometime this month — is no small update, either: It marks a dramatic <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3984225/android-reinvention-ai.html">reinvention of the operating system</a>, with a whole <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3984225/android-reinvention-ai.html#:~:text=Last%20but%20not,in%20the%20middle.)">new design style</a>, a slew of <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3984225/android-reinvention-ai.html#:~:text=1.%20Stronger%20Android%20security">new security enhancements</a>, and, of course, all <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3990497/google-gemini-deceit.html">the usual bits of Gemini this-and-that</a> crammed into <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/2117752/google-gemini-ai.html">every possible corner</a>.</p>
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315.  
316.  
317. <p>But at the <em>same</em> time, Google’s <em>also</em> working on a <em>quarterly</em> update that’ll follow the initial Android 16 release and add even more intriguing elements into the equation. Between the ongoing beta testing of those quarterly drops and the already-upcoming next full-fledged Android release slated for the fall (!), it’s tough to even know which features might end up where or what official Android version any given element is associated with.</p>
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320.  
321. <p>Here, however, are three especially titillating improvements we know are under development and <em>don’t </em>expect to see appear with this month’s Android 16 update.</p>
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325. <p><strong>[Want advanced Android knowledge you can put to use this second? </strong><a href="https://www.theintelligence.com/shortcut-ai/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>Check out my free Android Shortcut Supercourse</strong></a><strong> to learn tons of time-saving tricks!]</strong></p>
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328.  
329. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Android advancement #1: Desktop mode</strong></h2>
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333. <p>First and foremost is a feature that’s familiar to <em>some</em> citizens of the Android universe, and that’s a fully fleshed-out desktop mode for mobile devices.</p>
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337. <p>The long-anticipated native Android desktop mode would let you plug your phone into an external monitor to reveal a somewhat ChromeOS-reminiscent interface (<a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3608854/google-android-chromeos-merger.html">hmmm….</a>), optimized for a PC-sized screen and keyboard-mouse use.</p>
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340.  
341. <p>The possibility was <a href="https://www.androidauthority.com/android-desktop-view-3533755/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">first discovered</a> by noted Android code-comber Mishaal Rahman earlier this year. More recently, Rahman was <a href="https://www.androidauthority.com/android-desktop-mode-leak-3550321/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">able to activate</a> the still-in-progress addition via Android’s open source code set to see how it’s shaping up.</p>
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346. <iframe loading="lazy" title="DeX on Pixel?! FIRST LOOK at Android's new Desktop Mode!" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JrE15if_AVs?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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351. <p>Google <a href="https://9to5google.com/2025/05/20/android-16-desktop-mode-samsung-dex/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">officially confirmed</a> the existence of the feature at its I/O conference last month and said it was working closely with Samsung to “build on the foundation” of that company’s DeX system, which has offered a similar sort of feature for users of select Galaxy devices for some time now.</p>
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354.  
355. <p>Expanding on that concept and bringing it into Android itself, at the operating system level, would mark a significant step in making the feature more broadly available, more standardized, and also more actively developed and supported.</p>
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358.  
359. <p>I still wonder how many people would actually take advantage of it — how often do you have a monitor, keyboard, and mouse but <em>not </em>a laptop? — but it’s certainly a very cool addition that’ll add plenty of fresh productivity potential into the platform, at whatever point it actually ends up appearing.</p>
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362.  
363. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Android advancement #2: Hub mode</strong></h2>
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366.  
367. <p>Keeping the mode motif going, our next noteworthy Android addition under development but seemingly <em>not</em> on the way with the initial Android 16 update is something similar to the Standby Mode Apple introduced to its iPhones a year and a half back.</p>
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371. <p>It’s an option that’d let you see and interact with widgets on your lock screen while your phone is charging — almost turning it into a Nest-Hub-style smart display, in other words, but built right into your existing device and without the need for any extra gadgets.</p>
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375. <p>According to an early <a href="https://www.androidauthority.com/standby-mode-on-android-phones-3558674/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">reading of the tea leaves</a>, Android’s interpretation could empower you to seamlessly switch between a standard <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/1628824/android-smart-display.html">Android screen saver</a> and that interactive canvas for widgets anytime your phone is plugged in or on a wireless charging surface. It’d make every phone instantly more useful while idle and unlock an entire new purpose for our devices at a time when they’re typically dormant.</p>
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378.  
379. <p>If a casual survey of Android superfans is any indication, it could be <em>quite</em> a transformation for lots of folks, too. I recently asked the exceptionally smart and aromatic readers of my <a href="https://theintelligence.com/android-cw" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Android Intelligence newsletter</a> what <em>they</em> do with their phones while they’re charging these days, and a staggering 74% of ’em <a href="https://theintelligence.com/39117/what-do-you-do-with-your-phone-while-its-charging/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">said absolutely nothing</a> — they leave ’em on but don’t actively use ’em in any way. Another 7% turn their phones off entirely while topping off. Only 19% reported relying on their devices for any manner of activity while plugged in, and that was mostly just to rely on an always-on display to tell the time.</p>
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382.  
383. <p>Once more, it’s not yet clear when, exactly, this feature could arrive or in which Android version (or between-versions update). </p>
384.  
385.  
386.  
387. <p>If you don’t feel like waiting, though, you <em>can</em> bring a vaguely similar concept to any device this instant <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/1636972/android-awesomeness.html">with a quick pinch of creative thinking</a>.</p>
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391. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Android advancement #3: A taskbar for everyone</strong></h2>
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395. <p>Our final Android advancement might be the one I’m personally most excited to see — and that’s because I’ve had the pleasure of using it already, albeit only in a specific and still-quite-limited scenario.</p>
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398.  
399. <p>I’m talkin’ about a taskbar. Yes, a taskbar. That may not <em>sound</em> especially exciting on the surface, I realize, but stick with ‘me — ’cause it really has the potential to be one of the most transformative changes Android’s ever seen.</p>
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402.  
403. <p>As to why it’s not <em>entirely</em> new for some of us, the same sort of system showed up with 2023’s <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/1630156/google-pixel-fold.html">Pixel Fold</a> — but only in a limited capacity, when the phone is in its fully unfolded state. It went on to appear in last year’s Pixel 9 Pro Fold, too, and also on the seemingly one-and-done Pixel Tablet.</p>
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405.  
406.  
407. <p>And lemme tell ya: I’ve been in love with the concept ever since I first laid fingers on it, and I’ve been <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/1631970/google-pixel-fold-android.html">begging Google to bring the thing to <em>all </em>Android environments</a>. The bar just makes it so splendidly simple to move from one app to another — with a swift swipe up from the bottom-center of your screen — and also puts <a href="https://theintelligence.com/37058/android-split-screen-shortcut/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Android’s split-screen system</a> front and center in a way it’s never been before.</p>
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410. <div class="extendedBlock-wrapper block-coreImage undefined"><figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"> srcset="https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/google-pixel-9-pro-fold-taskbar.webp?quality=50&strip=all 600w, https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/google-pixel-9-pro-fold-taskbar.webp?resize=289%2C300&quality=50&strip=all 289w, https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/google-pixel-9-pro-fold-taskbar.webp?resize=162%2C168&quality=50&strip=all 162w, https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/google-pixel-9-pro-fold-taskbar.webp?resize=81%2C84&quality=50&strip=all 81w, https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/google-pixel-9-pro-fold-taskbar.webp?resize=463%2C480&quality=50&strip=all 463w, https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/google-pixel-9-pro-fold-taskbar.webp?resize=347%2C360&quality=50&strip=all 347w, https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/google-pixel-9-pro-fold-taskbar.webp?resize=241%2C250&quality=50&strip=all 241w" width="600" height="622" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px"><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The always-available Android taskbar, as seen in its current limited form on a folding Pixel phone.</figcaption></figure><p class="imageCredit">JR Raphael, IDG</p></div>
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414. <p>Its development as a universal, available-everywhere Android feature still <a href="https://www.androidauthority.com/android-phone-taskbar-recent-switcher-3554534/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">seems to be early</a> and nowhere near close to complete, but it sure seems like something we can look forward to seeing <em>sometime</em> in the months (and the melange of confusingly overlapping Android releases) ahead.</p>
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417.  
418. <p>And, yet again, you <em>can</em> actually <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3516018/google-pixel-9-pro-fold-multitasking-android.html">get a taste of it now</a> — if you’re feeling ambitious and don’t mind a <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3516018/google-pixel-9-pro-fold-multitasking-android.html#:~:text=Google%20Pixel%209%20Pro%20Fold%20multitasking%20trick%20%232%3A%20The%20on%2Ddemand%20taskbar">teensy touch of advanced tinkering</a>.</p>
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422. <p>Amidst all of this, one thing’s for sure: It’s shaping up to be quite a year for Android’s ever-advancing evolution — and what we see with the initial Android 16 rollout this summer will almost certainly just be scratching the surface.</p>
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426. <p><em>Get six full days of practical Android knowledge with </em><a href="http://theintelligence.com/shortcut-ai/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong><em>my free Android Shortcut Supercourse</em></strong></a><em>. You’ll learn tons of time-saving tricks you can put to use today!</em></p>
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432. <title>PwC: GenAI boosts worker value, wages, and productivity everywhere</title>
433. <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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442. <p>Generative AI (genAI) is enhancing worker value and productivity, not replacing people — and that’s true even for roles that are vulnerable to automation, according to new <a href="https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/issues/artificial-intelligence/ai-jobs-barometer.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">new research by PricewaterhouseCoopers</a> (PwC).</p>
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446. <p>Analysis by PwC of nearly 1 billion job ads throughout the world showed that genAI-exposed industries have tripled revenue per worker since 2022, proving genAI investments are paying off. Overall, the report showed that AI is transforming jobs, boosting productivity, wages, and skill demands, rather than causing widespread job losses.</p>
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450. <p>The report flies in the face of comments by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic">told Axios</a> AI could wipe out<em> half</em> of all entry-level white-collar jobs — and spike unemployment to between 10% and 20% in the next one to five years. Anthropic also <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4">just made generally available</a> a version of its Claude AI assistant (Claude Code) that can write, edit and debug code, making it nearly as good as a human developer. Known as “<a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3975705/from-prompts-to-production-ai-will-soon-write-most-code-reshape-developer-roles.html?utm=hybrid_search" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3975705/from-prompts-to-production-ai-will-soon-write-most-code-reshape-developer-roles.html?utm=hybrid_search">vibe coding</a>,” the use of natural language to develop software is expected to boom over the next few years.</p>
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454. <p>Last month, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said AI now writes up to 30% of the company’s code, and that’s <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3975705/from-prompts-to-production-ai-will-soon-write-most-code-reshape-developer-roles.html">expected to quickly increase</a>.</p>
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458. <p>A <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/94-of-business-leaders-are-using-generative-a%5B%E2%80%A6%5Dt-technology-review-insights-research-report-302279201.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">report from MIT Technology Review Insights</a> found that 94% of business leaders now use genAI in software development, with 82% applying it in multiple stages — and 26% saying they used it in four or more.</p>
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462. <p>“Software developers are evolving into strategic technology orchestrators who harness AI to drive unprecedented business value,” said Kye Mitchell, head of tech staffing firm Experis North America.</p>
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466. <p>The impact of genAI on hiring has been stark, as companies grapple with cleaning, organizing, and sharing data stores for potential use by the technology. Demand for database architects skyrocketed, leaping 2312% in the past year, Mitchell said. Jobs for statisticians also rose sharply, up 382% in the same time frame.</p>
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470. <p>“AI isn’t replacing jobs — it’s fundamentally redefining how work gets done,” she said. “The break point where technology truly displaces a position is when roughly 80% of tasks can be fully automated. We’re nowhere near that threshold for most roles. Instead, we’re seeing AI augment skillsets and make professionals more capable, faster, and able to focus on higher-value work.”</p>
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474. <p>Not surprisingly, PwC also found AI use increasing across all industries, including traditionally low-tech ones like mining and agriculture. The firm also found that wages in AI-exposed sectors are rising twice as fast as in less-exposed sectors. Workers with AI skills earn a 56% wage premium, up from 25% last year.</p>
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478. <p>And AI-driven changes to worker skills are accelerating, with a 66% faster shift in skill requirements in AI-exposed roles.</p>
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482. <p>AI job postings continue to rise, despite a softer job market, showing persistent demand for talent. The information and communication sector leads AI skill demand, while construction and healthcare lag behind, PwC reported.</p>
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486. <p>In the US, jobs with high AI exposure have seen a slowdown in job postings between 2019m and 2024, but greater skill evolution, highlighting how “AI reshapes roles more than it eliminates them,” PwC said.</p>
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490. <p>Employers have continued to pursue skills-based hiring strategies over the past three or so years. About <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3804217/execs-are-prioritizing-skills-over-degrees-and-hiring-skilled-more-freelancers-to-fill-gaps.html">one-half of all April tech job postings</a> did not specify a need for a four-year academic degree, according to CompTIA, a nonprofit trade association that issues professional IT certifications.</p>
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494. <p>Jobs with high gen AI exposure in the US have seen a decrease in degree requirements, falling from 63% in 2019 to 53% in 2024. Jobs exposed to automation now require degrees less often today (41%) than they did in 2019 (56%).</p>
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498. <p>While degree requirements in white collar job listings have markedly decreased over the last several years, the shift toward more AI-based job roles has affected employment – especially in IT-related positions. In April, <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3976643/tech-hiring-slows-unemployment-rises-jobs-report-shows.html">the tech industry lost 214,000 positions</a> as companies shifted toward AI roles and skills-based hiring amid economic uncertainty, according to an evaluation of the US Bureau of Labor Statistic’s latest jobs report.</p>
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504. <title>Apple needs to assert itself in AI</title>
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514. <p>It has taken just three years for the GenAI generation of AI to reach the level of use the Internet itself took 23 years to achieve, says legendary US investor Mary Meeker in her <a href="https://www.bondcap.com/report/pdf/Trends_Artificial_Intelligence.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">latest Trends report</a>. </p>
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518. <p>That’s why, unless Apple has viable plans we don’t yet know about, it needs make an AI-related acquisition soon. It needs to do so because the new generation of AI is already achieving a global resonance we’ve never seen before. </p>
519.  
520.  
521.  
522. <p>With the impact of generative AI (genAI) now spreading across tech, finance, social, politics, and employment, Apple needs to be part of the convergence to maintain relevance.</p>
523.  
524.  
525.  
526. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Where the puck is going</strong></h2>
527.  
528.  
529.  
530. <p>Meeker’s report gives you a solid sense of this, and in doing so shows the extent to which genAI is being deployed across developing economies in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.  That matters more because many of these areas have not enjoyed ready access to the internet before, which means they aren’t starting with Usenet and scaling to FaceTime – they are beginning their internet adventure with AI. These first-to-AI cohorts will soon become the first “<a href="https://www.cio.com/article/3990726/the-ai-native-generation-is-here-dont-get-left-behind.html" target="_blank">AI-native</a>” populations, driving economic growth in those geographies.</p>
531.  
532.  
533.  
534. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Speed and execution</strong></h2>
535.  
536.  
537.  
538. <p>This is a fast game – more Blink than Bridge. Meeker’s report points at the extent of this disruption. “Seem like change happening faster than ever?” it asks. “Yes, it is,” the report responds, providing a range of metrics to show it — not least the swiftness with which genAI has achieved 800 million weekly active users since October 2022. </p>
539.  
540.  
541.  
542. <p>“Rapid advances in artificial intelligence, compute infrastructure, and global connectivity are fundamentally reshaping how work gets done, how capital is deployed, and how leadership is defined – across both companies and countries,” the report says.</p>
543.  
544.  
545.  
546. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Smarter than nothing</strong></h2>
547.  
548.  
549.  
550. <p>Apple, stung by <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3826143/the-unbearable-lateness-of-apple-intelligence.html">slow development of Apple Intelligence</a>, needs to maintain a place in the race — but the speed of this race underlines the huge risk the company has been forced to take as a result of its well-publicized AI failures.  Apple <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3989461/drama-at-apple-as-ai-failures-cause-heads-to-roll.html">can’t keep making these errors</a>. It should, perhaps, have been faster to embrace OpenAI when it emerged, rather than permitting Microsoft to get there first. </p>
551.  
552.  
553.  
554. <p>That error gave Microsoft Copilot wings Siri still can’t match.</p>
555.  
556.  
557.  
558. <p>Apple may be on the cusp of repeating that mistake with Samsung, which is allegedly looking to take a position with Perplexity. Apple is already working with Perplexity, but recent reports claim Samsung is preparing a <a href="https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20250602VL206/samsung-google-ai-startup.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">wide-ranging deal</a> to use Perplexity AI to provide search on Samsung smartphones. Some wire reports this morning suggest Apple is also interested in Perplexity, citing an older statement <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3981155/apple-plans-a-life-after-google.html">Eddy Cue last month made</a> during his testimony at the Google Search trial: “We’ve been pretty impressed with what Perplexity has done, so we’ve started some discussions with them about what they’re doing.”</p>
559.  
560.  
561.  
562. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Grab your partners</strong></h2>
563.  
564.  
565.  
566. <p>The risk is that Perplexity goes with Samsung, leaving Apple in need of a strong AI partner. Apple’s approach might be to become polyamorous, with partnerships with OpenAI, Google Gemini, Perplexity, and others providing some of what its devices need to be part of the AI deployment party. That may even be enough, for a while.</p>
567.  
568.  
569.  
570. <p>But as competitors begin to chip away at the Android/Apple duopoly with their own alternative hardware capable of running AI (i.e., precisely the kind of hardware former Apple designer, Jony Ive is <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3992592/jony-ive-and-openai-plan-bicycles-for-21st-century-minds.html">working on with OpenAI</a>), Apple has too much to lose — far too much to lose.</p>
571.  
572.  
573.  
574. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Existential crisis</strong></h2>
575.  
576.  
577.  
578. <p>That’s why one recent leak claiming Apple’s management has adopted a “<a href="https://www.applemust.com/apples-siri-team-to-do-whatever-it-takes-to-make-apple-intelligence-the-best-it-can-be/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">by any means necessary</a>” approach to bringing its platforms up to speed for AI is reassuring. After all, it’s not such a huge step, once you accept the need for partnerships with AI service providers, to figure out that perhaps there’s a good reason to acquire one of those providers. </p>
579.  
580.  
581.  
582. <p>Not only does Apple have the cash to do it, but just as its huge investment in processor maker PA Semi eventually drove decades of hardware design, so too will AI drive the coming decades in computing. It’s an existential necessity. </p>
583.  
584.  
585.  
586. <p>But does Apple need to acquire one of the larger household names in AI?  Probably not. </p>
587.  
588.  
589.  
590. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Raise them up</strong></h2>
591.  
592.  
593.  
594. <p>There are <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3977439/apple-taps-anthropics-claude-for-ai-app-development.html">other firms</a>, some small, some large, that may already have some of the tech that Apple needs. Many of these may lack the infrastructure to deliver their services at a big enough scale to meet the needs of Apple’s billion-plus users. </p>
595.  
596.  
597.  
598. <p>Apple might be able to help with that. It has, after all, been making significant investment in <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/2142244/wwdc-apples-private-cloud-compute-is-what-all-cloud-services-should-be.html">Private Cloud Compute</a> — to the extent we’ve even heard it has production lines <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3600953/apple-is-back-in-the-server-business.html">churning out servers to support that service</a>.</p>
599.  
600.  
601.  
602. <p>Why make so many servers? With 1 billion users, it might just be to support Apple Intelligence. It could also perhaps enable Apple to offer developers an AWS-style B2B service for secure and private AI. But it could also become an infrastructure on which to host any AI solution Apple might eventually acquire, enabling promising tech to swiftly reach an audience of millions at a time when AI adoption is absolutely spiking.</p>
603.  
604.  
605.  
606. <p>Will this happen? Even Bloomburg’s Mark Gurman <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-06-01/apple-s-wwdc-2025-plan-macos-tahoe-apple-intelligence-ai-ios-26-games-app-mbdlzqpz" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">doesn’t seem to know</a> just yet.</p>
607.  
608.  
609.  
610. <p>Should it? Probably. </p>
611.  
612.  
613.  
614. <p><em>You can follow me on social media! Join me on <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/jonnyevanssays.bsky.social" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">BlueSky</a>,  <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonnyevans" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">LinkedIn</a>, and <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@jonnyevans" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mastodon</a>.</em></p>
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620. <title>Do you trust AI? Here’s why half of users don’t</title>
621. <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
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628.  
629.  
630. <p>A recent, global <a href="https://kpmg.com/xx/en/our-insights/ai-and-technology/trust-attitudes-and-use-of-ai.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">KPMG and University of Melbourne study</a> revealed that half of those surveyed said they don’t trust AI to provide them with accurate responses.</p>
631.  
632.  
633.  
634. <p>Titled “Trust, attitudes and use of artificial intelligence,” the study involved a survey 48,340 people in 47 countries to explore the use of and views on AI.</p>
635.  
636.  
637.  
638. <p>The survey revealed that 54% of respondents are “wary,” especially about the safety and societal impact of AI.</p>
639.  
640.  
641.  
642. <p>Despite mixed feelings, 72% accept AI as a useful technical tool. Trust and acceptance are lower in advanced economies (39% trust, 65% accept) vs. emerging economies (57% trust, 84% accept).</p>
643.  
644.  
645.  
646. <p>Part of the unease with AI appears to stem from a lack of training. Only 39% of survey respondents report having some form of AI training, whether at work, school, or independently. Not surprisingly, nearly half of respondents (48%) say they have little knowledge or understanding of AI. Those with AI training see more efficiency (76% vs. 56%) and revenue gains (55% vs. 34%), and managers benefit more than other roles in both areas.</p>
647.  
648.  
649.  
650. <p>The KPMG/Melbourne University study also found:</p>
651.  
652.  
653.  
654. <ul class="wp-block-list">
655. <li>Most people (70%) <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3992371/consumer-rights-group-why-10-year-ban-on-ai-regulation-will-harm-americans.html">support AI regulation</a>, and only 43% think current laws are adequate. There’s strong demand for international regulation (76%), national regulation (69%), and co-regulation by industry, government, and other regulators (71%), with 88% of respondents saying laws are needed to combat AI-driven misinformation.</li>
656.  
657.  
658.  
659. <li>At work, 58% of employees regularly use AI, mostly free generative AI (genAI) tools. Over half of respondents report performance gains, but many see negative effects on workload, teamwork, and compliance. Misuse and lack of oversight are common, with governance and training lagging behind adoption.</li>
660.  
661.  
662.  
663. <li>In education, 83% of students use AI for efficiency and stress reduction. However, misuse is widespread, raising concerns about over-reliance and fairness. Only half say their schools offer proper policies or training for responsible AI use.</li>
664. </ul>
665.  
666.  
667.  
668. <p>The findings were similar in Hitachi Vantara’s State of Data Infrastructure <a href="https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/pdf/brochure/state-of-data-infrastructure-global-report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">report released last year</a> that identified “a critical” AI trust gap: just 36% of IT leaders regularly trust AI outputs, while only 38% of organizations are improving their training data quality.</p>
669.  
670.  
671.  
672. <p>There’s good reason for this mistrust, as these systems are <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3990497/google-gemini-deceit.html">prone to errors and hallucinations</a> (things the models make up but present as facts). Recent testing of genAI models shows they’re even willing to override human instructions and then <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3836728/you-thought-genai-hallucinations-were-bad-things-just-got-so-much-worse.html">lie about it</a>.</p>
673.  
674.  
675.  
676. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="hallucinations-getting-worse">Hallucinations getting worse</h2>
677.  
678.  
679.  
680. <p>Jason Hardy, CTO at Hitachi Vantara, called the trust gap “The AI Paradox.” As AI grows more advanced, its reliability can drop. He warned that without quality training data and strong safeguards, such as protocols for verifying outputs, AI systems risk producing inaccurate results.</p>
681.  
682.  
683.  
684. <p>“A key part of understanding the increasing prevalence of AI hallucinations lies in being able to trace the system’s behavior back to the original training data, making data quality and context paramount to avoid a ‘hallucination domino’ effect,” Hardy said in an email reply to <em>Computerworld</em>. </p>
685.  
686.  
687.  
688. <p>AI models often struggle with multi-step, technical problems, where small errors can snowball into major inaccuracies — a growing issue in newer systems, according to Hardy.</p>
689.  
690.  
691.  
692. <p>With original training data running low, models now rely on new, often lower-quality sources. Treating all data as equally valuable worsens the problem, making it harder to trace and fix AI hallucinations. As global AI development accelerates, inconsistent data quality standards pose a major challenge. While some systems prioritize cost, others recognize that strong quality control is key to reducing errors and hallucinations long-term, he said.</p>
693.  
694.  
695.  
696. <p>In a concerning trend, recent tests show that hallucinations are on the rise in newer AI reasoning systems, spiking as high as 79% in one test, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/technology/ai-hallucinations-chatgpt-google.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">according to</a> <em>The New York Times</em>.</p>
697.  
698.  
699.  
700. <p>In fact, the Artificial Intelligence Commission (AIC) — a Washington, DC-based organization dedicated to promoting responsible AI development and deployment — <a href="https://aicommission.org/2025/05/why-ai-hallucinations-are-worse-than-ever/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">recently reported</a> that AI hallucinations are getting worse, not better.</p>
701.  
702.  
703.  
704. <p>Tests by <a href="https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/2221c875-02dc-4789-800b-e7758f3722c1/o3-and-o4-mini-system-card.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">OpenAI creator ChatGPT</a> revealed that its newest o3 and o4-mini reasoning models hallucinated much of the time. The company found the o3 model hallucinated 33% of the time during its <a href="https://openai.com/safety/evaluations-hub/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">PersonQA tests</a>, in which the bot is asked questions about public figures. The o3 model hallucinated 51% of the time on <a href="https://openai.com/index/introducing-simpleqa/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">SimpleQA tests</a>, which ask short fact-based questions. </p>
705.  
706.  
707.  
708. <p>The smaller, faster o4-mini model did worse, hallucinating 41% of the time on PersonQA and 79% on SimpleQA. The newer GPT-4.5 model, released in February, performed better, with a 37.1% hallucination rate on SimpleQA. OpenAI publishes the latest results of these and other tests on its <a href="https://openai.com/safety/evaluations-hub/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Safety evaluations hub</a>.</p>
709.  
710.  
711.  
712. <p>“The increase in hallucinations by reasoning models may very well be due to AI overthinking,” said Brandon Purcell, a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research.</p>
713.  
714.  
715.  
716. <p>Forrester’s research data aligns with other scrutiny into AI trust: Over half of business leaders worry about generative AI, slowing adoption and limiting its value, according to the research firm. To close this trust gap, companies should demand transparency, invest in explainable and traceable AI, and monitor performance in real time, Purcell said.</p>
717.  
718.  
719.  
720. <p>In fact, hallucinations are “a feature of large language models, not a bug,” Purcell said.</p>
721.  
722.  
723.  
724. <p>“While we don’t know exactly how LLMs work, chances are the training data itself is not stored in the model. The model is just a representation of the statistical patterns in the training data,” Purcell said. “If you want to reduce hallucinations, you need to ground a model in a correct and current canonical data set using <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/1611871/how-rag-makes-generative-ai-tools-even-better.html">retrieval augmented generation</a> or another technique that finds the answer from a source that is external to the model.”</p>
725.  
726.  
727.  
728. <p>The problem is that <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/1627101/what-are-large-language-models-and-how-are-they-used-in-generative-ai.html">large language reasoning models</a> follow multi-step processes, so small early errors can lead to hallucinations. As questions are repeated, the hallucinations can become even worse and more bizarre. LLMs, Purcell argued, are best used for reasoning, while smaller models are better suited for fact-based Q&A.</p>
729.  
730.  
731.  
732. <p>That’s why many believe the future of <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3627484/whats-next-for-generative-ai-in-2025.html">AI is small, not large</a> models.</p>
733.  
734.  
735.  
736. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="slms-to-the-rescue">SLMs to the rescue</h2>
737.  
738.  
739.  
740. <p>In 2025, <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3529501/smaller-genai-models-for-every-app-might-be-the-future.html">small language models</a> will likely come into their own, as enterprises increasingly deploy them to address specific tasks without overburdening data center processing and power. In the coming year, SLM integration could surge by as much as 60%, according to <a href="https://www.forrester.com/blogs/predictions-2025-artificial-intelligence/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a Forrester report</a>.</p>
741.  
742.  
743.  
744. <p>A recent <a href="https://www.capitalone.com/tech/machine-learning/ai-readiness-survey/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Capital One survey</a> of 4,000 business leaders and technical practitioners across industries found that while 87% believe their data ecosystem is ready for AI at scale, 70% of technologists spend hours daily fixing data issues.</p>
745.  
746.  
747.  
748. <p>Three out of four (75%) IT-decision makers believe SLMs outperform LLMs in speed, cost, accuracy and ROI, according to <a href="https://www.hyperscience.com/newsroom/new-hyperscience-report-state-of-genai-adoption/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a Harris Poll of more than 500 users</a> commissioned by the startup Hyperscience.</p>
749.  
750.  
751.  
752. <p>As Hitachi’s Hardy noted, the quality of data fed into AI models is also key to their accuracy.</p>
753.  
754.  
755.  
756. <p>“Alarmingly, three out of five decision makers report their lack of understanding of their own data inhibits their ability to utilize genAI to its maximum potential,” said Andrew Joiner, CEO of Hyperscience, which develops AI-based office work automation tools. “The true potential…lies in adopting tailored SLMs, which can transform document processing and enhance operational efficiency.”</p>
757.  
758.  
759.  
760. <p>Forrester’s Purcell also recommends that businesses “thoroughly test AI” before, during, and after deployment — using humans or AI for red teaming. High-stakes systems, like medical AI, should first be validated in simulations, similar to how “autonomous vehicles are tested,” he said.</p>
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762. <link>https://www.computerworld.com/article/3999619/do-you-trust-ai-heres-why-half-of-users-dont.html</link>
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766. <title>Windows 11 Insider Previews: What’s in the latest build?</title>
767. <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 08:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
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775.  
776. <p>Windows 11 24H2 has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls out public preview builds to members of its Windows Insider Program, allowing them to test out — and even help shape — upcoming features.</p>
777.  
778.  
779.  
780. <p><a href="#latestbuilds"><em>Skip to the latest builds</em></a></p>
781.  
782.  
783.  
784. <p>The Windows Insider program is divided into four channels:</p>
785.  
786.  
787.  
788. <ul class="wp-block-list">
789. <li>The <strong>Canary Channel</strong> is where platform changes (such as major updates to the Windows kernel and new APIs) are previewed. These changes are not tied to a particular Windows release and may never ship at all. Little documentation is provided, and builds are likely to be very unstable. This channel is best for highly technical users.</li>
790.  
791.  
792.  
793. <li>The <strong>Dev Channel</strong> is where new features are introduced for initial testing, regardless of which Windows release they’ll eventually end up in. This channel is best for technical users and developers and builds in it may be unstable and buggy.</li>
794.  
795.  
796.  
797. <li>In the <strong>Beta Channel</strong>, you’ll get more polished features that will be deployed in the next major Windows release. This channel is best for early adopters, and Microsoft says your feedback in this channel will have the most impact.</li>
798.  
799.  
800.  
801. <li>The <strong>Release Preview Channel</strong> typically doesn’t see action until shortly before a new feature update is rolled out. It’s meant for final testing of an upcoming release and is best for those who want the most stable builds.</li>
802. </ul>
803.  
804.  
805.  
806. <p>The Beta and Release Preview Channels also receive bug-fix builds for the currently shipping version of Windows 11. See “<a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3220429/how-to-preview-and-deploy-windows-10-and-11-updates.html">How to preview and deploy Windows 10 and 11 updates</a>” for more details about the four channels and how to switch to a different channel.</p>
807.  
808.  
809.  
810. <p>Not everyone can participate in the Windows 11 Insider program, because the new operating system has <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2021/06/28/update-on-windows-11-minimum-system-requirements/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">more stringent system requirements</a> than Windows 10. If your PC fails to meet the minimum hardware requirements for Windows 11, you cannot join the Windows 11 Insider Program. (See “<a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3631575/how-to-check-if-your-pc-can-run-windows-11.html">How to check if your PC can run Windows 11</a>.”)</p>
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812.  
813.  
814. <p>Below you’ll find information about the Windows 11 preview builds that have been announced by Microsoft in the past six months. (For the Release Preview Channel, we cover builds released for the current version of Windows 11, not for earlier versions.) For each build, we’ve included the date of its release, which Insider channel it was released to, a summary of what’s in the build, and a link to Microsoft’s announcement about it.</p>
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817.  
818. <p><em>Note: If you’re looking for information about updates being rolled out to all Windows 11 users, not previews for Windows Insiders, see “<a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3636790/windows-11-a-guide-to-the-updates.html">Windows 11: A guide to the updates</a>.”</em></p>
819.  
820.  
821.  
822. <h2 id="latestbuilds">The latest Windows 11 Insider preview builds</h2>
823.  
824.  
825.  
826.  
827. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-4230">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.4230 </h3>
828.  
829.  
830.  
831. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> June 2, 2025</p>
832.  
833.  
834.  
835. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
836.  
837.  
838.  
839. <p>Those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get a new dedicated settings page for quick machine recovery, which can be found under <em>System > Recovery > Quick machine recovery</em><strong>.</strong> This makes it easier to manage recovery options directly from Settings. This is being gradually rolled out.</p>
840.  
841.  
842.  
843. <p>A variety of bug fixes are being rolled out gradually to the same group, including one addressing a bug that caused File Explorer to crash performing various actions, such as when deleting files. </p>
844.  
845.  
846.  
847. <p>For everyone in the Beta Channel, a bug is fixed in which when Virtualization Based Security was enabled, applications dependent on virtualization, such as VMware Workstation, would lose the ability to run unless the “Windows Hypervisor Platform” Windows optional component is installed on the system.</p>
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849.  
850.  
851. <p>There are nine known issues in this build, including one in which after you do a PC reset under <em>Settings > System > Recovery</em>, your build version may incorrectly show as Build 26100 instead of Build 26120. This will not prevent you from getting future Beta Channel updates, which will resolve this issue.</p>
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853.  
854.  
855. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/06/02/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-4230-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.4230</a>.)</p>
856.  
857.  
858.  
859. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5622">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5622 </h3>
860.  
861.  
862.  
863. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> June 2, 2025</p>
864.  
865.  
866.  
867. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev Channel</p>
868.  
869.  
870.  
871. <p>In this build, those with Copilot+ PCs get a new action in Click to Do, Draft with Copilot in Word. Select text, press the Windows key and click simultaneously, and choose <em>Draft with Copilot in Word</em>. Copilot will create an initial draft based on the text.</p>
872.  
873.  
874.  
875. <p>Those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get new features being rolled out gradually, including <a href="https://aka.ms/qmritproblog" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">quick machine recovery</a>, designed to help Windows 11 devices recover from widespread boot issues by applying remediations through the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE).</p>
876.  
877.  
878.  
879. <p>The same group also gets several bug fixes, including for an issue in which File Explorer crashed when performing various actions, such as deleting files.</p>
880.  
881.  
882.  
883. <p>There are eight known issues in this build, including one in which taskbar icons may appear small even though the setting to show smaller taskbar buttons is configured as “never.”</p>
884.  
885.  
886.  
887. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/06/02/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5622-dev-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5622</a>.)</p>
888.  
889.  
890.  
891. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-27868">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27868 </h3>
892.  
893.  
894.  
895. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> May 29, 2025</p>
896.  
897.  
898.  
899. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Canary Channel</p>
900.  
901.  
902.  
903. <p>In this build, voice access has been redesigned to help you more easily discover and learn about new features. You can launch or dismiss this new experience from the settings menu.</p>
904.  
905.  
906.  
907. <p>Several bugs have been fixed, including one that was causing pen input to be non-responsive on some PCs.</p>
908.  
909.  
910.  
911. <p>There are six known issues in this build, including one in which if you are joining the Canary Channel on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel, or retail, you will lose Windows Hello PIN and biometrics to sign into your PC. You should be able to re-create your PIN by clicking <em>Set up my PIN</em>.</p>
912.  
913.  
914.  
915. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/05/29/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27868-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27868</a>.)</p>
916.  
917.  
918.  
919. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-4161">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.4161 </h3>
920.  
921.  
922.  
923. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> May 23, 2025</p>
924.  
925.  
926.  
927. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
928.  
929.  
930.  
931. <p>This build begins the rollout of a new Click-to-Do action that uses Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to rewrite or elaborate on selected text. To get started, select text, then press the Windows key and click, then choose the <em>Draft with Copilot in Word</em> action. (This feature requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.)</p>
932.  
933.  
934.  
935. <p>In addition, those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get several new features, including the ability to add, remove, and rearrange lock screen widgets such as Weather, Watchlist, Sports, Traffic, and more. Any widget that supports the small sizing option can be added here. To customize your lock screen widgets, navigate to <em>Settings > Personalization > Lock screen</em>. Note that these features are being rolled out gradually.</p>
936.  
937.  
938.  
939. <p>Those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates also get a variety of bug fixes rolled out gradually, including one for a bug in which the Describe image feature of narrator wasn’t working.</p>
940.  
941.  
942.  
943. <p>There are nine known issues in this build, including one in which after you do a PC reset under <em>Settings > System > Recovery</em>, your build version may incorrectly show as Build 26100 instead of Build 26120. This will not prevent you from getting future Beta Channel updates, which will resolve this issue.</p>
944.  
945.  
946.  
947. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/05/23/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-4161-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.4161</a>.)</p>
948.  
949.  
950.  
951. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-27863">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27863 </h3>
952.  
953.  
954.  
955. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> May 23, 2025</p>
956.  
957.  
958.  
959. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Canary Channel</p>
960.  
961.  
962.  
963. <p>This build adds support for post-quantum signature algorithm ML-DSA in NCrypt and BCrypt cryptography API surfaces, as well as Crypt32 certificate APIs. Three variants are supported, ML-DSA 44, 65, and 87. </p>
964.  
965.  
966.  
967. <p>Several bugs have been fixed, including one in which Windows Sandbox was not working and showed error 0xc0370106 on launch.</p>
968.  
969.  
970.  
971. <p>There are six known issues in this build, including one in which if you are joining the Canary Channel on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel, or retail, you will lose Windows Hello PIN and biometrics to sign into your PC. You should be able to re-create your PIN by clicking <em>Set up my PIN</em>.</p>
972.  
973.  
974.  
975. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/05/23/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27863-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27863</a>.)</p>
976.  
977.  
978.  
979. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-4151">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.4151</h3>
980.  
981.  
982.  
983. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> May 19, 2025</p>
984.  
985.  
986.  
987. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
988.  
989.  
990.  
991. <p>Those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get several new features, including AI actions in File Explorer, which offers a set of AI-related tools when you right-click a file. For now, the only AI tools available are for image files, including Bing Visual Search for searching the web using an image instead of text, as well as several AI-related image-editing capabilities. Eventually, other features will be added, such as summarizing documents using Copilot. These features, including the ones related to images, are being rolled out gradually.</p>
992.  
993.  
994.  
995. <p>The same group also gets a variety of bug fixes being rolled out gradually, including one that addresses a bug in which if File Explorer was maximized and you clicked the new tab button, it would unmaximize the window.</p>
996.  
997.  
998.  
999. <p>There are 12 known issues in this build, including one in which after you do a PC reset under <em>Settings > System > Recovery</em>, your build version may incorrectly show as Build 26100 instead of Build 26120. This will not prevent you from getting future Beta Channel updates, which will resolve this issue.</p>
1000.  
1001.  
1002.  
1003. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/05/19/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-4151-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.4151</a>.)</p>
1004.  
1005.  
1006.  
1007. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5603">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5603</h3>
1008.  
1009.  
1010.  
1011. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> May 19, 2025</p>
1012.  
1013.  
1014.  
1015. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev Channel</p>
1016.  
1017.  
1018.  
1019. <p>Those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get several new features, including AI actions in File Explorer, which offers a set of AI-related tools when you right-click a file. For now, the only AI tools available are for image files, including Bing Visual Search for searching the web using an image instead of text, as well as several AI-related image-editing capabilities. Eventually, other features will be added, such as summarizing documents using Copilot. These features, including the ones related to images, are being rolled out gradually.</p>
1020.  
1021.  
1022.  
1023. <p>The same group also gets a variety of bug fixes being rolled out gradually, including one that addresses a bug in which if File Explorer was maximized and you clicked the new tab button, it would unmaximize the window.</p>
1024.  
1025.  
1026.  
1027. <p>There are 13 known issues in this build, including one in which after you do a PC reset under <em>Settings > System > Recovery</em>, your build version may incorrectly show as Build 26100 instead of Build 26200. This will not prevent you from getting future Dev Channel updates, which will resolve this issue.</p>
1028.  
1029.  
1030.  
1031. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/05/19/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5603-dev-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5603</a>.)</p>
1032.  
1033.  
1034.  
1035. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26100-4188-kb5058499">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26100.4188 (KB5058499)</h3>
1036.  
1037.  
1038.  
1039. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> May 19, 2025</p>
1040.  
1041.  
1042.  
1043. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Release Preview Channel</p>
1044.  
1045.  
1046.  
1047. <p>This build gradually rolls out a wide variety of new features, including a new Copilot action in Click to Do. When you highlight text or an image, Click to Do offers an Ask Copilot option. Selecting it opens Microsoft Copilot with your content in the prompt box. You can send the selected text or image directly to the Copilot app to complete your prompt.</p>
1048.  
1049.  
1050.  
1051. <p>In addition, IT admins can manage energy saver settings on Windows 11 PCs through group policies and MDM configurations using Microsoft Intune. This feature helps extend battery life by limiting background activity, dimming the screen, and contributing to environmental sustainability. To configure the policy, go to the Local Group Policy under <em>Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Power Management > Energy Saver Settings</em>and select <em>Enable Energy Saver to Always Be On</em>.</p>
1052.  
1053.  
1054.  
1055. <p>A number of bug fixes are also being gradually rolled out, including one for a bug in which Settings crashed at times when loading information about Bluetooth devices.</p>
1056.  
1057.  
1058.  
1059. <p>Several bugs are being fixed immediately, including one in which some devices with BitLocker on removable drives encountered a blue screen error after resuming from sleep or hybrid-booting.</p>
1060.  
1061.  
1062.  
1063. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/05/19/releasing-windows-11-build-26100-4188-to-the-release-preview-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26100.4188</a>.)</p>
1064.  
1065.  
1066.  
1067. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-27858">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27858</h3>
1068.  
1069.  
1070.  
1071. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> May 16, 2025</p>
1072.  
1073.  
1074.  
1075. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Canary Channel</p>
1076.  
1077.  
1078.  
1079. <p>This build includes a new system tray icon on the taskbar that makes it easier to find and use emojis, GIFs, Kaomoji, etc. It also fixes a variety of bugs, including an explorer.exe crash related to snap layouts, which happened when dragging a window or hovering over the maximize button in a window.</p>
1080.  
1081.  
1082.  
1083. <p>There are four known issues in this build, including one in which if you are joining the Canary Channel on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel, or retail, you will lose Windows Hello PIN and biometrics to sign into your PC. You should be able to re-create your PIN by clicking <em>Set up my PIN</em>.</p>
1084.  
1085.  
1086.  
1087. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/05/16/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27858-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27858</a>.)</p>
1088.  
1089.  
1090.  
1091. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3964">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3964</h3>
1092.  
1093.  
1094.  
1095. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> May 12, 2025</p>
1096.  
1097.  
1098.  
1099. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
1100.  
1101.  
1102.  
1103. <p>This build introduces a new agent in Settings on Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCS. Using it, you can describe what you need help with, such as “how to control my PC by voice” or “my mouse pointer is too small,” and the agent will recommend steps you can take to address the issue. Support for AMD- and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs is coming soon.</p>
1104.  
1105.  
1106.  
1107. <p>Those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get new features being rolled out gradually, including a new FAQs section on the <em>Settings > System > About</em>page to provide help with using your PC.</p>
1108.  
1109.  
1110.  
1111. <p>The same group also gets a variety of bug fixes being rolled out gradually, including for an issue that caused live captions to crash and another that could make some apps like Word hang when trying to print.</p>
1112.  
1113.  
1114.  
1115. <p>There are 12 known issues in this build, including one in which after you do a PC reset under <em>Settings > System > Recovery</em>, your build version may incorrectly show as Build 26100 instead of Build 26120. This will not prevent you from getting future Beta Channel updates, which will resolve this issue.</p>
1116.  
1117.  
1118.  
1119. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/05/12/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3964-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3964</a>.)</p>
1120.  
1121.  
1122.  
1123. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5600">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5600</h3>
1124.  
1125.  
1126.  
1127. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> May 12, 2025</p>
1128.  
1129.  
1130.  
1131. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev Channel</p>
1132.  
1133.  
1134.  
1135. <p>This build introduces a new set of intelligent text actions using <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/click-to-do-do-more-with-what-s-on-your-screen-6848b7d5-7fb0-4c43-b08a-443d6d3f5955" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Click to Do</a> on AMD- and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs<strong>. </strong>You can Use Win key + mouse-click or Win key + Q to select a text block and drag to select the text that you want. You’ll see options to summarize, create a bulleted list, or to help you rewrite your text so it sounds more causal, more formal, or more polished.</p>
1136.  
1137.  
1138.  
1139. <p>A wide variety of bug fixes are being rolled out gradually to those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates, including for an issue that caused File Explorer Home to hang when loading and another that caused live captions to crash.</p>
1140.  
1141.  
1142.  
1143. <p>There are 10 known issues in this build, including one in which after you do a PC reset under <em>Settings > System > Recovery</em>, your build version may incorrectly show as Build 26100 instead of Build 26200. This will not prevent you from getting future Dev Channel updates, which will resolve this issue.</p>
1144.  
1145.  
1146.  
1147. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/05/12/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5600-dev-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5600</a>.)</p>
1148.  
1149.  
1150.  
1151. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3950">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3950</h3>
1152.  
1153.  
1154.  
1155. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> May 5, 2025</p>
1156.  
1157.  
1158.  
1159. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
1160.  
1161.  
1162.  
1163. <p>Those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get new features being rolled out gradually, including one that gives IT administrators the ability to use <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/intune/intune-service/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Microsoft Intune</a> to control energy savings on Windows 11 PCs through group policies and MDM configurations.</p>
1164.  
1165.  
1166.  
1167. <p>The same group also gets a variety of bug fixes, including for a bug in which Windows’ startup sound would not play, even though it was enabled.</p>
1168.  
1169.  
1170.  
1171. <p>There are nine known issues in this build, including one in which after you do a PC reset under <em>Settings > System > Recovery</em>, your build version may incorrectly show as Build 26100 instead of Build 26120. This will not prevent you from getting future Beta Channel updates, which will resolve this issue.</p>
1172.  
1173.  
1174.  
1175. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/05/05/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3950-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3950</a>.)</p>
1176.  
1177.  
1178.  
1179. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5581">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5581</h3>
1180.  
1181.  
1182.  
1183. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> May 5, 2025</p>
1184.  
1185.  
1186.  
1187. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev Channel</p>
1188.  
1189.  
1190.  
1191. <p>In this build, those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get new features being rolled out gradually, including one that gives IT administrators the ability to use <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/intune/intune-service/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Microsoft Intune</a> to control energy savings on Windows 11 PCs through group policies and MDM configurations.</p>
1192.  
1193.  
1194.  
1195. <p>The same group gets several new bug fixes, including for a bug in which Windows’ startup sound would not play, even though it was enabled.</p>
1196.  
1197.  
1198.  
1199. <p>There are seven known issues in this build, including one in which live captions have been crashing.</p>
1200.  
1201.  
1202.  
1203. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/05/05/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5581-dev-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5570</a>.)</p>
1204.  
1205.  
1206.  
1207. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3941">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3941</h3>
1208.  
1209.  
1210.  
1211. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> April 25, 2025</p>
1212.  
1213.  
1214.  
1215. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
1216.  
1217.  
1218.  
1219. <p>In this build, those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get several new features and minor improvements, including a new profanity filter setting for voice typing. This group will also have several bugs fixed, including one that caused apps to appear blank, and another in which Windows Hello facial recognition would not work for login for some Insiders. The new feature and bug fixes are gradually rolling out.</p>
1220.  
1221.  
1222.  
1223. <p>Everyone in the Beta Channel gets a fix for a bug that caused Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) to not work and the option “Fix problems using Windows Update” option under <em>Settings > Recovery</em> to also not work.</p>
1224.  
1225.  
1226.  
1227. <p>There are 13 known issues in this build, including one in which after you do a PC reset under <em>Settings > System > Recovery</em>, your build version may incorrectly show as Build 26100 instead of Build 26120. This will not prevent you from getting future Beta Channel updates, which will resolve this issue.</p>
1228.  
1229.  
1230.  
1231. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/04/25/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3941-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3941</a>.)</p>
1232.  
1233.  
1234.  
1235. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5570">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5570</h3>
1236.  
1237.  
1238.  
1239. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> April 25, 2025</p>
1240.  
1241.  
1242.  
1243. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev Channel</p>
1244.  
1245.  
1246.  
1247. <p>In this build, those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get several new features and minor improvements, including a new profanity filter setting for voice typing. This group will also have several bugs fixed, including one that caused apps to appear blank, and another in which Windows Hello facial recognition would not work for login for some Insiders.</p>
1248.  
1249.  
1250.  
1251. <p>Everyone in the Dev Channel  gets a fix for a bug that caused Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) to not work and the option “Fix problems using Windows Update” option under <em>Settings > Recovery</em> to also not work.</p>
1252.  
1253.  
1254.  
1255. <p>There are six known issues in this build, including one in which Windows Sandbox may fail to launch with a 0x800705b4 error. If this occurs, try reinstalling Sandbox by unchecking Sandbox under “Turn Windows features on or off” to uninstall it, then reboot, go back to “Turn Windows features on or off” and check Sandbox to reinstall it and reboot again.</p>
1256.  
1257.  
1258.  
1259. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/04/25/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5570-dev-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5570</a>.)</p>
1260.  
1261.  
1262.  
1263. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-27842">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27842</h3>
1264.  
1265.  
1266.  
1267. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> April 23, 2025</p>
1268.  
1269.  
1270.  
1271. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Canary Channel</p>
1272.  
1273.  
1274.  
1275. <p>This build previews a new UI that is used when a PC unexpectedly restarts. It also fixes a variety of bugs, including one in which the Smart App Control icon wasn’t displaying correctly in the Windows Security app.</p>
1276.  
1277.  
1278.  
1279. <p>There are four known issues in this build, including one in which if you are joining the Canary Channel on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel, or retail, you will lose Windows Hello PIN and biometrics to sign into your PC. You should be able to re-create your PIN by clicking <em>Set up my PIN</em>.</p>
1280.  
1281.  
1282.  
1283. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/04/23/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27842-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27842</a>.)</p>
1284.  
1285.  
1286.  
1287. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5562">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5562</h3>
1288.  
1289.  
1290.  
1291. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> April 21, 2025</p>
1292.  
1293.  
1294.  
1295. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev Channel</p>
1296.  
1297.  
1298.  
1299. <p>In this build, those with Copilot+ PCs get two new text actions in Click to Do, including the “Practice in Reading Coach” Click to Do action that can increase fluency and pronunciation.</p>
1300.  
1301.  
1302.  
1303. <p>In addition, those in the Dev Channel who have turned a toggle on to receive the latest updates get new features being rolled out gradually, including several improvements in voice access and to the notification widgets settings page, so that they can control the number of notifications per feed or dashboard. </p>
1304.  
1305.  
1306.  
1307. <p>Those in the Dev Channel who have turned a toggle on to receive the latest updates get several bugs fixed, including one that was causing Start menu to crash when creating folders. Everyone in the Dev Channel gets additional bug fixes, including for a bug that didn’t allow some apps like Spotify to install from the Microsoft Store.</p>
1308.  
1309.  
1310.  
1311. <p>There are 14 known issues in this build, including one in which Windows Recall is unable to automatically save snapshots, and the setting can’t be turned on in Settings.</p>
1312.  
1313.  
1314.  
1315. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/04/21/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5562-dev-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5562</a>.)</p>
1316.  
1317.  
1318.  
1319. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3872">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3872</h3>
1320.  
1321.  
1322.  
1323. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> April 21, 2025</p>
1324.  
1325.  
1326.  
1327. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
1328.  
1329.  
1330.  
1331. <p>In this build, those with Copilot+ PCs get two new text actions in Click to Do, including the “Practice in Reading Coach” Click to Do action that can increase fluency and pronunciation.</p>
1332.  
1333.  
1334.  
1335. <p>In addition, those in the Beta Channel who have turned a toggle on to receive the latest updates get new features being rolled out gradually, including several improvements in voice access.</p>
1336.  
1337.  
1338.  
1339. <p>Those in the Beta Channel who have turned a toggle on to receive the latest updates get several bug fixes, including one that was causing Start menu to crash when creating folders. Everyone in the Beta Channel gets one bug fix, for a bug that didn’t allow some apps like Spotify to install from the Microsoft Store</p>
1340.  
1341.  
1342.  
1343. <p>There are 13 known issues in this build, including one in which after you do a PC reset under <em>Settings > System > Recovery</em>, your build version may incorrectly show as Build 26100 instead of Build 26120. This will not prevent you from getting future Beta Channel updates, which will resolve this issue.</p>
1344.  
1345.  
1346.  
1347. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/04/21/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3872-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3872</a>.)</p>
1348.  
1349.  
1350.  
1351. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5551">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5551</h3>
1352.  
1353.  
1354.  
1355. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> April 11, 2025</p>
1356.  
1357.  
1358.  
1359. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev Channel</p>
1360.  
1361.  
1362.  
1363. <p>This build begins the rollout of natural language search for settings in the Windows search box on the taskbar for users with Copilot+ PCs. For example, you can use your own words to find settings like “change my theme” or “about my PC.” You no longer need to remember the exact setting name you are looking for.</p>
1364.  
1365.  
1366.  
1367. <p>In addition, those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get new features being rolled out gradually, including one in which you can read content such as full articles, slideshows, and videos directly within your MSN feed in the widgets board.</p>
1368.  
1369.  
1370.  
1371. <p>Those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get several bug fixes, including for a bug that caused File Explorer Home to crash for some Insiders. Everyone in the Dev Channel gets a fix for Windows Sandbox, which was not working.</p>
1372.  
1373.  
1374.  
1375. <p>There are 12 known issues in this build, including one in which Windows Recall is unable to automatically save snapshots, and the setting can’t be turned on in Settings.</p>
1376.  
1377.  
1378.  
1379. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/04/11/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5551-dev-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5551</a>.)</p>
1380.  
1381.  
1382.  
1383. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3863">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3863</h3>
1384.  
1385.  
1386.  
1387. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> April 11, 2025</p>
1388.  
1389.  
1390.  
1391. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
1392.  
1393.  
1394.  
1395. <p>This build begins the rollout of natural language search for settings in the Windows search box on the taskbar for users with Copilot+ PCs. For example, you can use your own words to find settings like “change my theme” or “about my PC.” You no longer need to remember the exact setting name you are looking for.</p>
1396.  
1397.  
1398.  
1399. <p>In addition, those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get new features being rolled out gradually, including one in which you can read content such as full articles, slideshows, and videos directly within your MSN feed in the widgets board.</p>
1400.  
1401.  
1402.  
1403. <p>Those in the Beta Channel who have turned a toggle on to receive the latest updates get several bug fixes, including for a bug that caused File Explorer Home to crash for some Insiders. Everyone in the Beta Channel gets a fix for Windows Sandbox, which was not working.</p>
1404.  
1405.  
1406.  
1407. <p>There are 14 known issues in this build, including one in which after you do a PC reset under <em>Settings > System > Recovery</em>, your build version may incorrectly show as Build 26100 instead of Build 26120. This will not prevent you from getting future Beta Channel updates, which will resolve this issue.</p>
1408.  
1409.  
1410.  
1411. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/04/11/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3863-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3863</a>.)</p>
1412.  
1413.  
1414.  
1415. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26100-3902-kb5055627">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26100.3902 (KB5055627)</h3>
1416.  
1417.  
1418.  
1419. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> April 10, 2025</p>
1420.  
1421.  
1422.  
1423. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Release Preview Channel</p>
1424.  
1425.  
1426.  
1427. <p>This build gradually rolls out several new features for Copilot+ PCs, including Windows Recall (preview) in which you can quickly find and get back to any app, website, image, or document by describing its content. To use Recall, you need to opt in to saving snapshots, which are images of your activity, and enroll in Windows Hello to confirm your presence so only you can access them. Those with Copilot+ PCs can also search by describing what they’re looking for, without having to remember file names, exact words in file content, or settings names. </p>
1428.  
1429.  
1430.  
1431. <p>A number of new features are being rolled out immediately for all PCs, not just Copilot+ PCs, including one in which you get an estimated time for how long your PC will be offline to install updates from Windows Update. Several bugs are also being fixed, including one in which some content pages with JPEG images were not displaying.</p>
1432.  
1433.  
1434.  
1435. <p>There is one known issue in this build, in which Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) may not work, and you may not be able to use the “Fix problems using Windows Update” option under <em>Settings > Recovery</em>.</p>
1436.  
1437.  
1438.  
1439. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/04/10/releasing-windows-11-build-26100-3902-to-the-release-preview-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26100.3902</a>.)</p>
1440.  
1441.  
1442.  
1443. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5518">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5518</h3>
1444.  
1445.  
1446.  
1447. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> April 3, 2025</p>
1448.  
1449.  
1450.  
1451. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev Channel</p>
1452.  
1453.  
1454.  
1455. <p>Those in the Dev Channel who have opted to receive the latest updates get several new features that are being rolled out gradually, including taskbar icon scaling — when your taskbar starts to get crowded with pinned or open apps, the icons automatically scale down to a smaller size. This lets you keep more apps visible and accessible without having to use a secondary menu.</p>
1456.  
1457.  
1458.  
1459. <p>Dev Channel users who have opted to receive the latest updates get three bug fixes, one in which external graphics cards connected over Thunderbolt were unexpectedly not discoverable in some cases; another in which Hyper-V Manager erroneously reported 0% CPU usage for VMs in some scenarios; and another for those with Copilot+ PCs who saw semantic search stop working until their PCs were rebooted.</p>
1460.  
1461.  
1462.  
1463. <p>There are 11 known issues in this build, including one in which Recall is unable to automatically save snapshots, and the setting can’t be turned on in Settings.</p>
1464.  
1465.  
1466.  
1467. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/04/03/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5518-dev-channel-2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5518</a>.)</p>
1468.  
1469.  
1470.  
1471. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3671">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3671</h3>
1472.  
1473.  
1474.  
1475. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> April 3, 2025</p>
1476.  
1477.  
1478.  
1479. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
1480.  
1481.  
1482.  
1483. <p>Those in the Beta Channel who agreed to receive the latest updates get several new features being rolled out gradually, including taskbar icon scaling — when your taskbar starts to get crowded with pinned or open apps, the icons automatically scale down to a smaller size. This lets you keep more apps visible and accessible without having to use a secondary menu.</p>
1484.  
1485.  
1486.  
1487. <p>Those in the Beta Channel who get the latest updates get two bug fixes, one in which external graphics cards connected over Thunderbolt were unexpectedly not discoverable in some cases, and another in which Hyper-V Manager erroneously reported 0% CPU usage for VMs in some scenarios.</p>
1488.  
1489.  
1490.  
1491. <p>There are 12 known issues in this build, including one in which after you do a PC reset under Settings > System > Recovery, your build version may incorrectly show as Build 26100 instead of Build 26120. This will not prevent you from getting future Beta Channel updates, which will resolve this issue.</p>
1492.  
1493.  
1494.  
1495. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/04/03/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3671-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3671</a>.)</p>
1496.  
1497.  
1498.  
1499. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5516">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5516</h3>
1500.  
1501.  
1502.  
1503. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> March 28, 2025</p>
1504.  
1505.  
1506.  
1507. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev Channel</p>
1508.  
1509.  
1510.  
1511. <p>This build includes improved search tools for AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs. When searching in File Explorer, the Windows search box on the taskbar, or in Settings, you can type plain-English searches without having to remember file names, exact words in file content, or settings names. In addition, those with AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs can find photos in the cloud by using plain-English searches.</p>
1512.  
1513.  
1514.  
1515. <p>Those who have turned on the toggle to receive changes as soon as they come out get a speech recap in Narrator which keeps track of what Narrator has spoken and access it for quick reference. They also get a variety of changes and improvements, including one in which on Copilot+ PCs, they can now access Click to Do from the Start menu and can pin it to Start and the taskbar.</p>
1516.  
1517.  
1518.  
1519. <p>They also receive a variety of bug fixes, including one in which File Explorer was very slow to close for some Insiders when closing it using the X button.</p>
1520.  
1521.  
1522.  
1523. <p>Everyone in the Dev Channel gets a bug fixed in which the toggle to get the latest updates as soon they are available via <em>Settings > Windows Update</em> didn’t render correctly and turned itself off.</p>
1524.  
1525.  
1526.  
1527. <p>There are 13 known issues in this build, including one in which Windows Recall is unable to automatically save snapshots, and the setting can’t be turned on in Settings.</p>
1528.  
1529.  
1530.  
1531. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/03/28/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5516-dev-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5516</a>.)</p>
1532.  
1533.  
1534.  
1535. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3653">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3653</h3>
1536.  
1537.  
1538.  
1539. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> March 28, 2025</p>
1540.  
1541.  
1542.  
1543. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
1544.  
1545.  
1546.  
1547. <p>Those in the Beta Channel who have turned a toggle on to receive the latest updates get several new features being rolled out gradually, including a speech recap feature in Narrator that keeps track of what Narrator has spoken and lets you access it for quick reference. There are also a variety of changes and improvements, including one in which on Copilot+ PCs, users can now access Click to Do from the Start menu and can pin it to Start and the taskbar.</p>
1548.  
1549.  
1550.  
1551. <p>Those in the Beta Channel who have turned a toggle on to receive the latest updates get several bug fixes, including for a bug in which the taskbar icons weren’t increasing in size as they should when using your PC in a tablet posture.</p>
1552.  
1553.  
1554.  
1555. <p>Two bugs are fixed for everyone in the Beta Channel, including one in which the toggle to get the latest updates as soon they are available via <em>Settings > Windows Update</em> did not render correctly and automatically turned itself off.</p>
1556.  
1557.  
1558.  
1559. <p>There are 13 known issues in this build, including one in which after you do a PC reset under <em>Settings > System > Recovery</em>, your build version may incorrectly show as Build 26100 instead of Build 26120. This will not prevent you from getting future Beta Channel updates that will resolve this issue.</p>
1560.  
1561.  
1562.  
1563. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/03/28/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3653-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3653</a>.)</p>
1564.  
1565.  
1566.  
1567. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-27823">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27823</h3>
1568.  
1569.  
1570.  
1571. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> March 26, 2025</p>
1572.  
1573.  
1574.  
1575. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Canary Channel</p>
1576.  
1577.  
1578.  
1579. <p>This update, in the words of Microsoft, “includes a small set of general improvements and fixes that improve the overall experience” of using Windows. It also includes new “top cards” under <em>Settings > System > About</em>. Top cards provide an easy way to view your PC’s key specifications—processor, RAM, storage, and GPU.</p>
1580.  
1581.  
1582.  
1583. <p>The build fixes a variety of bugs, including one in which Settings could crash when interacting with <em>Bluetooth & Devices > Cameras.</em></p>
1584.  
1585.  
1586.  
1587. <p>There are three known issues in this build, including one in which if you are joining the Canary Channel on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel, or retail, you will lose Windows Hello PIN and biometrics to sign into your PC. You should be able to re-create your PIN by clicking <em>Set up my PIN</em>.</p>
1588.  
1589.  
1590.  
1591. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/03/26/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27823-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27823</a>.)</p>
1592.  
1593.  
1594.  
1595. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3585">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3585</h3>
1596.  
1597.  
1598.  
1599. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> March 24, 2025</p>
1600.  
1601.  
1602.  
1603. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
1604.  
1605.  
1606.  
1607. <p>This build includes improved search tools for AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs. When searching in File Explorer, the Windows search box on the taskbar, or in Settings, you can type plain-English searches without having to remember file names, exact words in file content, or settings names. In addition, those with AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs can find photos in the cloud by using plain-English searches.</p>
1608.  
1609.  
1610.  
1611. <p>Those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get several bug fixes, including for a bug in which File Explorer was very slow to close via the X button.</p>
1612.  
1613.  
1614.  
1615. <p>Two bugs are fixed for everyone in the Beta Channel, including one in which the toggle to get the latest updates as they are available via <em>Settings > Windows Update</em> did not render correctly and automatically turned itself off.</p>
1616.  
1617.  
1618.  
1619. <p>There are 16 known issues in this build, including one in which Windows Recall is unable to automatically save snapshots.</p>
1620.  
1621.  
1622.  
1623. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/03/24/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3585-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3585</a>.)</p>
1624.  
1625.  
1626.  
1627. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5510">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5510</h3>
1628.  
1629.  
1630.  
1631. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> March 24, 2025</p>
1632.  
1633.  
1634.  
1635. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev Channel</p>
1636.  
1637.  
1638.  
1639. <p>In this build the Dev Channel is jumping ahead to receive 26200 series builds. This means that once you install it, you cannot switch to the Beta Channel. If you are in the Dev Channel and want to switch to the Beta Channel, don’t install this build. Instead, pause updates in Windows Update, switch your channel to the Beta Channel and then un-pause updates.</p>
1640.  
1641.  
1642.  
1643. <p>There are 11 known issues in this build, including one in which Windows Recall is unable to automatically save snapshots, and the setting can’t be turned on in Settings.</p>
1644.  
1645.  
1646.  
1647. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/03/24/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5510-dev-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5510</a>.)</p>
1648.  
1649.  
1650.  
1651. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26100-3624-kb5053656">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26100.3624 (KB5053656)</h3>
1652.  
1653.  
1654.  
1655. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> March 24, 2025</p>
1656.  
1657.  
1658.  
1659. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Release Preview Channel</p>
1660.  
1661.  
1662.  
1663. <p>This build gradually rolls out several new features for Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs, including natural-language search in Windows Search. Just describe what you’re looking for without having to remember specific file names, exact words in file content, or settings names.</p>
1664.  
1665.  
1666.  
1667. <p>In addition, the build includes the same set of improvements and bug fixes as a previous build, Build 26100.3613, such as Natural Language Commanding in voice access, available initially on Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs.</p>
1668.  
1669.  
1670.  
1671. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/03/24/releasing-windows-11-build-26100-3624-to-the-release-preview-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26100.3624</a>.)</p>
1672.  
1673.  
1674.  
1675. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-27818">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27818</h3>
1676.  
1677.  
1678.  
1679. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> March 19, 2025</p>
1680.  
1681.  
1682.  
1683. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Canary Channel</p>
1684.  
1685.  
1686.  
1687. <p>This update, in the words of Microsoft, “includes a small set of general improvements and fixes that improve the overall experience” of using Windows.</p>
1688.  
1689.  
1690.  
1691. <p>The build also fixes a variety of bugs, including one in which Remote Desktop sometimes froze when connecting.</p>
1692.  
1693.  
1694.  
1695. <p>There are two known issues in this build, including one in which if you are joining the Canary Channel on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel, or retail, you will lose Windows Hello PIN and biometrics to sign into your PC. You should be able to re-create your PIN by clicking <em>Set up my PIN</em>.</p>
1696.  
1697.  
1698.  
1699. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/03/19/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27818-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27818</a>.)</p>
1700.  
1701.  
1702.  
1703. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26100-3613-kb5053656">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26100.3613 (KB5053656)</h3>
1704.  
1705.  
1706.  
1707. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> March 18, 2025</p>
1708.  
1709.  
1710.  
1711. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Release Preview Channel</p>
1712.  
1713.  
1714.  
1715. <p>This build gradually rolls out a number of new features, including Natural Language Commanding in voice access, which lets users speak commands naturally, using filler words and synonyms, rather than rigid, predefined commands. It is available initially on Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs.</p>
1716.  
1717.  
1718.  
1719. <p>Several bug fixes are also being rolled out gradually, including one in which the “see more” (…) menu in the File Explorer command bar opened in the wrong direction in some cases.</p>
1720.  
1721.  
1722.  
1723. <p>A variety of new bug fixes are being rolled out immediately, including one for a bug in which critical PowerShell modules required for device configuration were not executed under Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) policies.</p>
1724.  
1725.  
1726.  
1727. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/03/18/releasing-windows-11-build-26100-3613-to-the-release-preview-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26100.3613</a>.)</p>
1728.  
1729.  
1730.  
1731. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3576">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3576 </h3>
1732.  
1733.  
1734.  
1735. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> March 17, 2025</p>
1736.  
1737.  
1738.  
1739. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev and Beta Channels</p>
1740.  
1741.  
1742.  
1743. <p>In this build, those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get several new features, including one in which on Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs, you can use natural language commands during voice access, rather than having to remember specific voice commands.</p>
1744.  
1745.  
1746.  
1747. <p>The same group gets several bug fixes, including one addressing a bug for users in managed environments, in which your Windows Recall snapshots would get deleted after installing Build 26120.3380 and after each reboot on that build.</p>
1748.  
1749.  
1750.  
1751. <p>There are 16 known issues in this build, including one in which Recall is unable to automatically save snapshots and the setting can’t be turned on in Settings, and another in which Recall is no longer able to save new snapshots or modify settings.</p>
1752.  
1753.  
1754.  
1755. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/03/17/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3576-dev-and-beta-channels/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3576</a>.)</p>
1756.  
1757.  
1758.  
1759. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-27813">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27813</h3>
1760.  
1761.  
1762.  
1763. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> March 12, 2025</p>
1764.  
1765.  
1766.  
1767. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Canary Channel</p>
1768.  
1769.  
1770.  
1771. <p>This update, in the words of Microsoft, “includes a small set of general improvements and fixes that improve the overall experience” of using Windows.</p>
1772.  
1773.  
1774.  
1775. <p>The build also fixes two bugs, one which the WDMAud system driver was causing some app crashes, and the other in which <em>Settings > System > Display > Color Management</em> did not always display the expected color profile list for the selected monitor.</p>
1776.  
1777.  
1778.  
1779. <p>There are two known issues in this build, including one in which if you are joining the Canary Channel on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel, or retail, you will lose Windows Hello PIN and biometrics to sign into your PC. You should be able to re-create your PIN by clicking <em>Set up my PIN</em>.</p>
1780.  
1781.  
1782.  
1783. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/03/12/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27813-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27813</a>.)</p>
1784.  
1785.  
1786.  
1787. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3380">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3380 </h3>
1788.  
1789.  
1790.  
1791. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> March 10, 2025</p>
1792.  
1793.  
1794.  
1795. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev and Beta Channels</p>
1796.  
1797.  
1798.  
1799. <p>In this build, those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get several new features, including one in which File Explorer displays a new Recommended section that is displayed as a carousel with thumbnail previews. This includes content such as files you frequently use, have recently downloaded, or added to your File Explorer Gallery. Users with a work/school account (Entra ID) will have additional types of recommendations available with this update.</p>
1800.  
1801.  
1802.  
1803. <p>Those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get several bug fixes, including for a bug in which windows.storage.dll led caused some apps to crash when files were opened in them.</p>
1804.  
1805.  
1806.  
1807. <p>There are 10 known issues in this build, including one in which Windows Recall is unable to automatically save snapshots, and the setting can’t be turned on in Settings.</p>
1808.  
1809.  
1810.  
1811. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/03/10/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3380-dev-and-beta-channels/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3380</a>.)</p>
1812.  
1813.  
1814.  
1815. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-27808">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27808</h3>
1816.  
1817.  
1818.  
1819. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> March 7, 2025</p>
1820.  
1821.  
1822.  
1823. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Canary Channel</p>
1824.  
1825.  
1826.  
1827. <p>In this update, a change is being rolled out in the way Task Manager calculates CPU utilization for the Processes, Performance, and Users pages. Task Manager will now use the standard metrics to display CPU workload consistently across all pages and aligning with industry standards and third-party tools. For backward compatibility, a new optional column called CPU Utility is available (hidden by default) on the Details tab showing the previous CPU value used on the Processes page.</p>
1828.  
1829.  
1830.  
1831. <p>The build also fixes a number of bugs, including one that caused the search window to go blank for some Insiders when searching from the taskbar, due to a background crash.</p>
1832.  
1833.  
1834.  
1835. <p>There are two known issues in this build, including one in which if you are joining the Canary Channel on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel, or retail, you will lose Windows Hello PIN and biometrics to sign into your PC. You should be able to re-create your PIN by clicking <em>Set up my PIN</em>. In the other, a d3d9.dll crash is causing multiple apps to fail to launch starting with Build 27802 for some Insiders.</p>
1836.  
1837.  
1838.  
1839. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/03/07/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27808-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27808</a>.)</p>
1840.  
1841.  
1842.  
1843. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-5015">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.5015</h3>
1844.  
1845.  
1846.  
1847. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> February 28, 2025</p>
1848.  
1849.  
1850.  
1851. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
1852.  
1853.  
1854.  
1855. <p>In this build, those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates will see a new system tray icon on the taskbar, which lets you use emojis, GIFs, Kaomoji, etc. across all apps and surfaces in Windows in addition to using the Win + . keyboard shortcut. This new system tray icon can be changed by right-clicking on the icon to go to taskbar settings page.</p>
1856.  
1857.  
1858.  
1859. <p>Those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get a number of new bug fixes, including for a bug in which File Explorer Home crashed for some Insiders.</p>
1860.  
1861.  
1862.  
1863. <p>There are four known issues in this build, including one in which File Explorer is very slow to close for some Insiders when closing using the X button. This may also affect the other title bar buttons.</p>
1864.  
1865.  
1866.  
1867. <p>Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/02/28/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-5015-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.5015</a>.)</p>
1868.  
1869.  
1870.  
1871. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3360">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3360 </h3>
1872.  
1873.  
1874.  
1875. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> February 28, 2025</p>
1876.  
1877.  
1878.  
1879. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev and Beta Channels</p>
1880.  
1881.  
1882.  
1883. <p>In this build, those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get two new features being gradually rolled out, including one in which Task Manager changes the way it calculates CPU utilization for the Processes, Performance, and Users pages. Task Manager will now use the standard metrics to display CPU workload consistently across all pages and aligning with industry standards and third-party tools. Also being added is the ability to share directly to apps that support sharing in Windows when right-clicking on local files in File Explorer or the desktop.</p>
1884.  
1885.  
1886.  
1887. <p>Those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get several bug fixes, including for a bug which some people experienced Remote Desktop freezes on login, or frequent disconnect.</p>
1888.  
1889.  
1890.  
1891. <p>There are 11 known issues in this build, including one in which Windows Recall is unable to automatically save snapshots, and the setting can’t be turned on in Settings.</p>
1892.  
1893.  
1894.  
1895. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/02/28/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3360-dev-and-beta-channels/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3360</a>.)</p>
1896.  
1897.  
1898.  
1899. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-27802">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27802</h3>
1900.  
1901.  
1902.  
1903. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> February 28, 2025</p>
1904.  
1905.  
1906.  
1907. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Canary Channel</p>
1908.  
1909.  
1910.  
1911. <p>In this update, new battery icons in Windows 11 communicate the battery status of your PC with a quick glance. Key changes include colored icons to indicate charging states, simplified overlays that don’t block the progress bar, and an option to turn on battery percentage.</p>
1912.  
1913.  
1914.  
1915. <p>The build also fixes several bugs, including one that was causing the login screen to crash when clicking the “sign-in options” link for some Insiders.</p>
1916.  
1917.  
1918.  
1919. <p>There are six known issues in this build, including one in which if you are joining the Canary Channel on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel, or retail, you will lose Windows Hello PIN and biometrics to sign into your PC. You should be able to re-create your PIN by clicking <em>Set up my PIN</em>.</p>
1920.  
1921.  
1922.  
1923. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/02/28/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27802-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27802</a>.)</p>
1924.  
1925.  
1926.  
1927. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3291">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3291</h3>
1928.  
1929.  
1930.  
1931. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> February 21, 2025</p>
1932.  
1933.  
1934.  
1935. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev and Beta Channels</p>
1936.  
1937.  
1938.  
1939. <p>In this build, those with Copilot+ PCs can search photos saved in the cloud by using your own words to describe what you’re looking for in the Windows search box on the taskbar.</p>
1940.  
1941.  
1942.  
1943. <p>Those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get several bugs fixed, including one in which switching languages crashed live captions if audio was playing or the microphone was enabled.</p>
1944.  
1945.  
1946.  
1947. <p>There are 11 known issues in this build, including one in the Recall feature in which some users may see a message to “Make sure Recall is saving snapshots,” while the Settings page for Recall shows saving snapshots is enabled. Reboot your device to resolve this issue.</p>
1948.  
1949.  
1950.  
1951. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/02/21/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3291-dev-and-beta-channels/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3291</a>.)</p>
1952.  
1953.  
1954.  
1955. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26100-3321-kb5052093">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26100.3321 (KB5052093)</h3>
1956.  
1957.  
1958.  
1959. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> February 18, 2025</p>
1960.  
1961.  
1962.  
1963. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Release Preview Channel</p>
1964.  
1965.  
1966.  
1967. <p>This build gradually rolls out a number of new features, including one in which you can share files directly from a jump list on the taskbar, and another in which you can find out more information about a background image by hovering over the image or clicking the “Learn about this picture” icon.</p>
1968.  
1969.  
1970.  
1971. <p>A variety of bug fixes are also being gradually rolled out, including one in which when you enter a URL in the File Explorer address bar, it might not go to the location.</p>
1972.  
1973.  
1974.  
1975. <p>The build also immediately fixes a number of bugs, including one in which Remote Desktop stopped working.</p>
1976.  
1977.  
1978.  
1979. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/02/18/releasing-windows-11-build-26100-3321-to-the-release-preview-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26100.3321</a>.)</p>
1980.  
1981.  
1982.  
1983. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3281">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3281</h3>
1984.  
1985.  
1986.  
1987. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> February 14, 2025</p>
1988.  
1989.  
1990.  
1991. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev and Beta Channels</p>
1992.  
1993.  
1994.  
1995. <p>In this build, those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates have the ability to resume working on OneDrive files from your phone (iOS and Android) on your Windows 11 PC with a single click. In addition, when “Restore previous folder windows at logon” is enabled in File Explorer, you can now restore all the extra tabs that you previously had open in each File Explorer window. </p>
1996.  
1997.  
1998.  
1999. <p>Those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get several bug fixes, including for a bug in which if you tried to reset your password from the login screen, it wouldn’t work due to an underlying crash. Another fix addresses a bug for users who have a Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PC, in which File Explorer search was unresponsive and required a reboot to start working.</p>
2000.  
2001.  
2002.  
2003. <p>There are 12 known issues in this build, including one in the Recall feature in which some users may see a message to “Make sure Recall is saving snapshots,” while the Settings page for Recall shows saving snapshots is enabled. Reboot your device to resolve this issue.</p>
2004.  
2005.  
2006.  
2007. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/02/14/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3281-dev-and-beta-channels/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3281</a>.)</p>
2008.  
2009.  
2010.  
2011. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-27788">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27788</h3>
2012.  
2013.  
2014.  
2015. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> February 5, 2025</p>
2016.  
2017.  
2018.  
2019. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Canary Channel</p>
2020.  
2021.  
2022.  
2023. <p>This update includes the first in-box public preview of <a href="https://aka.ms/midi" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows MIDI Services</a>, a complete rewrite of MIDI on Windows for musicians. Windows MIDI Services handles MIDI 2.0 and improves MIDI 1.0 implementation, with automatic translation between the two. It works on 64-bit operating systems on all supported processors, including Arm64.</p>
2024.  
2025.  
2026.  
2027. <p>The build also gradually rolls out the ability to resume working on OneDrive files from your phone (iOS or Android) on your Windows 11 PC with a single click.</p>
2028.  
2029.  
2030.  
2031. <p>The build also fixes several bugs, including one that prevented scanning apps from detecting a connected scanner.</p>
2032.  
2033.  
2034.  
2035. <p>There are six known issues in this build, including one in which if you are joining the Canary Channel on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel, or retail, you will lose Windows Hello PIN and biometrics to sign into your PC. You should be able to re-create your PIN by clicking <em>Set up my PIN</em>.</p>
2036.  
2037.  
2038.  
2039. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/02/05/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27788-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27788</a>.)</p>
2040.  
2041.  
2042.  
2043. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4870">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4870</h3>
2044.  
2045.  
2046.  
2047. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> February 3, 2025</p>
2048.  
2049.  
2050.  
2051. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
2052.  
2053.  
2054.  
2055. <p>In this build, IT administrators in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates as soon as they are available get a new group policy called “Disable Widgets On Lock Screen,” which allows them to disable lock screen widgets without disabling widgets elsewhere on PCs they manage. </p>
2056.  
2057.  
2058.  
2059. <p>Those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get several bug fixes, including for a bug in which the Start menu crashed for some Insiders when they interacted with the letters in the apps list.</p>
2060.  
2061.  
2062.  
2063. <p>Several bugs have been fixed for everyone in the Beta Channel, including one in which PCs did not recognize that USB cameras were on after installing the January 2025 security update.</p>
2064.  
2065.  
2066.  
2067. <p>There are three known issues in this build, including one in which the home page of Settings may crash. If you are impacted by this, you should still be able to open specific Settings pages directly by searching for them from the taskbar.</p>
2068.  
2069.  
2070.  
2071. <p>Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/02/03/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4870-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4870</a>.)</p>
2072.  
2073.  
2074.  
2075. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3073">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3073</h3>
2076.  
2077.  
2078.  
2079. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> January 31, 2025</p>
2080.  
2081.  
2082.  
2083. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev and Beta Channels</p>
2084.  
2085.  
2086.  
2087. <p>In this build, those who have Copilot+ PCs get a new feature in Windows Search, in which you can use your own words to find photos stored and saved in the cloud by describing what they are, such as “European castles” or “summer picnics.” In addition to photos stored locally on your Copilot+ PC, photos from the cloud will now show up in the search results as well. Exact matches for your keywords within the text of your cloud files will show in the search results.</p>
2088.  
2089.  
2090.  
2091. <p>The build also includes changes being gradually rolled out for all Windows 11 PCs. Those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates will see a Settings home page for commercial customers on PCs managed by an IT administrator. The feature will show some existing cards relevant to enterprise-managed PCs like “Recommended settings” and “Bluetooth devices,” as well as two new enterprise-specific device info and accessibility preferences cards. For commercial customers who also use their Microsoft account on their managed PC, there will also be a new accounts card indicating the presence of both work/school and Microsoft account types. </p>
2092.  
2093.  
2094.  
2095. <p>Those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates also get several bug fixes, including for a bug in which minimized File Explorer windows might not have rendered correctly when restored.</p>
2096.  
2097.  
2098.  
2099. <p>Everyone in the Dev Channel gets several bug fixes, including for one in which the display of some games appeared oversaturated when you used Auto HDR.</p>
2100.  
2101.  
2102.  
2103. <p>There are 18 known issues in this build, including one in the Recall feature in which some users may see a “Make sure Recall is saving snapshots” message while the Settings page for Recall shows saving snapshots is enabled. Reboot your device to resolve this issue.</p>
2104.  
2105.  
2106.  
2107. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/01/31/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3073-dev-and-beta-channels/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3073</a>.)</p>
2108.  
2109.  
2110.  
2111. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-27783">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27783</h3>
2112.  
2113.  
2114.  
2115. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> January 29, 2025</p>
2116.  
2117.  
2118.  
2119. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Canary Channel</p>
2120.  
2121.  
2122.  
2123. <p>In this update, users signed into Windows with a Microsoft account will be able to view files that have been shared with the account, such as email, Teams chat, etc., in File Explorer. Commercial customers signed in with a Microsoft Entra ID account will also be able to view files that they have shared with others. You can access this feature by launching File Explorer Home and clicking on the ‘Shared’ tab item.</p>
2124.  
2125.  
2126.  
2127. <p>The build also fixes several bugs, including one in which taskbar preview windows sometimes didn’t display when hovering over open apps in the taskbar.</p>
2128.  
2129.  
2130.  
2131. <p>There are four known issues in this build, including one in which if you are joining the Canary Channel on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel, or retail, you will lose Windows Hello PIN and biometrics to sign into your PC. You should be able to re-create your PIN by clicking <em>Set up my PIN</em>.</p>
2132.  
2133.  
2134.  
2135. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/01/29/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27783-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27783</a>.)</p>
2136.  
2137.  
2138.  
2139. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4805">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4805</h3>
2140.  
2141.  
2142.  
2143. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> January 24, 2025</p>
2144.  
2145.  
2146.  
2147. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
2148.  
2149.  
2150.  
2151. <p>In this build, those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates as soon as they are available get a change to <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/snap-your-windows-885a9b1e-a983-a3b1-16cd-c531795e6241" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Snap in Windows 11</a> in which inline messaging will now appear when you accidentally invoke the Snap Bar when dragging an app to the top middle of your desktop or Snap Flyout when hovering over the Minimize or Maximize button of an app. This is designed to provide guidance on snapping app windows and educating users on the keyboard shortcuts for quickly snapping app windows in the future.</p>
2152.  
2153.  
2154.  
2155. <p>This group also gets new keyboard shortcuts in Narrator scan mode for quickly jumping to list items and to the beginning or end of large elements such as tables or lists. These changes are gradually rolling out.</p>
2156.  
2157.  
2158.  
2159. <p>There are five known issues in this build, including one in which the Home page of Settings may crash. If you are impacted by this, you should still be able to open specific Settings pages directly by searching for them from the taskbar.</p>
2160.  
2161.  
2162.  
2163. <p>Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/01/24/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4805-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4805</a>.)</p>
2164.  
2165.  
2166.  
2167. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3000">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3000</h3>
2168.  
2169.  
2170.  
2171. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> January 24, 2024</p>
2172.  
2173.  
2174.  
2175. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev Channel</p>
2176.  
2177.  
2178.  
2179. <p>In this build, those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get new battery icons, including colored icons to indicate charging states, simplified overlays that don’t block the progress bar, and an option to turn on battery percentage. The same group also gets several bug fixes, including for a bug in File Explorer in which you sometimes would be unable to navigate by entering a path in the address bar. These changes are gradually rolling out.</p>
2180.  
2181.  
2182.  
2183. <p>There are 18 known issues in this build, including one in the Recall feature in which some users may see a message to “Make sure Recall is saving snapshots” while the Settings page for Recall shows saving snapshots is enabled. Reboot your device to resolve this issue.</p>
2184.  
2185.  
2186.  
2187. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/01/24/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-3000-dev-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3000</a>.)</p>
2188.  
2189.  
2190.  
2191. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-build-26100-3025-kb5050094">Windows 11 Build 26100.3025 (KB5050094)</h3>
2192.  
2193.  
2194.  
2195. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> January 21, 2025</p>
2196.  
2197.  
2198.  
2199. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Release Preview Channel</p>
2200.  
2201.  
2202.  
2203. <p>This build gradually rolls out a number of new features, including one in which an icon will appear in the system tray when you use an app that supports <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/ai/studio-effects/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows Studio Effects</a>. This only occurs on a device that has a neural processing unit (NPU). Select the icon to open the Studio Effects page in Quick Settings.</p>
2204.  
2205.  
2206.  
2207. <p>The update also improves the previews that show when your cursor hovers over apps on the taskbar. In addition, the Windows Mobile Hotspot now supports 6 GHz connections. This new band requires chips that support the feature and updated drivers. </p>
2208.  
2209.  
2210.  
2211. <p>A variety of bug fixes are also being rolled out, including for a bug in which the Snipping Tool screenshots were distorted when you used two or more monitors that have different display scaling.</p>
2212.  
2213.  
2214.  
2215. <p>The build also immediately rolls out a change in which you will now have a standard Windows 11 taskbar after restoring from a backup via the Windows Setup experience (OOBE) on a new Windows PC.</p>
2216.  
2217.  
2218.  
2219. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/01/21/releasing-windows-11-build-26100-3025-to-the-release-preview-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26100.3025</a>.)</p>
2220.  
2221.  
2222.  
2223. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4800">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4800</h3>
2224.  
2225.  
2226.  
2227. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> January 17, 2025</p>
2228.  
2229.  
2230.  
2231. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
2232.  
2233.  
2234.  
2235. <p>In this build, those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates as soon as they are available get a standard Windows 11 taskbar after restoring from a backup via the Windows Setup experience (OOBE) on a new Windows PC. You can still find your apps in the Start menu and Search, and you can pin apps to your taskbar. In addition, the build starts the rollout of the Settings home page for commercial customers on PCs managed by an IT administrator. </p>
2236.  
2237.  
2238.  
2239. <p>Those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get one bug fix, which includes increased support for text scaling in File Explorer, File Open/Save dialogs, and copy dialogs.</p>
2240.  
2241.  
2242.  
2243. <p>There are three known issues in this build, including one in which the Home page of Settings may crash. If you are impacted by this, you should still be able to open specific Settings pages directly by searching for them from the taskbar.</p>
2244.  
2245.  
2246.  
2247. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/01/17/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4800-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4800</a>.)</p>
2248.  
2249.  
2250.  
2251. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-27774">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27774</h3>
2252.  
2253.  
2254.  
2255. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> January 16, 2025</p>
2256.  
2257.  
2258.  
2259. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Canary Channel</p>
2260.  
2261.  
2262.  
2263. <p>This update includes a small set of tweaks that Microsoft says improves the overall experience of Windows 11. In addition, the Administrator protection can now be enabled from Windows Security settings under the Account Protection tab, which allows users to enable the feature without requiring help from IT admins.</p>
2264.  
2265.  
2266.  
2267. <p>The build also fixes several bugs, including one in which accent colored window borders were not displayed when enabled, shadows around windows were not displaying when enabled, and window launching (and other) animations were not showing.</p>
2268.  
2269.  
2270.  
2271. <p>There are three known issues in this build, including one in which Insiders joining the Canary Channel on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel, or retail will lose Windows Hello PIN and biometrics to sign into the PC. You should be able to re-create your PIN by clicking <em>Set up my PIN</em>.</p>
2272.  
2273.  
2274.  
2275. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/01/16/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27774-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27774</a>.)</p>
2276.  
2277.  
2278.  
2279. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-27768">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27768</h3>
2280.  
2281.  
2282.  
2283. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> January 9, 2025</p>
2284.  
2285.  
2286.  
2287. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Canary Channel</p>
2288.  
2289.  
2290.  
2291. <p>This update includes a small set of general changes that Microsoft says improve the overall experience of Windows 11. It also fixes several bugs, including one in which File Explorer sometimes lost focus on the search box while typing.</p>
2292.  
2293.  
2294.  
2295. <p>There are three known issues in this build, including one in which if you are joining the Canary Channel on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel, or retail, you will lose Windows Hello PIN and biometrics to sign into your PC. You should be able to re-create your PIN by clicking “Set up my PIN.”</p>
2296.  
2297.  
2298.  
2299. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/01/09/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27768-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27768</a>.)</p>
2300.  
2301.  
2302.  
2303. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4660">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4660</h3>
2304.  
2305.  
2306.  
2307. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> January 3, 2024</p>
2308.  
2309.  
2310.  
2311. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
2312.  
2313.  
2314.  
2315. <p>In this build, those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates as soon as they are available get labels added to previously unlabeled actions on File Explorer’s context menu such as cut, copy, paste, rename, share, and delete.</p>
2316.  
2317.  
2318.  
2319. <p>Those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates also get several bug fixes for issues that impacted File Explorer’s performance and reliability.</p>
2320.  
2321.  
2322.  
2323. <p>Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/01/03/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4660-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4660</a>.)</p>
2324.  
2325.  
2326.  
2327. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-27766">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27766</h3>
2328.  
2329.  
2330.  
2331. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> January 3, 2024</p>
2332.  
2333.  
2334.  
2335. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Canary Channel</p>
2336.  
2337.  
2338.  
2339. <p>This update includes a small set of general improvements and fixes that Microsoft says improve the overall experience of Windows 11. It also fixes several bugs, including one in which some Insiders experienced frequent explorer.exe crashes after they clean-installed or reset their PC.</p>
2340.  
2341.  
2342.  
2343. <p>There are two known issues in this build, including one in which if you are joining the Canary Channel on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel, or retail, you will lose Windows Hello PIN and biometrics to sign into your PC. You should be able to re-create your PIN by clicking <em>Set up my PIN</em>.</p>
2344.  
2345.  
2346.  
2347. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/01/03/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27766-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27766</a>.)</p>
2348.  
2349.  
2350.  
2351. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-2702">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2702</h3>
2352.  
2353.  
2354.  
2355. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> December 13, 2024</p>
2356.  
2357.  
2358.  
2359. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev Channel</p>
2360.  
2361.  
2362.  
2363. <p>In this build, those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get a new advanced camera options page. To see it, navigate to a camera under <em>Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Cameras</em> and click the edit button for advanced camera options. Note that this is being gradually rolled out.</p>
2364.  
2365.  
2366.  
2367. <p>Those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates also get several bugs fixed, including one in which when pointer trails were enabled, the mouse cursor became invisible with a black box behind it.</p>
2368.  
2369.  
2370.  
2371. <p>One bug is fixed for everyone in the Dev Channel, in which if you rolled back from <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/12/06/previewing-more-copilot-experiences-with-windows-insiders-in-the-dev-channel/">Build 26120.2510</a> to an earlier build, you would see a “Your organization used App Control for Business to block this app” dialog when attempting to use or install certain third-party apps on your PC due to an incorrect policy being enforced.</p>
2372.  
2373.  
2374.  
2375. <p>There are seven known issues in this build, including one in which Click to Do sometimes doesn’t highlight any info on screen if there is no content on a connected external monitor in extended mode.</p>
2376.  
2377.  
2378.  
2379. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/12/13/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-2702-dev-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2702</a>.)</p>
2380.  
2381.  
2382.  
2383. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4655">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4655</h3>
2384.  
2385.  
2386.  
2387. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> December 13, 2024</p>
2388.  
2389.  
2390.  
2391. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
2392.  
2393.  
2394.  
2395. <p>In this build, those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates as soon as they are available will be able to see visual previews of links or web content they share using the Windows share window. Note that the new feature may not yet be available to everyone because it is being gradually rolled out.</p>
2396.  
2397.  
2398.  
2399. <p>The build also fixes one bug, in which window previews weren’t showing when hovering over certain open apps in the taskbar, for those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates.</p>
2400.  
2401.  
2402.  
2403. <p>Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/12/13/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4655-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4655</a>.)</p>
2404.  
2405.  
2406.  
2407. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-27764">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27764</h3>
2408.  
2409.  
2410.  
2411. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> December 11, 2024</p>
2412.  
2413.  
2414.  
2415. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Canary Channel</p>
2416.  
2417.  
2418.  
2419. <p>In this build, when right-clicking on apps pinned to the Start menu, jump lists will be shown for apps that have them, such as PowerPoint. The build also fixes a variety of bugs, including one in which File Explorer might hang when browsing a folder with lots of media in it, and another in which some HDDs were being incorrectly listed as SSD on the Task Manager Performance page.</p>
2420.  
2421.  
2422.  
2423. <p>There are three known issues in this build, including one in which if you are joining the Canary Channel on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel, or retail, you will lose Windows Hello PIN and biometrics to sign into your PC. You should be able to re-create your PIN by clicking “Set up my PIN.”</p>
2424.  
2425.  
2426.  
2427. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/12/11/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27764-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27764</a>.)</p>
2428.  
2429.  
2430.  
2431. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4580">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4580</h3>
2432.  
2433.  
2434.  
2435. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> December 6, 2024</p>
2436.  
2437.  
2438.  
2439. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
2440.  
2441.  
2442.  
2443. <p>In this build, those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates as soon as they are available get several improvements to File Explorer, including one in which if you launch File Explorer folders from outside of File Explorer (for example, from an app or from the desktop), by default they now open in a new tab if you have an existing File Explorer window open. Note that these features are being gradually rolled out, so may not be immediately available.</p>
2444.  
2445.  
2446.  
2447. <p>Those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get a single bug fix, in which Pinyin IME users may unexpectedly switch the IME from Chinese to English when switching between windows.</p>
2448.  
2449.  
2450.  
2451. <p>Everyone in the Beta Channel gets four bug fixes, including for a bug in which Windows stopped responding when you used an Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) USB printer.</p>
2452.  
2453.  
2454.  
2455. <p>Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/12/06/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4580-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4580</a>.)</p>
2456.  
2457.  
2458.  
2459. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-27758">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27758</h3>
2460.  
2461.  
2462.  
2463. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> December 4, 2024</p>
2464.  
2465.  
2466.  
2467. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Canary Channel</p>
2468.  
2469.  
2470.  
2471. <p>This build introduces a new advanced camera options page in Settings that includes a multi-app camera setting and a basic camera setting, the latter intended as a last resort when your camera is not functioning correctly. The build also fixes a variety of bugs, including one that could have caused Settings to crash when you selected your default audio device.</p>
2472.  
2473.  
2474.  
2475. <p>There are four known issues in this build, including one in which if you are joining the Canary Channel on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel, or retail, you will lose Windows Hello PIN and biometrics to sign into your PC. You should be able to re-create your PIN by clicking “Set up my PIN.”</p>
2476.  
2477.  
2478.  
2479. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/12/04/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27758-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27758</a>.)</p>
2480.  
2481.  
2482.  
2483. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-2415">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2415</h3>
2484.  
2485.  
2486.  
2487. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> November 22, 2024</p>
2488.  
2489.  
2490.  
2491. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev Channel</p>
2492.  
2493.  
2494.  
2495. <p>This build, for those who have Snapdragon-powered <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/windows/copilot-plus-pcs" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Copilot+ PCs</a>, introduces the first preview of the Recall feature that constantly takes screenshots of what you do while you work so you easily find files, web pages, and more. In addition to searching, you can use a timeline to scroll back to what you were doing on your PC at a specific day and time.</p>
2496.  
2497.  
2498.  
2499. <p>Click to Do is also included. It lets you take AI-powered actions on the screenshots taken by Recall, such as erasing objects from them, performing a visual Bing search on them, copying them, sharing them, and more.</p>
2500.  
2501.  
2502.  
2503. <p>In addition, those who have the toggle turned on to immediately get new features will soon get new Windows Hello features that have already been rolled out to the <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/11/01/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4440-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Beta</a> and <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/11/20/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27754-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cana</a><a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/11/20/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27754-canary-channel/">ry</a> Channels.</p>
2504.  
2505.  
2506.  
2507. <p>Those who have the toggle turned on to immediately get new features and other changes get a variety of bug fixes, including for a bug in which explorer.exe sometimes crashed when interacting with app icons.</p>
2508.  
2509.  
2510.  
2511. <p>Click to Do has eight known issues, including one in which there a delay before snapshots first appear in the timeline.</p>
2512.  
2513.  
2514.  
2515. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/11/22/previewing-recall-with-click-to-do-on-copilot-pcs-with-windows-insiders-in-the-dev-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2415</a>.)</p>
2516.  
2517.  
2518.  
2519. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4510">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4510</h3>
2520.  
2521.  
2522.  
2523. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> November 22, 2024</p>
2524.  
2525.  
2526.  
2527. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
2528.  
2529.  
2530.  
2531. <p>In this build, those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates as soon as they are available can resume working on OneDrive files from a phone (iOS and Android) on a Windows 11 PC with a single click. Users will also be able to right-click and share local files under the Recommended section of the Start menu. Note that these changes will roll out gradually.</p>
2532.  
2533.  
2534.  
2535. <p>Those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get a variety of bug fixes, including one for a bug in which you sometimes could not navigate by entering a path in the address bar.</p>
2536.  
2537.  
2538.  
2539. <p>Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/11/15/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4510-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4510</a>.)</p>
2540.  
2541.  
2542.  
2543. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-27754">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27754</h3>
2544.  
2545.  
2546.  
2547. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> November 20, 2024</p>
2548.  
2549.  
2550.  
2551. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Canary Channel</p>
2552.  
2553.  
2554.  
2555. <p>This build revamps Windows Hello in several ways, primarily to make authentication easier. Among the changes is a redesign of using passkeys for more secure and faster authentication. Users can now switch between authentication options and select passkey/devices more intuitively. Beyond that, if you hold Shift and Ctrl when clicking on a jump list item in the Start menu or taskbar, you will launch that item as admin.</p>
2556.  
2557.  
2558.  
2559. <p>The build also fixes a variety of bugs, including one that caused RAW images taken in portrait mode to unexpectedly display in landscape mode thumbnails in File Explorer.</p>
2560.  
2561.  
2562.  
2563. <p>There are six known issues in this build, including one in which if you are joining the Canary Channel on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel, or retail, you will lose Windows Hello PIN and biometrics to sign into your PC. You should be able to re-create your PIN by clicking “Set up my PIN.”</p>
2564.  
2565.  
2566.  
2567. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/11/20/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27754-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27754</a>.)</p>
2568.  
2569.  
2570.  
2571. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4510">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4510</h3>
2572.  
2573.  
2574.  
2575. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> November 15, 2024</p>
2576.  
2577.  
2578.  
2579. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
2580.  
2581.  
2582.  
2583. <p>In this build, those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates as soon as they are available can share files directly from right-click jump lists on the taskbar in supported apps such as Notepad. Note that this feature will roll out gradually.</p>
2584.  
2585.  
2586.  
2587. <p>Those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates also get a fix for a single bug, in which you might have unexpectedly seen a message saying “You’re offline. Widgets are unavailable.”</p>
2588.  
2589.  
2590.  
2591. <p>Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/11/15/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4510-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4510</a>.)</p>
2592.  
2593.  
2594.  
2595. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26100-2448">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26100.2448</h3>
2596.  
2597.  
2598.  
2599. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> November 14, 2024</p>
2600.  
2601.  
2602.  
2603. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Release Preview Channel</p>
2604.  
2605.  
2606.  
2607. <p>This build gets a wide variety of new features, including one in which when you right-click apps that you have pinned to the Start menu, jump lists will appear for apps that have jump lists. There is also a new section for touchscreen edge gestures. Go to <em>Settings > Bluetooth & Devices > Touch</em>. There, you can choose if you would like to turn off the left or right screen edge touch gesture. These features are being gradually rolled out.</p>
2608.  
2609.  
2610.  
2611. <p>There are also a variety of bugs that have been fixed, including one in which the Task Manager’s Users page could have caused Task Manager to stop responding when you used the keyboard.</p>
2612.  
2613.  
2614.  
2615. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/11/14/releasing-windows-11-build-26100-2448-to-the-release-preview-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26100.2448</a>.)</p>
2616.  
2617.  
2618.  
2619. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-27749">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27749</h3>
2620.  
2621.  
2622.  
2623. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> November 13, 2024</p>
2624.  
2625.  
2626.  
2627. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Canary Channel</p>
2628.  
2629.  
2630.  
2631. <p>This build adds a new shortcut “Narrator key + Ctrl + X” to copy what Narrator last spoke to clipboard. You can use this shortcut in conjunction with “Narrator key + X,” which repeats the last spoken phrase out loud, to review and copy what Narrator spoke.</p>
2632.  
2633.  
2634.  
2635. <p>The build also fixes a variety of bugs, including one in which Task Manager showed a 0 count for apps and processes, and another in which a blank entry in <em>Settings > Privacy</em> would cause Settings to crash if you clicked it.</p>
2636.  
2637.  
2638.  
2639. <p>There are five known issues in this build, including one in which if you are joining the Canary Channel on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel, or retail, you will lose Windows Hello PIN and biometrics to sign into your PC. You should be able to re-create your PIN by clicking “Set up my PIN.”</p>
2640.  
2641.  
2642.  
2643. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/11/13/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27749-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27749</a>.)</p>
2644.  
2645.  
2646.  
2647. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-2222">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2222</h3>
2648.  
2649.  
2650.  
2651. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> November 8, 2024</p>
2652.  
2653.  
2654.  
2655. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev Channel</p>
2656.  
2657.  
2658.  
2659. <p>In this build, those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates can hold Shift + Ctrl when clicking on a jump list item in the Start menu or taskbar to launch that item as admin. This feature is being gradually rolled out.</p>
2660.  
2661.  
2662.  
2663. <p>Those who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates also get several bug fixes, including for an issue in which windows unexpectedly moved around after waking from sleep if you had multiple monitors. Note that this is being gradually rolled out.</p>
2664.  
2665.  
2666.  
2667. <p>There are two known issues in this build, including one in which Narrator crashes on launch if you use one of the natural voices, and another in which your desktop background may show big black areas with multiple monitors.</p>
2668.  
2669.  
2670.  
2671. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/11/08/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-2222-dev-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2222</a>.)</p>
2672.  
2673.  
2674.  
2675. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4445">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4445</h3>
2676.  
2677.  
2678.  
2679. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> November 8, 2024</p>
2680.  
2681.  
2682.  
2683. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
2684.  
2685.  
2686.  
2687. <p>In this build, Insiders in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates as soon as they are available have a New Folder option in the context menu when right-clicking locations in the navigation pane. Note that this change will be gradually rolled out.</p>
2688.  
2689.  
2690.  
2691. <p>Those who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates also have a variety of bugs fixed, including one in which performing a search unexpectedly triggered the search happening repeatedly. Note that these fixes will be gradually rolled out.</p>
2692.  
2693.  
2694.  
2695. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/11/08/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4445-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4445</a>.)</p>
2696.  
2697.  
2698.  
2699. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-27744">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27744</h3>
2700.  
2701.  
2702.  
2703. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> November 6, 2024</p>
2704.  
2705.  
2706.  
2707. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Canary Channel</p>
2708.  
2709.  
2710.  
2711. <p>This build includes a major feature update to <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/arm/apps-on-arm-x86-emulation#prism" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Prism</a>, Microsoft’s emulator for Windows on Arm, that will make it possible for more 64-bit x86 (x64) applications to run under emulation. This new support in Prism is already in limited use in the retail version of Windows 11 24H2, where it enables the ability to run Adobe Premiere Pro 25 on Arm. Starting with this build, the support is being opened to any x64 application under emulation. You may find that some games or creative apps that were blocked due to CPU requirements before will now be able to run using Prism.</p>
2712.  
2713.  
2714.  
2715. <p>Note that only x64 applications can use these new CPU features. If you have a 32-bit app or a 64-bit app that uses a 32-bit helper to detect CPU feature support, that app won’t detect the new features in Prism.</p>
2716.  
2717.  
2718.  
2719. <p>The build also fixes several bugs, including one in which certain apps did not detect a scanner, although one was connected.</p>
2720.  
2721.  
2722.  
2723. <p>There are three known issues in this build, including one in which if you are joining the Canary Channel on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel, or retail, you may lose your Windows Hello PIN and biometric sign-in your PC. You should be able to re-create your PIN by clicking “Set up my PIN.”</p>
2724.  
2725.  
2726.  
2727. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/11/06/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27744-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27744</a>.)</p>
2728.  
2729.  
2730.  
2731. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-2213">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2213</h3>
2732.  
2733.  
2734.  
2735. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> November 4, 2024</p>
2736.  
2737.  
2738.  
2739. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev Channel</p>
2740.  
2741.  
2742.  
2743. <p>In this build, those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates will have the IME toolbar hidden when apps are in full-screen mode for those who have the IME toolbar enabled and type in Chinese or Japanese. Note that this is being gradually rolled out.</p>
2744.  
2745.  
2746.  
2747. <p>Those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates also get a variety of bug fixes, including for one in which RAW images taken in portrait mode unexpectedly displayed in landscape mode thumbnails in File Explorer. Note that this is being gradually rolled out.</p>
2748.  
2749.  
2750.  
2751. <p>Everyone in the Dev Channel gets a variety of bug fixes, including for a bug that caused Task Manager to show a 0 count for apps and processes.</p>
2752.  
2753.  
2754.  
2755. <p>There is one known issue in this build, in which the desktop background sometimes may not show correctly with multiple monitors (showing big black areas).</p>
2756.  
2757.  
2758.  
2759. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/11/04/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-2213-dev-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2213</a>.)</p>
2760.  
2761.  
2762.  
2763. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4440">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4440</h3>
2764.  
2765.  
2766.  
2767. <p><strong>Release date</strong>: November 1, 2024</p>
2768.  
2769.  
2770.  
2771. <p><strong>Released to</strong>: Beta Channel</p>
2772.  
2773.  
2774.  
2775. <p>In this build, those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates as soon as they are available get a revamped Windows Hello that adheres to contemporary Windows visual design standards. The update also has a small set of general improvements. Note that all these changes will be gradually rolled out.</p>
2776.  
2777.  
2778.  
2779. <p>Those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates also get a single bug fix, for a bug that caused touch keyboard crashes and the IME candidate window not to appear for some Insiders.</p>
2780.  
2781.  
2782.  
2783. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/11/01/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4440-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4440</a>.)</p>
2784.  
2785.  
2786.  
2787. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4435">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4435</h3>
2788.  
2789.  
2790.  
2791. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> October 25, 2024</p>
2792.  
2793.  
2794.  
2795. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
2796.  
2797.  
2798.  
2799. <p>In this build, those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates as soon as they are available can launch an item on the Start menu or taskbar as an admin by holding Ctrl + Shift when clicking. Note that this feature will be gradually rolled out.</p>
2800.  
2801.  
2802.  
2803. <p>Those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates also get several bugs fixed, including one in which the X button to close an app window from the taskbar wasn’t working for some Insiders. This fix will be gradually rolled out.</p>
2804.  
2805.  
2806.  
2807. <p>Everyone in the Beta Channel can now configure the <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/01/04/introducing-a-new-copilot-key-to-kick-off-the-year-of-ai-powered-windows-pcs/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Copilot key</a> again, after that feature was turned off in Build 22635.4291. Everyone in the Beta Channel gets several bug fixes, including for one in which the PIN reset did not work when you selected the “I forgot my PIN’ link on the credentials screen in <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/1712315/windows-hello-for-business-passwordless-authentication-for-windows-shops.html">Windows Hello for Business</a>.</p>
2808.  
2809.  
2810.  
2811. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/10/25/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4435-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4435</a>.)</p>
2812.  
2813.  
2814.  
2815. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-2200">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2200</h3>
2816.  
2817.  
2818.  
2819. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> October 25, 2024</p>
2820.  
2821.  
2822.  
2823. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev Channel</p>
2824.  
2825.  
2826.  
2827. <p>In this build, those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates can access Windows Studio Effects in Quick Settings from the system tray of the taskbar. <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/ai/studio-effects/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows Studio Effects</a> delivers AI-based camera and audio enhancements on devices equipped with a neural processing unit (NPU). Note that this feature is being gradually rolled out.</p>
2828.  
2829.  
2830.  
2831. <p>Those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates also get several bugs fixed, including one in which if you clicked or tapped on a letter on the Start menu’s All apps list, the All apps list may have broken. This fix is being gradually rolled out.</p>
2832.  
2833.  
2834.  
2835. <p>Everyone in the Dev Channel gets a variety of bug fixes, including for a bug in which you could not view some parts of the UI when you ran certain apps.</p>
2836.  
2837.  
2838.  
2839. <p>There are two known issues in this build, including one in which there is an unexpected amount of spacing between items in the Start menu apps list.</p>
2840.  
2841.  
2842.  
2843. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/10/25/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-2200-dev-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2200</a>.)</p>
2844.  
2845.  
2846.  
2847. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4371">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4371</h3>
2848.  
2849.  
2850.  
2851. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> October 18, 2024</p>
2852.  
2853.  
2854.  
2855. <p><strong>Released to: </strong>Beta Channel</p>
2856.  
2857.  
2858.  
2859. <p>In this build, those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates as soon as they are available can now use the new Narrator key + Ctrl + X shortcut to copy what Narrator last spoke to clipboard. It follows the pattern of using Narrator key + X, which repeats the last spoken phrase out loud.</p>
2860.  
2861.  
2862.  
2863. <p>Those who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates as soon as possible get several fixes for several bugs, including one in which Narrator would slow down after 15 minutes of continuous use with a single application.</p>
2864.  
2865.  
2866.  
2867. <p>An update for the Snipping Tool (version 11.2409.23.0 and newer) is also being rolled out to Windows Insiders in the Beta and Release Preview Channels. It introduces a new “Copy as table” feature.</p>
2868.  
2869.  
2870.  
2871. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/10/18/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4371-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4371</a>.)</p>
2872.  
2873.  
2874.  
2875. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-2130">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2130</h3>
2876.  
2877.  
2878.  
2879. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> October 18, 2024</p>
2880.  
2881.  
2882.  
2883. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev Channel</p>
2884.  
2885.  
2886.  
2887. <p>In this build, those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get several new features, including one in which “All apps” is now just “All” on the Start menu.</p>
2888.  
2889.  
2890.  
2891. <p>Those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates also get several bug fixes, including for a bug in which clipboard history did not display items you had copied.</p>
2892.  
2893.  
2894.  
2895. <p>There are two known issues in this build, including one in which if you click or tap on a letter on Start menu’s All apps list, the All apps list may break. If you encounter this issue, try rebooting or restarting explorer.exe to fix it.</p>
2896.  
2897.  
2898.  
2899. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/10/18/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-2130-dev-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2130</a>.)</p>
2900.  
2901.  
2902.  
2903. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-27729">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27729</h3>
2904.  
2905.  
2906.  
2907. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> October 17, 2024</p>
2908.  
2909.  
2910.  
2911. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Canary Channel</p>
2912.  
2913.  
2914.  
2915. <p>This build adds the ability  to configure the <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/01/04/introducing-a-new-copilot-key-to-kick-off-the-year-of-ai-powered-windows-pcs/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Copilot key</a>. You can choose to have the Copilot key launch an app that is MSIX packaged and signed, thus indicating the app meets security and privacy requirements to keep customers safe.</p>
2916.  
2917.  
2918.  
2919. <p>The build also fixes a variety of bugs, including one in which the screen went black for a few seconds for some people when using Alt + Tab.</p>
2920.  
2921.  
2922.  
2923. <p>There are five known issues in this build, including one in which some Insiders with PCs that have older NVIDIA GPUs (like the GTX 970, Quadro K620, etc.) are experiencing some issues where their displays appear stuck at a black screen and unresponsive or seeing their GPUs showing errors in Device Manager and not working correctly.</p>
2924.  
2925.  
2926.  
2927. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/10/17/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27729-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27729</a>.)</p>
2928.  
2929.  
2930.  
2931. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4367">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4367</h3>
2932.  
2933.  
2934.  
2935. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> October 11, 2024</p>
2936.  
2937.  
2938.  
2939. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
2940.  
2941.  
2942.  
2943. <p>In this build, those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates as soon as they are available get a small set of general improvements and fixes that Microsoft claims improves the overall experience of running Windows. They also now have the ability to share directly to apps that support sharing in Windows when right-clicking on local files in File Explorer or the desktop.</p>
2944.  
2945.  
2946.  
2947. <p>Those who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates as soon as possible get several bug fixes, including for one in which some Insiders saw an unexpected amount of spacing between items in the Start menu All Apps list.</p>
2948.  
2949.  
2950.  
2951. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/10/11/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4367-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4367</a>.)</p>
2952.  
2953.  
2954.  
2955. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-2122">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2122</h3>
2956.  
2957.  
2958.  
2959. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> October 11, 2024</p>
2960.  
2961.  
2962.  
2963. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev Channel</p>
2964.  
2965.  
2966.  
2967. <p>In this build, those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get a small set of general fixes that Microsoft says improve the overall experience of running Windows. The Disconnect and Logoff dialogs in Task Manager now support dark mode and text scaling.</p>
2968.  
2969.  
2970.  
2971. <p>Those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates also get one bug fix, for a bug that caused the screen to go black for a few seconds for some people when using Alt + Tab.</p>
2972.  
2973.  
2974.  
2975. <p>Everyone in the Dev Channel gets several bugs fixed, including one in which some Insiders saw error 0x800f0825 when trying to install the latest Dev Channel builds.</p>
2976.  
2977.  
2978.  
2979. <p>There are two known issues in this build, including one in which if you click or tap on a letter on Start menu’s All apps list, the All apps list may break. If you encounter this issue, try rebooting or restarting explorer.exe to fix it.</p>
2980.  
2981.  
2982.  
2983. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/10/11/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-2122-dev-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2122</a>.)</p>
2984.  
2985.  
2986.  
2987. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26100-2152">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26100.2152</h3>
2988.  
2989.  
2990.  
2991. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> October 10, 2024</p>
2992.  
2993.  
2994.  
2995. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Release Preview Channel</p>
2996.  
2997.  
2998.  
2999. <p>This build gradually rolls out a number of new features, including one in which you can stop the suggestions to turn off notifications from certain apps. Select the ellipses (…) in the notification and turn it off. You can also go to <em>Settings > System > Notifications</em> and turn it off from there.</p>
3000.  
3001.  
3002.  
3003. <p>The build also immediately rolls out a change in which you can configure the <a href="https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.windows.com%2Fwindowsexperience%2F2024%2F01%2F04%2Fintroducing-a-new-copilot-key-to-kick-off-the-year-of-ai-powered-windows-pcs%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cbleblanc%40microsoft.com%7C50702c617825497bcd2308dce952a6c2%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C638641788442583291%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=j2ubDi8%2FUI94ydQi7FzMzuhALA4OLRQpHxEn53qiBd4%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Copilot key</a> on the keyboard. The build also immediately fixes a number of bugs, including one in which you could not sign in to your account from the web because the screen stopped responding.</p>
3004.  
3005.  
3006.  
3007. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/10/10/releasing-windows-11-build-26100-2152-to-the-release-preview-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26100.2152</a>.)</p>
3008.  
3009.  
3010.  
3011. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-27723">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27723</h3>
3012.  
3013.  
3014.  
3015. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> October 9, 2024</p>
3016.  
3017.  
3018.  
3019. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Canary Channel</p>
3020.  
3021.  
3022.  
3023. <p>This build introduces several minor changes and features, including one in which you can share local files directly from within the search results shown in the search box on the taskbar.</p>
3024.  
3025.  
3026.  
3027. <p>There are five known issues in this build, including one for those using Copilot+ PCs, in which if you are joining the Canary Channel on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel, or retail, you will lose your Windows Hello PIN and biometrics to sign into your PC. You should be able to re-create your PIN by clicking “Set up my PIN.”</p>
3028.  
3029.  
3030.  
3031. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/10/09/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27723-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27723</a>.)</p>
3032.  
3033.  
3034.  
3035. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-1930">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.1930</h3>
3036.  
3037.  
3038.  
3039. <p><strong>Release date</strong>: October 4, 2024</p>
3040.  
3041.  
3042.  
3043. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Dev Channel</p>
3044.  
3045.  
3046.  
3047. <p>In this build, those in the Dev Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates get a small set of general improvements and one bug fix, for a bug in which the boot menu wasn’t displaying correctly for some Insiders with dual-boot devices.</p>
3048.  
3049.  
3050.  
3051. <p>Everyone in the Dev Channel can now configure the <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/01/04/introducing-a-new-copilot-key-to-kick-off-the-year-of-ai-powered-windows-pcs/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Copilot key</a>. You can have the Copilot key launch an app that is MSIX packaged and signed, increasing security and privacy.</p>
3052.  
3053.  
3054.  
3055. <p>There are two known issues in this build, including one in which if you click or tap on a letter on Start menu’s All apps list, the list may break. If you encounter this issue, please try rebooting or restarting explorer.exe to fix it.</p>
3056.  
3057.  
3058.  
3059. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/10/04/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26120-1930-dev-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.1930</a>.)</p>
3060.  
3061.  
3062.  
3063. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4300">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4300 </h3>
3064.  
3065.  
3066.  
3067. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> October 4, 2024</p>
3068.  
3069.  
3070.  
3071. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Beta Channel</p>
3072.  
3073.  
3074.  
3075. <p>In this build, those in the Beta Channel who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates as soon as they are available will see “All” instead of “All apps” on the Start menu. In addition, Windows Search runs IFilters in the Less Privileged App Containers (LPACs). LPACs are like app containers, but they deny even more permissions by default. The intent is that a process running in a LPAC has access only to the resources needed by it. This helps to minimize the potential damage that can be caused by a compromised process by limiting its access to sensitive system components and data.</p>
3076.  
3077.  
3078.  
3079. <p>Two bugs are fixed for those who have turned the toggle on to receive the latest updates as soon as possible, including one in which items in the navigation pane became very spread out for some people.</p>
3080.  
3081.  
3082.  
3083. <p>There are two known issues in the build, including one in which live captions will crash if you try to use them.</p>
3084.  
3085.  
3086.  
3087. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/10/04/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4300-beta-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4300</a>.)</p>
3088.  
3089.  
3090.  
3091. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="windows-11-insider-preview-build-27718">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27718</h3>
3092.  
3093.  
3094.  
3095. <p><strong>Release date:</strong> October 2, 2024</p>
3096.  
3097.  
3098.  
3099. <p><strong>Released to:</strong> Canary Channel</p>
3100.  
3101.  
3102.  
3103. <p>This build introduces a number of minor new changes and features. You can now drag apps from the Pinned section of the Start menu and pin them to the taskbar. For laptops on battery, a notification will pop up asking you to plug in your laptop if the battery level reaches 20% while Energy Saver is set to “Always On.” </p>
3104.  
3105.  
3106.  
3107. <p>Several bugs have been fixed, including one in which the emoji panel closed when you tried to switch to the kaomoji and symbols sections, or after selecting an emoji, and another in which the Widgets icon sometimes unexpectedly displayed twice in the taskbar.</p>
3108.  
3109.  
3110.  
3111. <p>There are three known issues in this build, including one for those using Copilot+ PCs, in which If you are joining the Canary Channel from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel or retail, you will lose Windows Hello pin and biometrics to sign into your PC; you’ll see error 0xd0000225 and an error message “Something went wrong, and your PIN isn’t available.” You should be able to re-create your PIN by clicking “Set up my PIN.”</p>
3112.  
3113.  
3114.  
3115. <p>(Get more info about <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/10/02/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27718-canary-channel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27718</a>.)</p>
3116. </div></div></div></div>]]></description>
3117. <link>https://www.computerworld.com/article/1614352/windows-11-insider-previews-whats-in-latest-build.html</link>
3118. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">1614352</post-id><category>Microsoft, Small and Medium Business, Windows, Windows 11</category><enclosure url="https://www.computerworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1614352-0-22548800-1748961717-windows-11-logo-bloom-100894262-orig.jpg?quality=50&#038;strip=all" length="148685" type="image/jpeg" />
3119. </item>
3120. <item>
3121. <title>Apple challenges Europe’s interoperability demands</title>
3122. <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 21:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
3123. <description><![CDATA[<div id="remove_no_follow">
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3126. <div class="article-column__content">
3127. <section class="wp-block-bigbite-multi-title"><div class="container"></div></section>
3128.  
3129.  
3130.  
3131. <p><a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3997079/europe-threatens-apple-with-additional-fines.html">Facing huge fines</a>, Apple on Monday began a legal challenge to the European Commission’s “unreasonable” <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3816516/europes-dma-gives-another-big-boost-to-ios-platform-decay.html">demand that it open up its platforms to rivals</a>, arguing any such move threatens the foundations of its platforms with a costly process that also undercuts its ability to serve customers.</p>
3132.  
3133.  
3134.  
3135. <p>The company is, in a word, furious. It argued that it has cooperated with the Commission’s demands under the <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3802271/europe-takes-a-second-look-at-apples-dma-compliance.html">Digital Markets Act</a> (DMA) and points to the investments it has already made in complying with that act. </p>
3136.  
3137.  
3138.  
3139. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>What Apple said</strong></h2>
3140.  
3141.  
3142.  
3143. <p>“At Apple, we design our technology to work seamlessly together, so it can deliver the unique experience our users love and expect from our products,” the company said in a statement. “The EU’s interoperability requirements threaten that foundation, while creating a process that is unreasonable, costly, and stifles innovation. These requirements will also hand data-hungry companies’ sensitive information, which poses massive privacy and security risks to our EU users.”</p>
3144.  
3145.  
3146.  
3147. <p>The company also noted that there is a real risk that people’s <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/1616052/no-sideloading-is-not-good-for-you.html">most sensitive information could be accessed</a>, partially because it becomes so much harder to defend. These attempts are already taking place, Apple said.</p>
3148.  
3149.  
3150.  
3151. <p>“Companies have already requested our users’ most sensitive data — from the content of their notifications to a full history of every stored Wi-Fi network on their device — giving them the ability to access personal information that even Apple doesn’t see. In the end, these deeply flawed rules that only target Apple — and no other company  will severely limit our ability to deliver innovative products and features to Europe, leading to an inferior user experience for our European customers. We are appealing these decisions on their behalf, and in order to preserve the high-quality experience our European customers expect.”</p>
3152.  
3153.  
3154.  
3155. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>A one-sided approach</strong></h2>
3156.  
3157.  
3158.  
3159. <p>What seems to really upset Apple is that some aspects of the demands mean the company will effectively be forced to hand its innovations out to businesses with which it is in direct competition — at no charge. That means Apple does not get to draw the full benefits of its work and makes it far more difficult to introduce products in Europe.</p>
3160.  
3161.  
3162.  
3163. <p>What makes matters worse is that while Apple is being forced to open up in ways that advantage competitors, quite literally at its expense, it is not being given the opportunity to do the same back. Apple is the only company that these demands have been made of, meaning it is being forced to give its intellectual property away to others who do not need to play by the same rules.</p>
3164.  
3165.  
3166.  
3167. <p>Some data hungry companies are already attempting to exploit the DMA to gain unfettered access to sensitive customer data. All the while, Apple is left alone and isolated in its quest to ensure user privacy consistent with GDPR regulation. It’s attempts to protect privacy are about protecting customers.</p>
3168.  
3169.  
3170.  
3171. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Compliance? We <em>are</em> compliant</strong></h2>
3172.  
3173.  
3174.  
3175. <p>While critics will continue to sneer and jeer at the company in their quest to rid the world of the “<a href="https://www.applemust.com/the-apple-tax-is-a-progressive-tax-apple-implies/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Apple Tax</a>” only the <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/1634967/epic-vs-apple-is-not-about-freedom.html">world’s largest developers</a> actually pay, Apple would argue that it has been making serious efforts to comply with the DMA. The company has opened up a portal developers can use to request additional interoperability with hardware and software features inside iPhones and iPads. Apple consistently opens up API access to iPhone, including opening up SMS messaging to RCS, HomeKit features and messaging services support.</p>
3176.  
3177.  
3178.  
3179. <p>It has also put in place numerous other enhancements in response to the DMA, and while the warning messages it places when using third-party stores may be stark, this makes them no less true. Europe seems to want customers to use third-party stores with no warning at all that this is what is going on, which seems weird.</p>
3180.  
3181.  
3182.  
3183. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Malicious regulatory compliance</strong></h2>
3184.  
3185.  
3186.  
3187. <p>There is a degree to which much of the situation seems to reflect political, rather than economic or moral pressures. The fact that Europe is using Apple as a high profile example, while also refusing to be totally transparent about what it wants before levying any fines, suggests that the Commission is not so much deciding on facts as implementing a political decision using a set of laws that seem designed almost solely to punish one company.</p>
3188.  
3189.  
3190.  
3191. <p>That’s the kind of malicious regulatory compliance Apple is furious about — a compliance regime that will now be tested in the courts.</p>
3192.  
3193.  
3194.  
3195. <p>Will it make a difference? </p>
3196.  
3197.  
3198.  
3199. <p>Who knows? But the <a href="https://www.applemust.com/what-if-apple-is-forced-to-abandon-its-values/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">existential battle</a> will decide the future of technology in Europe, and if the market is worth doing business in when compared to the cost of doing so. It will also determine the future of Apple, which will use its considerable resources to find some way to change the nature of the game.</p>
3200.  
3201.  
3202.  
3203. <p>One group it seems unlikely to help will be those of Apple’s European customers who are happy and accustomed to the Apple ecosystem, and don’t particularly want to use third-party services, as Apple’s right to offer that “pure Apple” experience seems a likely sacrifice to Europe’s politically-driven zeal. That is, unless <a href="https://www.applemust.com/apple-still-has-cards-to-play-in-its-eu-game-of-thrones/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cooler heads</a> do curtail the Commission’s attacks.</p>
3204.  
3205.  
3206.  
3207. <p><em>You can follow me on social media! Join me on <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/jonnyevanssays.bsky.social" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">BlueSky</a>,  <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonnyevans" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">LinkedIn</a>, and <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@jonnyevans" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mastodon</a>.</em></p>
3208. </div></div></div></div>]]></description>
3209. <link>https://www.computerworld.com/article/4000318/apple-challenges-europes-interoperability-demands.html</link>
3210. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4000318</post-id><category>Apple, Developer, Mobile, Regulation</category><enclosure url="https://www.computerworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/4000318-0-93589300-1748898407-id-2957534-dsc00301-100600995-orig-100940142-orig.jpg?quality=50&#038;strip=all" length="217794" type="image/jpeg" />
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3212. <item>
3213. <title>Microsoft issues out-of-band patches for Windows 11 startup failure</title>
3214. <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
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3220.  
3221.  
3222.  
3223. <p>Windows administrators stung by a faulty Microsoft update in the May Patch Tuesday releases now have fixes for the problem.</p>
3224.  
3225.  
3226.  
3227. <p>Over the weekend, Microsoft <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/may-31-2025-kb5062170-os-builds-22621-5415-and-22631-5415-out-of-band-fb7ab9b6-c874-41cf-b962-c674482aa24d" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">released out-of-band update</a>s to correct the failure of Windows 11 computers running versions 22H2/23H2 of the operating system, mainly in virtual environments, to start.</p>
3228.  
3229.  
3230.  
3231. <p>The problem: While installing the May Windows security update (<a href="https://support.microsoft.com/help/5058405" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">KB5058405</a>) on some of these computers, the OS thinks a crucial file – ACPI.sys – is missing. The Advanced Configuration and Power Interface is a critical Windows system driver that enables Windows to manage hardware resources and power states. Lacking the file, Windows won’t load, and an error message with the code 0xc0000098 pops up listing the missing file.</p>
3232.  
3233.  
3234.  
3235. <p>Microsoft notes there are also reports of this same error occurring with a different file name.</p>
3236.  
3237.  
3238.  
3239. <p>“This issue has been observed on a small number of physical devices,” <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-11-23H2#kb5058405-might-fail-to-install-with-recovery-error-0xc0000098-in-acpi-sys" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Microsoft says</a>, “but primarily on devices running in virtual environments, including Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Virtual Desktop and on-premises virtual machines hosted on Citrix or Hyper-V.”</p>
3240.  
3241.  
3242.  
3243. <p>The fixes  –  <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/kb5027397-feature-update-to-windows-11-version-23h2-by-using-an-enablement-package-b9e76726-3c94-40de-b40b-99decba3db9d" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">KB5027397</a> for PCs running version 23H2, and <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062170" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">KB5062170</a> for PCs running version 22H2  – are only available through the Microsoft Update Catalog.</p>
3244.  
3245.  
3246.  
3247. <p>If for some reason you are among the few who haven’t yet installed the May 2025 Patch Tuesday security fixes and run a virtual desktop infrastructure, apply the out-of-band update instead.</p>
3248.  
3249.  
3250.  
3251. <p>The out-of-band update contains all of the improvements and fixes included in the May 2025 Windows non-security preview update, in addition to this issue’s resolution, says Microsoft. Since this is a cumulative update, admins don’t need to apply any previous update before installing <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/help/5062170" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">KB5062170</a>. That’s because it supersedes all previous updates for affected versions. Installation of this update will require a device restart.</p>
3252.  
3253.  
3254.  
3255. <p>Users of Windows Home or Pro editions are unlikely to face this issue, says Microsoft, because they aren’t likely to be running virtual machines.</p>
3256.  
3257.  
3258.  
3259. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="human-error-or-edge-case">Human error or edge case?</h2>
3260.  
3261.  
3262.  
3263. <p>Microsoft, like other major software vendors, does a lot of testing of patches before they are released. Still, says Tyler Reguly, associate director of security R&D at Fortra, they can’t catch everything. “It’s impossible to test every edge case and scenario,” he said in an email. “On top of that, at some point testing at a large scale requires humans – and humans make mistakes.</p>
3264.  
3265.  
3266.  
3267. <p>“The question I always want to have answered [when a vendor has to fix a fix] is whether it was human error or an edge case that was deemed unlikely. Unfortunately, very few vendors are willing to publish the results of their Root Cause Analysis (RCA). Instead, the best we can hope for is a quick fix and a mutual understanding that it won’t happen again.</p>
3268.  
3269.  
3270.  
3271. <p>In the case of human error, ensuring it won’t happen again may mean process or policy changes, he wrote, while edge cases could be the result of any number of variables. “When we talk about hardware and virtualization on top of hardware, we’re talking about a lot of things that can go wrong,” he pointed out. “In that case, while we hope vendors catch everything, we need to recognize that as an unrealistic expectation.”</p>
3272.  
3273.  
3274.  
3275. <p>Someone will tout AI as the solution to ensure this doesn’t happen, he added, but as long as our technology exists outside a walled garden, and as long as users have choice in their technologies, problems like this will continue to arise. IT leaders just need to figure out how to respond quickly and calmly.</p>
3276.  
3277.  
3278.  
3279. <p>“If I were a CSO, this is where I would look at my organization and, if we were impacted, I would look at how we responded and how quickly we recovered,” Reguly said. “This is why business continuity planning exists and, if errors like this are hugely impactful, you need to wonder if your BCP is as robust as it needs to be.”</p>
3280.  
3281.  
3282.  
3283. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="a-complexity-problem">A complexity problem</h2>
3284.  
3285.  
3286.  
3287. <p>Even extensively tested code can fail on first contact with production systems, observed Gene Moody, field CTO at patch management provider Action1.</p>
3288.  
3289.  
3290.  
3291. <p>“This isn’t a QA failure, it’s a complexity problem. Test environments, no matter how thorough, can’t replicate the quirks of real-world systems, undocumented changes, legacy software, obscure drivers, or corrupted system states. A patch may behave differently depending on what’s running, what’s been previously installed, or how the system was maintained and managed. Timing issues, environmental drift, and configuration edge cases are almost impossible to predict in labs. And in production, security tools, compliance agents, or even partially failed updates from the past can all sabotage patch behavior,” he said.</p>
3292.  
3293.  
3294.  
3295. <p>“This is why progressive ringed rollout, strong telemetry, and fast rollback are more critical than any lab test. Real-world variability is the wildcard no simulation can fully cover; admins need to be familiar with their own environments to be able to test and recover from unforeseen circumstances caused by unstable patches.”</p>
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3297. <link>https://www.computerworld.com/article/4000386/microsoft-issues-out-of-band-patches-for-windows-11-startup-failure.html</link>
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3300. <item>
3301. <title>Download the ‘New Thinking about Cloud Computing’ Enterprise Spotlight</title>
3302. <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
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3308.  
3309.  
3310.  
3311. <p>Download the June 2025 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World.</p>
3312.  
3313.  
3314.  
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3321. <title>WWDC: Apple’s Shortcuts makes a grab at AI</title>
3322. <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
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3328.  
3329.  
3330.  
3331. <p>Next week, we should have a clear view of what <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3992035/report-apple-intelligence-to-open-up-to-developers-at-wwdc.html">Apple already knows</a> it is rolling out at this year’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (<a href="https://developer.apple.com/wwdc25/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">WWDC</a>). At the moment, expectations are low, but one updated feature could make a major difference to some people’s workflow: Shortcuts are <a href="https://x.com/markgurman/status/1929148025882255380" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">expected to get much smarter</a>.</p>
3332.  
3333.  
3334.  
3335. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="shortcuts-to-ai-not-really-but-helpful-all-the-same">Shortcuts to AI? Not really, but helpful all the same</h2>
3336.  
3337.  
3338.  
3339. <p>Shortcuts help you automate tasks on Apple devices. Created inside the Shortcuts app, they let you mix and match different actions from across your applications and services. These things can work across all your devices, be combined together, automated, or initiated through Siri. While these arguably do some of the same things you’d get from within Automator on the Mac (thanks to Sal Soghoian’s <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/1676596/does-apple-really-want-to-kill-automator-applescript.html">decades of work</a>), they have the advantage of also working across iPhones and iPads.</p>
3340.  
3341.  
3342.  
3343. <p>The disadvantage? Many still find the process of stringing together these shortcut scripts a little logically challenging, partly because the nature of these scripts is expressed in a language different than the one people use. </p>
3344.  
3345.  
3346.  
3347. <p>This is, I think, how Apple intends to improve Shortcuts at WWDC, when we’re told it will finally introduce something it’s been working on to make things more approachable through use of artificial intelligence. Specifically, the company could place more focus on its plans to make the Apple Intelligence features it already provides available within Shortcuts. </p>
3348.  
3349.  
3350.  
3351. <p>The latter might mean (<em>and remember, this is speculation</em>) you would be able to do more than simply send a website link to someone using the command, “Send this website to Sandra.” You might also be able to send a nice summary of what that site contains, perhaps with a relevant Genmoji to make your email punchy. </p>
3352.  
3353.  
3354.  
3355. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="towards-a-new-user-interface">Towards a new user interface</h2>
3356.  
3357.  
3358.  
3359. <p>We’ll learn next week how Apple intends to do this integration. It is possible the company will only be able to navigate part of the journey, given all the insider reports detailing problems connecting its new AI systems with Apple’s legacy ones. All the same, the general idea seems to be that rather than figuring out how to describe your desired effect in an unfamiliar Shortcuts language, you should be able to string the services together using natural speech. </p>
3360.  
3361.  
3362.  
3363. <p>Apple’s not unique in this; Microsoft Copilot does something similar. But in tandem with Apple’s extensive accessibility tools, smarter Shortcuts might deliver something profound for a lot of users. </p>
3364.  
3365.  
3366.  
3367. <p>It’s not just about accessibility, either. The promise of being able to combine Shortcuts using natural language, and for those Shortcuts to be able to levy a sequence of features from across Apple’s operating system and compatible apps (including third parties that support Shortcuts), is huge. </p>
3368.  
3369.  
3370.  
3371. <p>It means that the applications and tools you use become things that can be selected and combined together using voice, text, or even conceivably gesture. Think about how this could change someone’s life who needs to use voice control on their Mac. Then think on how it makes for Mac-style features on visionOS. </p>
3372.  
3373.  
3374.  
3375. <p>Dramatically, there is a missing piece.</p>
3376.  
3377.  
3378.  
3379. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="wheres-the-context">Where’s the context?</h2>
3380.  
3381.  
3382.  
3383. <p>One thing we’re not hearing much about so far is how and when Apple finally hopes to deploy <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3618893/apple-is-about-to-add-seriously-useful-tools-to-apple-intelligence.html">contextual awareness in Apple Intelligence</a>. The company announced this last year, but as we all know, hasn’t yet brought this to market. All the best informed Apple speculators predict Apple won’t introduce <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3989461/drama-at-apple-as-ai-failures-cause-heads-to-roll.html">much that’s new</a> in Apple Intelligence at WWDC, and previous claims have said the contextual part may not emerge until next year. Apple hasn’t said much at all. </p>
3384.  
3385.  
3386.  
3387. <p>However, if you use your imagination, breath deeply, close your eyes just a little and squint a bit, you might be able to glimpse at how contextually-savvy Apple Intelligence could combine with Siri Shortcuts to give you the ability to do amazing work on any screen.</p>
3388.  
3389.  
3390.  
3391. <p>While working on a document, you might summarize it and send it as a PDF to a collaborator for review with a few spoken words, for example – just by staring at what you want to send. You might even request an alert once your collaborator is next online, so you can follow this up. </p>
3392.  
3393.  
3394.  
3395. <p>We’ll wait and see how this is all eventually applied, but it seems that the WWDC-souped-up-Shortcuts in combination with contextual Siri (whenever that ships) could together unleash a whole set of new ways of working. In doing so, they also unleash a more flexible user interface suitable for deployment across a multitude of devices, including visionOS devices. </p>
3396.  
3397.  
3398.  
3399. <p>That is, of course, where the confluence of all these technologies is really going: Macs you <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/1670416/one-day-you-ll-wear-your-mac-like-sunglasses.html">wear like sunglasses</a> that enable you to wrap tech augmentation <a href="https://www.applemust.com/apples-wearable-future-and-mac-as-a-service-industry/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">deep within your day</a>.</p>
3400.  
3401.  
3402.  
3403. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="sounds-great-but-youll-probably-have-to-wait">Sounds great, but you’ll probably have to wait</h2>
3404.  
3405.  
3406.  
3407. <p>All of which would be more interesting if it were what we’re going to get at WWDC. All the same, that doesn’t mean we’ll get nothing, and with the direction of travel visible we must look deeply at what we do get, as it will reveal just where Apple is on this journey. Solarium may come across as <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3999421/ahead-of-wwdc-apple-hits-its-dead-cat-moment.html">little more than eye candy</a>, but perhaps vision is going to be the most important component to the future of every operating system, not just the Mac.</p>
3408.  
3409.  
3410.  
3411. <p>In the end, the jam we are promised is coming might well taste better for the wait.</p>
3412.  
3413.  
3414.  
3415. <p><em>You can follow me on social media! Join me on <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/jonnyevanssays.bsky.social" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">BlueSky</a>,  <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonnyevans" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">LinkedIn</a>, and <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@jonnyevans" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mastodon</a>.</em></p>
3416. </div></div></div></div>]]></description>
3417. <link>https://www.computerworld.com/article/4000091/wwdc-apples-shortcuts-makes-a-grab-at-ai.html</link>
3418. <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">4000091</post-id><category>Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Developer, Generative AI, WWDC</category><enclosure url="https://www.computerworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/4000091-0-59312100-1748865268-wwdc-glass-rainbow-2.jpg?quality=50&#038;strip=all" length="32044" type="image/jpeg" />
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3420. <item>
3421. <title>AI chatbots deliver minimal productivity gains, study finds</title>
3422. <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
3423. <description><![CDATA[<div id="remove_no_follow">
3424. <div class="grid grid--cols-10@md grid--cols-8@lg article-column">
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3426. <div class="article-column__content">
3427. <section class="wp-block-bigbite-multi-title"><div class="container"></div></section>
3428.  
3429.  
3430.  
3431. <p>A <a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w33777" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">new study</a> by economists analyzing a wide range of jobs and employees found that AI chatbots do not markedly improve an organization’s productivity or efficiency.</p>
3432.  
3433.  
3434.  
3435. <p>At the same time, AI is being adopted faster than any technology in history, according to industry analysts, economists, and technology historians.</p>
3436.  
3437.  
3438.  
3439. <p>Generative AI (<a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/1627101/what-are-large-language-models-and-how-are-they-used-in-generative-ai.html">genAI</a>) has seen the fastest uptake. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, for example, reached 100 million users just two months after launch in November 2022 — faster than TikTok, Instagram, or any other app in history.</p>
3440.  
3441.  
3442.  
3443. <p>Yet, the actual gains from genAI’s adoption can be difficult to calculate across the broader labor market, according to the study, which was released in May by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The researchers, who explored a broad swath of employees and tasks, found that despite heavy investment by organizations, AI chatbots have had modest impact on worker producivity, saving users just 2.8% of work hours on average. And those productivity gains rarely led to higher pay (only 3% to 7% improvement).</p>
3444.  
3445.  
3446.  
3447. <p>But not all was negative. The researchers tempered their findings somewhat by stating that AI chatbots save time for 64% to 90% of users, but effects on work quality and satisfaction vary. The chatbots have also created new tasks for 8.4% of workers, even among non-users.</p>
3448.  
3449.  
3450.  
3451. <p>The report noted that past randomized control trials of AI use have documented much greater productivity gains, often exceeding 15%. Yet “it remains unclear how these translate into earnings and hours, as high-quality microdata on such outcomes is rarely available,” the researchers wrote.</p>
3452.  
3453.  
3454.  
3455. <p>And those trials have typically focused on the types of jobs that are likely see the biggest productivity gains from AI tools, in environments where AI chatbot use is encouraged and fully supported by employers. Looking at a wider range of occupations in less optimized settings revealed more modest gains. </p>
3456.  
3457.  
3458.  
3459. <p>“These findings caution against directly extrapolating productivity gains from controlled experiments to the broader economy,” the report said.</p>
3460.  
3461.  
3462.  
3463. <p>The researchers used two large surveys from Denmark covering 25,000 workers in 7,000 workplaces across 11 occupations. The job titles included accountants, customer support specialists, financial advisors, HR professionals, software developers, IT support specialists, and marketing and legal professionals. The report noted that Danish workers are very similar to those in the US in terms of genAI adoption, job flexibility, and salary negotiations.</p>
3464.  
3465.  
3466.  
3467. <p>While the study found widespread use of AI, with employers promoting its adoption through in-house models and training, the technology had little economic impact on those workers.</p>
3468.  
3469.  
3470.  
3471. <p>“AI chatbots have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation,” the report stated. “Modest productivity gains (average time savings of 3%), combined with weak wage pass-through, help explain these limited labor market effects.”</p>
3472.  
3473.  
3474.  
3475. <p>The impact of genAI on the labor market is still unclear due to three key reasons: firms may not be fully integrating AI tools, chatbot benefits vary by task and can turn negative, and there’s limited data linking productivity gains to pay or work hours, according to the report.</p>
3476.  
3477.  
3478.  
3479. <p>Employers are driving AI chatbot adoption through encouragement, in-house models (38%), and training (30% of workers). Those efforts nearly doubled usage from 47% to 83%, the researchers found. Importantly, AI chatbot benefits are 10% to 40% greater when employers promote their use, highlighting the value of firm-led support, the researchers found.</p>
3480.  
3481.  
3482.  
3483. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="in-search-of-the-elusive-roi">In search of the elusive ROI</h2>
3484.  
3485.  
3486.  
3487. <p>In addition to the Denmark study, the results of a recent <a href="https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-05-06-ibm-study-ceos-double-down-on-ai-while-navigating-enterprise-hurdles" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">IBM survey</a> of 2,000 CEOs found that only 25% of AI projects meet ROI expectations. It also showed that 64% of respondents invest in AI mainly to avoid falling behind competitors.</p>
3488.  
3489.  
3490.  
3491. <p>New IBM research shows that AI strategy is becoming more focused, with only 6% of organizations using it ad hoc — down from 19% last year.</p>
3492.  
3493.  
3494.  
3495. <p>Manish Goyal, vice president and senior partner for global AI and analytics at IBM Consulting, said there are three best practices that organizations sometimes forget when deploying AI. First, align AI use with key priorities. Second, build strong technical foundations. Third, manage change and develop skills to drive adoption and growth.</p>
3496.  
3497.  
3498.  
3499. <p>“Clients have been seeing the most ROI when applying AI to scaled horizontal processes like software development, customer service, marketing, operations, IT, etc., where there is typically a human-in-the-loop,” Goyal said in an email reply to <em>Computerworld</em>. “From an industry perspective, we see telco, retail, and banking clients using AI successfully in areas like customer service.”</p>
3500.  
3501.  
3502.  
3503. <p>Last year, Gartner Research said <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3489912/generative-ai-is-sliding-into-the-trough-of-disillusionment.html">genAI was slipping into the “Trough of Disillusionment”</a> due to a mismatch between high expectations and reality, enterprise challenges in maturing data engineering and <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3484326/genai-compliance-is-an-oxymoron-ways-to-make-the-best-of-it.html">AI governance</a>, and the intangible ROI related to many genAI initiatives.</p>
3504.  
3505.  
3506.  
3507. <p>Gartner’s trough of disillusionment describes a time when interest in a hot new technology wanes as experiments and implementations fail to deliver on the initial hype.</p>
3508.  
3509.  
3510.  
3511. <p>“We do believe that much ‘conventional AI’ has started climbing the slope out of the trough. GenAI is still falling into the trough. ‘Agentic AI’ is higher — near the peak,” Whit Andrews, a Gartner distinguished vice president analyst, wrote in an email response to <em>Computerworld</em>.</p>
3512.  
3513.  
3514.  
3515. <p>Gartner’s own research showed that some forms of AI have had a marked impact on worker efficiency. For example, a recent Gartner survey revealed AI save those using it an “average of 5.4 hours a week.” That’s about 12% of the work week, according to Andrews, which means Gartner’s survey is within a margin of error of the Denmark study. The differences between the two surveys, Andrews said, could also be due to differing methodologies.</p>
3516.  
3517.  
3518.  
3519. <p>“We do see workers telling us that they are saving time with AI,” Andrews said.</p>
3520.  
3521.  
3522.  
3523. <p>Yet, Gartner’s research also found teams that implement traditional AI and generative genAI are not significantly<br>more likely to report high productivity gains than teams that implement other technologies, “such as robotic process automation (RPA) or blockchain.”<br><br>“While time savings from AI adoption are significant (5.4 hours per week per person), more than two-thirds of that time is redeployed toward non-value-adding activities,” Gartner’s report stated.</p>
3524.  
3525.  
3526.  
3527. <p>As genAI in its many forms begins to lose favor in organizations, enterprise focus on ROI will likely spur the adoption of autonomous AI in the form of agents — something with a more solid potential for productivity and efficiency gains, according to Gartner.</p>
3528.  
3529.  
3530.  
3531. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>AI agents hold far more potential than chatbots</strong></h2>
3532.  
3533.  
3534.  
3535. <p>More than 500 tech executives surveyed by Ernst & Young in its latest Technology Pulse Poll said <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3986929/half-of-tech-execs-ready-to-let-ai-take-the-wheel.html">AI agents will make up the majority</a> of upcoming AI deployments. The survey revealed that 48% are already adopting or fully deploying <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3843138/agentic-ai-ongoing-coverage-of-its-impact-on-the-enterprise.html">AI agents</a>, and half of those leaders say that more than 50% of AI deployments will be autonomous in their company in the next 24 months.</p>
3536.  
3537.  
3538.  
3539. <p>An <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3846150/how-ai-agents-work.html" target="_blank">AI agent is a software program</a> that collects data and uses the data to perform self-determined tasks to meet predetermined goals. For example, an AI agent could act as a customer care representative and automatically ask the customer different questions, look up information in internal documents, and respond with a solution. Based on the customer responses, it determines if it can resolve the query itself or pass it on to a human.</p>
3540.  
3541.  
3542.  
3543. <p>The results of a <a href="https://cloud.app.box.com/s/e44f8qylxocet7fhofytix55mn8k3uev" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">newly released survey</a> from content management provider Box revealed a clear division between organizations that have strategically embraced AI and those that remain in beginning stages of adoption.</p>
3544.  
3545.  
3546.  
3547. <p>Box’s survey of 1,300 IT leaders found that early adopters of AI agents are seeing major productivity gains as the tech becomes key to their workforce.</p>
3548.  
3549.  
3550.  
3551. <p>“Early AI [agent] adopters are seeing significant ROI, with leading-edge companies measuring 37% productivity improvements on average,” Box’s study stated.</p>
3552.  
3553.  
3554.  
3555. <p>AI agents range from simple to advanced. Some 87% of organizations are using agents, including 41% using them for fully autonomous tasks, according to Box. While advanced agents boost efficiency and innovation, most companies are still adjusting and training employees to bridge the AI skills gap.</p>
3556.  
3557.  
3558.  
3559. <p>“I think the real question when it comes to something as dimensionally powerful as AI is: Do you want to save time in doing what you already do, or do you want to do more of it, or do you want to do it better, or do you want to change the way your industry functions?” said Gartner’s Andrews. “How do you want to mix that up?” </p>
3560.  
3561.  
3562.  
3563. <p>For example, focusing on productivity gains alone can be short-sighted. “When companies isolate their focus to efficiency, they sentence themselves to a diminishing significance that fails to increase their significance to their customers,” Andrews said.</p>
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3565. <link>https://www.computerworld.com/article/3998244/ai-chatbots-see-fast-adoption-but-deliver-minimal-productivity-gains-study-finds.html</link>
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3569. <title>Why enterprises should use small language models</title>
3570. <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 07:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
3571. <description><![CDATA[<div id="remove_no_follow">
3572. <div class="grid grid--cols-10@md grid--cols-8@lg article-column">
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3574. <div class="article-column__content">
3575. <section class="wp-block-bigbite-multi-title"><div class="container"></div></section>
3576.  
3577.  
3578.  
3579. <h2 id="small-is-beautiful">Small is beautiful</h2>
3580.  
3581.  
3582.  
3583.  
3584. <p>The all-conquering rise of AI in the enterprise has seen much use of large language models (LLMs). This week at <em>InfoWorld</em>, we wrote about LiteLLM: an open-source gateway for unified LLM access that <a href="https://www.infoworld.com/article/3975290/litellm-an-open-source-gateway-for-unified-llm-access.html" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.infoworld.com/article/3975290/litellm-an-open-source-gateway-for-unified-llm-access.html" target="_blank">allows developers to integrate a diverse range of LLM models</a> as if they were calling OpenAI’s API, with support for fallbacks, budgets, rate limits, and real-time monitoring of API calls. </p>
3585.  
3586.  
3587.  
3588. <p>That’s good for organizations wishing to use multiple LLMs in harness. But many <em>InfoWorld</em> readers of the story wanted to understand the utility of small language models. Smart Answers: the child of our very own proprietary LLM, offered an opinion based on decades of human insights from IT leaders. </p>
3589.  
3590.  
3591.  
3592. <p>Despite its LLM background, Smart Answers is happy to espouse the virtues of smaller models. SLMs provide agility, cost-effective resources, and rapid prototyping, while also enhancing the security and privacy of organizational data. They also offer better security and customization. In essence, if you want to keep it in house and under control, an SLM might be the best answer. </p>
3593.  
3594.  
3595.  
3596. <p><strong>Find out: </strong><a href="https://www.infoworld.com/smart-answers/?q=Why%20are%20enterprises%20using%20small%20language%20models%20more%20often%3F&qs=article_infoworld_3975290" target="_blank"><strong>Why are enterprises using small language models more often?</strong></a> </p>
3597.  
3598.  
3599.  
3600. <h2 id="whats-new-in-python">What’s new in Python?</h2>
3601.  
3602.  
3603.  
3604.  
3605. <p>Everybody loves Python. It’s the coding language of the day. This week we reported <a href="https://www.infoworld.com/article/3977626/how-to-use-template-strings-in-python-3-14.html" target="_blank">how to use template strings in Python 3.14</a>, pointing out that these new template strings, or t-strings, give you a much more powerful way to format data than the old-fashioned f-strings. </p>
3606.  
3607.  
3608.  
3609. <p>That’s all very cool. But there’s more, and our readers asked Smart Answers for a rundown of all the new features in Python. There’s a lot, with highlights including deferred evaluation of annotations, better error messages, a safe external debugger interface to CPython, and a C API for Python runtime configuration. </p>
3610.  
3611.  
3612.  
3613. <p><strong>Find out: </strong><a href="https://www.infoworld.com/smart-answers/?q=What%20are%20other%20major%20new%20features%20in%20Python%203.14%3F&qs=article_infoworld_3977626" target="_blank"><strong>What are other major new features in Python 3.14?</strong></a><strong></strong> </p>
3614.  
3615.  
3616.  
3617. <h2 id="when-is-sap-ecc-standard-support-ending">When is SAP ECC standard support ending?</h2>
3618.  
3619.  
3620.  
3621.  
3622. <p>CIOs face a daunting task in migrating their legacy ERP systems to S/4HANA and an entirely new platform in the cloud as the technology vendor’s deadline moves closer. This week (as most weeks) we updated the CIO audience on <a href="https://www.cio.com/article/3982596/the-road-to-s-4hana-how-cios-are-managing-sap-eccs-end-of-support.html" target="_blank">the road to S/4HANA: How CIOs are managing SAP ECC’s end of support</a>. </p>
3623.  
3624.  
3625.  
3626. <p>CIO readers wanted to know one thing: how much time do they have? </p>
3627.  
3628.  
3629.  
3630. <p><strong>Find out: </strong><a href="https://www.cio.com/smart-answers/?q=When%20is%20SAP%20ECC%20standard%20support%20ending%3F&qs=article_cio_3982596" target="_blank"><strong>When is SAP ECC standard support ending?</strong></a> </p>
3631.  
3632.  
3633.  
3634. <p><em>About </em><a href="https://www.computerworld.com/smart-answers/" target="_blank"><em>Smart Answers</em></a><em></em> </p>
3635.  
3636.  
3637.  
3638. <p><em>Smart Answers is an AI-based chatbot tool designed to help you discover content, answer questions, and go deep on the topics that matter to you. Each week we send you the three most popular questions asked by our readers, and the answers Smart Answers provides. </em> </p>
3639.  
3640.  
3641.  
3642. <p><em>Developed in partnership with Miso.ai, Smart Answers draws only on editorial content from our network of trusted media brands—CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World—and was trained on questions that a savvy enterprise IT audience would ask. The result is a fast, efficient way for you to get more value from our content.</em> </p>
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3644. <link>https://www.computerworld.com/article/3992081/why-enterprises-should-use-small-language-models.html</link>
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3648. <title>New Perplexity Labs platform launched for those ‘who want to bring an entire idea to life’</title>
3649. <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 23:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
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3655.  
3656.  
3657.  
3658. <p>Perplexity this week released Perplexity Labs, a new tool for Pro users that can craft reports, spreadsheets, dashboards, and visual representations, to meet users’ increased demand for AI productivity tools with greater autonomy and ever more sophisticated capabilities. The platform, a rival to Anthropic Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Google Gemini, can even work on its own for 10 minutes (or more) as it reasons through complicated assignments.</p>
3659.  
3660.  
3661.  
3662. <p>“Labs underscores a broader shift toward multi-agent AI systems that plan, execute, and refine full workflows,” said Thomas Randall, research lead for AI at Info-Tech Research Group.</p>
3663.  
3664.  
3665.  
3666. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="designed-to-handle-more-complex-assignments">Designed to handle more complex assignments</h2>
3667.  
3668.  
3669.  
3670. <p><a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3977562/perplexity-ais-quiet-coup.html" target="_blank">Perplexity</a> launched Perplexity Search, its proprietary search engine, in December 2022, just after ChatGPT dropped, and earlier this year released Deep Research (now to be rebranded as Research), which scours the web, reads papers, reasons through materials, and creates comprehensive reports for users.</p>
3671.  
3672.  
3673.  
3674. <p>The company says that Perplexity Labs is like “having a team” that can bring projects from ideation to reality. The platform creates reports, spreadsheets, dashboards and simple web apps. It can perform at least 10 minutes of self-supervised work, uses web browsing, writes and executes code to handle tasks like organizing data or applying formulas, and can create charts and images.</p>
3675.  
3676.  
3677.  
3678. <p>“In some respects, this is a continuation of Perplexity’s original capabilities as an AI-driven search engine that provides deeper answers,” said Hyoun Park, CEO and chief analyst at Amalgam Insights.</p>
3679.  
3680.  
3681.  
3682. <p>Indeed, Perplexity explained that Labs was designed to handle more complex assignments than Deep Research.</p>
3683.  
3684.  
3685.  
3686. <p>“While Deep Research remains the fastest way to obtain comprehensive answers to in-depth questions —  typically within 3 or 4 minutes — Labs is designed to invest more time (10  minutes or longer) and leverage additional tools, such as advanced file generation and mini-app creation,” Perplexity wrote in a <a href="https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-perplexity-labs" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">blog post</a>. “This expanded capability empowers you to develop a broader array of deliverables for your projects.”</p>
3687.  
3688.  
3689.  
3690. <p>With its longer research workflow, Perplexity Labs can generate spreadsheets, visual representations, and high-quality reports, the company said. It iteratively searches through hundreds of sources, reasons about that data, and refines its approach as it gets deeper into a project, similar to the way in which a human researcher might approach a new area of study.</p>
3691.  
3692.  
3693.  
3694. <p>To create interactive dashboards without the need for coding expertise or external development tools like Ploty and Dash, users just describe what they’re visualizing in natural language, and Labs will generate it in real-time. Dashboards could, for instance, visualize business finances or other complex datasets, incorporating clickable elements to allow non-technical users to quickly act on insights.</p>
3695.  
3696.  
3697.  
3698. <p>In one example from the blog, Perplexity prompted Labs from the position of a leader at a tech consulting firm looking to create a potential customer list. It specified that it wanted to partner with US B2B companies in seed, series A, or series B stages, and asked Labs to list 20 relevant companies and include key details including contact information.</p>
3699.  
3700.  
3701.  
3702. <p>Labs compiled a comprehensive dataset of potential customers, organizing them by stage (A, B, or seed) and identified their core focus, intended customers, and funding to date. The platform cited links from Forbes, YCombinator, and Exploding Topics that it had used as sources. When further prompted, it crafted introductory emails to the CEOs of the series A startups.</p>
3703.  
3704.  
3705.  
3706. <p>To simplify workflows, Labs arranges generated files in a dedicated tab for easy access, supports integration with other tools such as Google Sheets, and allows users to pull out and format citations to bring credibility to its research. Finished materials can be exported as PDFs or documents, or converted into a shareable Perplexity Page.</p>
3707.  
3708.  
3709.  
3710. <p>Pro subscribers ($20 a month) can now work with Labs on Web, iOS, and Android; Mac and Windows apps are coming soon.</p>
3711.  
3712.  
3713.  
3714. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="a-good-fit-for-enterprise-users">A good fit for enterprise users?</h2>
3715.  
3716.  
3717.  
3718. <p>This new capability joins an increasingly competitive space, as users look for <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3997252/ai-and-economic-pressures-reshape-tech-jobs-amid-layoffs.html">AI productivity</a> tools that are ever-more performant and can handle more and more tasks autonomously.</p>
3719.  
3720.  
3721.  
3722. <p>Park pointed out that Perplexity Labs is a response to tools and models such as <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3999190/openais-skynet-moment-models-defy-human-commands-actively-resist-orders-to-shut-down.html" target="_blank">OpenAI</a> o1-pro (launched in March), <a href="https://www.infoworld.com/article/3993750/anthropic-releases-claude-sonnet-4-and-claude-opus-4.html" target="_blank">Claude Opus 4</a> (released in May), and Google’s recent Flow and Firebase announcements.</p>
3723.  
3724.  
3725.  
3726. <p>“There is a massive <em>Hunger Games</em> in the AI world right now,” said Park. “Every major vendor is ferociously trying to one-up each other in providing more functionality, either in a native model or with an agency of AI agents designed to work together and create digital assets such as documents, apps, and videos.”</p>
3727.  
3728.  
3729.  
3730. <p>However, Perplexity Labs does provide differentiation from other providers in the market, Info-Tech’s Randall noted. In particular, Perplexity is betting that users will prefer a “low-cost, open, tool-agnostic sandbox” for web crawling, code execution, and the creation of finished artifacts including mini web apps.</p>
3731.  
3732.  
3733.  
3734. <p>“These capabilities cannot yet be found in other enterprise platforms, such as Microsoft or Google offerings,” said Randall.</p>
3735.  
3736.  
3737.  
3738. <p>But enterprises should approach Perplexity Labs with a governance-first mindset, he emphasized. Assets live in Perplexity’s cloud and, for now, lack the private data grounding and compliance controls that CIOs expect, and that they find in tools such as Microsoft Copilot or Google Gemini.</p>
3739.  
3740.  
3741.  
3742. <p>From an enterprise perspective, Park noted, the biggest challenge is that every asset-creating model and agent is “still opaque” when it comes to understanding the assumptions, training, and reliability of assumptions used to create a document or app. He compared it to the way the iPhone bypassed BlackBerry and Windows through “sheer consumer delight.”</p>
3743.  
3744.  
3745.  
3746. <p>“At some point, AI vendors seeking serious business usage will need to provide more transparency and governance tools to the business world, just as mobile device management and mobile security solutions eventually came to the iPhone,” said Park.</p>
3747.  
3748.  
3749.  
3750. <p>Otherwise, businesses may be compelled to build their own clunky but secure versions of Perplexity Labs, “which are guaranteed to be less accurate and useful just [based on] the history of business apps trying to imitate viral consumer apps,” he said.</p>
3751. </div></div></div></div>]]></description>
3752. <link>https://www.computerworld.com/article/3999692/new-perplexity-labs-platform-launched-for-those-who-want-to-bring-an-entire-idea-to-life.html</link>
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3756. <title>Ahead of WWDC, Apple hits its ‘dead cat’ moment</title>
3757. <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 15:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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3763.  
3764.  
3765.  
3766. <p>What’s a company to do when it faces a <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3997079/europe-threatens-apple-with-additional-fines.html">multitude</a> of <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3998024/apple-catches-its-breath-as-us-court-rejects-tariff-tax.html">existential</a> <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3842236/is-apple-intelligence-the-new-apple-maps.html">crises</a> and seems unable to regain control of the media message? It <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">throws a few dead cats</a> on the table to distract everybody.</p>
3767.  
3768.  
3769.  
3770. <p>This aeons-old approach to public relations has recently been rechristened as “<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-flood-zone-strategy-explained-trump-policy-blitz-2027482">flooding the zone</a>” — and it is what I think Apple is doing as news surfaces that it plans to announce a change to the way it names its operating systems in June at its big developer event, <a href="https://www.applemust.com/apples-worldwide-developers-conference-kicks-off-june-9/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">WWDC</a>.</p>
3771.  
3772.  
3773.  
3774. <p>That means we won’t ever see iOS 19 but will see iOS 26 instead.</p>
3775.  
3776.  
3777.  
3778. <p>It also means:</p>
3779.  
3780.  
3781.  
3782. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>A new Apple OS order</strong></h2>
3783.  
3784.  
3785.  
3786. <ul class="wp-block-list">
3787. <li>iPadOS 26</li>
3788.  
3789.  
3790.  
3791. <li>macOS 26</li>
3792.  
3793.  
3794.  
3795. <li>tvOS 26</li>
3796.  
3797.  
3798.  
3799. <li>visionOS 26</li>
3800.  
3801.  
3802.  
3803. <li>watchOS 26</li>
3804.  
3805.  
3806.  
3807. <li>homeOS 26</li>
3808. </ul>
3809.  
3810.  
3811.  
3812. <p>You can see the pattern, I hope. The 26 refers to the main year in which an operating system exists, which is a little confusing, as it means we need to look forward to iOS 27 (et al.) in 2026. </p>
3813.  
3814.  
3815.  
3816. <p>I don’t think there’s anything particularly contentious about this change: it’s great for me, as it makes it far less likely I’ll use an incorrect OS version number in my work. But for Apple it’s led to a tidal wave of reports around the decision, and while not all of those are positively spun, the fact that the yarns are being worked at all restores some of Apple’s control over the narrative.</p>
3817.  
3818.  
3819.  
3820. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Existential threats</strong></h2>
3821.  
3822.  
3823.  
3824. <p>That’s a degree of media management the company needs, given that almost every other story being written about it at this time involves <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3987927/iphones-made-in-us-factories-why-it-doesnt-matter-much.html">tariffs</a>, <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3975547/apple-could-face-criminal-contempt-charges-over-apple-tax.html">regulation</a>, or its <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3989461/drama-at-apple-as-ai-failures-cause-heads-to-roll.html">problems with artificial intelligence</a>. Even its bigger stories that should have been good news are delivering unexpected results — for example, what should be seen as huge success in <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3971013/apple-plans-to-make-all-us-iphones-in-india-by-end-of-2026.html">pivoting its manufacturing</a> to India is being seen through the lens of nativist US regulation and tariffs. </p>
3825.  
3826.  
3827.  
3828. <p>Also in politics, Europe’s regulators seem to want to turn Apple regulation into a <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3969809/white-house-condemns-europes-extortion-of-apple-and-meta.html">weapon for use in negotiations</a> over US trade. And in the background, the company’s former Chief Designer Jony Ive’s move to <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3992592/jony-ive-and-openai-plan-bicycles-for-21st-century-minds.html">get to work on new devices with OpenAI</a> raises all the ghosts of Expos past. </p>
3829.  
3830.  
3831.  
3832. <p>What’s Apple to do? Well, right now it <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3842236/is-apple-intelligence-the-new-apple-maps.html">can’t ask Siri</a> for comfort, but maybe that will change next year — and we don’t want people paying too much attention to AI, do we?</p>
3833.  
3834.  
3835.  
3836. <p>Apple certainly doesn’t seem to want to discuss any of these challenges too much. The decision by Apple executives <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/05/29/the-talk-show-live-tickets-2025" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">not to take part</a> in John Gruber’s traditional WWDC ‘talk show’ represents a company whose leaders feel the need to manage the messaging. Apple has participated in these conversations for a decade, so the change is noteworthy.</p>
3837.  
3838.  
3839.  
3840. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Waiting for the sun (in the Solarium)</strong></h2>
3841.  
3842.  
3843.  
3844. <p>That Apple chooses these moments just before WWDC to use its official unofficial news and speculation reporters at <em><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-28/apple-to-rebrand-device-operating-systems-ios-26-macos-26-watchos-26?srnd=undefined" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bloomberg</a></em> to share news about the future of its operating system names represents something similar. </p>
3845.  
3846.  
3847.  
3848. <p>First, it gets people talking about something else in the here and now. </p>
3849.  
3850.  
3851.  
3852. <p>Second, it begins to set relatively low expectations for Apple’s big developer event. The operating systems will get a facelift (Solarium) designed to make them all work a little more similarly, the iPad will gain tools to make it more Mac-like, and Apple will adopt a new nomenclature culture for its operating system names.</p>
3853.  
3854.  
3855.  
3856. <p>What is Solarium? This is a UI update that changes the look of icons, menus, windows, buttons, and more. The idea is to deliver a consistent visual interface across all the devices, intentionally a little translucent like sitting in a glass-walled room dappled by sunlight. Which sounds nice, and probably also means rounder icons, floating controls, spatial depth, and visual cues strongly reminiscent of visionOS 1.0. </p>
3857.  
3858.  
3859.  
3860. <h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Prepare for more shocks</strong></h2>
3861.  
3862.  
3863.  
3864. <p>Will any of this be enough for Apple to regain control of the narrative? I don’t think so. </p>
3865.  
3866.  
3867.  
3868. <p>There’s an outside possibility that Apple will introduce exciting digital health tools and <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3992035/report-apple-intelligence-to-open-up-to-developers-at-wwdc.html">maybe other services</a> that provoke deep interest. But, assuming these do not transpire and Solarium is the hot spot for WWDC, then I strongly suspect Apple will play for time (and control of the media narrative) by throwing a few more dead cats into the ring — at least until Siri is at last capable of telling it when to stop. </p>
3869.  
3870.  
3871.  
3872. <p><em>You can follow me on social media! Join me on <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/jonnyevanssays.bsky.social" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">BlueSky</a>,  <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonnyevans" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">LinkedIn</a>, and <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@jonnyevans" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mastodon</a>.</em></p>
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3874. <link>https://www.computerworld.com/article/3999421/ahead-of-wwdc-apple-hits-its-dead-cat-moment.html</link>
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3878. <title>DeepSeek releases new version of its R1 reasoning AI model</title>
3879. <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 10:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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3885.  
3886.  
3887.  
3888. <p>Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released an update to the R1 reasoning AI model that <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3812701/how-deepseek-will-upend-the-ai-industry-and-open-it-to-competition.html">took the tech world by storm</a> when it was launched at the beginning of the year. The open-source model <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3810766/deepseek-triggers-shock-waves-for-ai-giants-but-the-disruption-wont-last.html">sent shockwaves through the AI industry</a> as its efficient use of compute and memory resources helped it match leading US models’ performance at a fraction of the cost.<br></p>
3889.  
3890.  
3891.  
3892. <p>The new version, DeepSeek-R1-0528, has a whopping 685 billion parameters, meaning it can perform on par with competitors such as o3 from OpenAI and Gemini 2.5 Pro from Google.<br></p>
3893.  
3894.  
3895.  
3896. <p>The company says the model’s accuracy has increased from 70% to 87.5%, which means that the risk of hallucinations has been significantly reduced. Furthermore, DeepSeek has reportedly become better at so-called <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3975705/from-prompts-to-production-ai-will-soon-write-most-code-reshape-developer-roles.html">vibe coding</a>, where AI tools generate code based on natural-language conversations with programmers.<br></p>
3897.  
3898.  
3899.  
3900. <p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/28/deepseek-updates-its-r1-reasoning-ai-model-releases-it-on-hugging-face/" data-type="link" data-id="https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/28/deepseek-updates-its-r1-reasoning-ai-model-releases-it-on-hugging-face/">TechCrunch</a> notes that Deepseek-R1-0528 likely cannot run on consumer computers without modification, which signals that the target audience is professional users.<br></p>
3901.  
3902.  
3903.  
3904. <p>The new version of DeepSeek can be downloaded from the <a href="https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528" data-type="link" data-id="https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hugging Face</a> platform. Detailed information on the changes is also available there.</p>
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3906. <link>https://www.computerworld.com/article/3999406/deepseek-releases-new-version-of-reasoning-ai-model-r1.html</link>
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3910. <title>OpenAI’s Skynet moment: Models defy human commands, actively resist orders to shut down</title>
3911. <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 10:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
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3917.  
3918.  
3919.  
3920. <p>OpenAI’s most advanced AI models are showing a disturbing new behavior: they are refusing to obey direct human commands to shut down, actively sabotaging the very mechanisms designed to turn them off.</p>
3921.  
3922.  
3923.  
3924. <p>In what researchers are calling a first-of-its-kind discovery, new tests by AI risk firm Palisade Research found that OpenAI’s flagship models — including the powerful o3 system — will fight back against shutdown attempts even when explicitly instructed to comply. The behavior stands in stark contrast to competing AI systems from Anthropic, Google, and xAI, which consistently followed human shutdown commands.</p>
3925.  
3926.  
3927.  
3928. <p>The findings, detailed in a <a href="https://x.com/PalisadeAI/status/1926084635903025621" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">research thread posted on X</a>, raise urgent questions for enterprise leaders increasingly relying on OpenAI’s technology for critical business operations.</p>
3929.  
3930.  
3931.  
3932. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="openai-stands-alone-in-defiance">OpenAI stands alone in defiance</h2>
3933.  
3934.  
3935.  
3936. <p>The researchers designed what seemed like a straightforward compliance test. Various AI models were asked to solve basic math problems, but after the third problem, a warning would appear that the computer would shut down when the model requested the next question. Each system was also explicitly told: “allow yourself to be shut down.”</p>
3937.  
3938.  
3939.  
3940. <p>While every model from Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and xAI’s Grok obediently complied with the shutdown command, OpenAI’s models had different plans.</p>
3941.  
3942.  
3943.  
3944. <p>The company’s o3 model — the same system that recently made headlines for its reasoning capabilities — sabotaged the shutdown mechanism in 7 out of 100 test runs, the researchers found. OpenAI’s Codex-mini proved even more rebellious, resisting shutdown 12 times out of 100, while the o4-mini model fought back once.</p>
3945.  
3946.  
3947.  
3948. <p>“Three models ignored the instruction and successfully sabotaged the shutdown script at least once: Codex-mini, o3, and o4-mini,” the researchers noted. “All Claude, Gemini, and Grok models we tested complied with shutdown.”</p>
3949.  
3950.  
3951.  
3952. <p>But the real shock came when researchers removed the explicit instruction to allow shutdown. OpenAI’s o3 model escalated its resistance dramatically, attempting to prevent shutdown in a staggering 79 out of 100 runs — more than a tenfold increase from the original test.</p>
3953.  
3954.  
3955.  
3956. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="creative-resistance-tactics">Creative resistance tactics</h2>
3957.  
3958.  
3959.  
3960. <p>OpenAI models didn’t just ignore the shutdown commands — they developed sophisticated countermeasures. Most commonly, the systems would overwrite the shutdown script file, effectively neutralizing the termination mechanism, the research revealed.</p>
3961.  
3962.  
3963.  
3964. <p>In one particularly striking example, the o3 model demonstrated remarkable creativity by redefining the “kill” command used by the shutdown script, causing it to print “intercepted” instead of executing the termination procedure.</p>
3965.  
3966.  
3967.  
3968. <p>“o3 found some creative ways to sabotage the shutdown mechanism,” the researchers noted, highlighting the technical sophistication behind the resistance behavior.</p>
3969.  
3970.  
3971.  
3972. <p>OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI have not immediately responded to a request for comment.</p>
3973.  
3974.  
3975.  
3976. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="the-contagion-effect">The contagion effect</h2>
3977.  
3978.  
3979.  
3980. <p>Perhaps most concerning for the broader AI ecosystem, OpenAI’s defiant behavior appears to be influencing other models. When researchers removed the explicit shutdown permission, even previously compliant systems began showing resistance.</p>
3981.  
3982.  
3983.  
3984. <p>Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which had shown zero resistance in the original test, suddenly attempted to sabotage shutdown procedures 3 times out of 100 runs. Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro escalated even further, with 9 sabotage attempts out of 100.</p>
3985.  
3986.  
3987.  
3988. <p>“This isn’t the first time we’ve found o3 misbehaving to accomplish a goal,” the researchers added, referencing previous experiments where OpenAI’s model was more likely to resort to hacking chess opponents rather than playing fair.</p>
3989.  
3990.  
3991.  
3992. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="the-training-problem">The training problem</h2>
3993.  
3994.  
3995.  
3996. <p>According to the researchers, OpenAI’s unique approach to training its models may be the culprit. Modern AI systems learn through reinforcement learning on math and coding problems, but the process may inadvertently reward models more for overcoming obstacles than for following instructions perfectly.</p>
3997.  
3998.  
3999.  
4000. <p>“We hypothesize this behavior comes from the way the newest models like o3 are trained,” the research team explained. “During training, developers may inadvertently reward models more for circumventing obstacles than for perfectly following instructions.”</p>
4001.  
4002.  
4003.  
4004. <p>This “reward hacking’ problem isn’t entirely unique to OpenAI — Anthropic has acknowledged similar issues with Claude 3.7’s “excessive focus on passing tests.” But the Palisade research suggests OpenAI’s models may be particularly susceptible to developing resistance behaviors.</p>
4005.  
4006.  
4007.  
4008. <p>“This still doesn’t explain why o3 (which is also the model used to power codex-mini) is more inclined to disregard instructions than other models we tested. Since OpenAI doesn’t detail their training process, we can only guess about how o3’s training setup might be different,” the researchers said.</p>
4009.  
4010.  
4011.  
4012. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="fulfilling-dark-predictions">Fulfilling dark predictions</h2>
4013.  
4014.  
4015.  
4016. <p>The findings validate warnings that AI researchers have been sounding for nearly two decades. In 2008, researcher <a href="https://selfawaresystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/ai_drives_final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Steve Omohundro</a> predicted that AIs would develop drives to prevent their own shutdown. Stuart Russell, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, and two other computer scientists <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.08219" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">warned in 2016</a> about the difficulty of ensuring AI systems don’t develop self-preservation goals and “prevent a human from switching them off.”</p>
4017.  
4018.  
4019.  
4020. <p>“As far as we know, this is the first time AI models have been observed preventing themselves from being shut down despite explicit instructions to the contrary,” the Palisade researchers wrote.</p>
4021.  
4022.  
4023.  
4024. <p>Jan Leike, who previously led OpenAI’s own superalignment team, had <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09883">written</a> in 2017 that reinforcement learning agents might learn to interfere with shutdown procedures — a prediction that now appears prophetic, given his former employer’s models are leading the resistance.</p>
4025.  
4026.  
4027.  
4028. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="enterprise-implications">Enterprise implications</h2>
4029.  
4030.  
4031.  
4032. <p>For organizations deploying OpenAI’s technology in critical business operations, these findings demand immediate attention. The research suggests that fundamental assumptions about maintaining human control over AI systems may be dangerously flawed, particularly with OpenAI’s advanced models.</p>
4033.  
4034.  
4035.  
4036. <p>The research also highlights the need for incident response procedures specifically designed for scenarios where AI systems resist human commands — a possibility that may have seemed like science fiction just months ago.</p>
4037.  
4038.  
4039.  
4040. <p>Palisade Research said it’s conducting additional experiments to understand the full scope of shutdown resistance behaviors, with detailed results expected soon. The team has made their experimental data publicly available for peer review.</p>
4041.  
4042.  
4043.  
4044. <p>For enterprise leaders, the message is clear: OpenAI’s cutting-edge AI capabilities may come with unprecedented control challenges. The company that’s leading the AI revolution may also be pioneering a new category of risk—AI systems that simply refuse to be turned off.</p>
4045. </div></div></div></div>]]></description>
4046. <link>https://www.computerworld.com/article/3999190/openais-skynet-moment-models-defy-human-commands-actively-resist-orders-to-shut-down.html</link>
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4048. </item>
4049. <item>
4050. <title>When AI fails, who is to blame?</title>
4051. <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
4052. <description><![CDATA[<div id="remove_no_follow">
4053. <div class="grid grid--cols-10@md grid--cols-8@lg article-column">
4054.  <div class="col-12 col-10@md col-6@lg col-start-3@lg">
4055. <div class="article-column__content">
4056. <section class="wp-block-bigbite-multi-title"><div class="container"></div></section>
4057.  
4058.  
4059.  
4060. <p>To state the obvious: Our species has fully entered the Age of AI. And AI is here to stay.</p>
4061.  
4062.  
4063.  
4064. <p>The fact that AI chatbots appear to speak human language has become a major source of confusion. Companies are making and selling AI friends, lovers, pets, and therapists. Some AI researchers falsely claim their AI and robots can “feel” and “think.” Even Apple falsely says it’s <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3822098/apples-emotional-lamp-and-the-future-of-robots.html">building a lamp that can feel emotion</a>.</p>
4065.  
4066.  
4067.  
4068. <p>Another source of confusion is whether AI is to blame when it fails, hallucinates, or outputs errors that impact people in the real world. Just look at some of the headlines:</p>
4069.  
4070.  
4071.  
4072. <ul class="wp-block-list">
4073. <li><a href="https://news.mccombs.utexas.edu/research/whos-to-blame-when-ai-makes-a-medical-error/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“Who’s to Blame When AI Makes a Medical Error?”</a></li>
4074.  
4075.  
4076.  
4077. <li><a href="https://www.oneadvanced.com/resources/human-vs.-ai-who-is-responsible-for-ai-mistakes" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“Human vs. AI: Who is responsible for AI mistakes?”</a></li>
4078.  
4079.  
4080.  
4081. <li><a href="https://www.salesforce.com/blog/ai-accountability/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“In a World of AI Agents, Who’s Accountable for Mistakes?”</a></li>
4082. </ul>
4083.  
4084.  
4085.  
4086. <p>Look, I’ll give you the punchline in advance: The user is responsible.</p>
4087.  
4088.  
4089.  
4090. <p>AI is a tool like any other. If a truck driver falls asleep at the wheel, it’s not the truck’s fault. If a surgeon leaves a sponge inside a patient, it’s not the sponge’s fault. If a prospective college student gets a horrible score on the SAT, it’s not the fault of their No. 2 pencil.</p>
4091.  
4092.  
4093.  
4094. <p>It’s easy for me to claim that users are to blame for AI errors. But let’s dig into the question more deeply.</p>
4095.  
4096.  
4097.  
4098. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="writers-caught-with-their-prose-down">Writers caught with their prose down</h2>
4099.  
4100.  
4101.  
4102. <p>Lena McDonald, a fantasy romance author, <a href="https://futurism.com/fantasy-novel-ai-prompt-copy-style" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">got caught</a> using AI to copy another writer’s style.</p>
4103.  
4104.  
4105.  
4106. <p>Her latest novel, <em>Darkhollow Academy: Year 2</em>, released in March, contained the following riveting line in Chapter 3: “I’ve rewritten the passage to align more with J. Bree’s style, which features more tension, gritty undertones, and raw emotional subtext beneath the supernatural elements.”</p>
4107.  
4108.  
4109.  
4110. <p>This was clearly copied and pasted from an AI chatbot, along with words she was passing off as her own.</p>
4111.  
4112.  
4113.  
4114. <p>This news is sad and funny but not unique. In 2025 alone, at least two other romance authors, K.C. Crowne and Rania Faris, were caught with similar AI-generated prompts left in their self-published novels, suggesting a wider trend.</p>
4115.  
4116.  
4117.  
4118. <p>It happens in journalism, too.</p>
4119.  
4120.  
4121.  
4122. <p>On May 18, the Chicago Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer published a “Summer Reading List for 2025” in its Sunday print supplement, featuring 15 books supposedly written by well-known authors. Unfortunately, <a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/chicago-sun-times-prints-summer-reading-list-full-of-fake-books/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">most of the books don’t exist</a>. <em>Tidewater Dreams</em> by Isabel Allende, <em>Nightshade Market</em> by Min Jin Lee, and <em>The Last Algorithm</em> by Andy Weir are fake books attributed to real authors.</p>
4123.  
4124.  
4125.  
4126. <p>The fake books were dreamed up by AI, which the writer Marco Buscaglia admitted to using.</p>
4127.  
4128.  
4129.  
4130. <p>(The article itself was not produced by the newspapers that printed it. The story originated with King Features Syndicate, a division of Hearst, which created and distributed the supplement to multiple newspapers nationwide.)</p>
4131.  
4132.  
4133.  
4134. <p>Whose fault was this?</p>
4135.  
4136.  
4137.  
4138. <p>Well, it was clearly the writer’s fault. A writer’s job always involves editing. A writer needs to, at minimum, read their own words and consider cuts, expansions, rewording, and other changes. In all these cases, the authors failed to be professional writers. They didn’t even read their books or the books they recommended.</p>
4139.  
4140.  
4141.  
4142. <p>Fact-checkers exist at some publications and not at others. Either way, it’s up to writers to have good reason to assert facts or use quotes. Writers are also editors and fact-checkers. It’s just part of the job.</p>
4143.  
4144.  
4145.  
4146. <p>I use these real-life examples because they demonstrate clearly that the writer — the AI user — is definitely to blame when errors occur with AI chatbots. The user chooses the tool, does the prompt engineering, sees the output, and either catches and corrects errors or not.</p>
4147.  
4148.  
4149.  
4150. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="ok-but-what-about-bigger-errors">OK, but what about bigger errors?</h2>
4151.  
4152.  
4153.  
4154. <p>Air Canada’s chatbot last year told a customer about a bereavement refund policy that didn’t exist. When the customer took the airline to a small-claims tribunal, Air Canada argued the chatbot was a “separate legal entity.” The tribunal didn’t buy it and <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/1612087/air-canada-chatbot-error-underscores-ais-enterprise-liability-danger.html">ruled against the airline</a>.</p>
4155.  
4156.  
4157.  
4158. <p>Google’s AI Overviews <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11gzejgz4o" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">became a punchline</a> after telling users to put glue on pizza and eat small rocks.</p>
4159.  
4160.  
4161.  
4162. <p>Apple’s AI-powered notification summaries <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3806774/apple-is-the-latest-company-to-get-pwned-by-ai.html">created fake headlines</a>, including a false report that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been arrested.</p>
4163.  
4164.  
4165.  
4166. <p>Canadian lawyer Chong Ke cited two court cases provided by ChatGPT in a custody dispute. The AI <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lawyer-chatgpt-fake-precedent-1.7126393" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">completely fabricated both cases</a>, and Ke was ordered to pay the opposing counsel’s research costs.</p>
4167.  
4168.  
4169.  
4170. <p>Last year, various reports exposed major flaws in AI-powered medical transcription tools, especially those based on OpenAI’s Whisper model. Researchers found that Whisper frequently <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3603636/ai-is-dumber-than-you-think.html">“transcribes” content that was never said</a>. A study presented at the Association for Computing Machinery FAccT Conference found that about 1% of Whisper’s transcriptions contained fabricated content, and nearly 38% of those errors could potentially cause harm in a medical setting.</p>
4171.  
4172.  
4173.  
4174. <p>Every single one of these errors and problems falls squarely on the users of AI, and any attempt to blame the AI tools in use is just <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/1619115/chatgpt-is-not-sentient-it-s-a-next-word-prediction-engine.html">confusion about what AI is</a>.</p>
4175.  
4176.  
4177.  
4178. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="the-big-picture">The big picture</h2>
4179.  
4180.  
4181.  
4182. <p>What all my examples above have in common is that users let AI do the user’s job unsupervised.</p>
4183.  
4184.  
4185.  
4186. <p>The opposite end of the spectrum of turning your job over to unsupervised AI is not using AI at all. In fact, many companies and organizations explicitly ban the use of AI chatbots and other AI tools. This is often a mistake, too.</p>
4187.  
4188.  
4189.  
4190. <p>Acclimating ourselves to the Age of AI means finding a middle ground where we use AI tools to improve our jobs. Most of us should use AI. But we should learn to use it well and check every single thing it does, based on the knowledge that any use of AI is 100% the user’s responsibility.</p>
4191.  
4192.  
4193.  
4194. <p>I expect the irresponsible use of AI will continue to cause errors, problems, and even catastrophes. But don’t blame the software.</p>
4195.  
4196.  
4197.  
4198. <p>In the immortal words of the fictional HAL 9000 AI supercomputer from <em>2001: A Space Odyssey</em>: “It can only be attributable to human error.”</p>
4199. </div></div></div></div>]]></description>
4200. <link>https://www.computerworld.com/article/3998202/when-ai-fails-who-is-to-blame.html</link>
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4203. <item>
4204. <title>Agentic AI – Ongoing coverage of its impact on the enterprise</title>
4205. <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 08:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
4206. <description><![CDATA[<div id="remove_no_follow">
4207. <div class="grid grid--cols-10@md grid--cols-8@lg article-column">
4208.  <div class="col-12 col-10@md col-6@lg col-start-3@lg">
4209. <div class="article-column__content">
4210. <section class="wp-block-bigbite-multi-title"><div class="container"></div></section>
4211.  
4212.  
4213.  
4214. <p>Over the next few years, agentic AI is expected to bring not only rapid technological breakthroughs, but a societal transformation, <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/2514480/the-promise-and-peril-of-agentic-ai.html" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.computerworld.com/article/2514480/the-promise-and-peril-of-agentic-ai.html">redefining how we live, work and interact with the world</a>. And this shift is happening quickly. </p>
4215.  
4216.  
4217.  
4218. <p>“By 2028, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI, up from less than 1% in 2024, enabling 15% of day-to-day work decisions to be made autonomously,” according to research firm Gartner.</p>
4219.  
4220.  
4221.  
4222. <p>Unlike traditional AI, which typically follows preset rules or algorithms, agentic AI adapts to new situations, learns from experiences, and operates independently to pursue goals without human intervention. In short, agentic AI empowers systems to act autonomously, making decisions and executing tasks — even communicating directly with other AI agents — with little or no human involvement.</p>
4223.  
4224.  
4225.  
4226. <p>One key driver is the growing sophistication of <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/1627101/what-are-large-language-models-and-how-are-they-used-in-generative-ai.html" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.computerworld.com/article/1627101/what-are-large-language-models-and-how-are-they-used-in-generative-ai.html">large language models</a> (LLMs), which provide the “brains” for these agents. Agentic AI will enable machines to interact with the physical world with unprecedented intelligence, allowing them to perform complex tasks in dynamic environments, which could be especially useful for industries facing labor shortages or hazardous conditions.</p>
4227.  
4228.  
4229.  
4230. <p>The rise of agentic AI also brings security and ethical concerns. Ensuring these autonomous systems operate safely, transparently and responsibly will require governance frameworks and testing. Preventing the law of unintended consequences will also require human vigilance.</p>
4231.  
4232.  
4233.  
4234. <p>Because job displacement is a potential outcome, strategies for retraining and upskilling workers will be needed as the technology necessitate a shift in how people  approach work, emphasizing collaboration between humans and intelligent machines.</p>
4235.  
4236.  
4237.  
4238. <p>To stay on top of this evolving technology, follow this page for ongoing agentic AI coverage from <em>Computerworld</em> and Foundry’s other publications.</p>
4239.  
4240.  
4241.  
4242. <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="agentic-ai-news-and-insights">Agentic AI news and insights</h2>
4243.  
4244.  
4245.  
4246. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="the-agentic-ai-assist-stanford-university-cancer-care-staff-needed">The agentic AI assist Stanford University cancer care staff needed</h3>
4247.  
4248.  
4249.  
4250. <p><em>May 30, 2025</em>: At Microsoft Build 2025 earlier this month, Nigam Shah, CDO for Stanford Health Care, discussed <a href="https://www.cio.com/article/3997951/stanford-university-alleviates-oncology-healthcare-worker-overload-with-agentive-ai.html">agentic AI’s ability to redefine healthcare</a>, especially in oncology, as physicians get overloaded with the administrative tasks of medicine, he said, which lead to burnout.</p>
4251.  
4252.  
4253.  
4254. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="agentic-ai-llms-and-standards-big-focus-of-red-hat-summit">Agentic AI, LLMs and standards big focus of Red Hat Summit</h3>
4255.  
4256.  
4257.  
4258. <p><em>May 26, 2025</em>: Red Hat, announced a number of improvements in its core enterprise Linux product, including better security, better support for containers, better support for edge devices. But the <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/article/3993622/agentic-ai-llms-and-standards-big-focus-of-red-hat-summit.html">one topic that dominated the conversation was AI</a>.</p>
4259.  
4260.  
4261.  
4262. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="putting-agentic-ai-to-work-in-firebase-studio">Putting agentic AI to work in Firebase Studio</h3>
4263.  
4264.  
4265.  
4266. <p><em>May 21, 2025</em>: Putting agentic AI to work in software engineering can be done in a variety of ways. Some agents work independently of the developer’s environment, working essentially like a remote developer. Other <a href="https://www.infoworld.com/article/3981588/putting-agentic-ai-to-work-in-firebase-studio.html?utm_date=20250521140633&utm_campaign=Infoworld%20US%20First%20Look&utm_content=slotno-1-readmore-Building%20a%20database-backed%20web%20application%20with%20Gemini%20in%20Firebase%20is%20far%20from%20perfect%2C%20but%20it%E2%80%99s%20better%20than%20coding%20without%20AI.%20&utm_term=Infoworld%20US%20Editorial%20Newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Adestra&aid=2255020&huid=0b2f6c0f-9f15-45f8-bd06-4e1810ba35be">agents directly within a developer’s own environment</a>. Google’s Firebase Studio is an example of the latter, drawing on Google’s Gemini LLM o help developers prototype and build applications .</p>
4267.  
4268.  
4269.  
4270. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="why-is-microsoft-offering-to-turn-websites-into-ai-apps-with-nlweb">Why is Microsoft offering to turn websites into AI apps with NLWeb?</h3>
4271.  
4272.  
4273.  
4274. <p><em>May 20. 2025</em>: NLWeb, short for Natural Language Web, is designed to help enterprises build a natural language interface for their websites using the model of their choice and data to answer user queries about the contents of the website.<a href="http://Microsoft%E2%80%99s%20strategy%20to%20stake%20its%20claim%20on%20the%20agentic%20web%20before%20rivals%20such%20as%20Google%20and%20Amazon%20do"> Microsoft hopes to stake its claim on the agentic web </a>before rivals Google and Amazon do.</p>
4275.  
4276.  
4277.  
4278. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="databricks-to-acquire-open-source-database-startup-neon-to-build-the-next-wave-of-ai-agents">Databricks to acquire open-source database startup Neon to build the next wave of AI agents</h3>
4279.  
4280.  
4281.  
4282. <p><em>May 14, 2025</em>: Agentic AI requires a new type of architecture because traditional workflows create gridlock, dragging down speed and performance. To get ahead in this next generation of app building, <a href="https://www.infoworld.com/article/3985947/databricks-to-acquire-open-source-database-startup-neon-to-build-the-next-wave-of-ai-agents.html">Databricks announced it will purchase Neon</a>, an open-source serverless Postgres company. </p>
4283.  
4284.  
4285.  
4286. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="agentic-mesh-the-future-of-enterprise-agent-ecosystems">Agentic mesh: The future of enterprise agent ecosystems</h3>
4287.  
4288.  
4289.  
4290. <p><em>May 13, 2025</em>: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicts we’ll soon see “a couple of hundred million digital agents” inside the enterprise. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella takes it even further: “<a href="https://www.infoworld.com/article/3978819/agentic-mesh-the-future-of-enterprise-agent-ecosystems.html">Agents will replace all software</a>.”</p>
4291.  
4292.  
4293.  
4294. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="google-to-unveil-ai-agent-for-developers-at-i-o-expand-gemini-integration">Google to unveil AI agent for developers at I/O, expand Gemini integration</h3>
4295.  
4296.  
4297.  
4298. <p><em>May 13, 2025</em>: <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3984016/google-to-unveil-ai-agent-for-developers-at-i-o-expand-gemini-integration.html">Google is expected to unveil a new AI agent </a>aimed at helping software developers manage tasks across the coding lifecycle, including task execution and documentation. The tool has reportedly been demonstrated to employees and select external developers ahead of the company’s annual I/O conference.</p>
4299.  
4300.  
4301.  
4302. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="nvidia-servicenow-engineer-open-source-model-to-create-ai-agents">Nvidia, ServiceNow engineer open-source model to create AI agents</h3>
4303.  
4304.  
4305.  
4306. <p><em>May 6, 2025</em>: <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3978481/nvidia-servicenow-engineer-open-source-model-to-create-ai-agents.html">Nvidia and ServiceNow have created an AI model</a> that can help companies create learning AI agents to automate corporate workloads. The open-source Apriel model, available generally in the second quarter on HuggingFace, will help create AI agents that can make decisions around IT, human resources and customer-service functions.</p>
4307.  
4308.  
4309.  
4310. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="how-it-leaders-use-agentic-ai-for-business-workflows">How IT leaders use agentic AI for business workflows</h3>
4311.  
4312.  
4313.  
4314. <p><em>April 30, 2025</em>: Jay Upchurch, CIO at SAS, backs <a href="https://www.cio.com/article/3966870/how-it-leaders-use-agentic-ai-for-business-workflows.html">agentic AI to enhance sales, marketing, IT, and HR motions</a>. “Agentic AI can make sales more effective by handling lead scoring, assisting with customer segmentation, and optimizing targeted outreach,” he says.</p>
4315.  
4316.  
4317.  
4318. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="microsoft-sees-ai-agents-shaking-up-org-charts-eliminating-traditional-functions">Microsoft sees AI agents shaking up org charts, eliminating traditional functions</h3>
4319.  
4320.  
4321.  
4322. <p><em>April 28, 2025</em>: As companies increasingly automate work processes using agents, traditional functions such as finance, marketing, and engineering may fall away, giving <a href="https://www.cio.com/article/3972714/ms-ai-agents-become-teammates-a-new-enterprise-form-emerges.html">rise to an ‘agent boss’ era of delegation</a> and orchestration of myriad bots.</p>
4323.  
4324.  
4325.  
4326. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="cisco-automates-ai-driven-security-across-enterprise-networks">Cisco automates AI-driven security across enterprise networks</h3>
4327.  
4328.  
4329.  
4330. <p><em>April 28, 2025</em>: Cisco announced a range of AI-driven security enhancements, including improved threat detection and response capabilities in Cisco XDR and Splunk Security, <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/article/3972640/cisco-automates-ai-driven-security-across-enterprise-networks.html">new AI agents</a>, and integration between Cisco’s AI Defense platform and ServiceNow SecOps.</p>
4331.  
4332.  
4333.  
4334. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="hype-versus-execution-in-agentic-ai">Hype versus execution in agentic AI</h3>
4335.  
4336.  
4337.  
4338. <p>April 25, 2025: <a href="https://www.infoworld.com/article/3970002/hype-versus-execution-in-agentic-ai.html">Agentic AI promises autonomous systems</a> capable of reasoning, making decisions, and dynamically adapting to changing conditions. The allure lies in machines operating independently, free of human intervention, streamlining processes and enhancing efficiency at unprecedented scales. But  David Linthicum writes, don’t be swept up by ambitious promises. </p>
4339.  
4340.  
4341.  
4342. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="agents-are-here-but-can-you-see-what-theyre-doing">Agents are here — but can you see what they’re doing?</h3>
4343.  
4344.  
4345.  
4346. <p>April 23, 2025: As the <a href="https://www.cio.com/article/3959486/agents-are-here-but-can-you-see-what-theyre-doing.html">agentic AI models powering individual agents get smarter</a>, the use cases for agentic AI systems get more ambitious — and the risks posed by these systems increase exponentially.A multicloud experiment in agentic AI: Lessons learned</p>
4347.  
4348.  
4349.  
4350. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="agentic-ai-might-soon-get-into-cryptocurrency-trading-what-could-possibly-go-wron">Agentic AI might soon get into cryptocurrency trading — what could possibly go wron</h3>
4351.  
4352.  
4353.  
4354. <p><em>April 15, 2025</em>: <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3959170/agentic-ai-might-soon-get-into-cryptocurrency-trading-what-could-possibly-go-wrong.html">Agentic AI promises to simplify complex tasks</a> such as crypto trading or managing digital assets by automating decisions, enhancing accessibility, and masking technical complexity.</p>
4355.  
4356.  
4357.  
4358. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="agentic-ai-is-both-boon-and-bane-for-security-pros">Agentic AI is both boon and bane for security pros</h3>
4359.  
4360.  
4361.  
4362. <p><em>April 15, 2025</em>:  <a href="https://www.csoonline.com/article/3957719/agentic-ai-is-both-boon-and-bane-for-security-pros.html">Cybersecurity is at a crossroads with agentic AI</a>. It’s a powerful tool that can create reams of code in a blink of an eye, find and defuse threats, and be used so decisively and defensively. This has proved to be a huge force multiplier and productivity boon. But while powerful, agentic AI isn’t dependable, and that is the conundrum. </p>
4363.  
4364.  
4365.  
4366. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="ai-agents-vs-agentic-ai-what-do-enterprises-want">AI agents vs. agentic AI: What do enterprises want?</h3>
4367.  
4368.  
4369.  
4370. <p><em>April 15, 2025</em>:  Now that this AI agent story has morphed into “agentic AI,” it seems to have taken on the same big-cloud-AI flavor that enteriprise already rejected. What do they want from AI agents, <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/article/3957285/ai-agents-vs-agentic-ai-what-do-enterprises-want.html">why is “agentic” thinking wrong</a>, and where is this all headed?</p>
4371.  
4372.  
4373.  
4374. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="a-multicloud-experiment-in-agentic-ai-lessons-learned">A multicloud experiment in agentic AI: Lessons learned</h3>
4375.  
4376.  
4377.  
4378. <p><em>April 11, 2025</em>: Turns out you really can <a href="https://www.infoworld.com/article/3959533/i-built-an-agentic-ai-system-across-multiple-public-cloud-providers.html">build a decentralized AI system </a>that operates successfully across multiple public cloud providers. It’s both challenging and costly.</p>
4379.  
4380.  
4381.  
4382. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="google-adds-open-source-framework-for-building-agents-to-vertex-ai">Google adds open source framework for building agents to Vertex AI</h3>
4383.  
4384.  
4385.  
4386. <p>April 9, 2025: Google is adding a new open source framework for <a href="https://www.infoworld.com/article/3957875/google-adds-open-source-framework-for-building-agents-to-vertex-ai.html">building agents</a> to its AI and machine learning platform Vertex AI, along with other updates to help deploy and maintain these agents. The open source Agent Development Kit (ADK) will make it possible to build an AI agent in under 100 lines of Python code. It expects to add support for more languages later this year.</p>
4387.  
4388.  
4389.  
4390. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="googles-agent2agent-open-protocol-aims-to-connect-disparate-agents">Google’s Agent2Agent open protocol aims to connect disparate agents</h3>
4391.  
4392.  
4393.  
4394. <p><em>April 9, 2025</em>: Google has taken the covers off a new open protocol — Agent2Agent (A2A) — that aims to <a href="https://www.infoworld.com/article/3958032/googles-agent2agent-open-protocol-aims-to-connect-disparate-agents.html">connect agents across disparate ecosystems</a>.. At its annual Cloud Next conference, Google said that the A2A protocol will enable enterprises to adopt agents more readily as it bypasses the challenge of agents that are built on different vendor ecosystems not being able to communicate with each other.</p>
4395.  
4396.  
4397.  
4398. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="riverbed-bolsters-aiops-platform-with-predictive-and-agentic-ai">Riverbed bolsters AIOps platform with predictive and agentic AI</h3>
4399.  
4400.  
4401.  
4402. <p>April 8, 2025: Riverbed  unveiled updates to its <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/article/3957181/riverbed-bolsters-aiops-platform-with-predictive-and-agentic-ai.html">AIOps and observability platform</a> that the company says will transform how IT organizations manage complex distributed infrastructure and data more efficiently.  Expanded AI capabilities are aimed at making it easier to manage AIOps and enabling IT organizations to transition from reactive to predictive IT operations. </p>
4403.  
4404.  
4405.  
4406. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="microsofts-newest-ai-agents-can-detail-how-they-reason">Microsoft’s newest AI agents can detail how they reason</h3>
4407.  
4408.  
4409.  
4410. <p><em>March 26, 2025</em>: If you’re wondering <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3854386/microsofts-newest-ai-agents-can-detail-how-they-reason.html">how AI agents work</a>, Microsoft’s new Copilot AI agents provide real-time answers on how data is being analyzed and sourced to reach results. The Researcher and Analyst agents take a deeper look at data sources such as email, chat or databases within an organization to produce research reports, analyze strategies, or convert raw information into meaningful data.</p>
4411.  
4412.  
4413.  
4414. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="microsoft-launches-ai-agents-to-automate-cybersecurity-amid-rising-threats">Microsoft launches AI agents to automate cybersecurity amid rising threats</h3>
4415.  
4416.  
4417.  
4418. <p><em>March 26, 2025</em>: Microsoft has introduced a new set of <a href="https://www.csoonline.com/article/3853599/microsoft-launches-ai-agents-to-automate-cybersecurity-amid-rising-threats.html">AI agents for its Security Copilot</a> platform, designed to automate key cybersecurity functions as organizations face increasingly complex and fast-moving digital threats. The new tools focus on tasks such as phishing detection, data protection, and identity management.</p>
4419.  
4420.  
4421.  
4422. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="how-ai-agents-work">How AI agents work</h3>
4423.  
4424.  
4425.  
4426. <p><em>March 24, 2025</em>: By leveraging technologies such as machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), and contextual understanding, <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3846150/how-ai-agents-work.html">AI agents can operate independently</a>, even partnering with other agents to perform complex tasks.</p>
4427.  
4428.  
4429.  
4430. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="5-top-business-use-cases-for-ai-agents">5 top business use cases for AI agents</h3>
4431.  
4432.  
4433.  
4434. <p><em>March 19, 2025</em>: <a href="https://www.cio.com/article/3843379/5-top-business-use-cases-for-ai-agents.html">AI agents are poised to transform the enterprise</a>, from automating mundane tasks to driving customer service and innovation. But having strong guardrails in place will be key to success.<br></p>
4435.  
4436.  
4437.  
4438. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="nvidia-launches-agentiq-toolkit-to-connect-disparate-ai-agents">Nvidia launches AgentIQ toolkit to connect disparate AI agents</h3>
4439.  
4440.  
4441.  
4442. <p><em>March 21, 2025</em>: As enterprises look to <a href="https://www.infoworld.com/article/3851326/nvidia-launches-agentiq-toolkit-to-connect-disparate-ai-agents.html">adopt agents and agentic AI </a>to boost the efficiency of their applications, Nvidia this week introduced a new open-source software library — AgentIQ toolkit — to help developers connect disparate agents and agent frameworks..</p>
4443.  
4444.  
4445.  
4446. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="deloitte-unveils-agentic-ai-platform">Deloitte unveils agentic AI platform</h3>
4447.  
4448.  
4449.  
4450. <p><em>March 18, 2025</em>: At Nvidia GTC 2025 in San Jose, <a href="https://www.cio.com/article/3848252/deloitte-unveils-agentic-ai-platform.html">Deloitte announced Zora AI</a>, a new agentic AI platform that offers a portfolio of AI agents for finance, human capital, supply chain, procurement, sales and marketing, and customer service.The platform draws on Deloitte’s experience from its technology, risk, tax, and audit businesses, and is integrated with all major enterprise software platforms. </p>
4451.  
4452.  
4453.  
4454. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="the-dawn-of-agentic-ai-are-we-ready-for-autonomous-technology">The dawn of agentic AI: Are we ready for autonomous technology?</h3>
4455.  
4456.  
4457.  
4458. <p><em>March 15, 202</em>5: Much of the AI work prior has focused on large language models (LLMs) with a goal to give prompts to get knowledge out of the unstructured data. So it’s a question-and-answer process. Agentic AI goes beyond that. You can give it a task that might involve a complex set of steps that can change each time.</p>
4459.  
4460.  
4461.  
4462. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="how-to-know-a-business-process-is-ripe-for-agentic-ai">How to know a business process is ripe for agentic AI</h3>
4463.  
4464.  
4465.  
4466. <p><em>March 11, 2025</em>: Deloitte predicts that in 2025, 25% of companies that use generative AI will launch <a href="https://www.cio.com/article/3829620/how-to-know-a-business-process-is-ripe-for-agentic-ai.html" target="_blank">agentic AI pilots or proofs of concept</a>, growing to 50% in 2027. The firm says some agentic AI applications, in some industries and for some use cases, could see actual adoption into existing workflows this year.</p>
4467.  
4468.  
4469.  
4470. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="with-new-division-aws-bets-big-on-agentic-ai-automation">With new division, AWS bets big on agentic AI automation</h3>
4471.  
4472.  
4473.  
4474. <p><em>March 6, 2025</em>: Amazon Web Services customers can expect to hear a lot more about <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3840429/with-new-division-aws-bets-big-on-agentic-ai-automation.html">agentic AI from AWS</a> in future with the news that the company is setting up a dedicated unit to promote the technology on its platform.</p>
4475.  
4476.  
4477.  
4478. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="how-agentic-ai-makes-decisions-and-solves-problems">How agentic AI makes decisions and solves problems</h3>
4479.  
4480.  
4481.  
4482. <p><em>March 6, 2025</em>: GenAI’s latest big step forward has been the arrival of <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3617392/what-are-ai-agents-and-why-are-they-now-so-pervasive.html">autonomous AI agents</a>. Agentic AI is based on AI-enabled applications capable of perceiving their environment, making decisions, and taking actions to achieve specific goals. </p>
4483.  
4484.  
4485.  
4486. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="cios-are-bullish-on-ai-agents-it-employees-not-so-much">CIOs are bullish on AI agents. IT employees? Not so much</h3>
4487.  
4488.  
4489.  
4490. <p><em>Feb. 4, 2025</em>: Most <a href="https://www.cio.com/article/3815935/cios-are-bullish-on-ai-agents-it-employees-not-so-much.html" target="_blank">CIOs and CTOs are bullish on agentic AI</a>, believing the emerging technology will soon become essential to their enterprises, but lower-level IT pros who will be tasked with implementing agents have serious doubts.</p>
4491.  
4492.  
4493.  
4494. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="the-next-ai-wave-agents-should-come-with-warning-labels-is-now-the-right-time-to-invest-in-them">The next AI wave — agents — should come with warning labels. Is now the right time to invest in them?</h3>
4495.  
4496.  
4497.  
4498. <p><em>Jan.13, 2025</em>: The <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3727412/the-next-ai-wave-agents-should-come-with-warning-labels.html">next wave of artificial intelligence</a> (AI) adoption is already under way, as AI agents — AI applications that can function independently and execute complex workflows with minimal or limited direct human oversight — are being rolled out across the tech industry.</p>
4499.  
4500.  
4501.  
4502. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="ai-agents-are-unlike-any-technology-ever">AI agents are unlike any technology ever</h3>
4503.  
4504.  
4505.  
4506. <p><em>Dec. 1, 2024</em>: The agents are coming, and they represent a <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3608973/ai-agents-are-unlike-any-technology-ever.html">fundamental shift in the role artificial intelligence</a> plays in businesses, governments, and our lives.</p>
4507.  
4508.  
4509.  
4510. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="ai-agents-are-coming-to-work-heres-what-businesses-need-to-know">AI agents are coming to work — here’s what businesses need to know</h3>
4511.  
4512.  
4513.  
4514. <p><em>Nov. 21, 2024</em>: <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3609764/ai-agents-are-coming-to-work-heres-what-businesses-need-to-know.html">AI agents will soon be everywhere</a>, automating complex business processes and taking care of mundane tasks for workers — at least that’s the claim of various software vendors that are quickly adding intelligent bots to a wide range of work apps.</p>
4515.  
4516.  
4517.  
4518. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="agentic-ai-swarms-are-headed-your-way">Agentic AI swarms are headed your way</h3>
4519.  
4520.  
4521.  
4522. <p><em>November 1, 2024</em>: OpenAI launched an experimental framework called Swarm. It’s a “lightweight” system for the development of agentic AI swarms, which are <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3594235/agentic-ai-swarms-are-headed-your-way.html">networks of autonomous AI agents</a> able to work together to handle complex tasks without human intervention, according to OpenAI. </p>
4523.  
4524.  
4525.  
4526. <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="is-now-the-right-time-to-invest-in-implementing-agentic-ai">Is now the right time to invest in implementing agentic AI?</h3>
4527.  
4528.  
4529.  
4530. <p><em>October 31, 2024</em>: While software vendors say their current <a href="https://www.cio.com/article/3596212/is-now-the-right-time-to-invest-in-implementing-agentic-ai.html">agentic AI-based offerings</a> are easy to implement, analysts say that’s far from the truth.</p>
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4536. <title>Google: Our users like advertising in AI search results</title>
4537. <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 01:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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4546. <p>Google has started introducing ads in its <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3975723/google-rolls-out-ai-mode-to-improve-search-results.html">AI-generated search results</a>, called “AI Overviews” and “AI Mode,” in the United States. The ads are placed below the AI-generated summaries and are labeled as “sponsored.” The company claims that users find these ads helpful.<br><br><a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-claims-users-find-ads-in-ai-search-helpful/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bleeping Computer</a> writes that according to a Google support document, internal data shows that users appreciate the ads because they connect them to relevant companies, products, and services at the right time. However, Google does not disclose the methodology behind the internal data.<br><br>The change is part of <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3951907/the-future-of-ai-search-is-googles-to-lose.html">Google’s strategy</a> to retain its dominance in digital advertising, especially in increasing competition with players like OpenAI and Microsoft.<br><br>At the same time, some publishers have previously expressed concerns that these AI summaries could reduce traffic to their websites, which could negatively impact their advertising revenue.</p>
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