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Phi Silica, small but mighty on-device SLM

Introduction This blog is the first installment in a new series of technical content designed to provide insights into the AI innovation on Windows. Today we will share how the Applied Sciences team used a multi-interdisciplinary approach to achieve a breakthrough in power efficiency, inference speed and memory efficiency for a state-of-the-art small language model […]

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4580 (Beta Channel)

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.4580 (KB5046733) to the Beta Channel. Changes in Beta Channel builds and updates are documented in two buckets: new features, improvements, and fixes that are being gradually rolled out for Insiders who have turned on the toggle to get the latest updates as […]

Previewing More Copilot+ Experiences with Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.2510 (KB5048780) to the Dev Channel. With this update, we are previewing new experiences for AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs including Recall and more and expanding Click to Do (Preview) beyond Recall in Windows. Join the Dev Channel on your Copilot+ PC Here […]

One of my favorite examples of how Copilot is transforming work is Copilot in Excel. You start with a high-level prompt, and Copilot uses advanced reasoning capabilities to build out a full plan. Just like how Excel improved population-scale number-sense, we think Copilot in Excel with Python will improve analysis-sense for the world. Try it for yourself.

The post One of my favorite examples of how Copilot is transforming work is Copilot in Excel. You start with a high-level prompt, and Copilot uses advanced reasoning capabilities to build out a full plan. Just like how Excel improved population-scale number-sense, we think Copilot in Excel with Python will improve analysis-sense for the world. […]

FSB Uses Trojan App to Monitor Russian Programmer Accused of Supporting Ukraine

A Russian programmer accused of donating money to Ukraine had his Android device secretly implanted with spyware by the Federal Security Service (FSB) after he was detained earlier this year. The findings come as part of a collaborative investigation by First Department and the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab. “The spyware placed on his device […]