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Not content with ads in the Start menu, File Explorer, and Settings app, Microsoft is working on (even more) ads in Windows 11's Weather app

Microsoft rolled out an update to its Weather app on Windows 11 recently. The update includes a few welcome changes, plus some additional ads.

MSN Weather app in Microsoft Store

NVIDIA’s CEO envisions a future where “multi-shot” agentic AIs — armed with reasoning superpowers outperform humans in the job market

NVIDIA CEO predicts a future with 'multi-shot' agentic AIs with reasoning capabilities that will claim even more jobs from people.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

Microsoft puts final touches on its new ad within Windows 11, rolls it out to Canary Channel Insiders

Windows Insiders in the Canary and Beta Channels have new builds of Windows 11 to test. The Canary Channel build includes a controversial advertisement for Game Pass within the Settings app.

Windows 11 Settings app showing ad for Game Pass

Windows 11's new Start menu sidebar for Phone Link is unnecessary and only adds more clutter

Microsoft is building a new sidebar to show mobile devices alongside the Start menu, but I don't believe this is the correct design approach. Here's what I think about this feature.

Start menu with Phone Link

Oxford researchers seemingly found a 'semantic entropy cure' for AI hallucination episodes: "Getting answers from LLMs is cheap, but reliability is the biggest bottleneck."

Oxford researchers have seemingly found a solution for AI hallucinations. Semantic entropy can determine the difference in the meanings of the outputs generated, making it easier to identify false information presented as facts.

Robot Cloud Hallucinations

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