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• Products that should exist but don’t

• News

• Trending Tools of Week

• Everything else in AI this Week

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News of the Day

Private AI, Build into Edge

Microsoft Adds New AI Features to Edge for Developers

Microsoft is launching new AI-powered APIs for its Edge browser. These tools let developers use built-in AI models to make smarter web apps directly in the browser.

• New Edge APIs give access to the Phi-4 Mini AI model, great at math and trained on both human and AI-generated data.

• Other APIs will help with writing, editing, and summarizing text, and even an AI translator is on the way.

• These APIs can run locally on devices, keeping sensitive data private—no need for cloud processing.

This move shows Microsoft’s serious push to compete with Google in browser AI tools. By offering developers more privacy-focused and powerful AI features, Microsoft hopes to make Edge a top choice for building the next generation of smart web apps.
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Products that should exist but don’t

2nd News of the Day

AI Hits Windows 11, See how…

Microsoft has introduced new features in the latest Windows 11 updates for the Dev and Beta channels. These updates focus a lot on artificial intelligence (AI).

According to reports, the new versions, build 26200.5603 (Dev channel) and 26120.4151 (Beta channel), bring new tools that make using the operating system smarter, faster, and more personalized.

One of the most important new features is “AI Actions” added to File Explorer. Now, users can right-click on image files (JPG, JPEG, and PNG formats) and choose from AI options like Bing image search, background blur, object removal, or full background removal. This feature is currently only for images but will soon support Microsoft 365 files too, allowing for summaries, Q&A, and content analysis.

A new “Advanced” page in system settings replaces the old “For Developers” section. It adds more options, such as removing folder path limits, enabling virtual environments, and controlling File Explorer features like GitHub integration.

Windows widgets have been redesigned to look better and be more personal. They now show organized and interactive feeds, including selected content from Copilot.

However, some features like pinning widgets or turning off the feed are not yet active in this version. Users can still go back to the old layout if they want.

In the power management section, a feature called “User Interaction-Aware CPU Power Management” helps reduce energy use when the system is idle. This can extend battery life.

Lastly, the Share interface (Share UI) has been updated. Now you can choose image compression levels when sending pictures. Some issues with the Start menu, File Explorer, Bluetooth, and the lock screen have also been fixed.

Even though these versions still have bugs, they show a clear path toward a smarter Windows 11 future.
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Trending Tools of Day

Amie
AI Meeting Notetaker

eSelf
Create realistic AI tutors, agents, friends & more

Tofu Pages
Infinite landing pages from your existing website

Overlap AI
The first multimodal video marketing agent

Entelligence ai
AI Code Reviews with Full Codebase Context

Everything else

📱 Study Buddy: Android and iPhone owners can now download Google’s hit study tool, NotebookLM, including its podcast-like AI Overviews feature, as a standalone app.

🤖 Set and Forget: GitHub’s Copilot programming tool can now take on more agentic tasks on its own, from testing and fixing code to opening pull requests and editing files. It comes just days after OpenAI launched its own agentic coding platform, Codex.

🤔 Hearts and Minds: A new study found that OpenAI’s GPT-4 is more persuasive than human debaters, especially when given personal details, like your age, gender, and political orientation.

👥 Futuristic Finance: Swiss bank UBS has started creating digital replicas of its financial analysts with help from OpenAI and Synthesia, giving its human employees more time for other tasks.

✋ Agents Only: Firecrawl, which uses AI to scrape data from the web, is hiring three AI agents (and presumably three human handlers to manage them) to tackle tasks like coding and customer support, with a budget of $1M.

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