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Acer’s Swift 14 AI laptop arrives this summer. | Image: Acer

On Monday, Acer announced the pending arrival of its first Copilot Plus PC: the Swift 14 AI, which is the Qualcomm Snapdragon version of one of its popular laptops. It will come in two configurations, and both will support a slate of new AI features in Windows 11, like Recall, Cocreator, and Live Captions.

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The Dell XPS 13 (9345). | Image: Dell

On Monday, Dell announced that it’s releasing five Qualcomm-configured laptops: the XPS 13 (9345), Inspiron 14, Inspiron 14 Plus, Latitude 7455, and Latitude 5455. That’s more than any other manufacturer has announced so far.

The new XPS 13 is powered by a midrange 12-core Snapdragon X Elite processor with Dual Core Boost. (There will



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Newly unveiled AI laptops are making bold claims that may have Apple shaking its boots: they're faster, better, and more power-efficient than the MacBook.

As a laptop reviewer, when people ask, "Hey, which laptop has great performance and long battery life?", I often point them to the MacBook line. While some Windows laptops deliver stellar performance and offer up to 10 hours of battery life (on a



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Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania in April.
  • Donald Trump may win the 2024 presidential election, sending him back to the White House.
  • His second administration could be far more radical than the first one.
  • That includes efforts to gut the federal bureaucracy and reduce constraints on Trump's power.

In January 2025, Donald Trump may be sworn into office as the 47th President of


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Google’s data centers are expanding to support its AI ambitions, and a new project in Finland shows one way the company is trying to grapple with the environmental impact of that growth.

Google will drop €1 billion (roughly $1.1 billion) to expand its data center in Finland to “further unlock the potential of AI,” the company said in an emailed press



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Just days after Apple’s OLED iPad Pro went on sale, Microsoft is bringing the same core display technology to its new Surface Pro. (Also, it’s now just called the Surface Pro; the company has seemingly done away with its numbering.) For the first time, Microsoft’s tablet will be capable of producing perfect blacks along with all the other



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The new Surface Pro. It comes in blue! | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge

Microsoft just announced the new Surface Pro, the latest in its lineup of tablet / laptop hybrid devices and the first in a new generation of what Microsoft is calling Copilot Plus PCs. The numbers are gone from the model numbers, which seems to signify a full reboot of the lineup. “Compared to



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Google CEO Sundar Pichai. His company is using more AI-generated answers — which raises concerns.
  • Google is shifting to AI-generated answers for search queries to keep users on its site.
  • This shift raises concerns about the reliability of AI answers and the impact on web traffic.
  • The move risks disrupting Google's ad revenue model and the broader internet ecosystem.

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To kick off Microsoft Build 2024, the company announced new Surface devices at its hardware and AI event today. Among the fresh gear is the new Surface Laptop: a redesigned PC with thinner bezels in 13.8- and 15-inch sizes and Qualcomm’s Arm-based Snapdragon X Elite chip. Of course, AI plays a key role on the new device as this is one of the newly-named Copilot+ PCs that run over 40 models locally