Explore key highlights from Microsoft Build 2025, covering breakthrough AI tools, developer updates, GitHub enhancements, and major platform innovations.

Notion Introduces Notion Mail, an AI-powered email Client Integrated with Its Productivity Ecosystem. It only supports Gmail accounts and is available on the web and Mac, with an iOS app in testing. Android and Windows versions are expected to launch in 2025.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, has acquired the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) in an all-stock transaction valued at $33 billion, including $12 billion in debt. 

Microsoft is set to launch an AI-powered feature called Copilot for Gaming, designed to act as an in-game coach and assistant for Xbox players. Initially available through the Xbox mobile app, Copilot aims to enhance the gaming experience by offering personalized tips, guides, and support for various game-related tasks.

​Microsoft has announced a significant enhancement to TypeScript by porting its compiler to Go, resulting in up to a 10x performance boost.

Discover how DeepSeek, the groundbreaking open-source AI model from China, is transforming the AI landscape with cost-efficient performance rivaling OpenAI and Meta. Learn about its capabilities, industry impact, and the ripple effects on global tech markets.

On December 18, 2024, Microsoft introduced a free plan for GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio Code, making AI-assisted coding more accessible to developers, offering developers 2,000 code completions and 50 chat requests per month, with access to GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet models.

Discover the latest features including enhanced runtime performance, dynamic garbage collection, new library updates like System.Text.Json enhancements, LINQ updates, C# 13 language features, and powerful tooling support for modern application development.

Linux developers have excluded 11 Russian-linked programmers from the list of those responsible for kernel development 

Indian startup Dotpe, which raised ~$100M to build point-of-sale systems for restaurants left their entire API fully public.

Figma returns the AI design generation feature. The feature now has a different name - First Draft instead of Make Designs.

Sony just announced a more powerful PS5 console. Mark Cerny, the lead architect of the PS5 console, says the PS5 Pro improves on the original console in three key ways: a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and custom AI-driven upscaling.

Apple presented the new Apple Watch, AirPods, and iPhone 16 at the Apple Event 2024

The second human to receive a brain chip from Neuralink is already using the implant to play the PC shooter Counter-Strike 2. 

OpenAI is announcing its much-anticipated entry into the search market, SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine with real-time access to information across the internet.

A recent CrowdStrike firmware update caused Windows machine outages. CrowdStrike offered Uber Eats gift cards to compensate, but many recipients found the vouchers canceled. CrowdStrike confirmed that the cards were flagged as fraud due to high usage.

Banks, airlines, and brokerage houses report widespread outages across the globe. Previously, provider CrowdStrike is responsible for the global outage.

Figma has temporarily suspended its "Make Design" AI tool following accusations of copying Apple's Weather app.

Figma has unveiled the beta version of Figma Slides, a new tool for creating presentations with AI support. This feature enables users to design, customize, and share presentation slides directly within Figma, enhancing team collaboration and presentation workflows with the added power of artificial intelligence.

Apple announced a slew of updates for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS at WWDC 2024. Read more in the news: