Laurent was the Editorial Manager of the Petri IT Knowledgebase from 2022-2023. He's currently the Senior News Editor of Thurrott.com.
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Anthropic releasing a Claude browser extension for Google Chrome at a time when Perplexity and OpenAI are developing AI-powered web browsers.
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss how Intel keeps struggling to compete in a rapidly evolving tech landscape.
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss the release of GPT-5 by OpenAI and their early experimentations with the company’s latest flagship AI model.
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s arbitrary choice to restrict Copilot+ PC features on devices with NPUs, while many PCs with powerful GPUs could also support them.
On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott dive deep into the complexities Microsoft faces with its Copilot assistant against the competition.
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Perplexity AI launching Comet, its new AI-powered web browser, and OpenAI planning to do the same very soon to challenge the dominance of Google Search and Google Chrome.
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Meta’s attempt to disrupt the AI race by aggressively hiring the best engineers on the market, as well as the AI-powered code editor Cursor, which is coming to the web and mobile.
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss a recent report suggesting that Microsoft is struggling to sell its Copilot AI to enterprise customers due to the viral success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which recently crossed 3 million paying business users.
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss a report about upcoming job cuts at Microsoft, the company’s increasingly ambivalent relationship with OpenAI, and how Notion fits into their workflow.
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss OpenAI’s Codex software engineering agent and what it’s like to write code with the help of AI.
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss what happened at Microsoft Build and Google I/O this week, plus OpenAI’s surprise acquisition of Jony Ive’s AI hardware startup.
In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft laying off 3% of its workforce this week, with the job cuts hitting many people in software engineering at a time when AI is now writing up to 30% of the company’s code.