Laurent Giret

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.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss the new 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop, which will join Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC lineup on May 20.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s FY25 Q3 earnings, in which Microsoft revealed that it has finally slowed its spending on AI infrastructure.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss OpenAI being interested in purchasing Chrome if the US DOJ forces Google to divest it, and they also look at the Microsoft 365 Copilot updates and new AI Agent Store Microsoft announced earlier this week.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss their issues with the new Outlook for Windows, Notion launching a new mail app, and OpenAI launching its new o3 reasoning model.