Laurent Giret

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.

On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss the new “memory” features in ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot and what to expect from Microsoft’s Build 2025 conference.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss upcoming Windows 11 updates and the new Startup Boost task that will soon make Office apps launch faster on Windows PCs.

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s decision to retire Skype in May 2025, with the company encouraging users to transition to the free version of Microsoft Teams.