Posts by Mike Knight
Pollinger’s Productivity : November 2025
ChatGPT Atlas Launches OpenAI has unveiled ChatGPT Atlas, a new web browser with ChatGPT built directly into its core. Launched on 21 October 2025 for macOS (with Windows and mobile versions coming soon), Atlas aims to make the browsing experience conversational. Instead of switching between tabs and searches, users can ask questions, summarise pages, and…
Read MoreBoost Productivity with Outlook’s Email Highlighting Features
When you highlight text in an email in Outlook, you’ll notice the Mini Toolbar appears above the highlighted text, and when you right-click, you’ll see additional options that let you leverage powerful features to streamline your workflow, including: – Explain in more detail: Get more information on the highlighted text using Copilot, Outlook’s AI-powered assistant.–…
Read MoreOpenAI Unveils Aardvark, Its AI Security Researcher
OpenAI has introduced Aardvark, an autonomous security agent powered by GPT-5 that scans codebases to detect and fix software vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them. Described as “an agentic security researcher,” Aardvark continuously analyses repositories, monitors commits, and tests code in sandboxed environments to validate real-world exploitability. It then proposes human-reviewable patches using OpenAI’s Codex system. OpenAI…
Read MoreOpenAI Completes Shift Into For-Profit Company
OpenAI has now finished converting itself into a for-profit public benefit corporation, while keeping a mission-led foundation on top, in what may be the most important restructuring so far in the commercial AI race. Started As Non-Profit OpenAI was originally founded (back in 2015) as a non-profit research lab with a stated mission to ensure…
Read MoreWhatsApp Introduces Passkey-Encrypted Backups
WhatsApp is rolling out passkey-encrypted backups, thereby letting users protect and recover their chat history using their face, fingerprint, or device screen lock instead of remembering a long password or storing a 64-digit recovery key. A Major Step in WhatsApp’s Encryption Journey WhatsApp has announced a new feature that allows users to encrypt their chat…
Read MoreWorld’s First $5 Trillion Company
Nvidia has become the first company in history to reach a $5 trillion market valuation, as investors bet that demand for its artificial intelligence chips will continue at record levels across global industries. Who Is Nvidi? Why Does It Matter? Nvidia began in the 1990s as a designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) for gaming…
Read MoreBrands Pay To Be Recommended By AI, Not Google
The Prompting Company has raised $6.5 million to help businesses get mentioned in AI-generated answers from tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, signalling a major shift in how people now discover products online. Who Is The Prompting Company? The Prompting Company is a young, Y Combinator-backed startup (Y Combinator is a Silicon Valley startup accelerator)…
Read MoreMicrosoft Accusedly Misleads Over Copilot Prices
Australian regulators have taken Microsoft to court, alleging the company misled around 2.7 million Microsoft 365 users by implying they had to accept a higher-priced AI-powered plan or cancel altogether, while failing to reveal a cheaper alternative that was still available. What Happened and Why? The case focuses on Microsoft’s handling of its consumer subscription…
Read MoreOpenAI Unveils ChatGPT-Powered Atlas Browser
OpenAI has released Atlas, a free macOS web browser built around ChatGPT, and it arrives with big ambitions, useful features, and some immediate security questions. What OpenAI Has Launched, And Why It Matters OpenAI describes Atlas as “a new web browser built with ChatGPT at its core.” The idea of Atlas is, rather than visiting a website,…
Read MoreUK Ruling Could Mean Apple Compo For Millions
A UK competition court has ruled that Apple abused its market power with App Store fees, paving the way for compensation that lawyers say could total up to £1.5 billion for around 36 million iPhone and iPad users. What The Tribunal Decided The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) found that Apple held “near absolute market power” in two…
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