This week was an important one when Microsoft turned 50. On top of that, we finally saw Nintendo Switch 2 in all its glory, and Sony’s new OLED -Tech River Os.
To catch up with all that and the other greatest stories of the week we have rounded them up here. There is a quick overview of each story and links to further reading if you are desperate to know more.
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7. Microsoft turned 50 – and celebrated with a large copilotograde
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Not many tech companies have lived long enough to celebrate their golden anniversary, but Grizzled Tech giant Microsoft hit the impressive milestone this week. Instead of leaning back with a well-deserved old-fashioned or bothering his grandchildren with a chicken dance, it instead announced a major upgrade to its copilot AI assistant.
Copilot is now morphic from a fairly standard, generative AI-Chatbot to a full-blown companion to compete with Chatgpt and Google Gemini. Well, that’s the theory anyway – the new copilot now has a memory to help it “learn who you are deep” while the mobile apps can use your smartphone’s camera to help it understand what you see.
It sounds both useful and creepy, but will copilot have window, words or even cut? Time will show – we will tell you in 2075.
6. Nintendo wasted (almost) all on Switch 2
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This week we went practically with Nintendo Switch 2, which will be launched in just a few months on June 5, 2025. The new console boasts a number of significant improvements over its predecessor. These include support for 4K resolution on TV and 1080p on the handheld. We can also expect variable update speed support, 256 GB of storage and image speeds of up to 120 FPS for supported games.
Nintendo Switch 2 is priced at $ 429.99 / £ 395.99 / AU $ 699.95 for the console itself. A bundle that includes a digital copy of Mario Kart World can also be purchased for $ 499.99 / £ 429.99 / AU $ 769.95. Although prices could rise, at least in the United States, when Nintendo announced that it was delaying the Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders in response to the recent Trump Customs.
Lots of official peripheral devices and accessories have been announced. A camera for the new GameChat feature is sold separately and can be connected to Switch 2’s USB-C port. We also get a Pro Controller 2 and a Wireless Nintendo Gamecube controller that will be compatible with Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack’s upcoming Switch 2 Gamecube Game Library.
5. Nintendo also showed Switch 2 Software Setup
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Alongside the Nintendo Switch 2 hardware revealed, we also got a preview of all the software that came to the new console later this year.
The headline was obviously Switch 2’s largest first -party launch title: Mario Kart World . This open world’s reproduction of the maping title is bigger and better in every way based on our preview, with some lovely new courses and an expansive card to run across.
Other hits from the showcase included Donkey King Bananza new (albeit card) Silk song details, a look at Duskbloods – An exclusive Frasoftware title for Switch 2 – and the arrival of Gamecube classics via Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack Service.
The only downside is that the games become more expensive with Mario Kart World From $ 79.99 / £ 75.99. Not to mention that Nintendo’s charge for Welcome tour – An interactive instruction manual it has designed for Switch 2.
4. Chatgpt had a roller coaster week
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It’s been a hell of a week for Openai. It started things last week by launching native image generation inside Chatgpt. In the past, it was dependent on Dall-E to pictures, but now it could make them themselves and make them better. People quickly realized that it was great to emulate the style of the Anime Powerhouse Studio Ghibli and a craze after Studio Ghibli-style images of people hit the internet, which resulted in Openai’s servers going meltdown when 1 million new users signed up in just an hour. Chatgpt went down at least three times this week.
Melt -servers were not Openai’s only problem where many people asked the legality of producing art in Studio Ghibli Copyright Style. Should an AI be allowed to reproduce Studio Ghibli’s founder Hayao Miyazaki’s careful frame-for-frame approach to animation with such faithful imitation?
It was also strong that deep reasoning, the wildly popular agent research capacity found in Chatgpt Pro and Chatgpt Plus, comes to the free level of Chatgpt very shortly after a member of Openai’s technical staff revealed the information in an online discussion. Let’s hope the servers can handle it if and when this happens.
3. Cinemacon 2025 gave us film examples of masses
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Cinemacon 2025 gave us four days of exhibition presentations from the biggest names in Hollywood including Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, DreamWorks, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Discovery, Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures.
There is so much we could talk about, but a few highlights include Spider-Man: Brand new day Title and Date reveals, John Wick 5 Message, Four The Beatles Movies come in 2026 and we got the first recordings from Wicked Part to, Avatar: Fire & Ash, and Tron: Ares .
2. We saw Sony’s new top-end OLED-TV in action
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Sony revealed the new TVs it’s come in 2025, and probably the juicy Sony Bravia 8 II-EN follow-up on both Sony Bravia 8 Mid-Range OLED and The advanced Sony A95L QD-OLED.
Sony did not reveal prices, but said it will be cheaper than the A95L, despite being a QD-Oled TV using the latest repanel (the same ones found in Samsung S95F). With the new gene panel, it is brighter than any former Sony Oled and should have richer colors. It will also be just the way to get the highest end QD-OLED display with a glossy finish instead of the matte glare-free 2.0 finish used by Samsung.
If Bravia 8 II can hit the same kind of prices as the LG G5 and Samsung S95F – rather than getting in much more expensive, as A95L did – then we could be on something very special from Sony.
1. Garmin’s new subscription caused chaos
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Garmin has revealed a new one and Extreme Upopular subscription platform, Garmin Connect+. The company says its free experience is not going anywhere, but it has not stopped furious users in their thousands who are protesting against the new $ 7 subscription.
For the monthly fee, Garmin users promise six payment walled features including Active Intelligence, an AI-run agent that theoretically gives you more personal insight into your training and performance.
In general, fans of the brand are upset over the move because Garmins is often very expensive, making the extra cost of a subscription more difficult to carry. There is also plenty of discourse about the fact that the subscription itself is very thin and does not seem to offer a huge amount of value to users considering the costs.
Whichever way you slice it, the Garmin Connect+ launch has been a disaster for the company, and with users already tense over a significant interruption and premium devices omitted in the cold when it comes to software, the launch could not have been timed.
