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  1. Microsoft rebuilds Windows 11 Photos app with native editor, AI object removal

    Microsoft published a blog post on October 15 announcing a major rebuild of the built-in Windows 11 Photos app, now rolling out to Windows Insiders with a wider release to all Windows 11 users expected later this year. The redesigned gallery browses local, OneDrive and Apple iCloud photos and videos in one interface and supports natural-language searches such as "sunset on the beach"; the editor is rebuilt on WinUI 3 and Microsoft says it launches about 25% faster than the old version. It adds improved AI object removal by painting or circling an area, a Relight feature with up to three adjustable virtual light sources, and support for editing HDR, HEIC and WebP files, while Microsoft says the viewer opens photos 15% faster on average and HEIC images up to 30% faster. TechSpot reported that the new gallery is a WebView2 web wrapper replacing the previous native WinUI 3 gallery, drawing criticism from power users on Reddit and X.

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  2. Llama for Windows released: one-click local model downloads

    Llama for Windows, the Windows counterpart to the macOS Llama app, is a free, open-source Windows 11 application built on Microsoft's WinUI 3 that lives in the system notification area and opens its control panel from a taskbar icon. It connects directly to the Hugging Face model hub, shows a curated model list with parameter counts, disk usage and vision support, and downloads GGUF-quantized models driven by the llama.cpp ecosystem, all without admin rights, manual compilation or complex launch parameters. The app offers an Alt+Space floating chat window, a built-in web UI for loading and unloading local models, and can start an OpenAI-compatible local server at localhost:9931 that scripts and AI agents can call, with multiple apps able to share one model file. According to the project, prompts and inference stay on the device and no telemetry, analytics events or installation identifiers are collected, though network access is still needed to fetch models and updates; it supports Windows 11 x64 and ARM64 plus NVIDIA's RTX Spark platform, and does not list Windows 10 as supported.

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  3. Microsoft redesigns Windows Search as an AI chatbot-like experience

    Microsoft has introduced another redesign of Windows 11 Search that adds natural-language interactions, making the search box look and behave more like an AI chatbot or agent. The new version is built on the WinUI 3 API for claimed performance and efficiency gains, merges results and previews into a unified list, better handles typos and synonyms, and adds "inline actions" that let users complete tasks without opening other apps or settings pages. Engadget says the Copilot search redesign arrives this fall; TechSpot, in an editor's take, notes that Windows Search has been redesigned repeatedly over the years without ever quite working as it should.

    Engadget AI · 🔥 0

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