Today's AI headlines triangulate three concurrent shifts: 1 major platform builders are buying deep, device-level UX OpenAI Sky to make AI actionable on personal computers 2 enterprise vendors are re-framing AI as human-centered collaboration Microsoft Copilot's latest messaging and 3 industrial and infrastructure players are moving compute and intelligence to the edge while the public increasingly worries about data-center environmental impact. Together, these stories map a market maturing from novelty and research demos into production, governance, and tangible operational value. Below: a thorough, opinionated briefing that summarizes each news item, analyzes implications for product and policy, and extracts practical moves for operators, investors, and builders.
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Introduction - why these four items matter today
OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated Sky: desktop AI becomes actionable