
Kevin Okemwa
Kevin Okemwa is a seasoned tech journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya with lots of experience covering the latest trends and developments in the industry at Windows Central. With a passion for innovation and a keen eye for detail, he has written for leading publications such as OnMSFT, MakeUseOf, and Windows Report, providing insightful analysis and breaking news on everything revolving around the Microsoft ecosystem. While AFK and not busy following the ever-emerging trends in tech, you can find him exploring the world or listening to music.
Latest articles by Kevin Okemwa

Google co-founder brands 60-hour weeks the "sweet spot of productivity" for AI engineers
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Google co-founder Sergey Brin calls for the end of remote work, urging engineers to pick up 60-hour weeks building AI models that may render them jobless.

Anthropic CEO: AI smarter than humans by 2027
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Dario Amodei says AI has a high affinity to surpass human intelligence by 2027, but its rising demand for GPUs may pose a critical setback in the future.

GPT 4.5: The AI 'revolution' that comes with a cost (literally) but talks like a 'thoughtful human'
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI OpenAI recently launched GPT-4.5, with Sam Altman claiming interacting with the model feels like talking to a thoughtful person. However, "it's not a reasoning model and won't crush benchmarks."

Salesforce CEO criticizes Microsoft's AI spending, questioning returns
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff raises concern over Microsoft's AI efforts and exorbitant investments in contrast with returns.

DeepSeek drops to #51 in Apple's App Store, losing its lead over ChatGPT
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI DeepSeek has tumbled to #51, weeks after dethroning OpenAI's ChatGPT as the most downloaded free AI app in Apple's App Store in the United States.

Slack's outage reminds us how fragile remote work can be in 2025
By Kevin Okemwa published
OUTAGE Slack has acknowledged the massive outage and is working on a fix to restore impacted services, including sending messages, workflows, threads, and other API-related features.

OpenAI rolls out Deep Research for ChatGPT Plus users
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Deep Research AI agent is now accessible for ChatGPT Plus, Edu, Enterprise, and Teams users. Previously, it was only available to Pro users for $200/month.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Anthropic's "most intelligent" AI to date
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Anthropic recently unveiled Claude 3.7 Sonnet, touting it as the "most intelligent model to date," and also launched Claude Code for agentic coding.

Copilot users get free access to Think Deeper and Voice features
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Microsoft has announced that it's rolling out two powerful capabilities to all Copilot users for free, including Voice and Think Deeper.

Copilot censored? The AI refuses to comment on elections
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Executive Editor Jez Corden recently flagged a Microsoft Copilot issue, highlighting the AI's struggle to offer basic information on politics and elections.

xAI blames Grok's misinformation on an ex-OpenAI employee
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Grok AI avoided sources linking Elon Musk and President Trump to misinformation after a former OpenAI staffer updated its system prompt without authorization.

Is Microsoft's biggest mistake failing to predict AI search?
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI A new study suggests users are rapidly ditching conventional search tools like Google in favor of AI-powered tools like ChatGPT, citing better accuracy and relevance.

SoftBank may outrank Microsoft for OpenAI's compute needs
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI A report suggests a rift between Microsoft and OpenAI, further indicating that the latter may be drifting away from Microsoft and leaning on SoftBank.

Satya Nadella: AI agents need a "sandboxed" guarantee to power Fortune 500 companies
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was recently interviewed by Dwarkesh Patel, discussing the tech giant's recent quantum breakthrough, AGI, and more.

Bill Gates' premature Harvard exit led to Microsoft's success
By Kevin Okemwa published
MICROSOFT Bill Gates says 2 AM sneaking to code at 13 and leaving Harvard to run Microsoft as CEO heavily contributed to its $3 trillion success.

Mozilla to end Windows 7 support on Firefox in March 2025
By Kevin Okemwa published
WINDOWS Mozilla plans to extend support for legacy versions of Windows and macOS on Firefox until March 2025, including Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, and macOS 10.12 to 10.14.

Bill Gates: The youth should worry about 4 "very scary things"
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates highlights four scary things the next generation should be worried about, including keeping control of AI.

Apple adding AI to Vision Pro while Microsoft ends HoloLens
By Kevin Okemwa published
AR Apple plans to ship Apple Intelligence to the Vision Pro and a spatial content app to potentially spark user interest and drive more headset sales.

HP acquires Humane for $116M — leading to the Ai Pin's death
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI HP is expected to acquire assets from Humane Inc., including the majority of the company's employees, software platform, and intellectual property, for $116 million.

Why was Windows 95's setup so simple? An engineer explains.
By Kevin Okemwa published
WINDOWS Veteran Microsoft Engineer Raymond Chen reveals why Microsoft decided to make Windows 95 setups so simple instead of using more graphics.

Elon Musk: Grok 3 is the smartest AI on earth (but it's not)
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Elon Musk touts Grok 3 as the smartest AI on earth, outperforming proprietary models from top AI firms, including OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and Google.

DeepMind CEO: DeepSeek's success is "exaggerated," Google leads in AI
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Demis Hassabis, DeepMind CEO urged employees not to worry about DeepSeek's exaggerated success, citing Google's superiority in the AI landscape.

Sam Altman dubs ChatGPT an all-encompassing "oracular system"
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI OpenAI CEO says his ChatGPT usage has increased over the past few months as it evolves into the "everything app."
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