Microsoft is accelerating updates to its Edge browser, switching from a monthly release schedule to a biweekly one. The change takes effect with Edge 152, due on August 27, and puts the browser on the same cadence as Google Chrome.

More updates, not more features

The shift does not mean users will get twice as many new features. As Microsoft explained in a recent blog post, each release under the new schedule will carry roughly half the content of the current monthly drops, keeping the overall volume of changes roughly constant. The practical effect for most users is a steadier, smaller stream of updates rather than a sudden jump in new functionality.

Microsoft framed the change as a benefit for both consumers and enterprise customers, noting that security and platform fixes will reach users faster, and that smaller change sets are easier for IT teams to validate before deployment.

Who it affects and when

The new cadence applies to users on the standard Stable channel. Those on the Stable Extended channel, a longer-term option aimed at organizations that prefer less frequent updates, will stay on the current every-two-months schedule.

Google Chrome moved to a two-week release cycle in March, and Edge’s realignment closes the gap between the two Chromium-based browsers. The biweekly releases kick in with Edge 152 on August 27, giving users and IT admins a couple of months to prepare before the new schedule takes hold. For everyday users, the transition should be largely invisible. Automatic updates will simply arrive more often, each with a smaller footprint than before.

In India, consumers receive a lot of calls every day, ranging from spam and scams to delivery people and financial service companies trying to contact them. There are apps like Truecaller and the government’s Calling Name Presentation (CNAP) system to identify who is calling, but knowing the name of the caller is often not enough. That is why Equal AI is creating an assistant that can receive calls on your behalf, gather information, and tell you why someone is calling.

The app is currently available on Android, and since its launch last year, it has grown to more than a million monthly active users and over 300,000 daily active users, it says. The app screens the call and displays the reason someone is calling you.

The dialer shows quick reply options like “Leave the delivery near the door” or “Give it to the neighbor,” and the AI reads them back to the caller. You can also type a custom message for the AI to read out. The app records the call, and users can see the recording and transcription history with a summary in the app.

Equal AI said today it has raised $30 million in Series B funding led by Prosus Ventures and Tomales Bay Capital with participation from Think Investments and Valiant Fund. Individual investors include Indian fintech PhonePe’s founder Sameer Nigam, Zubin Bharti Mittal from Airtel Family Office, Skyflow AI co-founder Anshu Sharma, Meta India and Southeast Asia’s VP Sandhya Devanathan, and CtrlS Datacenters’ Chairman Sridhar Pinnapureddy. With the new funding, the company has raised over $42 million to date.

The round is structured in three tranches, with the startup carrying a different valuation at each stage depending on whether it hits predetermined targets — a growing but still uncommon approach in which startups sell equity at different prices within the same round. The structure has an unusual quirk: it lets a startup advertise the highest valuation achieved, even if the bulk of the equity was sold at a lower one. Equal AI declined to provide its specific valuations.

The startup was founded by Keshav Reddy in 2022. Reddy comes from the family behind Indian conglomerate GVK, which has holdings across infrastructure, energy, and healthcare. Equal started as a data-sharing company for financial services and still offers data for financial analysis and know your customer (KYC) verification services for employers.

“We always wanted to be a customer-facing company, and with Equal AI, the first use case we launched was a call assistant because we realized users get a ton of calls for financial services or job openings. If you are buying car insurance, you might get 20 calls over a week, and that is hard to tackle for a human,” founder Reddy told TechCrunch about why the company started there.

The app currently only screens unknown calls, but the company is planning to introduce the ability to screen calls from known numbers too. The company also wants the AI assistant to take proactive action on a user’s behalf — such as texting a delivery person your address (with consent) or making outbound calls to book appointments. The startup said it is also working on an iOS version of the app and a paid subscription tier with more features.

Equal AI is using a mix of speech recognition, automatic speech recognition (ASR), and speech generation models with its own orchestration layer. English support matters, but consumers in India often speak in their native language or blend multiple languages in a single sentence — a phenomenon called code-mixing. Equal AI says it has built support for over 10 languages with this in mind.

The startup has stiff competition. Google and Apple both have call screening products. Truecaller, already a household name in India, has been building out its own AI assistant features. In the U.S., a16z-backed privacy startup Cloaked also launched call screening last year. Thiago Viana, global co-head at Prosus Ventures, said that Equal’s understanding of local context gives it an edge.

“Equal AI promises to screen calls for you and provide context on why someone is calling. We think that if an app does well in a few use cases, it can quickly become popular in its niche and create user stickiness to expand in different areas later on,” he told TechCrunch by phone.

Prosus has been investing in AI assistant startups that focus on local markets. Its portfolio includes Spain-based Luzia and Latin America-based Zapia. Both were caught up in Meta’s ban on third-party AI bots on WhatsApp, which serves as a cautionary tale for platform dependency. Equal AI said that it didn’t want to create that kind of dependency — which is why it built around calls and its own app rather than piggybacking on a messaging platform.

Renaming files is one of those tasks that sounds trivial until you are staring at a folder full of documents or files called Document1, Scan_04182026, and FinalFINALv3. Microsoft is doing something about it.

A new feature, called Copilot Suggested Rename, is on the Microsoft 365 roadmap. It is scheduled to roll out starting June 2026. The AI-powered OneDrive feature reads the content of your file and automatically recommends clear, descriptive file names, saving you time. 

How does Copilot Suggested Rename actually work?

The feature is built directly into the rename dialog inside OneDrive (on web). 

When you go to rename a file, Copilot goes through its content and offers three context-aware name suggestions within the rename dialog. You can pick one with a single click. 

The feature also shows up in the post-upload toast notification, the pop-up that appears when you upload a single supported file, so you could rename it immediately after it lands in OneDrive.

Which file types does it support?

Copilot Suggested Rename works across a wide range of formats. Microsoft Office documents, including Word (DOCX), PowerPoint (PPTX), and Excel (XLSX), are all supported, along with PDFs, Markdown files, and images. 

That, I’d say, covers the overwhelming majority of files most people actually store online. The feature is currently in development. And yes, It is a web-only feature for now, meaning it will be available for personal and business OneDrive users on the web, while the desktop or mobile rollout might follow. 

In my opinion, file naming has been a low-priority problem ignored by desktop and computer, widely ignored, and genuinely annoying at scale. Microsoft building AI-powered rename suggestions directly into the OneDrive rename dialog is the right place to begin. 

Limited edition gaming hardware has a long history of slapping a commemorative color or accents on existing hardware and calling it a day. 

The ROG Xbox Ally X20 bundle, announced at Computex 2026 to mark the 20th anniversary of ASUS’s ROG brand, does not make that mistake. The upgraded design alone makes it worth a closer look.

What makes the Ally X20 different?

The most immediately visible change is how the handheld looks. The X20 features a translucent black chassis, a callback to the semi-transparent designs of the early 2000s, with a golden structure visible underneath. 

The effect is striking without being ostentatious, which is harder to pull off than it sounds for anything with gold on it. Yes, I’m talking about those limited-edition iPhone mods with unbearable gold designs. 

Beyond design, though, the X20 brings an OLED display, a first for the Ally handheld. The new Nebula HDR 7.4-inch panel supports a 120Hz refresh rate with FreeSync Premium Pro. It can also achieve a peak brightness of 1,400 nits. 

However, that’s not all. The handheld comes with Dolby Vision support and has a 0.2ms response time. Corning DXC glass with anti-reflective coating protects the display and reduces glare by 65%. The thermal design has been completely overhauled to handle OLED’s higher sensitivity to heat.

What else is new?

The X20 introduces TMR joystick technology, which the company claims is more precise than Hall effect sensors, alongside a Transforming D-Pad that switches between four-way and eight-way configurations.

The rear grips get a rubberized coating for added comfort during extended sessions. Under the hood, the AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme processor is paired with 24GB of LPDDR5X RAM and a 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD.

The X20 ships as a bundle with the ROG XREAL R1 Edition 20 Gaming AR Glasses, which connect via a single USB-C cable. For those catching up, the glasses project a 171-inch virtual screen at 4 meters via micro-OLED, refresh at 240Hz, cover 95% of the focused field of view, and include native 3DoF tracking. 

Asus is yet to announce the pricing and the availability of the new ROG Xbox Ally X20 bundle, but it sure looks like something gaming enthusiasts would want to get their hands on.