
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

DeepSeek could win big if China's AI chip export ban is revoked
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Former OpenAI board member says DeepSeek is not leading the pack in the AI landscape, but the US revoking the NVIDIA chip export ban might be a huge win for China.

Copilot users will now access Think Deeper for free
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman announced that Copilot's Think Deeper feature is free for all users.

DeepSeek gets the last laugh as OpenAI's $10M dismissal proved wrong
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI As DeepSeek wows at a fraction of the cost, Sam Altman's comments from 2023 about funding come back to haunt the OpenAI CEO.

Salesforce CEO AI jabs at Microsoft are "all marketing"
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Microsoft CCO Frank X. Shaw recently addressed Benioff's myriad of comments aimed at the company's AI and Copilot efforts.

Sam Altman: OpenAI will deliver better models than DeepSeek
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says DeepSeek's AI is impressive and cost-effective. However, OpenAI is well-positioned to deliver better models as it strides closer to AGI.

Microsoft CEO: DeepSeek's AI is "super impressive"
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Microsoft's CEO says AI developments from China should be taken very seriously amid the DeepSeek AI frenzy.

DeepSeek AI outperforms Meta's yet-to-launch Llama model
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly assembled four war rooms of engineers to investigate the secret ingredient to DeepSeek's "overnight" success in AI.

DeepSeek's AI buzz suffers "large-scale cyberattack," prompting temporary registration cap
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Large-scale cyberattacks force DeepSeek to pause new user registrations temporarily.

DeepSeek leverages OpenAI's abandoned founding mission to surpass ChatGPT
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI DeepSeek leverages OpenAI's abandoned founding mission to surpass ChatGPT as the top free app in the US.

DeepSeek beats OpenAI’s reasoning model at a mere 3% of the cost
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI DeepSeek’s R1 AI model competes with OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model across math, coding, and science on an even playing field at 3% of the cost.

A leaked Apple memo details how it aims to catch up to Microsoft and OpenAI on artificial intelligence
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Can Apple catch up in AI? A recent leak details how the firm is moving veteran staff around to try and help Siri catch up to ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot.

OpenAI's for-profit evolution hits a major roadblock
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI OpenAI reportedly plans to value its charitable arm at $30 billion as investor pressure mounts, coercing the AI firm to evolve into a for-profit entity.

Anthropic: AI could surpass almost all humans at everything
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei claims that generative AI could surpass human cognitive capabilities "in almost everything," even robotics, within 2-3 years.

Microsoft's CEO weighs in on $500 billion Stargate project
By Kevin Okemwa published
Microsoft Satya Nadella says the company will continue investing $80 billion in capital annually to build out Azure.

Is OpenAI's $500 Stargate project the final nail in the best tech bromance's coffin?
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Salesforce CEO believes Microsoft won't rely on OpenAI in the future following the $500 billion Stargate project announcement.

Samsung Agentic AI leaks ahead of Galaxy Unpacked 2025
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Veteran tipster Evan Blass recently revealed some information about the upcoming lineup of Samsung phones, including a new Night mode for videos, Audio Eraser, and revamped Google Gemini.

Microsoft loses OpenAI exclusive cloud provider status to $500 billion Stargate project
By Kevin Okemwa published
MICROSOFT Microsoft loses exclusive OpenAI cloud partnership post-$500 billion Stargate investment.

OpenAI unveils $500 billion Stargate project to emancipate its overreliance on Microsoft's infrastructure
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and President Trump unveil a $500 billion dubbed Stargate project to build massive data centers for AI advances in the United States.

OpenAI's o3 reportedly excelled using benchmark problems and solutions
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI A new report suggests OpenAI secretly funded and accessed the FrontierMath benchmarking data, raising concerns about whether the company used the data to train o3.

Microsoft flags macOS bug allowing remote rootkit installs
By Kevin Okemwa published
MICROSOFT Microsoft uncovered a vulnerability allowing attackers to circumvent macOS's System Integrity Protection (SIP), granting them access to the kernel by loading third-party code.

OpenAI's o3 mini model to launch in "a couple of weeks"
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Sam Altman says OpenAI will launch o3 mini in a couple of weeks, featuring advanced reasoning in science, code, and math.

Sam Altman dismisses AGI deployment rumors as "Twitter hype"
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI OpenAI CEO says the company won't deploy AGI next month, as it hasn't built it.

Microsoft rebuts CEO Benioff by touting impressive AI stats
By Kevin Okemwa published
AI Microsoft's CVP Charles Lamanna counters Marc Benioff with Agentic AI stats to rebuke claims Copilot is just "the new Clippy."
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