It’s a fresh start once again for Microsoft’s AI-powered Recall tool. After a delay in June and then a second delay in August, Microsoft is once again delaying testing of its Copilot+ feature intended for PCs. The Verge reports that Recall will now not enter preview for Windows Insiders until December.
“We are committed to providing a safe and reliable experience with Recall,” Windows senior product manager Brandon LeBlanc told the publication. “To ensure we deliver these critical updates, we’re taking extra time to refine the experience before previewing with Windows Insiders.”
When it was introduced, Microsoft touted Recall as a way to give your computer a photographic memory, improving the search process on PCs. But since that photographic memory would require a high level of access to the computer’s systems and data, Recall has been the target of privacy and security concerns.
Microsoft has tried to address those concerns by offering Recall as an opt-in feature, so users must give the AI assistant explicit permission to log their computing activity. The company has also detailed other privacy protections, but today’s third delay could mean that keeping the protections locked down is proving harder than expected.
The rise of AI NPCs has felt like a threat for years, as if developers couldn’t wait to dump human writers and offload NPC conversations to generative AI models. At CES 2025, NVIDIA made it abundantly clear that the technology is right around the corner.
PUBG developer Krafton, for example, plans to use NVIDIA’s ACE (Avatar Cloud Engine) to power AI companions that will assist and prank you during matches. Krafton isn’t just stopping there – it’s also using ACE in its life simulation title InZOI to make characters smarter and generate objects.
While the use of generative AI in games seems almost inevitable, as this medium has always toyed with new ways to make enemies and NPCs smarter and more realistic, watching several NVIDIA ACE demos back to back really gave me stomach pain.
It wasn’t just slightly smarter enemy AI – ACE can create entire conversations out of thin air, simulate voices and try to give NPCs a sense of personality. It’s also doing this locally on your PC, powered by NVIDIA’s RTX GPUs. But while all of this might sound good on paper, I hated almost every second when I saw the AI NPCs in action.