Both Microsoft and Apple took swings with their respective operating systems, with Microsoft debuting its "Copilot PC" branding for AI-capable laptops and Apple releasing Apple Intelligence. These early examples offered mixed results. Some features, like real-time translations and on-device speech-to-text, can be useful. Others, like Microsoft's Windows Recall, have yet to prove themselves. All of this hype for AI has important implications for the new year.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. An 18-year-old Ohio man was being praised for saving a mother and her 10-year-old son at a North Carolina beach over the Fourth of July weekend – in a rescue that was caught on video. Travis Shrout of Stow, near Cleveland, said he had swum out pretty far at Topsail Beach where his family was vacationing on July 3 when he noticed the woman and her son struggling in the water, FOX 8 of Cleveland reported. Shrout's family had gotten out of the water but family friend Thad Unkefer wanted to test his drone's tracking features, so Shrout decided to get back in, he told the station.