Widgets are the thing OS teams make when out of ideas, said "oh God" out loud when that WWDC happened last year or year before where every Apple OS had a huge section on widgets.

Seems to be part of an ongoing series: https://xakpc.dev/windows-widgets/

How about AI-generated widgets? I just tell AI what I want to see in a widget and it creates it?

Maybe simply "Show news about this topic"?

While it is the original title, it's clickbait.

No platform has ever "killed" off widgets, and users love them as long as there's a good variety of high quality ones available.

The first thing I always do with a new phone is make sure I have my preferred widgets for weather, email, maps, calendar, and to-do. As long as they stay in the periphery providing ambient information and the occasional interaction, being without them is almost unthinkable.

Maybe the only slight improvement in decades has been the smartwatch.

Because widgets are amazing & we are all just quietly hoping for a good breakaway easy travelling widget thing.