NTT DATA’s creation of a dedicated Global Business Unit for Microsoft Cloud marks a decisive shift in how large systems integrators package cloud, AI and sovereignty capabilities for regulated enterprises — and it signals a coming wave of sovereign cloud demand across APAC that technology and...
Microsoft’s latest push to fold agentic AI into migration and modernization workflows is no minor update — it’s a coordinated product and services play that blends GitHub Copilot’s new application-modernization capabilities with expanded Azure Migrate tooling and a commercial program, Azure...
Microsoft’s Migrate and Modernize Summit landed not with a whisper but with a suite of agentic AI tools and commercial programs aimed at tearing down the friction that has long stalled cloud migrations and application modernization projects. The announcements — from GitHub Copilot’s App...
Perplexity’s new Email Assistant promises to turn an overflowing inbox into a working assistant that schedules meetings, drafts replies in your voice, and auto-prioritizes messages — but it arrives as an exclusive, high-cost feature with real privacy and reliability trade‑offs that every Windows...
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Agentic AI has moved off road‑show slides and into vendor roadmaps that are already finding their way into enterprise pilots, but the real test isn’t which product demo looks slick — it’s whether organisations can measure and validate real time savings and quality gains before they commit...
Zoom’s AI push at Zoomtopia 2025 marks a pivot from helper tools to agentic assistants and lifelike synthetic presence — the company unveiled AI Companion 3.0, cross-platform note-taking and search, and photorealistic meeting avatars alongside a raft of video-performance upgrades intended to...
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Microsoft, Nvidia and Google now sit at the center of the agentic AI conversation — and if your organization is planning to deploy autonomous, task‑completing agents at scale, you will almost certainly be doing business with one or more of them.
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Agentic AI describes...
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The path from AI hype to steady, measurable value is rarely a straight line; New Era Technology’s conversation with UC Today — led by Kristian McCann and Steve Daly — lays out a pragmatic playbook for moving organizations beyond AI disillusionment and into sustained Copilot adoption. The central...
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In a deliberately fictional exercise staged by IPAA ACT, a cabinet decision to replace frontline public servants with AI agents culminates in spectacle and sharp lessons: procurement defaults to a dominant vendor, automated casework produces unexpected harms for vulnerable communities, and an...
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Accordance’s public launch this week signals a new phase in AI for tax and accounting: the startup bills itself as an “AI brain” that bundles specialized regulatory knowledge, a multi‑agent reasoning system, and integrations designed for professional workflows — all backed by a recent $13...
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Zenity’s selection as a Gartner Cool Vendor in the newly published “Cool Vendors in Agentic AI Trust, Risk and Security Management (TRiSM)” report cements the company’s rapid rise as a specialist in securing the new generation of enterprise AI agents — but it also raises urgent operational and...
EY’s Simon Brown frames the challenge clearly: agentic AI is no longer an abstract tech trend — it’s a workforce engine that will rewire HR, L&D and organizational culture, and the time to prepare is now.
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Simon Brown, EY’s Global Learning & Development leader, has spent the last two...
Microsoft’s IBC 2025 message is unmistakable: media and entertainment companies must move from experimentation to full-scale deployment of agentic AI if they want to become what Microsoft calls a “Frontier Firm” — organizations that combine human creativity with autonomous AI agents to unlock...
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Satya Nadella’s short public playbook — five repeatable prompts he says he uses inside Microsoft 365 Copilot — has done more than offer productivity tips; it has shown, in blunt practice, how an enterprise copilot can change the mechanics of leadership, reduce busywork and compress decision...
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CSOP’s push to turn hours of manual, error-prone work into seconds-long automated workflows shows how Azure AI and GitHub Copilot can reshape asset management — but the numbers, governance demands, and hidden costs behind that transformation deserve as much scrutiny as the glossy case study...
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DeepIQ and OMV Energy have announced a joint effort with Microsoft to deploy agentic AI across OMV Energy’s drilling operations, beginning with a pilot for well construction optimization that DeepIQ says will automate the corporate learning loop and deliver context‑aware workflows for well...
Andreessen Horowitz’s latest Consumer AI ranking confirms what many in the industry have been quietly expecting: the chaotic early market is settling into a more measurable, competitive landscape — and Google, xAI, and a handful of nimble startups are positioning themselves as the platforms and...
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Elon Musk’s Macrohard gambit reframes a long-running joke into a formal strategic test: can a coordinated swarm of AI agents, fed by massive model families and hyperscale compute, actually simulate and replace the work of a modern software giant like Microsoft? Musk’s xAI recently surfaced a...
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Thanks — I can do a few different things with that RSM piece (summarize it, rewrite it as a WindowsForum.com feature, produce an in‑depth analysis, etc.). Which would you like?
Options I can do next (pick one or tell me another):
Write a full WindowsForum.com feature (≈2,000+ words...
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Elon Musk’s latest public stunt is equal parts provocation and strategic outline: announced on X as a “tongue‑in‑cheek” name but “very real” in intent, Macrohard is being pitched by Musk’s xAI as a purely AI‑native software company that will use cooperating AI agents to design, code, test...