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Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 preview build sharpens Copilot’s presence in daily workflows with new taskbar animations, drag‑and‑drop content handling, and deeper on‑device AI integration — a set of changes that promise faster, more contextual assistance while accelerating Microsoft’s push to...

Satya Nadella’s blunt admission that Microsoft must “rebuild trust” with its workforce landed at the center of a turbulent week for the company, as months of large-scale workforce reductions and a newly tightened return-to-office policy collided with employee activism and questions about...

Microsoft’s quiet pivot to make artificial intelligence a native, operational layer inside Dynamics 365 marks a decisive shift: AI is no longer an optional add-on but a set of embedded capabilities designed to activate business outcomes, and the success of that activation now hinges as much on...

Artificial intelligence would have told Pete Carroll to hand the ball to Marshawn Lynch. The verdict — blunt, repeatable and nearly universal among modern analysts — is now being echoed by the same generative models that pundits and teams are experimenting with at the edge of NFL operations. Yet...

Satya Nadella’s blunt admission — “we can do better, and we will do better” — landed in the middle of a turbulent week for Microsoft, one in which leadership is publicly reinforcing an “AI‑first” execution tempo even as tens of thousands of employees and broad swathes of the tech press ask...

Oracle’s latest quarter didn’t just surprise the market — it rewrote the playbook for what a legacy enterprise software company can become in an AI-first world. (investor.oracle.com) Background For two decades Oracle was best known as a database and enterprise-software stalwart slowly adapting...

Microsoft has confirmed that OneNote for Windows 10—the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app preinstalled on many Windows 10 machines—will be retired on October 14, 2025, and will switch to a read-only state after that date, meaning you will still be able to view content but will not be able to...

USA TODAY's decision to run every Week 1 matchup through Microsoft Copilot produced a tidy, headline-friendly slate of predictions — and a revealing window into how modern large language models reason about sports: they reward established quarterbacks, prize defensive strength and coaching...

Microsoft's September cumulative for Windows 11 has landed and, rather than being a quiet maintenance release, it mixes visible UI polish, a handful of useful quality fixes and a fresh batch of staged, hardware-gated AI features — with one very practical sting in the tail: the cumulative...

There has been a sharp and measurable shift in how Irish mid‑market executives view artificial intelligence: the proportion who described AI as “over‑rated” or mostly hype has collapsed, firms are moving rapidly to formalise generative‑AI rules for staff, yet anxiety about data privacy has never...

Microsoft’s latest Insider whispers fold AI deeper into the Windows shell: right‑click a picture in File Explorer and you may now see an “AI actions” submenu offering Bing Visual Search, background blur, object erase, and background removal — a small set of micro‑workflows that signal a broader...

Microsoft appears to be preparing a generational Windows refresh that places artificial intelligence at the center of the user experience, with multiple leak streams and community archives pointing to an AI-first platform (codenames such as Germanium and Hudson Valley) and a modular base...

Microsoft has quietly extended Copilot from the browser into the Windows desktop, adding a set of Copilot file actions directly into OneDrive’s Windows surfaces so subscribers can locate, summarize, compare and interrogate files without opening Office or a web browser—a change that reshapes...

ServiceNow’s latest beat-and-raise quarter has refocused the market debate: is the stock priced for perfection or is the company quietly building an AI-first moat that justifies its premium? Recent criticisms — high price-to-sales multiples, competitive pressure from hyperscalers and CRM titans...

Microsoft’s recent narrative — that an AI-first Azure is building an unassailable moat while Windows 11 becomes an “AI platform” — is both materially true and rhetorically optimistic; the data underpinning the claim is strong, but the timeline and some headline figures in the popular bull case...

The S&P 500’s recent ascent has become inseparable from the runaway success of a handful of AI-focused technology giants, and that concentration is reshaping risk, return expectations, and portfolio construction for investors of all stripes. The analysis published by AInvest correctly highlights...

Some of the world’s largest AI labs stand accused of quietly harvesting the world’s recorded music to teach their models how to sing, riff and mimic the voices and styles of living artists — and a newly public dossier compiled by the International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) has...

DuckDuckGo has quietly retooled its paid offering into a one-stop privacy and AI bundle, adding access to higher‑end chat models while keeping the $9.99/month price and the three core privacy protections that first made the subscription notable. Background DuckDuckGo started as a privacy-first...

Vena’s first half of fiscal 2026 has been a clear inflection point: the company announced it has surpassed 2,000 customers worldwide, rolled out a Teams‑native version of its AI assistant, expanded marketplace availability across Microsoft channels, and collected a string of industry honors that...

CSOP’s move from a 10-minute, manual ETF reporting routine to a 30-second, AI-driven workflow is not a minor productivity tweak — it’s a clear example of how cloud-scale generative AI, paired with no-code tooling and developer acceleration, can transform asset management operations overnight...