ai adoption

India’s generative AI market in 2026 looks less like a gentle evolution and more like a full‑force industrial revolution: vast user numbers, aggressive vendor promotions, and a clear split between generalist assistants and narrowly focused specialists that solve real workflow problems. The list...

Most organisations that say they “use AI” still struggle to convert experiments into measurable business outcomes — and the practical lessons from Sigma Software Group underline why the gap is organisational, not just technical. Background / Overview The rush to deploy generative AI (GenAI) and...

Connecticut’s accounting shops are neither waiting for a distant future nor clinging to spreadsheets as a ceremonial relic — they’re actively baking generative AI into the work that once defined the profession’s daily grind. Across the state, firms large and small report using AI for routine...

Sean McCormack’s playbook for modern IT leadership is deceptively simple: know the business, master your time, and push technology where it actually touches people. As CIO of First Student — the North American student-transportation giant rolling out its HALO platform across tens of thousands of...

The moment to stop treating artificial intelligence as a distant threat and start treating it as the environment you’ll do career work inside is now — not next quarter, not when your manager “gets around to” a reskilling program, but today. Background AI’s arrival into everyday workflows is no...

Gold Bond’s experience shows that for many small and midsize businesses, the fastest route to meaningful AI value is not a sweeping platform bet but a string of targeted, tactical wins — a theme that is reshaping how CIOs plan, measure and govern AI adoption across the enterprise. Background /...

Marie Wiese’s recent conversation on the AI Agent & Copilot Podcast crystallizes what many IT leaders already suspect: the technology story of the next three years will be written as much by people and processes as by models and APIs. Her comments—about practical pilots, honest failure stories...

The Game Developers Conference’s latest State of the Game Industry survey has produced an unmistakable headline: more than half of respondents now believe generative AI is doing harm to the games industry. The survey, which collected responses from roughly 2,300 industry professionals, reports...

Microsoft’s new Benchmarks panel inside the Copilot Dashboard gives leaders a way to stop guessing about AI adoption and start measuring it — who’s using Copilot, where they use it, how often they come back, and how your organisation stacks up against similar peers. m]) Background Microsoft has...

Enterprises that want AI to deliver measurable throughput are quietly hiring a new kind of operator: the AI productivity director — a pragmatic, cross‑functional leader whose job is not to chase model research or declare a new C‑suite title, but to convert existing generative AI licenses into...

Microsoft’s next push to make AI useful for organizations isn’t another flashy end-user feature — it’s a measurement platform that promises to turn Copilot adoption into boardroom-ready metrics and actionable operational controls for SaaS teams and IT leaders. Background / Overview Microsoft has...

A brand-new financial year is here, and with it a compact playbook for investors who want to protect capital, harvest opportunity and keep pace with rapid structural shifts — from monetary-policy pivots and bullion rallies to major pension reforms and the practical need to adopt AI at work. The...

Microsoft’s NZ North hyperscale cloud region has moved firmly out of the construction phase and into practical impact — one year after opening it is already underpinning AI pilots, public‑sector modernisation, telco transformation and telehealth services across Aotearoa, while prompting renewed...

Artificial Intelligence is reshaping classrooms, research labs, and study habits — but every quick prompt, revision and “thank you” carries a measurable environmental and operational cost that students, educators and campus leaders can no longer afford to ignore. Background AI tools such as...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has reached a clear inflection point on U.S. college and university campuses: institutions are buying bulk access, students are using the service by the millions, and for the first time in the generative-AI era a single third‑party assistant appears to have outpaced rivals in...

Shoosmiths has confirmed a landmark — and controversial — experiment in behaviour-led AI adoption: staff have been offered an extra £1 million into the firmwide bonus pool tied to a collective target of one million Microsoft Copilot prompts, and industry reporting indicates the firm reached that...

AI use at work has accelerated faster than most managers expected, and the practical consequences are no longer hypothetical: employees are increasingly turning to chatbots, writing assistants, and specialized AI tools to do tangible parts of their jobs, while companies scramble to build policy...

AAG IT’s Sheffield Business Insights Dinner — held a year ago at 118 Mowbray St, Neepsend — was more than a networking supper; it stitched together practical AI, cyber‑security and financial governance advice into a single, actionable evening for UK business leaders, and the lessons from that...

Microsoft’s Americas Partner team has quietly — and strategically — opened a new window into the partner ecosystem with the launch of My AI Journey, a short-form podcast series that spotlights real-world AI adoption inside the Microsoft partner community. The debut episodes, released on December...

Firms turn to cash bonuses and unusual rewards to boost employee AI use Executive summary Across industries — from law firms to pharma to fintech and technology consultancies — employers are increasingly using cash bonuses, points, swag and one‑off prizes to accelerate everyday use of generative...