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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s message to the financial services sector was blunt and unequivocal: embrace automation, scale AI responsibly, and treat technology as the primary lever to lift New Zealand’s productivity and competitiveness. Speaking alongside Financial Services Council chief...

Microsoft has just flipped a switch in the AI assistant playbook: Copilot Tasks moves Microsoft’s Copilot from answering questions to doing work for you — spinning up its own cloud PC and browser to plan, execute, and report on multi‑step workflows you describe in plain English. Background...

Microsoft's latest move turns Copilot from a conversational helper into an autonomous worker: Copilot Tasks promises to accept natural‑language instructions, spin up its own browser and compute environment, and perform multi‑step work in the background — scheduling, interacting with web pages...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot iteration aims to stop asking what you want and start doing it for you: Copilot Tasks promises a natural‑language, scheduled, and background-capable to‑do list that autonomously plans, executes, and reports back—while still asking for permission before money or...

Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt 12–18 month timetable — that “most, if not all” white‑collar tasks performed at a computer will be fully automated by AI before the middle of 2027 — landed like a grenade in boardrooms, policy forums and recruiter Slack channels this week, and for good reason: it...

Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt timeline—“most of those tasks will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months”—is not a fringe prediction: it came from the CEO of Microsoft AI in an interview this week and has immediately reshaped how policy makers, corporate boards, and knowledge...

Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, told the Financial Times that "we're going to have a human‑level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks" and predicted that most white‑collar tasks — the work people do sitting at a computer as lawyers, accountants, project managers or...

Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt timeline — that most white‑collar tasks could be “fully automated” within the next 12–18 months — has jolted boardrooms, policy tables, and workforces because it compresses a decades‑long debate about AI’s impact into an acute, actionable window. Background The comments...

When two seasoned SOC builders set out to fix what they saw as an industry design flaw, the result was not another point product — it was a platform that reframes how managed service providers (MSPs) deliver Microsoft-native security at scale. ContraForce, founded in 2021 by veterans from Intel...

The Puget Sound’s decades-long boom looks unmistakably different: regional job growth has stalled and, by one measure, gone into reverse — forcing Seattle and its neighbors to confront an uncomfortable question about what comes after the tech‑driven “prosperity bomb.” The Puget Sound Regional...