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The Ninth Circuit’s decision to take interlocutory review of a narrow but consequential question under Section 1202(b) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act — whether plaintiffs must plead an identicality link between protected works and generative‑AI outputs to state a DMCA claim against...

Cloudflare’s new public push forces a blunt question into the center of the AI debate: can a single company that controls how users discover the web also control who wins the AI race by controlling who can see the web? Cloudflare’s dataset and public statements—backed by company blog posts and...

A fresh survey from digital adoption firm Hable reveals a striking paradox at the heart of UK workplace AI adoption: employees report high confidence using AI, yet organisations are failing to match that confidence with training, formal rollouts or strategic planning. The result is a widening...

Microsoft's latest public clarification about how it handles customer data in the age of generative AI is meant to calm a widespread user backlash — but the episode underlines how fragile trust has become when cloud productivity, AI training, and default settings collide...

The UK government’s promise to make free AI training available to every adult is a headline-grabbing commitment that mixes genuine public benefit with significant questions about scope, quality and implementation — and it deserves careful scrutiny before it becomes a policy soundbite rather than...

ESW says it is launching Copilot Ascend™, a role‑based Microsoft Copilot training and enablement program aimed at converting pilot‑stage AI experiments into repeatable, measurable workplace capability. Background / Overview ESW (eSoftware Associates), a US‑based Microsoft partner, published a...

Charities in 2026 face a clear and urgent choice: treat artificial intelligence as an experimental curiosity, or make disciplined, accountable investments in tools and skills that can free up precious staff time and improve service delivery — and there are three practical ways to get started...

The Indian Ministry of Labour & Employment’s recent memorandum of understanding with Microsoft marks a major public‑private step to scale AI‑driven skilling, modernize national job platforms and open tighter links between India’s workforce and global employers—anchoring cloud and AI technologies...

The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into Google’s use of online content to power and train artificial intelligence features, focusing on whether the company has been using publishers’ web pages and YouTube videos without fair compensation or meaningful choice, and...

Spectrum Networks’ announcement that it has been named a global finalist for the 2025 Microsoft Training Services Partner of the Year Award places the Dubai‑based training specialist on an elevated shortlist of Microsoft partners recognized for large‑scale, outcomes‑driven skilling across cloud...

CompTIA has launched CompTIA AI Essentials (V2), a concise, scenario-driven training bundle intended to give non-technical, desk-based employees the practical skills to use generative AI assistants—covering ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini—while also supplying a quick competency...

Spectrum Networks has been named a global finalist in the 2025 Microsoft Training Services Partner of the Year Awards, a recognition that places the Dubai‑based training specialist alongside a short list of worldwide partners Microsoft highlighted for excellence in cloud, AI and Copilot skilling...

Spectrum Networks’ announcement that it has been named a global finalist for the 2025 Microsoft Training Services Partner of the Year award marks a notable moment for a regional training specialist stepping into a global recognition frame—Microsoft’s Partner of the Year program singled out...

Nine regional newspapers owned or managed by MediaNews Group have filed a sweeping 119‑page federal copyright complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, accusing OpenAI and Microsoft of harvesting millions of copyrighted news articles to train the large language...

Nine newspapers owned or managed by MediaNews Group have filed a sweeping federal copyright suit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the tech giants built and commercialized their generative AI products by copying and training on copyrighted journalism without permission — a complaint that...

Digital Dubai marked a milestone in its AI skilling push this week with a reported graduation ceremony for participants in the year‑long AI Skills Programme developed in collaboration with Microsoft — a programme that, by design, aims to embed practical AI capabilities across Dubai’s public...

Google’s quiet tweak to Gmail settings has reignited a debate about consent, data use and the economics of modern AI: personal inboxes — including email bodies and attachments — can now be assessed by Google’s Gemini systems for product improvement unless users take explicit steps to opt out...

Cornerstone’s new integration puts personalized, skills‑based learning and instant knowledge discovery directly inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, promising to move upskilling “in the flow of work” rather than off in separate portals or LMS silos—an important shift at a time when employers and...

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong used the APEC leaders’ stage in Gyeongju to deliver a clear policy imperative: governments must take the lead in preparing workers for the AI transition rather than leaving reskilling and social protection to the market alone. This message — delivered at the...

OpenAI’s sudden, headline-grabbing commitment to buy roughly $38 billion of cloud services from Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reshaped the compute map for generative AI — a strategic pivot that delivers immediate upside for Amazon investors, raises new questions for Microsoft, and crystallizes...