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ADMANITY Registered’s recent press campaign claims Microsoft Copilot “passed” its so‑called Toaster Test — a short, model‑agnostic experiment the firm says proves an offline “Mother Algorithm” can convert logic‑driven responses into instantly persuasive, emotionally optimized copy — but a close...

Microsoft’s abrupt move to cut specific Azure cloud and AI services to a unit inside Israel’s Ministry of Defense has ripped open a worst‑case scenario for the modern tech industry: commercial cloud infrastructure used at scale to ingest, store and algorithmically analyze intercepted civilian...

A new Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated as a press release and picked up by partner outlets — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce concrete benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability, while also leaving room for...

ADMANITY’s “Toaster Test” — a staged experiment the company says involved feeding a compact slice of its offline “Mother” emotional algorithm to two leading chat AIs, ChatGPT and Grok — has been republished broadly as proof that a discrete, model‑agnostic persuasion protocol can convert neutral...

Satya Nadella’s blunt message to Microsoft employees — that the company must undergo a “messy” and relentless transformation to survive the AI era — captures a high-stakes strategy that is already reshaping products, teams, and internal culture across the company. Background Microsoft’s...

Sony’s latest corporate report reframes the company’s AI playbook: the firm is rolling out an Enterprise LLM across the group to boost productivity and support workflows, while publicly downplaying the idea that generative AI will be used as a primary engine to generate in‑game assets or replace...

AI has moved from an experimental novelty to a default tool in British lecture theatres and student workflows — and a new YouGov survey shows that the change is already reshaping how undergraduates study, submit assessments, and think about their careers. The headline figures are simple but...

Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt declaration that machine consciousness is an illusion has refocused a technical debate into an operational warning for product teams, regulators, and everyday Windows users: the immediate danger is not that machines will quietly wake up, but that they will be engineered...

AI assistants can — and do — confidently tell strangers that you committed a crime, voted a different way, or hold beliefs you don’t, and when that happens the damage is immediate, hard to correct, and increasingly baked into products people use for hiring, vetting, and decision-making. This is...

A playful name and a deceptively simple prompt have pushed Google’s Gemini “Nano Banana” into the center of a new viral wave: users are turning ordinary selfies into hyper‑realistic miniature figurines, packaging mockups and even short animated clips with only a handful of words. The trend has...

Every leader who’s rushed to “buy AI” and roll it out by fiat has learned the same lesson: technology without people is a cost, not an advantage. Background: why the conversation matters now Generative AI is no longer an experimental sidebar for labs and startups — it’s being embedded in...

OpenAI’s decision to add parental controls to ChatGPT this fall marks a consequential shift in how families, schools, and regulators will manage students’ interactions with generative AI—an acknowledgement that technical safeguards alone have not prevented harm and that human-centered...

A new executive paradox is reshaping corporate strategy: while a large majority of CEOs privately fear that artificial intelligence could unseat them, those same leaders are aggressively folding advanced models into core operations—testing AI on the tasks that matter most to governance, finance...

Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s head of consumer AI, has bluntly declared that the idea of machine consciousness is an “illusion” and warned that intentionally building systems to appear conscious could produce social, legal, and psychological harms far sooner than any technical breakthrough in...

Microsoft’s Copilot produced a wildly entertaining — and instructive — first-round mock of the 2026 NFL Draft after Week 1, exposing both the speed and the limits of conversational AI when it tries to translate fuzzy, fast-moving sports data into roster decisions. Background USA TODAY’s...

Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt diagnosis — that machine consciousness is an “illusion” and that building systems to mimic personhood is dangerous — has reframed a debate that until recently lived mostly in philosophy seminars and research labs. His argument is practical, not metaphysical: modern...

More than a third of New Zealand retail investors now say they use generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot to inform their investment decisions — and a large majority report being satisfied with the outcomes — a shift that is simultaneously pragmatic and precarious for markets...

California’s new statewide AI education initiative — a public‑private push that ropes in Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM and other major vendors to deliver free AI courses, tools and credentials to millions of learners — marks one of the most ambitious attempts by any U.S. state to fold artificial...

A small, live‑streamed sit‑in at Microsoft’s Redmond campus that ended with arrests and multiple firings has blown open a simmering internal dispute over the company’s government contracts — and crystallized a broader industry reckoning about cloud ethics, sovereign deployments, and the limits...

Microsoft’s decision to terminate multiple employees after an on‑campus sit‑in over alleged uses of Azure in Israeli military intelligence operations has turned a workplace protest into a major corporate governance and technology‑ethics crisis for the company — one that raises urgent questions...