The private-assets floor in Luxembourg has a clear message: AI is no longer an optional experiment — it’s a strategic imperative that fund managers, depositaries and service providers are beginning to operationalise, albeit with caution. At last week’s ALFI private assets conference, front-line...
Microsoft’s Copilot has been reported to have “passed” ADMANITY’s so‑called Toaster Test — a zero‑shot experiment that ADMANITY says turned neutral product copy into emotionally persuasive sales language in a single pass — and the surrounding claims expose a new fault line in generative AI: the...
HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has retooled its development platform with Kainos and Microsoft Azure, turning a slow, paper‑centric modernization programme into a developer‑friendly, AI‑enabled platform engineering practice that the organization says has dramatically reduced service...
A new wave of research and government trials is forcing a reckoning: the promise of generative AI as an unalloyed productivity booster is fraying at the edges, and workplace realities — from clogged inboxes to shaky ROI — show that these tools are as likely to cost time and trust as they are to...
The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) has taken a cautious, governance‑first step into workplace AI: on September 30 it ran an agency‑wide Microsoft Copilot orientation for staff, introducing Copilot Chat’s productivity features while explicitly teaching how to use AI safely...
OpenAI’s recent chapter reads like a high‑budget tech drama: dazzling user numbers and massive funding on one hand, and a bruising product backlash, rising costs, and strategic confusion on the other. A forceful critique circulating online argues that OpenAI is “just another boring, desperate AI...
PAGCOR’s recent agency-wide Copilot masterclass framed AI not as a silver-bullet productivity hack but as an organisational change problem that must be married to governance, data protection and enforceable admin controls.
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In a virtual session delivered during Development...
ServiceNow’s new AI Experience is the latest bold attempt to re‑center enterprise work on a single, agent‑driven interface — but the company’s ambitious demo reel and governance promises now collide with the mundane realities of integration, data quality, and user habit, making real adoption the...
A UK tax tribunal judge has openly acknowledged using generative AI to produce draft material for a published ruling—an explicit, carefully documented instance that crystallises the legal profession’s urgent debate over when, how and under what safeguards courts and tribunals should use tools...
The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation’s recent, agency-wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot marked a clear and deliberate shift: embrace generative AI for day-to-day productivity while anchoring adoption to governance, data protection, and administrative controls. The online briefing...
Theta Lake’s latest AI Governance and Inspection Suite brings capture, inspection, and retention controls tailored to generative assistants — explicitly calling out Microsoft Copilot and Zoom AI Companion — promising to close a fast-growing compliance gap for regulated organisations that are...
CanXP AI’s announcement that it has launched what it calls “Canada’s first sovereign AI ecosystem” marks a notable moment in the country’s rapidly evolving AI landscape — but the claim deserves close scrutiny. The startup’s initial public release positions CanXP as a Canadian-built...
The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation’s recent agency-wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot represents a pragmatic, low-friction approach to bringing generative AI into a high-risk public-sector workplace — one that balances productivity gains with governance controls, but which also...
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Microsoft’s latest Copilot update isn’t a small UI tweak — it’s a deliberate shift toward agentic work inside Office, where multi-step AI agents plan, execute, validate, and iterate inside Excel, Word, and Copilot chat to produce spreadsheets, documents, and slide decks. This “vibe working” push...
A sweeping industry analysis released this month warns that Microsoft’s Copilot — the productivity AI now embedded across Microsoft 365 — is touching orders of magnitude more sensitive corporate data than many IT teams realize, with one vendor-backed study reporting nearly three million...
Preservica has launched a targeted practitioner workshop series to teach archivists, records managers and information professionals how to apply human‑centric AI to archival enrichment, capture, long‑term preservation and discovery — a hands‑on program that promises practical skills, Microsoft...
Grand Traverse County is asking commissioners to approve a near-$400,000 renewal of its Microsoft 365 subscription and — crucially — to add 100 Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses as part of a controlled pilot, a move that crystallizes how local governments are balancing productivity gains from...
CrowdStrike’s appointment of Amjad Hussain as Chief Resilience Officer signals a deliberate shift from reactive security posture to enterprise-wide reliability and operational engineering — a move that expands the company’s leadership playbook as it leans into AI-powered, cloud-native...
Grand Traverse County is poised to approve a sweeping set of technology investments that will accelerate cloud migration across multiple departments, add 100 Microsoft Copilot AI seats, and launch a formal planning process for a new consolidated justice center — moves that collectively mark a...
Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry now lists xAI’s Grok 4 Fast SKUs—grok-4-fast-reasoning and grok-4-fast-non-reasoning—giving enterprises an on‑platform path to run Grok’s long‑context, tool‑enabled models with Azure’s governance, enterprise SLAs, and integration surface.
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