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Seneca Polytechnic has taken a significant step into graduate education with the public launch of its first-ever master’s degree: the Master of Artificial Intelligence Design & Development. The program — positioned as an industry-focused, work-integrated pathway into AI careers — promises deep...

Visionet’s elevation to Star Performer and placement as a Major Contender in Everest Group’s Microsoft Business Applications Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025 signals a clear acceleration in the company’s Microsoft Dynamics 365 practice and a broader competitive shift among mid-tier systems...

The U.S. House of Representatives is moving from outright restriction to a controlled, institution-wide pilot of Microsoft Copilot — a shift announced to reporters and unveiled during the Congressional Hackathon — that will give members and staff staged access to Copilot under what the House...

The U.S. House of Representatives has quietly moved from prohibition to cautious adoption of Microsoft Copilot, announcing that members and staff will be given access to the AI assistant as part of a staged modernization push unveiled at the Congressional Hackathon — a move framed by leaders as...

The House of Representatives has quietly moved from prohibition to adoption: according to an Axios briefing shared with reporters, the House will begin rolling out Microsoft Copilot for members and staff as part of a broader push to modernize the chamber and integrate artificial intelligence...

September’s quiet preview windows at the major cloud providers are shaping up to be one of the clearest signals yet that enterprise AI is moving from model-first experimentation into regulated, operational production—and the changes being previewed are less about raw model accuracy and more...

Microsoft’s Purview team has positioned the product as the glue between governance, security, and responsible AI use inside Microsoft Fabric—announcing a set of targeted updates at FabCon that aim to make data in OneLake and Fabric workloads both safer and more discoverable for analytics and AI...

Dutch education and research network SURF’s Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) of Microsoft 365 Copilot finds persistent privacy and safety gaps that make the service unsuitable for broad use in schools and research institutions — and even after ongoing talks with Microsoft, two of the...

The UK government’s recent trial of AI coding assistants has delivered striking headline figures — developers reporting almost an hour saved per working day, equivalent to roughly 28 working days a year — but the programme also exposes the tough trade‑offs that come with rapid AI adoption in...

Microsoft’s reported decision to license Anthropic’s Claude models into Microsoft 365 — bringing them into productivity features in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook — is the most explicit signal yet that Microsoft plans to move from a single‑vendor AI stack to a multi‑model Copilot strategy...

The week’s tech headlines read like a cross‑section of modern computing: a runaway indie game launch that briefly overwhelmed multiple digital stores, a conservative Linux distribution shipping long‑sought biometric polish, Mozilla experimenting with AI chatbots in the browser sidebar (now...

Thanks to OpenAI’s early consumer push, the generative AI era that reshaped work life began in plain sight — and business users have kept voting with their keyboards. What started as a viral consumer tool has become a persistent presence inside enterprises, while legacy software vendors and...

Microsoft’s new federal bargain is one of those rare deals that looks simple on paper and seismic in practice: deep, governmentwide discounts on Microsoft 365, Azure, Dynamics 365, security tooling and — critically — up to 12 months of Microsoft 365 Copilot for qualifying G5 agency customers...

Satya Nadella’s public showcase of five Copilot prompts crystallizes a new moment in executive work: AI is not just a drafting tool anymore but a context-aware, predictive chief of staff that reasons across calendars, emails, chats and documents to surface priorities, probabilities and prep for...

Microsoft has quietly but decisively moved from being a heavy consumer of third‑party AI models to a company shipping its own, first‑party foundation and voice models — and it has paired those models with an explicit expansion of internal, large‑scale training and inference infrastructure that...

John Arnett’s column about Officer MJ Byrd — a short, human moment under a park tree that ended with two lost children safely returned — is a small, clear rebuke to the breathless extremes of our AI debate: no matter how capable large language models and other generative systems become, there...

Microsoft has quietly shipped its first fully in‑house AI models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marking a deliberate shift in strategy that reduces dependence on OpenAI’s stack and accelerates Microsoft’s plan to own more of the compute, models, and product surface area that power Copilot...

Microsoft’s quiet pivot from partner-dependent innovator to full-spectrum AI builder took a conspicuous turn this week with the public debut of the company’s first in‑house foundation models and voice engines under the MAI umbrella — most notably MAI‑1‑preview and a highly optimized speech model...

Microsoft’s analysis of actual Copilot usage — drawn from roughly 200,000 anonymized conversations — offers one of the clearest snapshots yet of where today’s generative AI is already reshaping work: not in factories or on construction sites, but squarely in the cognitive, language‑heavy heart...

Microsoft’s AI team has quietly crossed an important threshold: the group announced two first-party foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 (a speech generation model) and MAI‑1‑preview (an end‑to‑end trained, mixture‑of‑experts foundation model) — signaling a deliberate shift from Microsoft’s heavy...