ai governance

New Horizons’ decision to embed Microsoft Copilot training directly into its Microsoft Office course lineup marks a clear shift in how enterprise learning providers are trying to close the gap between AI access and everyday use. The company—operating under the Educate 360 family—announced that...

Glean’s move from “Google for enterprise” to the invisible intelligence layer under every workplace AI is not a product tweak — it’s a strategic bet that could rewrite how companies adopt, govern, and scale generative AI across the business. Background: how we got here and why the layer matters...

Microsoft’s neat framing is simple and urgent: the era of “better answers” — where large language models serve mainly as glorified search-and-summarize tools — is yielding to something fundamentally different, and that difference matters more for business outcomes than model accuracy alone. The...

GitHub has opened a technical preview of Agentic Workflows — a new way to run AI agents inside GitHub Actions that promises to extend repository automation from deterministic CI/CD tasks into a continuous AI paradigm where agents act on events, triage issues, review pull requests, and even...

Capita’s decision to put Microsoft Copilot at the front line of its recovery plan for the Civil Service Pension Scheme is a striking gamble: it promises faster triage, automated summarisation and smarter prioritisation for an inherited backlog that has already created real hardship for retired...

The Department of Corrections in New Zealand has publicly reprimanded a small number of staff for using Microsoft Copilot Chat to assist with formal casework — including Extended Supervision Order reports — calling the behaviour “unacceptable,” launching a privacy risk assessment, and tightening...

Gentoo has quietly started the operational phase of a migration away from GitHub by placing its primary ebuild repository on Codeberg and inviting contributions there — a deliberate, community-driven move shaped as much by technical caution as by a principled resistance to platform-driven AI...

The University of Georgia has quietly entered the national conversation about generative AI on campus by launching a student-facing AI pilot program, a move that signals a shift from prohibition toward guided integration — but one that also raises immediate questions about privacy, pedagogy...

The University of Georgia has launched a campus AI pilot program for students, marking the latest chapter in a nationwide push by colleges to move beyond blanket bans and toward guided, institution‑level adoption of generative AI tools — a shift that promises productivity and new learning...

The advice industry is at an inflection point: firms are pouring resources into digital advice engines and AI-driven tools, yet multiple surveys show a notable majority of investors still want a human adviser involved in their financial life — a gap that is reshaping product roadmaps, adviser...

Corrections has quietly moved from piloting generative tools to policing them: after a small number of staff were found to have used Microsoft Copilot Chat to help draft formal casework — including Extended Supervision Order reports — the department has labelled that behaviour “unacceptable,”...

Corrections in New Zealand has moved quickly to reprimand staff after an internal breach of its AI rules, saying use of generative tools to draft formal, personal-information‑bearing reports is “unacceptable” — a development that spotlights how public-sector organisations are wrestling with the...

Aramco’s non‑binding Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft signals a concrete push to move industrial artificial intelligence from pilot projects into core operations, pairing Saudi Arabia’s oil‑and‑gas titan with one of the world’s largest cloud and AI platforms to pursue sovereign‑ready...

When Bill Gates and Charles Simonyi began talking about “softer software” in the early 1980s, they did not reject intelligence — they rejected mythology. Their idea was simple and practical: build programs that learn from users, adapt over time, and serve as partners rather than oracles. That...

The University of Pittsburgh has quietly built a broad, institution‑backed toolbox of generative AI services and training aimed at researchers, instructors, and staff — and that progress has exposed the exact paradox universities face in 2026: access and capability are expanding faster than most...

AI is here now — and for public servants in New Zealand that is not a slogan but the starting point for a major program of system change, risk management and capability building that will permanently reshape many behind-the-scenes jobs in government. Background / Overview The Government Chief...

Milwaukee County is already using artificial intelligence in small but concrete ways — and a county supervisor has pushed the question into the open by asking for annual, board-level reporting on what systems are in use, how they’re implemented, and what outcomes they produce. The request...

The long-running feud between John Donovan and Royal Dutch Shell has entered a new, digitally amplified phase: a deliberate campaign of feeding decades of archival material into multiple public chatbots and publishing the divergent outputs as a form of public provocation. This “bot war” reframes...

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...

The short disclaimer on royaldutchshellplc.com — “This is not a Shell website” — is more than a legal hedge: it is the hinge of a public experiment that mixes satire, archived grievances, and generative AI outputs, and it forces a practical question for IT and communications teams alike: what...