ai governance

OpenAI’s GPT-5 launch was staged as a Google-friendly moment — Gmail and Google Calendar were shown on-screen — but the quiet, rapid work under the hood handed Microsoft a far broader, more consequential prize: deeper GPT-5 integration across Teams, SharePoint, GitHub, Copilot, and Azure that...

A Mission to Bring the Clean Energy Future Subtitle: How a Microsoft Garage hackathon project — now a commercial workstream — is using generative AI to break permitting bottlenecks and accelerate the global energy transition By: WindowsForum Staff Writer Lede: A Microsoft Hackathon prototype...

Microsoft and Google are not selling "chatbots" so much as they are weaponizing generational artificial intelligence to deepen platform revenue, raise switching costs, and turn productivity into a recurring, high-margin business line — a reality that is already reshaping enterprise IT budgets...

iManage’s latest update represents a significant step toward bringing explainable, traceable AI into the daily workflows of knowledge professionals, delivering a mix of interoperability, natural-language search, and a native AI assistant designed to keep answers grounded in an organization’s...

GitHub’s CEO publicly defended a controversial internal Microsoft memo that urged managers to factor employees’ use of Copilot‑style tools into performance reflections, calling the guidance “totally fair game” and reframing the conversation as learning and mindset rather than blunt surveillance...

Microsoft’s Copilot family and developer tools have been upgraded to run OpenAI’s newly released GPT‑5 across consumer and enterprise surfaces, bringing a unified “smart” model-routing approach, deeper reasoning, and larger context windows to everyday productivity, code generation, and custom...

The knives are out in Silicon Valley: within hours of Microsoft rolling OpenAI’s GPT-5 into its product stack, Elon Musk publicly warned Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella that “OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive,” setting off a public skirmish that crystallizes a widening strategic fault line...

Microsoft’s security lead, David Weston, has painted a future in which Windows listens, sees, and acts like a digital coworker — and where the traditional mouse and keyboard feel as antiquated as MS‑DOS does to today’s young adults. This bold vision is rooted in Microsoft’s push for agentic AI...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud has become the focal point of a landmark investigation that alleges Israel’s elite signals-intelligence unit, Unit 8200, migrated massive volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications into a bespoke, segregated Azure environment—creating an AI-assisted, cloud-backed...

GitHub’s top executive has publicly defended a controversial Microsoft memo that urged managers to factor employee use of internal AI tools into performance reflections — a move that has reignited debate over workplace AI mandates, measurement, and culture at one of the industry’s most visible...

NTT DATA’s new global business unit for Microsoft Cloud marks a clear and ambitious step to turn enterprise AI promise into large-scale production deployments, pairing NTT DATA’s consulting heft with Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Agent Service and Copilot capabilities to deliver Agentic...

Microsoft’s Copilot for Windows 11 has quietly crossed a major threshold: the consumer Copilot experience now offers a free, GPT‑5‑powered “Smart mode” that dynamically routes queries to the right model for the job, bringing deeper reasoning and longer context handling to everyday Windows users...

Microsoft’s internal analysis of roughly 200,000 anonymized Copilot conversations has delivered a stark, counterintuitive message: the next wave of AI disruption is targeting knowledge work—writers, translators, editors, customer service agents, and even some technical roles—far more visibly...

NTT DATA’s new, dedicated global business unit for Microsoft Cloud formalizes a major strategic bet: the systems integrator is consolidating Microsoft-focused sales, delivery and engineering into a single, AI-first organization designed to move agentic AI and cloud modernization from pilots into...

NTT DATA’s move to create a dedicated Microsoft Cloud business unit for the Middle East, Africa and beyond marks a clear strategic bet: concentrate global Microsoft expertise, certifications and delivery muscle under a single, outcome‑focused organization to accelerate cloud modernization and...

Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI offering is changing the calculus for enterprises that want cutting‑edge generative AI without the legal, security, and operational headaches that have historically kept the technology in research labs. The service packages OpenAI’s top models inside Azure’s...

NTT DATA’s new global Microsoft Cloud business unit crystallizes a strategic bet: one of the world’s largest systems integrators is consolidating Microsoft-aligned sales, engineering and delivery into a single, AI-first organization designed to move agentic AI from narrow pilots into regulated...

Microsoft’s ecosystem just received one of the most consequential AI upgrades in recent memory: OpenAI’s GPT-5 is now embedded across Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI Foundry—promising deeper reasoning, longer context, stronger coding assistance, and an...

xAI’s Grok 4 — the company’s most advanced reasoning model — is now open to free-tier users worldwide, albeit with limits, feature restrictions, and a clear commercial tug-of-war shaping how, when, and for whom the model will actually be useful. The move, announced on xAI’s channels and widely...

NTT DATA’s new global business unit for Microsoft Cloud signals a clear strategic shift: the systems integrator is consolidating Microsoft-focused sales, delivery and engineering resources into a purpose-built organization designed to move enterprise AI from pilots into production at scale while...