ai governance

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. Background / Overview Azure...

A sweeping industry report released this year warns that Microsoft’s Copilot is touching orders of magnitude more sensitive business data than many IT teams realise — with Concentric AI reporting that Copilot accessed nearly three million confidential records per organisation in the first half...

Microsoft's latest Copilot update pushes Office from suggestion to automation: Agent Mode embeds multi‑step AI agents directly inside Word and Excel, while a chat‑first Office Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot promises end‑to‑end document and slide generation — a packaged vision Microsoft calls...

atQor has announced that it has successfully renewed its Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Service Provider (MSP) designation — a high‑bar credential in the Microsoft partner ecosystem — and says the renewal audit was completed in a single day, underscoring the company’s focus on secure cloud...

Vodafone’s latest small‑business video — and the practical advice inside it — is not fluff: it’s a window into how everyday SMEs can use AI now, safely, and with measurable return. The company’s Business.connected episode on AI features founders and consultants who emphasize one clear message...

It’s a sign of the times when enterprise software purchasing — long one of the duller back-office disciplines — becomes a project for generative AI: Onyx, a newly minted startup founded by industry veterans, has built an expert‑backed LLM service that answers Microsoft licensing questions and...

Microsoft’s productivity stack just took another step toward agentic work: today’s rollout of Agent Mode in Excel and Word, plus a new Office Agent available from Copilot chat, promises to let everyday users build complex, auditable spreadsheets and full documents from simple natural‑language...

Microsoft has rolled out AI agents inside Microsoft 365 Copilot — introducing Agent Mode for Word and Excel and an Office Agent in Copilot Chat for PowerPoint — bringing agentic, multi‑step AI assistance directly into the apps users rely on every day. Background Microsoft’s latest update to...

Microsoft’s self-reflection on four decades in Canada frames a simple promise: the company will keep building the cloud, the tools, and the training that let Canadians and Canadian organisations take advantage of AI while protecting data, privacy and public trust. In a new Microsoft Canada...

OpenAI and SAP have announced a high-profile partnership — branded "OpenAI for Germany" — to deliver a sovereign AI service for Germany’s public sector by combining OpenAI’s models with SAP’s Delos Cloud and Microsoft Azure infrastructure, with a planned rollout in 2026 and an initial...

A recent Business Column in the Norman Transcript — “Privacy and computers should go together, Part Three” — picks up the same thread readers have been arguing about for years: the convenience of modern computing increasingly clashes with the privacy expectations of everyday users, and the...

SURF’s updated Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) has moved two of four previously flagged high privacy risks for Microsoft 365 Copilot in education down to medium, but important hazards — notably AI inaccuracy (hallucinations) and an 18‑month retention window for pseudonymized telemetry —...

Microsoft’s decision to “cease and disable” specific Azure cloud and AI subscriptions tied to a unit inside Israel’s Ministry of Defense has forced a public reckoning over how hyperscale cloud platforms, AI tooling, and intelligence work intersect — and it raises immediate, practical questions...

The business world is now visibly split into two camps on artificial intelligence: cautious skeptics who see adoption as overhyped and risky, and pragmatic realists who treat AI as a powerful but manageable productivity lever—and that split is already reshaping strategy, culture, and investment...

Sam Altman’s throwaway‑turned‑benchmark — that a future model such as “GPT‑8” would qualify as true AGI if it solved quantum gravity and could narrate the reasoning behind that discovery — has ignited a fresh round of debate about what counts as artificial general intelligence and what a...

Law firms that once greeted generative AI with skepticism are being won over not by flashy demos but by a pragmatic combination of clear governance, focused pilots, executive sponsorship, and internal “champions” who translate promise into defensible practice. Background The legal profession’s...

South Africans report high familiarity with artificial intelligence and near‑ubiquitous everyday use, but they remain cautious about delegating high‑stakes decisions to machines — and the gap between convenience and trust could shape business strategy, regulation and workplace practice across...