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The U.S. House of Representatives has quietly reversed a year‑and‑a‑half‑old prohibition on Microsoft Copilot, approving a pilot rollout that will put Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat into the hands of thousands of House staffers — a move that signals both a major vote of confidence for...

Cloud HQ’s US$4.8 billion commitment to a six‑building data center campus in Querétaro and Nvidia’s headline-grabbing capital moves — a US$5 billion stake in Intel and an up-to‑US$100 billion partnership with OpenAI — are not isolated headlines; they are connected beats in a single global story...

Microsoft has disabled specific Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions used by a unit of Israel’s Ministry of Defense after an expanded internal review found evidence supporting elements of investigative reporting that alleged the platform was being used to ingest, store and analyze large...

A new Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated as a press release and picked up by partner outlets — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce concrete benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability, while also leaving room for...

Windows 11 is being pitched as more than a cosmetic update — it is positioned as a security-first platform that can both protect modern endpoints and unlock new productivity and management opportunities for businesses of all sizes. The latest messaging from industry outlets and vendor materials...

The rapid rollout of generative AI across knowledge work — from embedded assistants like Microsoft Copilot to large multimodal systems such as Google Gemini — has moved sensitive corporate data from guarded repositories into conversational prompts and model outputs, creating new vectors for...

Microsoft has begun quietly recruiting Windows 11 users into a new, opt‑in pilot called Windows AI Labs, an in‑OS sandbox for testing experimental AI features that first appeared as a sign‑up prompt inside Microsoft Paint and which Microsoft describes as “a pilot acceleration program for...

Satya Nadella’s public admission that artificial intelligence could run Microsoft into the ground — and that even long-standing franchises like Office and Windows may not be safe — is not a bogeyman headline but a strategic admission from the company’s CEO that the firm’s next decade will be...

The Salvation Army UK & Ireland’s recent adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot marks a deliberate, user-centered push to reduce administrative burden and refocus staff time on frontline work—an evolution that combines secure Microsoft cloud foundations with careful change management, practical...

The University of Oxford will provide free, campus-wide access to ChatGPT Edu — powered across the institution by OpenAI’s GPT‑5 — marking the first UK university to make the education-tailored version of ChatGPT available to all students and staff as part of a five‑year strategic partnership...

Cluster Reply and Riverty have announced a production-grade, Microsoft‑backed omnichannel customer service platform delivered in an accelerated 100‑day rollout that consolidates voice, chat and email into a single Dynamics 365 interface and deliberately embeds Microsoft Copilot Studio as the...

The manufacturing sector — long defined by assembly lines, shift rosters, and physical labor — is now at the intersection of a new debate: do AI tools truly deliver sustainable productivity gains for the modern workforce, or do they create a creeping dependency that erodes core skills and raises...

After decades of promises that never quite fixed Windows Search, Microsoft has finally shipped a working semantic search layer to Windows 11 — but it’s arriving in a very specific way: behind the Copilot+ hardware gate, previewed to Insiders, and baked into both the system search surfaces and...

Workday and Microsoft have announced a practical, identity-first integration that lets organizations register, verify, and govern AI agents alongside human employees by linking Microsoft’s agent runtime and identity tooling with Workday’s new Agent System of Record (ASOR), enabling agents built...

Cluster Reply’s rapid, Microsoft‑backed rollout for Riverty — delivered into production in just 100 days — marks a clear, practical example of how an AI‑first, human‑centric customer‑service platform can be assembled using Dynamics 365, Dataverse and Microsoft Copilot tooling while remaining...

The U.S. House of Representatives has moved from prohibition to experimentation with generative AI: leadership announced a managed, year‑long pilot that will place Microsoft’s Copilot assistant inside House systems and issue up to 6,000 one‑year licenses to staff—an institutional test with...

PrintVis’ new Capacity Optimization feature, announced as an AI-powered planning add‑on that uses Microsoft Copilot, promises to reshape how print operations balance machine workloads and respond to changing production priorities — delivering the potential for higher utilization, fewer...

Satya Nadella’s blunt message to Microsoft employees — that the company must undergo a “messy” and relentless transformation to survive the AI era — captures a high-stakes strategy that is already reshaping products, teams, and internal culture across the company. Background Microsoft’s...

The contours of the modern Executive MBA are shifting faster than most curricula can keep up: AI is no longer a future elective tucked into an optional module, it’s becoming an operational competency that executive programs are expected to deliver as a core outcome. Recent industry and academic...

The U.S. House of Representatives has quietly moved from prohibition to pilot: House leadership announced a managed, one‑year rollout that will give thousands of House staffers access to Microsoft Copilot as part of a controlled experiment to modernize office workflows and test AI in a...