ai governance

The legal profession has built its ladder on repetition: junior lawyers learn by doing, hardened mid-level associates become managers of people and process, and partners emerge with judgement sharpened by thousands of small, often thankless tasks. That ladder is now cracking under the weight of...

West Midlands Police’s decision to block Microsoft Copilot after an AI-generated error helped justify a contentious ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans laid bare a painful intersection of operational policing, community trust, and unchecked generative‑AI use—and it should matter to every IT leader and...

Microsoft Canada’s latest “Agents of Change” vision does more than sell software—it stakes a strategic claim: AI is a generational opportunity for the country, one that can save lives, rebuild public services, and add significant economic value if organizations pair technology with governance...

A year into the Adopt, Test, Monitor framework for CPA firms, the practical truth has hardened: some AI capabilities are ready for firm‑wide deployment, others are ripe for disciplined experimentation, and a small but influential set of agentic and domain‑specific technologies belong squarely in...

Microsoft’s new Data Security Index frames a clear but urgent proposition: organizations must accelerate AI-driven innovation while fundamentally rethinking how they discover, govern, and protect the information that fuels that innovation. The 2026 report — based on survey responses from more...

Microsoft’s playbook for bringing AI into city halls is deliberately unglamorous: don’t rip out core systems, embed intelligence into the tools people already use, and bake governance and compliance into the data layer so cities can scale from pilot to production without blowing up budgets or...

Microsoft’s latest public framing of enterprise AI — “Frontier Transformation” built on a foundation of Intelligence + Trust — is both an escalation and a consolidation of the company’s strategy for selling AI into the enterprise. The message delivered in the company’s official blog post is...

A new University of Sydney analysis shows Microsoft Copilot’s AI‑generated news summaries systematically under‑represent Australian local and independent media, favoring large national and international outlets instead — a pattern that risks diverting referral traffic, eroding byline visibility...

College administrators are leaning into AI chatbots as quiet partners—using them to parse regulations, draft communications, summarize enrollment trends and even stress‑test strategy—but the rapid expansion of that “shadow” use is colliding with legacy privacy rules, brittle governance and a...

Pharmaceutical companies are reporting that artificial intelligence is already cutting measurable time from clinical trials and the heavy paperwork that surrounds regulatory submissions — not by inventing new drugs overnight, but by streamlining the “messy middle” of development: site selection...

Artificial‑intelligence tools that once lived only in research labs and sci‑fi scripts are now quietly reshaping how lawyers do the work of law — from first drafts and contract triage to courtroom filings — and the consequences are already material for firms, judges and everyday Windows users...

British banks and finance firms are quietly reshaping their recruitment priorities for 2026 — moving beyond pure data science and cloud expertise to actively recruit behavioural scientists, psychologists, lawyers and ethicists to run and police the AI systems that increasingly power the City...

Microsoft’s latest lifecycle moves have quietly — and in some cases not so quietly — tightened the noose on on‑premises SQL tooling and monitoring, forcing many organizations to rethink long‑standing architectures and operational contracts. Two separate but complementary actions define the...

The European Union’s AI adoption story in 2025 is a study in contrasts: rapid consumer uptake and platform consolidation on one hand, and wide geographic and sectoral unevenness, governance gaps, and measurement noise on the other. New Eurostat and Eurobarometer releases show roughly one in...

Artificial intelligence on Android has moved from novelty to necessity: the current crop of mobile apps — from generalist chat assistants to citation-aware searchers and powerful image generators — now offer real productivity and creativity tools you can carry in your pocket. The roundup...

A fresh round of independent audits has delivered a blunt message to anyone treating chatbots as authoritative assistants: conversational AI is useful, but still unsafe to trust without verification. A UK consumer test of six mainstream chatbots gave the best performer — Perplexity — roughly a...

Researchers working with large language model (LLM) agents report that personality-like behavior can arise spontaneously from simple, repeated social interactions — a result with immediate implications for product design, enterprise governance, and end‑user trust in conversational AI. The...

The past two weeks have crystallised a clear regulatory and market signal: sustainability reporting is being simplified on paper while simultaneously being hardened in practice — fewer mandatory datapoints, tighter evidential expectations, operational supervisory tooling, intensified enforcement...

The Northwest Territories government says it has no plans to create a standalone AI policy for the public service, relying instead on a high‑level generative AI guideline released in May 2025 and existing information‑management rules — a stance that has prompted praise for caution from some...

Microsoft’s sudden spike in search and social activity on January 23, 2026 boiled down to two overlapping storylines: an operational incident that disrupted Microsoft 365 and Outlook for large numbers of users, and a concentrated burst of AI‑centric headlines — executive soundbites, model and...