ai governance

Microsoft’s reported decision to integrate Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 into Microsoft 365 marks a deliberate and consequential step away from a single‑provider AI strategy and toward a multi‑model, standards‑based future for enterprise productivity tools. This move — first reported today by...

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs has quietly moved from talk to trial: a beta AI-powered search is now live on the DVA website, the agency has published an AI transparency statement, and small-scale pilots — including an internal Microsoft Copilot trial and a proof‑of‑concept claims tool...

Microsoft has quietly but meaningfully shifted the balance of power between autonomous AI agents and enterprise defenders: Copilot Studio now supports near‑real‑time runtime security controls that let organizations route an agent’s planned actions through external monitors (Microsoft Defender...

Microsoft has added a near‑real‑time enforcement layer to Copilot Studio that lets organizations route an AI agent’s planned actions through external monitors — including Microsoft Defender, third‑party XDR vendors, or custom in‑tenant policy engines — and receive an approve-or-block verdict...

Gartner’s message at its recent IT Symposium keynote was blunt: AI is no longer a niche experiment — it is seeding itself into every corner of technology management, and CIOs must treat it as an organizational operating reality rather than a vendor-driven fad. This framing — repeated by Gartner...

Rutgers Business School is systematically embedding generative AI into course work across undergraduate and graduate programs, pairing hands-on tool experience with ethics, critical evaluation, and new degree tracks so students graduate with AI fluency that matches employer expectations for the...

As organizations race to exploit generative AI and broaden their third‑party ecosystems, a startling pattern is emerging: mass adoption without adequate visibility is creating a cascade of security, compliance, and financial risks that many firms are poorly equipped to handle. New survey data...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer a peripheral promise — it’s being stitched into the very fabric of Dynamics 365 ERP, turning static record systems into conversational, predictive, and action-capable assistants that can shorten workflows, reduce manual errors, and free human teams to focus on...

Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has moved from built‑in guardrails to active, near‑real‑time intervention: organizations can now route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors that approve or block those actions while the agent is executing, enabling step‑level enforcement that ties existing...

Microsoft has quietly paused the rollout of its in‑app Copilot for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) as it rethinks how AI should sit inside one of the most conservative, security‑sensitive tools in the Microsoft stack. Background / Overview Microsoft shipped a preview of Copilot in SSMS as...

Microsoft’s Copilot has evolved from a curious chatbot experiment into a sprawling, multi-surface productivity platform that now sits in Windows, Edge, mobile apps, Microsoft 365 and Azure tooling — and its capabilities span conversational drafting, multimodal image and audio generation, in‑app...

Artificial intelligence would have told Pete Carroll to hand the ball to Marshawn Lynch. The verdict — blunt, repeatable and nearly universal among modern analysts — is now being echoed by the same generative models that pundits and teams are experimenting with at the edge of NFL operations. Yet...

The AI you keep open in a browser tab is doing more than answering queries — it's broadcasting something about how you think, what you value, and how you want the world to work. A recent cultural riff that maps people to their preferred models — from OpenAI’s GPT‑5 users to xAI’s Grok fans and...

AI is already everywhere in the enterprise — and the biggest short-term risk may be that most employees don’t even realize they’re using it. Background The conversation about AI risk has, until recently, centered on sophisticated threats: algorithmic bias, model explainability, intellectual...

Microsoft’s AI team has shipped two first‑party foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — a move that signals a deliberate strategic pivot from being primarily a host and integrator of external models toward building proprietary AI infrastructure optimized for Microsoft’s product...

Artificial intelligence has gone from boardroom buzzword to an urgent operational question: executives know AI matters, but too many organisations are frozen at the starting line — unsure how to prioritise use cases, estimate costs, or keep data and compliance under control. Chris Badenhorst of...

Artificial intelligence is no longer a boardroom novelty; it is a strategic frontier most companies feel they must cross — yet too many remain stranded at the shore, gripped by a mix of enthusiasm and uncertainty. In a recent opinion piece, Chris Badenhorst, Head of Azure Core, Data and AI...

Artificial intelligence has become the corporate obsession of 2025 — simultaneously promising transformational gains and producing widespread paralysis at the point of first step, argues Chris Badenhorst of Braintree as organisations struggle to move from enthusiasm to execution. Overview...

CSOP’s push to turn hours of manual, error-prone work into seconds-long automated workflows shows how Azure AI and GitHub Copilot can reshape asset management — but the numbers, governance demands, and hidden costs behind that transformation deserve as much scrutiny as the glossy case study...

The UK Department for Business and Trade’s three‑month pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot returned a cautious but informative verdict: users reported high satisfaction and clear wins on text‑based tasks, yet the measurable productivity gains were small, use‑case dependent, and offset in places by...