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...
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Microsoft once again finds itself under the regulatory spotlight, this time in Brazil, where Opera Software has triggered an antitrust investigation by the country’s competition authority, CADE. At issue are old grievances in a new world: the perennial claim that Microsoft leverages its Windows...
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Microsoft’s annual Build conference in Seattle has long served as a glimpse into the future of software development, but this year, the event marked a striking inflection point in the tech industry’s ongoing AI revolution. With more than 3,000 developers and executives in attendance, Microsoft...
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