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Microsoft’s product machine is humming again, but this week’s news cycle—captured neatly on Windows Weekly 971—reads like a study in contrasts: small, welcome reversals for classic Windows annoyances; a headlong sprint by Big Tech into creative AI; the slow, painful recalibration of Microsoft’s...

Samsung and LG used CES 2026 to stage a direct, strategic confrontation: Samsung rolled out an awe‑inspiring 130‑inch Micro RGB flagship that doubles down on scale and color volume, while LG revived and refined the “wallpaper” concept with the ultra‑thin, wireless LG OLED evo W6 — a 9mm‑class...

Satya Nadella’s short, blunt year‑end essay on his new personal blog positions 2026 as a tipping point for AI — not because models will suddenly get smarter, but because product discipline, systems engineering, and societal choice must now turn capability into dependable, measurable impact. In a...

Meta’s purchase of Manus, a fast-growing Singapore-based startup that built a viral “general-purpose” autonomous agent, marks a decisive pivot in the company’s AI playbook and could reshape how intelligent assistants move from chat to real-world execution across billions of social-media users...

ADMANITY’s self‑reported cross‑platform tests say major LLMs consistently produce emotionally flat radio spots — and the company’s PRIMAL AI trademark claims to supply a portable “emotional persuasion layer” that immediately converts informative outputs into conversion‑ready creative across...

Italy’s competition authority has ordered Meta to pause parts of its new WhatsApp Business Solution rules that would have barred rival AI chatbots from operating on the messaging platform, an interim decision that crystallizes a wider regulatory struggle over platform control, AI distribution...

Microsoft’s Azure team announced today that Microsoft has been named a Leader in Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for AI Application Development Platforms — and, according to Microsoft, placed furthest to the right on the Completeness of Vision axis — a recognition the company ties directly to the...

Deepdesk’s new “travel‑friendly” AI layer promises to break a key barrier in scalable CX automation: giving an AI assistant the ability to move across disparate customer‑experience systems, retrieve live context, and return agent‑ready insights without forcing enterprises to rip and replace...

Microsoft has confirmed that its Copilot chatbot will stop responding inside WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, a direct consequence of WhatsApp’s revised Business API rules that bar general-purpose AI assistants — a change that forces users onto Microsoft’s own Copilot apps, the web, and Windows and...

WhatsApp's decision to bar general-purpose AI assistants from its Business API and Microsoft’s confirmation that Copilot will be removed from WhatsApp mark a pivotal moment in how AI assistants are distributed, authenticated, and monetized—and the cutover date is explicitly set for January 15...

Most Australian firms that say they are “using AI” have, for now, stopped at the digital assistant — relying on off‑the‑shelf tools such as ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot rather than building the data, cloud and governance plumbing needed to embed AI into core business processes. Background /...

Nimble Gravity has been named a Microsoft Americas Partner of the Year finalist in the Emerging SI category — a recognition the firm announced in a press release and local coverage that frames the award as validation of its rapid growth, production-grade AI practice, and deepening partnership...

Microsoft has quietly folded a full-fledged search experience into Copilot, reshaping how the assistant surfaces answers and — importantly for publishers — how it credits the sites that powered those answers. The Fall Release brings a dedicated Search mode inside Copilot, more prominent...

Microsoft’s latest push turns Edge into an AI-first browsing surface: Copilot Mode brings conversational voice controls, multi‑tab “agentic” actions, resumable Journeys, and explicit opt‑in privacy controls — all designed to let an assistant do the web for you rather than just summarize it...

Autonomous AI products now live or die by how quickly and safely they learn from real use, not just by the raw power of a foundational model alone — Microsoft’s new “signals loop” framing makes that shift explicit and shows how fine‑tuning, telemetry, and operational speed are converging into...

Microsoft’s short, teasing post — “Your hands are about to get some PTO. Time to rest those fingers…something big is coming Thursday.” — may be the clearest signal yet that Windows 11 is poised to push voice and conversational AI from an accessible add‑on into a mainstream, system‑level...

Microsoft’s hyperscale cloud battle has pivoted from raw infrastructure to who can package, govern and monetize AI at enterprise scale — and the 2025 scoreboard looks less like a runaway and more like a three‑way sprint, with AWS still largest by revenue, Azure riding enterprise AI integration...

atQor has announced that it renewed its Microsoft Azure Expert MSP designation, framing the renewal as proof of continued leadership in secure cloud modernization and AI-ready data platforms—and making an unusual operational claim: the renewal audit was completed in a single day. This...

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...

Apple, Google, and Microsoft are racing to be the platform that powers your next search, email reply, meeting summary, and photo edit — but those conveniences come with sharply different approaches to where and how your data is processed, stored, and potentially reused. A recent ecosystem...