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November’s tech rhythm is equal parts holiday deals and tectonic shifts: Microsoft’s Copilot is being pushed off WhatsApp after a platform-policy rewrite, Pony.ai is racing to multiply its robotaxi fleet, satellite-powered AI has pointed to a major lithium find in Quebec, Speechify just added...

Microsoft’s Copilot will stop responding inside WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, a hard cutoff tied to a newly rewritten WhatsApp Business API policy that expressly bars third‑party, general‑purpose large language model (LLM) chatbots from using the platform as a distribution channel; Microsoft has...

Microsoft will remove Copilot from WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, after WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, revised its Business API terms to explicitly bar general-purpose AI chatbots from using the Business Solution — a policy change that forces Microsoft, OpenAI and other AI providers to pivot...

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...

The federal government has moved from consultation to a concrete delivery on AI governance with the announcement that it will establish an Australian AI Safety Institute to evaluate emerging AI capabilities, coordinate technical assessments, and recommend legal and regulatory updates — an...

Microsoft’s new framing of the “Frontier Firm”—and the specific ways financial services firms are already using generative AI, domain-tuned models and agentic systems—marks a decisive shift in the Fintech playbook: AI is no longer a point solution but an operating layer that, when combined with...

OpenAI’s own numbers show a scale of risk few users expected: hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT conversations each week contain signs of severe mental distress, and more than a million users per week may be discussing suicidal planning—statistics that have helped propel multiple lawsuits and...

Microsoft’s latest push to give customers more control over where AI work happens marks a pragmatic — and politically sensitive — step toward making generative AI acceptable to highly regulated organisations, but the announcement leaves important technical, contractual, and governance questions...

Meta has formally pushed back against an incendiary copyright suit that accuses the company of pirating thousands of adult films to train its AI systems, calling the allegations conjecture, unsupported, and legally deficient. The dispute — brought by adult‑film rights holders Strike 3 Holdings...

The UAE’s rise to the top of global AI adoption is no accident: nearly six in ten working-age residents now use AI tools in their daily jobs, a level of workplace integration that Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab calls unmatched worldwide and that has shifted the conversation from pilot projects to...

Sam Altman’s recent framing of the coming AGI moment — that it will “come, it will go whooshing by” and won’t feel like the cinematic singularity many expect — has reopened a high‑stakes debate about preparedness, governance, and what “adaptation” really looks like when a technology reshapes...

Sylvan Lake’s council has formally moved from debate to action: at its regular meeting on October 14, 2025 the town unanimously approved an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use Policy that permits staff and elected officials to use only approved, enterprise-grade AI features — specifically Microsoft...

The alarm bells have begun to ring louder across Australia’s political, corporate and education sectors as industry figures warn that the nation is at risk of falling behind in the global race to harness artificial intelligence — and that the consequences for productivity, national...

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a landmark state law on October 13, 2025, that for the first time imposes specific safety guardrails on “companion” chatbots with the stated aim of protecting minors from self-harm, sexual exploitation, and prolonged emotional dependence on AI systems...

OpenAI told European Union antitrust officials that the data and distribution advantages held by Google, Apple and Microsoft are making it harder for the company to compete on a level playing field — a disclosure that lands at the center of an intensifying debate about data dominance, platform...

Chyron’s Toolbox 4 represents a pragmatic, production‑focused refresh aimed at closing the gap between everyday PC/web content and live broadcast workflows by adding SDI/NDI capture, Windows 11 compatibility, full HD output, and a more flexible content‑grabber toolset that producers can...

The surprise ascendance of DeepSeek and Beijing’s accelerated industrial playbook have forced a recalibration of how policymakers, enterprise IT leaders, and security teams describe the U.S.–China technology contest — with some calling it “a new form of Cold War” where artificial intelligence...

PAGCOR’s recent, agency‑wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot signalled a deliberate move: the regulator is not only experimenting with generative AI for productivity gains but is explicitly trying to frame that experimentation inside governance, data protection and operational controls before...

The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation’s recent agency-wide orientation on Microsoft Copilot represents a pragmatic, low-friction approach to bringing generative AI into a high-risk public-sector workplace — one that balances productivity gains with governance controls, but which also...

The pace of change in consumer and enterprise technology has never been higher: this week the industry doubled down on AI-first computing with major model and platform updates, GPU makers pushed a new generation of AI-native graphics into both desktops and the cloud, chip vendors rolled out...