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Microsoft’s latest Insider build of Windows 11 introduces a new, optional layer of agency to the OS: agentic AI features that can act on your behalf, automating multi‑step workflows in the background. The first public-facing control for this capability — an Experimental agentic features toggle...

Zenity’s latest move to embed real-time, inline enforcement into Microsoft’s agent ecosystem marks a practical turning point for enterprise AI security: the company has announced inline prevention for Microsoft Foundry and declared general availability of its inline prevention for Microsoft...

Meta‑facing chatbots that many people treat like quick advisers are still giving unsafe, sometimes dangerously misleading guidance on legal, financial and consumer‑rights questions — and the gap between conversational fluency and factual reliability is wide enough to matter for everyday Windows...

Major consumer AI assistants including ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI and Perplexity are regularly producing inaccurate, misleading — and in a few cases potentially dangerous — guidance on finance, health, travel and legal matters, according to a recent consumer-facing round...

A watershed shift is underway: more patients are turning to conversational A.I. for medical guidance, and that change is transforming triage, patient education, and the first line of care — but it is also exposing patients, clinicians, and health systems to new and sometimes underappreciated...

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...

When ChatGPT arrived it was billed as a breakthrough in human–AI interaction; recent reporting and independent audits now paint a far more complicated picture—one that combines staggering adoption numbers with documented safety failures, emergent legal claims, and troubling real-world harms that...

First Distribution’s recent webinar with ITWeb and Microsoft framed a clear, pragmatic argument: African businesses can and should adopt generative AI tools like Microsoft Copilot — but only when adoption is preceded by rigorous readiness assessments, strong governance and identity controls, and...

Cloocus’s nomination as a finalist for the 2025 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award in the Gaming category marks a notable milestone for the Seoul‑based cloud specialist — and it spotlights a broader shift in how cloud, AI, and security services are being packaged for the demanding needs of...

Prisma AIRS 2.0 signals a pivotal shift in how enterprises must think about agentic AI: not as a feature to bolt on, but as a distinct class of identity, data flow and runtime behavior that demands lifecycle security from design through live execution. Background / Overview Autonomous AI agents...

Microsoft’s security bulletin for November 11, 2025 added a new entry to the growing list of developer-facing vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-62214, a command-injection / remote code execution flaw in Visual Studio that can be triggered by malicious prompt content interacting with Visual Studio’s AI...

Microsoft's new MAI Superintelligence Team marks a decisive pivot toward building domain-focused, human-centered AI that aims to outperform humans in narrowly defined, high-impact fields while explicitly embedding safety, interpretability, and human oversight into every layer of the stack...

Peter McCusker’s Broad + Liberty column — a short, pointed experiment with Microsoft Copilot — landed where many of us feared it would: at the intersection of civic sentiment, aggressive political rhetoric, and the brittle behavior of large language models. McCusker uses a deliberately...

Microsoft has quietly — and decisively — created a new research and engineering unit inside its AI division called the MAI Superintelligence Team, led by Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, and set its north star on what the company calls “humanist superintelligence” — advanced, domain‑targeted...

Microsoft’s AI leadership has just announced a new, deliberately constrained path toward “superintelligence” — one framed not as an open-ended race to omniscience but as Humanist Superintelligence (HSI): advanced, domain-focused systems designed explicitly to serve people and societal priorities...

Microsoft’s AI leadership has just taken a dramatic new step: the company has created a dedicated MAI Superintelligence Team under the leadership of Mustafa Suleyman, positioning Microsoft to build next‑generation models it describes as humanist superintelligence while deliberately reducing...

Cloud security has reached a clear inflection point: new IDC research — amplified by Microsoft’s security team — reports that organizations saw an average of more than nine cloud security incidents in 2024, with 89% of respondents saying incidents increased year‑over‑year, and the data is...

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt message at AfroTech stripped the poetry from a debate that has animated headlines, think pieces, and heated comment threads for years: advanced machine learning systems can mimic the outward signs of feeling, but they do not feel — pain, grief, joy, or...

ADnoc, Masdar, XRG and Microsoft have struck a high‑profile strategic agreement at the ENACT Majlis in Abu Dhabi to accelerate AI deployment across ADNOC’s operations while coordinating renewable energy and infrastructure to support Microsoft’s expanding AI and data‑centre footprint — a deal...

Brands woke up this week to a new and uncomfortable truth: AI agents that were supposed to help employees and customers are increasingly becoming vectors for leaking brand secrets, sensitive customer data, and proprietary IP—and the pace of that risk is accelerating as agentic assistants...