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Spectrum Networks’ announcement that it has been named a global finalist for the 2025 Microsoft Training Services Partner of the Year award marks a notable moment for a regional training specialist stepping into a global recognition frame—Microsoft’s Partner of the Year program singled out...

Nine regional newspapers owned or managed by MediaNews Group have filed a sweeping 119‑page federal copyright complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, accusing OpenAI and Microsoft of harvesting millions of copyrighted news articles to train the large language...

Nine newspapers owned or managed by MediaNews Group have filed a sweeping federal copyright suit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the tech giants built and commercialized their generative AI products by copying and training on copyrighted journalism without permission — a complaint that...

Digital Dubai marked a milestone in its AI skilling push this week with a reported graduation ceremony for participants in the year‑long AI Skills Programme developed in collaboration with Microsoft — a programme that, by design, aims to embed practical AI capabilities across Dubai’s public...

Google’s quiet tweak to Gmail settings has reignited a debate about consent, data use and the economics of modern AI: personal inboxes — including email bodies and attachments — can now be assessed by Google’s Gemini systems for product improvement unless users take explicit steps to opt out...

Cornerstone’s new integration puts personalized, skills‑based learning and instant knowledge discovery directly inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, promising to move upskilling “in the flow of work” rather than off in separate portals or LMS silos—an important shift at a time when employers and...

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong used the APEC leaders’ stage in Gyeongju to deliver a clear policy imperative: governments must take the lead in preparing workers for the AI transition rather than leaving reskilling and social protection to the market alone. This message — delivered at the...

OpenAI’s sudden, headline-grabbing commitment to buy roughly $38 billion of cloud services from Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reshaped the compute map for generative AI — a strategic pivot that delivers immediate upside for Amazon investors, raises new questions for Microsoft, and crystallizes...

LinkedIn will start using public profile data from members in the European Union and other regions to train its generative AI models — a change that goes live on November 3, 2025 and is enabled by default unless users take action to opt out. Background LinkedIn’s parent company, Microsoft, has...

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...

Microsoft’s terse clarification did what it set out to do: calm the loudest headline — screenshots captured by Gaming Copilot are not used to train Microsoft’s AI models — while leaving a string of technical, transparency, and governance questions unresolved for PC gamers, streamers, developers...

Microsoft’s short, firm clarification — that Gameplay screenshots captured by Gaming Copilot are taken only when a user actively invokes the feature and are not used to train Microsoft’s AI models — settles part of the debate but leaves a larger set of technical and governance questions...

Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot — the Copilot-branded assistant inside the Windows 11 Xbox Game Bar — is capturing on‑screen text from players’ screenshots and, unless users opt out, feeding that text into Microsoft’s model‑training pipeline, with at least some testers finding the relevant “Model...

Microsoft’s elevAIte Indonesia program has crossed the million mark — and then some — turning a national AI-skilling pledge into a rapidly expanding movement that spans classrooms, community halls, universities, and microbusinesses across the archipelago. In eight months the initiative, run in...

Microsoft’s Microsoft Elevate program has reconfigured how charities can access AI: by pairing no‑cost and discounted technology with tailored training, practical toolkits and a skilling roadmap that aims to put Copilot, Azure and credentialed AI skills into the hands of nonprofit staff and...

The Wikimedia Foundation is quietly sounding an alarm: human visits to Wikipedia have fallen in recent months, and the nonprofit says the shift reflects a deeper change in how people seek information online — one driven by generative AI, search-answer features, and social platforms that surface...

QA’s announcement that Microsoft Copilot learning will be embedded across every apprenticeship marks a clear escalation in how vendors, training providers and governments are trying to turn AI from a niche technical capability into a baseline workplace skill. Background / Overview QA Ltd — one...

The business world is now visibly split into two camps on artificial intelligence: cautious skeptics who see adoption as overhyped and risky, and pragmatic realists who treat AI as a powerful but manageable productivity lever—and that split is already reshaping strategy, culture, and investment...

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn will begin using members’ profile information, public posts, resumes and activity to train generative AI models by default in a policy change that takes effect November 3, 2025 — but a new “Data for Generative AI Improvement” toggle in Settings lets you opt out for...

The Office of Personnel Management has quietly opened the federal doors to mainstream generative AI by making Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and OpenAI’s ChatGPT available to its workforce — a move that follows a string of rapid OneGov procurement deals and the launch of GSA’s USAi sandbox, and that...