artificial intelligence

AI upskilling has moved from an HR talking point to a workplace imperative as employees across industries race to learn generative AI tools, enterprise copilots, and the human skills needed to use them responsibly. (axios.com) Background The latest industry data shows a striking surge in demand...

As South Africa’s Class of 2025 moves into the final stretch of its National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams, educators and students are reaching for a new set of study tools: generative artificial intelligence. Local reporting from The Citizen quotes Centennial Schools’ director of academics...

Law firms are experimenting with artificial intelligence at a rapid clip, but according to recent reporting and industry surveys, widespread, fully governed production deployments remain the exception rather than the rule—a reality shaped less by technical immaturity than by ethical, regulatory...

Firefox’s latest release delivers the kind of practical Windows-focused refinements power users have been asking for — and a high-profile AI tie‑in that will keep privacy wonks and enterprise admins debating for weeks. Background / Overview Mozilla’s rapid-release cadence means the browser you...

The path from AI hype to steady, measurable value is rarely a straight line; New Era Technology’s conversation with UC Today — led by Kristian McCann and Steve Daly — lays out a pragmatic playbook for moving organizations beyond AI disillusionment and into sustained Copilot adoption. The central...

Saudi Arabia’s deserts are rapidly being repurposed into one of the world’s most aggressive canvases for hyperscale data center expansion, a strategic pivot that combines vast land, cheap and increasingly green power, direct subsea connectivity, and state-backed capital to attract the biggest...

The debate Kepler Cheuvreux set out in its note—“Is AI truly a boon for the entire IT industry, or could it also be a curse?”—captures a growing fault line across technology markets: enormous, record-breaking infrastructure and R&D spending is colliding with an unsettled monetization pathway and...

Satya Nadella’s practical, CEO‑level approach to AI boils down to a simple playbook: use AI to compress routine synthesis and surface decision‑ready evidence, but couple that capability with disciplined governance, measurement, and human oversight. In late August 2025 Nadella published five...

The debate over whether artificial intelligence will devour the U.S. power grid has moved out of academic journals and into boardrooms, utility commission hearings, and consumers’ monthly bills—and the conversation is finally demanding honest numbers, not hype. Recent reporting has made two...

Crimson’s briefing for Housing Digital makes a persuasive case that social housing providers who have already adopted Microsoft Power Platform can—and should—move well beyond simple forms and automations to deliver measurable, tenant-centred improvements across repairs, tenancy management...

There has been a sharp and measurable shift in how Irish mid‑market executives view artificial intelligence: the proportion who described AI as “over‑rated” or mostly hype has collapsed, firms are moving rapidly to formalise generative‑AI rules for staff, yet anxiety about data privacy has never...

AI chatbots are answering more questions than ever — and, according to a de‑anonymized NewsGuard audit released in September 2025, they are also repeating falsehoods far more often: roughly one in three news‑related replies contained a verifiable false claim during the August 2025 test cycle...

AI chatbots are now answering more questions — and, according to a fresh NewsGuard audit, they are also repeating falsehoods far more often, producing inaccurate or misleading content in roughly one out of every three news‑related responses during an August 2025 audit cycle. (newsguardtech.com)...

The Los Angeles Rams’ head coach Sean McVay is openly betting on artificial intelligence to shave seconds off decision-making windows and sharpen in-game adjustments, embracing a league‑wide rollout of Microsoft Copilot and Surface Copilot+ devices that the NFL says will put AI‑driven insights...

Microsoft’s position in the software industry today is defined by a rare combination of enormous scale, accelerating cloud-and-AI revenue, and a conservative balance sheet — a profile that helps explain why the company is being valued like a growth platform even as some headline ratios appear...

Amazon’s cloud business is no longer the unambiguous growth engine it once was; recent quarters have exposed a gap between scale and momentum that has competitors seizing narrative advantage and enterprise mindshare. Background: the claim that started this debate The Analytics Insight piece...

The last Windows Weekly episode landed like a mixtape of outrage, optimism, and technical quibbling — a brisk tour through Microsoft’s week that touched on a campus lockdown, Windows 11 change-management headaches, Microsoft 365 and OneNote transitions, a sweep of AI news, several...

The largest technology companies are weathering a volatile market not because the case for them is uncomplicated, but because the economics of artificial intelligence have tilted the strategic balance in their favor: giant, cash-rich platforms can underwrite the infrastructure, talent and...

Westcon‑Comstor’s new partner summit, staged with Microsoft and billed as a targeted accelerator for cloud, AI and security adoption, signals a deliberate push to convert channel capacity into continent‑scale transformation for African businesses. Background Westcon‑Comstor has deep roots as a...

Microsoft sits squarely at the center of the modern software industry: colossal scale, accelerating AI monetization, and a balance sheet that lets it spend aggressively on cloud infrastructure — but the company’s market multiples, peer comparisons, and some widely circulated metrics deserve...