artificial intelligence

PayPal’s latest flurry of partnerships — powering Microsoft’s new Copilot Checkout, adding free DIY tax filing via April, expanding digital gift‑card cashback with Blackhawk Network, and plugging PayPal Direct Deposit into Paychex’s Flex Perks — is an unmistakable push to turn the wallet from a...

Hubtel IT’s decision to expand headcount by 25% and set an ambitious turnover target of more than £2.5 million for 2026 marks a deliberate pivot by a regional managed‑services firm to build commercial value around artificial intelligence and cybersecurity while consciously balancing human-led...

NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang has given the AI debate a new, combustible metaphor — “God AI” — calling the idea possible someday but placing it on “biblical” or even “galactic” timescales, and his remarks have reopened a high‑stakes conversation about corporate incentives, realistic timelines for...

Microsoft just flipped the script again: AI everywhere, Xbox doubling down on subscriptions, Windows folding Copilot into the OS, and MSFT trading at headline-making levels — but beneath the hype there’s a straightforward strategic thesis and a set of concrete execution risks that every Windows...

Employers are buying the tools of an AI-powered workplace faster than employees are comfortable using them, Windows users are rethinking their OS choices after Windows 10’s end-of-life, and a string of product and education updates shows the Microsoft ecosystem — from Excel to Copilot to partner...

Algolia’s new partnership with Microsoft signals a decisive shift in how product data will power the next generation of AI-native shopping — moving real-time, retailer-approved attributes (pricing, inventory, enriched metadata) into agentic surfaces like Copilot, Bing Shopping, and Edge so...

Shopify’s new Agentic Storefronts and the co‑developed Universal Commerce Protocol mark a decisive step toward making AI assistants not just discovery surfaces but full shopping environments — letting Google’s Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT and other agents find, present and complete...

Alphabet’s rerating over the past year — powered by Gemini, a booming Google Cloud, and a willingness to spend at scale — has turned a dependable ad machine into a high‑stakes, capital‑intensive AI play that now demands closer, metric-driven scrutiny from investors and IT decision‑makers...

Microsoft Azure has quietly become the default backbone for enterprise IT, and by 2026 the platform’s role in cloud computing, AI, and hybrid infrastructure is the primary reason demand for Azure skills and services is higher than ever. The shift away from on-premises hardware toward elastic...

HEGLA‑HANIC’s new glass365 platform brings an industry‑tuned Microsoft Copilot into the heart of glass order entry, promising to turn hours of manual data entry into seconds of automated drafting—while keeping production teams firmly in control of every confirmation step. The system is built on...

ASUS’s CES 2026 haul — eight Innovation Awards across six distinct product categories — is a clear, public-facing signal that the company is staking its brand on a mix of on-device AI, pro‑grade creative tools, sustainability messaging, and a hard push into high‑end gaming displays. The honors...

Satya Nadella has quietly signaled a pivot in the global AI debate: move past the “slop vs. sophistication” slog, treat AI primarily as a cognitive amplifier, and focus 2026 on building systems and product designs that deliver measurable, real‑world value rather than chasing headline model...

CES 2026 feels like it will be another turning point for the television industry — not because every manufacturer will promise brighter panels or higher refresh rates, but because they will quietly commit to something far more consequential: true, measurable energy optimization built into TVs as...

Satya Nadella’s plea to “stop calling AI ‘slop’” is less a PR flourish than a strategic reset: the Microsoft CEO is urging a shift from headline-grabbing model demos and mockable outputs toward engineered, instrumented systems that deliver measurable human benefit — even as independent evidence...

The start of 2026 has produced an unexpected subplot to the Premier League season: the weekly predictions contest run by BBC Sport — fronted by pundit Chris Sutton — is now being outscored by an artificial intelligence, with Microsoft Copilot Chat topping the leaderboard and taking another...

Samsung and Google are teaming up to bring Google Photos natively to Samsung smart TVs, rolling out an initial “Memories” experience in March 2026 with broader AI-driven creation and personalized slideshow features arriving later in the year. Background Samsung has steadily pushed its TVs beyond...

Cloud service providers have quietly become the engine room of a resurgent global digital advertising market — supplying the raw compute, managed AI, and real-time data plumbing that let platforms, retailers, and streaming services scale programmatic bidding, personalization, and measurement at...

The gaming industry’s simmering debate about generative AI erupted into public view this month when an awards season juggernaut — a critically celebrated indie RPG — triggered a chain of denunciations, a rescinded prize from a niche awards body, and renewed calls for disclosure and limits on...

Microsoft’s new “AI study buddy” messaging crystallizes a turning point: generative AI is no longer an experimental add‑on for students — it’s a first‑class study tool baked into mainstream productivity apps, capable of processing text, images, and even voice to create personalized study guides...

Microsoft’s engineering gamble — to use AI to rewrite millions of lines of legacy C and C++ into Rust by 2030 — landed squarely in the spotlight this winter after a months‑long string of Windows 11 malfunctions and a formal Microsoft support advisory that traced the outages to XAML registration...