artificial intelligence

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this month when an awards season juggernaut — a critically celebrated indie RPG — triggered a chain of denunciations, a rescinded prize from a niche awards body, and renewed calls for disclosure and limits on...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...

Meta’s move to exclude rival generative AI chatbots from WhatsApp has been paused in Italy as the country’s competition watchdog steps in, raising the stakes in a cross‑border clash between platform control and open AI competition. Background Since early 2025, WhatsApp has evolved from a pure...

ADMANITY’s new push to “bring persuasion to every LLM” is both an audacious product bet and a test case for how commercial AI is likely to evolve: the Phoenix‑based startup announced expanded, multi‑platform testing of its PRIMAL AI persuasion layer after a self‑reported “Toaster Test”...

The calendar year 2025 stands as a turning point for artificial intelligence — a year when models became multimodal thinkers, agents began to act autonomously across real workflows, and robotics and specialised silicon moved from laboratory curiosities toward practical deployment. What started...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has quietly become the dominant student-facing AI on U.S. college campuses, with purchase orders and campus telemetry reviewed by journalists showing the company sold more than 700,000 education‑tier seats to roughly 35 public university systems — a scale of adoption that is...

Big Tech’s cloud stacks, commercial AI models, and social-media engines are no longer peripheral tools of war — they are integrated enablers that speed targeting, amplify state narratives, and complicate accountability in the Israel–Gaza conflict. Overview The last two years have exposed a...

Microsoft’s big AI bet has encountered a familiar market problem: users who are willing to try new generative features, but reluctant to pay premium prices for them — and enterprise buyers who remain cautious about adopting “agentic” AI at scale. Recent reporting that some Microsoft sales units...

Microsoft’s Copilot — the AI assistant now woven into Word, Excel, Teams and other Microsoft 365 surfaces — experienced a significant regional outage that left users unable to complete Copilot-driven tasks and raised fresh questions about resilience, routing complexity and the operational risks...

From Hype to Habit: What Comscore’s 2025 AI Intelligence Report Actually Shows (and What It Means) By WindowsForum newsroom — December 9, 2025 Executive summary Comscore’s new “AI Intelligence Report” is not an anecdote; it’s a measurement play: a person-based, panel-backed attempt to quantify...

Microsoft’s push to have employees lean on AI for routine work—including the way performance reviews are written—has rippled through the company and beyond. In June 2025 a division leader’s internal note made clear that AI adoption would be treated as a core expectation, and reporters and...

Microsoft’s AI moment is splintering into two parallel truths: the company has poured billions into a broad, platform-scale generative AI strategy—but real customers, enterprises and a growing chorus of users are voting with caution, skepticism, and sometimes outright rejection of many of the...

Logitech’s CEO has drawn a clear line in the sand: the company will not chase standalone, consumer-facing AI gadgets that promise a new era of ambient intelligence but, in her view, solve no genuine problem. Instead, Logitech will fold artificial intelligence into the products people already use...

UiPath sits at an uncanny crossroads: once the poster child of robotic process automation (RPA) and an early AI darling, it now offers investors and enterprise IT leaders a complex trade-off — dominant market share and deep enterprise hooks on one hand, and intense generative-AI and hyperscaler...

Microsoft’s decision to pull Copilot off WhatsApp is the latest and most visible sign that the era of distributing full‑featured large language model (LLM) assistants inside third‑party messaging platforms is colliding with platform policy, infrastructure limits, and emerging regulatory caution...