artificial intelligence

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...

Artificial intelligence has moved from a dealer’s back office into the hands of everyday shoppers, and the result is a faster, more transparent, and increasingly personalised car-buying experience — a shift CarEdge says is already reshaping how Americans research, price, and purchase vehicles...

This weekend’s Premier League predictions pitched former striker Chris Sutton, entertainer Olly Murs, and an AI run through Microsoft Copilot Chat against one another — a tidy microcosm of modern sports coverage where experience, fandom and data-driven systems collide. The BBC’s predictions...

This week’s product bulletin reads like a map of the retirement, wealth and asset‑management ecosystems shifting from static data feeds and feature updates to agent‑native services and purpose‑built investment solutions — a string of launches that underline three clear themes: data owners...

Morningstar has wired its research and data engines directly into Microsoft’s AI stack, giving licensed users — from advisors to institutional investors — the ability to surface Morningstar’s proprietary investment research, portfolio analytics, and ratings inside Microsoft Foundry, Copilot...

A sweeping, journalist‑led international audit has concluded that mainstream AI chatbots routinely misrepresent the news: roughly 45% of sampled assistant replies contained at least one significant problem, sourcing failures afflicted about one‑third of outputs, and one in five answers contained...

Embee Software’s latest strategic pivot—doubling down on AI-led productivity, cloud optimisation and managed cybersecurity—signals an aggressive move to convert decades of channel experience into a scalable services business focused on Microsoft platforms and recurring revenue. In an exclusive...

Microsoft's Windows leadership has acknowledged a fierce backlash to its latest public framing of the platform: in a short but consequential post that described "Windows evolving into an agentic OS," the company's Windows chief drew a wave of criticism from developers, power users, and...