artificial intelligence

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...

Microsoft’s standing in the software industry is less a question of whether it still matters and more a question of how investors should value its mix of steady cash flows, massive scale, and heavy reinvestment into artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure. Overview Microsoft today sits...

The Society of Radiographers has quietly but deliberately reshaped its privacy and technology policy to govern staff use of artificial intelligence, introduce a new learning management system, and formalise a cautious — yet progressive — approach to digital tools that touch member data. The...

AI chatbots have moved from novelty toys to indispensable productivity tools, but no single assistant fits every workflow — and the hunt for the best ChatGPT alternatives in 2025 is now a strategic decision for teams, creators, and IT leaders alike. This feature walks through why users are...

Behind the screen, today's chatbots don’t "think" the way humans do; they stitch together statistical patterns, human-guided preferences, and engineered tool chains into answers that feel like understanding — and that combination is both astonishingly useful and still deeply mysterious...

Lawyers and support staff at top firms are reporting a sharp rise in anxiety: while partners push for AI adoption, many employees fear the technology is quietly reshaping headcount, job design, and the informal apprenticeship that builds legal expertise. Background / Overview The dispute over AI...

Pantone has quietly pushed one of the most ubiquitous tactile standards of design into the world of conversational AI: the new Pantone Palette Generator, a chat-driven assistant embedded in Pantone Connect that promises rapid, forecast‑backed color palettes powered by Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI...

Accenture Ireland has appointed Wendy Walsh as its new Talent & Organisation Lead, a move that signals renewed focus on people-centred transformation as organisations in Ireland grapple with rapid AI adoption, hybrid work models, and the need to reskill at scale. Background Accenture’s Talent &...

Anyscale and Microsoft have launched a co‑engineered, first‑party Azure service that brings Ray’s AI‑native distributed compute into Azure as a fully managed offering, entering private preview on November 4, 2025 and positioned for general availability in 2026. Background Modern AI workloads...

Microsoft’s “create confidently with AI” pitch for Copilot and Designer distills a simple idea: anyone can turn a brief sentence into a usable image, and Microsoft wants that first step to be fast, safe, and integrated into the apps people already use. The company positions Copilot as an...

Microsoft’s AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has taken aim at a conversation now dominating headlines and product roadmaps: the idea of building machines that feel. Speaking publicly at AfroTech and in a high-profile essay and interviews this year, Suleyman argued that attempting to create conscious or...

A steady drumbeat of senior-level moves across India’s consumer-tech and marketing ecosystems — from Info Edge’s AI-led reshuffle to leadership exits at Zivame, X and Flipkart Minutes, and a strategic hire at Uber for Business — signals both consolidation and churn as companies rewire for AI...

Microsoft’s latest earnings made one thing abundantly clear: the company’s future — and investor mood — hinge on the strength of its cloud business, and especially on how Azure converts generative-AI demand into sustained revenue growth and durable margins. Microsoft reported $69.6 billion in...

The Town of Oliver has taken a decisive—if cautious—step toward governing artificial intelligence in municipal operations, asking staff to draft an “appropriate-use” AI policy while temporarily banning the use of open generative AI tools such as ChatGPT for official business and continuing to...