artificial intelligence

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. Background The...

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...

Microsoft’s position in the software industry is defined less by a single product than by a trio of connected businesses — Productivity & Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing — and the recent Benzinga snapshot comparing Microsoft to an eclectic peer group makes that...

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...

Elon Musk says he wants to build a purely AI-run software company—cheekily named Macrohard—to take direct aim at Microsoft’s dominance, and he picked August 22, 2025 to make the promise public. The pitch is audacious even by Musk standards: assemble a swarm of specialized AI agents that can...

Microsoft’s recent earnings and Benzinga’s automated competitor snapshot together paint a picture of a software powerhouse that is both dominant and vulnerable — dominant because of unmatched scale in cloud and productivity; vulnerable because the market is pricing aggressive AI monetization...

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...

A small but highly visible standoff at Microsoft’s Redmond campus this week crystallized a wider crisis for the company: employees confronting management over allegations that Microsoft’s cloud and AI technologies have been used by the Israeli military to store and process mass surveillance data...

Satya Nadella’s internal memo bluntly reframes Microsoft’s next act: the century-old “software factory” that Bill Gates imagined has served its purpose, but in the era of generative AI it is no longer enough — Microsoft must become an “intelligence engine” powered by AI, security, and quality...

Microsoft’s position as the industry bellwether is undeniable: massive scale, diversified revenue streams, and a bold pivot into AI and cloud computing have put the company on a premium trajectory—but the headline comparisons published in the Benzinga automated industry snapshot deserve careful...

Headline: When the Chamber Teaches AI: What Logansport’s Workshop Means for Small Businesses Deck: On Aug. 15, 2025 the Logansport Cass County Chamber of Commerce packed a room for an introductory AI workshop. That turnout — and the questions that followed — shows small and medium businesses are...

A single‑plaintiff lawsuit filed in San Diego is challenging Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support for Windows 10, arguing the cutoff amounts to forced obsolescence designed to drive customers onto Windows 11 and new AI‑optimized hardware—and asking a court to force Microsoft to keep...

The market’s obsession with a tight cluster of AI-exposed mega-cap stocks has shifted from curiosity to conviction, and in the latest earnings cycle that conviction was tested — sometimes rewarded, sometimes exposed — as Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon and Tesla produced results that crystallize both...

Microsoft appears to be testing a new AI layer for Windows 11’s taskbar: references to a “Taskbar Companion” and “agentic companions” have been found in recent preview and server builds, suggesting Microsoft is experimenting with making the taskbar an entry point for proactive, context-aware AI...

GitHub’s chief executive, Thomas Dohmke, has publicly backed a controversial internal Microsoft memo that urged managers to reflect on employees’ use of internal AI tools as part of performance conversations — calling the practice “totally fair game” and framing AI fluency as part of company...