auditing

DataSnipper’s new AI Extractions capability promises to turn the slow, error-prone chore of pulling numbers and facts from messy documents into a faster, traceable workflow directly inside Excel — and the feature is explicitly built on Microsoft Azure’s Content Understanding stack to do it at...

AI chatbots are no longer curiosities — they're a primary information conduit for millions — and a new set of audits shows that when people trust these systems for news, the results can be dangerous, confusing, and institutionally corrosive. Recent independent research led by the BBC and the...

Ever since R2‑D2 chirped across movie screens, science fiction has quietly trained whole generations to expect certain personalities from machines: loyal sidekicks, inscrutable overlords, seductive companions, or tragic mirrors of ourselves. That cultural schooling matters now more than ever...

CPA Practice Advisor’s 2025 Innovation Awards make a blunt, industry‑shifting statement: artificial intelligence has moved from “useful” to essential for modern accounting, audit, and tax practices—an assertion reflected in this year’s winners and finalists, nearly all of which embed agentic or...

KPMG’s push to embed agentic AI into its global smart-audit platform marks one of the clearest demonstrations yet of how generative models and multi-agent orchestration are reshaping professional services — not by replacing auditors, but by transforming what auditors do and how audit work is...

Eliezer Yudkowsky’s call for an outright, legally enforced shutdown of advanced AI systems — framed in his new book and repeated in interviews — has reignited a fraught debate that stretches from academic alignment labs to the product teams shipping copilots on Windows desktops; the argument is...

Microsoft’s decision to stop servicing Windows 10 in mid‑October has turned a calendar item into an operational crisis for many business process outsourcing (BPO) firms — a sector that runs large, tightly controlled desktop estates and handles regulated, high‑value customer data. The technical...

Workday and Microsoft have quietly stepped into the next phase of enterprise automation: they’re building the plumbing to let agentic AI workers — digital agents created in Microsoft’s developer ecosystem — obtain verified identities, join a corporate directory, and be managed alongside human...

The House of Representatives has quietly moved from prohibition to adoption: according to an Axios briefing shared with reporters, the House will begin rolling out Microsoft Copilot for members and staff as part of a broader push to modernize the chamber and integrate artificial intelligence...

Bath and North East Somerset Council used Microsoft Copilot to read and summarise thousands of public comments on Bath Rugby’s proposed 18,000‑seat stadium at the Recreation Ground, folding an AI‑assisted thematic analysis into the officer’s 121‑page planning report that went to councillors...

In a deliberately fictional exercise staged by IPAA ACT, a cabinet decision to replace frontline public servants with AI agents culminates in spectacle and sharp lessons: procurement defaults to a dominant vendor, automated casework produces unexpected harms for vulnerable communities, and an...

Waitaki District Council’s cautious, staff-first rollout of generative AI shows how a small public body can harness large language models for practical gains—while keeping human judgment, privacy safeguards and governance firmly in the driver’s seat. The council’s chief digital officer, Teresa...

Accordance’s public launch this week signals a new phase in AI for tax and accounting: the startup bills itself as an “AI brain” that bundles specialized regulatory knowledge, a multi‑agent reasoning system, and integrations designed for professional workflows — all backed by a recent $13...

Research Solutions’ launch of an AI Rights add‑on for its Article Galaxy platform promises to remove a major legal and operational barrier to enterprise use of generative AI against paywalled scientific literature, offering instant rights verification, one‑click acquisition, and retroactive...

Point B’s announcement that it has been named a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Data & AI (Azure) and awarded the Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization marks a purposeful deepening of the firm’s cloud analytics practice—and it arrives at a moment when Microsoft’s partner credentials carry...

Bath and North East Somerset Council used Microsoft Copilot to read and summarise more than 5,500 public comments submitted on the planning application for an 18,000‑seat stadium at the Recreation Ground — a development that has reignited debates about AI in local government, public consultation...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday delivers a heavy, operationally urgent security package: more than 80 CVEs across Windows, Office, Hyper‑V, Azure components and developer libraries, including eight items Microsoft rates critical and two vulnerabilities that were publicly disclosed before the...

More than a third of New Zealand’s retail investors now report using generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot to inform investment decisions — and a substantial majority of those users say they are satisfied with the results — a shift that is reshaping how ordinary investors...

Microsoft’s latest internal shake-up has collapsed two debates that have run through corporate tech since the pandemic: how much power employers should have over employee speech, and how far the hybrid workplace experiment goes before organizations insist on physical presence as a business...

Microsoft has published advisory guidance tied to CVE‑2025‑55234 that focuses less on a new exploitable bug and more on enabling administrators to find and measure exposure to SMB relay‑style elevation‑of‑privilege attacks before they flip stronger hardening controls. The short form: the SMB...