Microsoft’s IBC 2025 partner showcase made one thing clear: AI and cloud are no longer experimental addons for media workflows — they are the scaffolding for the next generation of production, distribution, and audience intelligence.
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IBC 2025 was widely framed as a turning point for...
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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...
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The U.S. House of Representatives has quietly moved from prohibition to cautious adoption of Microsoft Copilot, announcing that members and staff will be given access to the AI assistant as part of a staged modernization push unveiled at the Congressional Hackathon — a move framed by leaders as...
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Microsoft, Nvidia and Google now sit at the center of the agentic AI conversation — and if your organization is planning to deploy autonomous, task‑completing agents at scale, you will almost certainly be doing business with one or more of them. Background / Overview
Agentic AI describes systems...
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KPMG’s ascent into Microsoft’s AI Business Solutions Inner Circle for 2025–2026 confirms what clients and partners have already suspected: the Big Four firm has cemented its role as one of the most influential system integrators shaping how enterprise AI is delivered on the Microsoft stack. This...
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Visier’s Vee has been named a Top HR Product of the Year by Human Resource Executive, a recognition that crystallizes how people analytics and generative AI are moving from dashboards into the everyday flow of work—now embedded inside Microsoft 365 Copilot to bring workforce intelligence...
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Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non‑binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) that frames the “next phase” of one of the technology sector’s most consequential partnerships — preserving deep commercial ties while opening the door to multicloud compute, a governance restructure at OpenAI, and...
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Ralph Lauren has quietly moved from runway innovation to conversational commerce with the launch of Ask Ralph, a branded, in-app AI stylist built on Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI platform and rolling out to U.S. Ralph Lauren app users as a shoppable, visual-first shopping assistant. Background
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Albania has just promoted an avatar to cabinet rank: Diella, an AI-driven virtual assistant that will now sit—digitally—in the role of minister responsible for public procurement with an explicit mission to make government tenders “100% free of corruption.”
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Diella first appeared on...
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Ralph Lauren has launched Ask Ralph, a branded conversational shopping assistant built with Microsoft on the Azure OpenAI platform, and the feature begins a staged rollout to U.S. Ralph Lauren app users on September 9, 2025, delivering shoppable, head‑to‑toe outfit recommendations as visual...
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Microsoft’s latest retail play is more than a chatbot update; it’s a deliberate push to turn conversational AI into a revenue-driving, brand‑safe sales channel for merchants while knitting another practical use case into the company’s broader “agentic AI” strategy. The Personal Shopping Agent —...
Ralph Lauren has put a chatbot in the business of taste: Ask Ralph, an in‑app stylist built with Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI, is now rolling out to U.S. app users and promising shoppable, head‑to‑toe looks that translate decades of archive imagery into instant styling advice. The launch is a clear...
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Ralph Lauren has quietly deployed a generative, in‑app stylist called Ask Ralph — an AI‑powered shopping assistant built with Microsoft on the Azure OpenAI platform that delivers shoppable, head‑to‑toe outfit recommendations to U.S. mobile app users and aims to recreate the experience of...
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Ralph Lauren has rolled out Ask Ralph, a conversational AI stylist embedded in the brand's mobile app, delivering head-to-toe, shoppable outfit recommendations that the company says are personalized to users’ prompts and drawn from live inventory. Launched on September 9, 2025, and built in...
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Ralph Lauren has quietly rolled out Ask Ralph, an AI-powered conversational shopping assistant built with Microsoft on the Azure OpenAI platform, embedding a brand-curated stylist directly inside the Ralph Lauren mobile app for U.S. customers and presenting shoppable, head‑to‑toe outfit...
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Ralph Lauren has rolled out a conversational, AI-powered shopping assistant called Ask Ralph — a branded, in-app stylist that uses Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI platform to translate natural-language prompts into shoppable, head‑to‑toe outfit recommendations and visual “laydowns,” and the feature...
Ralph Lauren has launched a branded conversational shopping assistant — Ask Ralph — inside its U.S. mobile app, powered by Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI platform, marking a deliberate move by a heritage luxury label to turn generative AI into a first‑party, shoppable styling experience for customers...
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Ralph Lauren has quietly embedded a branded AI stylist into its mobile app — Ask Ralph — a conversational, shoppable assistant developed with Microsoft on the Azure OpenAI platform that delivers brand‑curated, head‑to‑toe outfit recommendations and in‑app purchase actions to U.S. shoppers...
Ralph Lauren has quietly embedded a branded conversational stylist into its mobile app — Ask Ralph — a generative-AI feature built with Microsoft on the Azure OpenAI platform that returns shoppable, head‑to‑toe visual laydowns and styling advice drawn from Ralph Lauren’s own catalog and creative...
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Microsoft’s IBC 2025 message is unmistakable: media and entertainment companies must move from experimentation to full-scale deployment of agentic AI if they want to become what Microsoft calls a “Frontier Firm” — organizations that combine human creativity with autonomous AI agents to unlock...
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