ICON plc announced on June 22, 2026, in Dublin that it has selected Microsoft as a preferred technology partner for a three-year digital innovation and AI investment plan spanning Microsoft 365 Copilot, Fabric, Azure data services, and clinical-trial AI infrastructure. The deal matters less as...
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Novo Nordisk said on May 19, 2026, that it has deployed an internal Azure-based reasoning agent built with Microsoft to help researchers run exploratory clinical analyses in minutes rather than weeks across its governed research data estate. The claim is not that a chatbot has discovered the...
