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Microsoft’s new MAI family—MAI‑1‑preview and MAI‑Voice‑1—marks a deliberate pivot from dependency to orchestration: Microsoft is building first‑party foundation models tuned for product speed, cost and audio-first experiences while continuing to route high‑capability workloads to external...

Oracle’s latest quarter didn’t just surprise the market — it rewrote the playbook for what a legacy enterprise software company can become in an AI-first world. Background For two decades Oracle was best known as a database and enterprise-software stalwart slowly adapting to a cloud-first world...

Oracle’s latest earnings didn’t just move markets — they rewrote the rules for how a decades‑old enterprise software vendor can pivot into the center of the AI cloud arms race. Background / Overview In fiscal Q1 2026 (quarter ended Aug. 31, 2025) Oracle reported a set of headline figures that...

Tata Consultancy Services has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C‑DAC) to jointly research and build components of what both organisations describe as India’s sovereign cloud — a domestic, OpenStack‑based cloud stack aimed at hosting...

Microsoft’s latest Canary‑channel experiment pushes intelligence deeper into the Windows shell: a new AI actions submenu in File Explorer lets you right‑click images to run Bing Visual Search, blur or remove backgrounds, and erase objects — all without opening a full editor. This context‑aware...

Microsoft’s latest push asks partners to take a decisive step beyond selling cloud capacity: modernise entire technology stacks, unify messy data estates, and build AI-native applications on Azure — and it is backing that ask with a tightly connected set of program changes, incentives, skilling...

ENGIE Impact’s leap into cloud-native AI shows how a specialist sustainability consultancy can turn mass invoice and supplier data into sharper risk signals and faster client value by running Azure AI Foundry, Azure Databricks, and Microsoft 365 Copilot together in a governed Azure estate. The...

Google’s Gemini app now accepts user-uploaded audio — a long‑requested capability that turns recorded lectures, interviews, podcasts, and meeting captures into first‑class inputs for transcription, summarization, and structured research workflows, while tying those media flows into NotebookLM’s...

Google’s Gemini app can now accept audio uploads — a long‑requested capability that broadens Gemini’s multimodal reach and reshapes how users can transcribe, summarize, and analyze spoken content inside Google’s AI ecosystem. The rollout splits limits between free and paid tiers, extends Gemini...

Rutgers Business School is systematically embedding generative AI into course work across undergraduate and graduate programs, pairing hands-on tool experience with ethics, critical evaluation, and new degree tracks so students graduate with AI fluency that matches employer expectations for the...

Firefox Nightly users can now summon Microsoft Copilot from the browser sidebar — an optional, opt‑in hook that exposes Copilot’s chat, voice and summarization capabilities inside Firefox while reopening a broader debate about privacy, platform boundaries, and the creeping normalization of...

Samsung used IFA in Berlin to make the living room more than a screen — it announced Vision AI Companion, a unified, multimodal AI layer for its 2024–2025 TVs and smart monitors that folds advanced on‑device vision and audio features together with cloud‑backed generative agents such as Microsoft...

Microsoft’s OS has been quietly slimming down: a clutch of once-promising Windows features have been deprecated or removed over the past few years, and a number of little-known tools that almost nobody used are now gone for good—some by stealth, others with a public notice. The tidy list that...

IFA 2025 made one thing unavoidably clear: artificial intelligence is no longer an experimental sidebar at trade shows — it’s the main stage. From conversational TV companions to penguin-like domesticated robots and a self‑flushing cat toilet that promises to log your pet’s health metrics, AI...

Samsung’s Vision AI Companion arrived at IFA 2025 as a deliberate pivot: a unified, multi‑agent AI hub for smart displays that folds on‑device vision features and third‑party conversational agents into a single, remote‑invoked experience designed for the living room and home office alike. The...

Artificial intelligence is no longer a boardroom novelty; it is a strategic frontier most companies feel they must cross — yet too many remain stranded at the shore, gripped by a mix of enthusiasm and uncertainty. In a recent opinion piece, Chris Badenhorst, Head of Azure Core, Data and AI...

Dr. Eunho Lee’s lab at SeoulTech has published a materials‑first strategy for building artificial synapses—organic, electrolyte‑gated transistors whose engineered side chains dramatically improve ion uptake—and at almost the same moment Microsoft pushed deeper into proprietary AI with two...

Samsung and Microsoft have agreed to bring Microsoft Copilot — the conversational AI that lives inside Windows and Microsoft’s cloud services — onto a selection of Samsung’s 2025 smart TVs and Smart Monitors, turning the living room screen into an interactive, voice-first companion that can...

Samsung and Microsoft have quietly moved the next phase of conversational AI out of the pocket and onto the living‑room wall: Microsoft Copilot is now embedded in select Samsung 2025 Smart TVs and Smart Monitors as part of Samsung Vision AI, accessible from Tizen by voice or remote and surfaced...

Microsoft’s Windows lead has just sketched a future in which the operating system becomes ambient, multimodal and agentic — able to listen, see, and act — a shift powered by a new class of on‑device AI and tight hardware integration that will reshape how organisations manage and secure Windows...