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Fiserv’s new, expanded partnership with Microsoft signals a decisive push to embed generative AI across a major payments and fintech platform — combining Microsoft 365 Copilot for knowledge workers, deeper use of Microsoft Foundry for AI application development, and existing investments in...

NSF’s life‑sciences auditors cut months of manual work into weeks after partnering with Microsoft to build an Azure AI‑driven auditing agent — a proof‑of‑concept delivered in 12 weeks through Microsoft’s Cloud Accelerate Factory that NSF says halves audit turnaround time and frees scientists to...

Microsoft’s Copilot will stop responding inside WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, after WhatsApp’s owner revised its Business API terms to explicitly bar third‑party, general‑purpose large‑language‑model (LLM) chatbots from operating as primary services through the platform. Background WhatsApp’s...

Arnold & Porter’s arrival in downtown Seattle — spearheaded by longtime local leader Pallavi Mehta Wahi — signals more than another Big Law office opening; it represents a strategic bet on the Pacific Northwest’s innovation economy at a moment when regulation, litigation, and generative AI are...

The debate over whether, when and how to "pull the plug" on artificial intelligence has moved from philosophy seminars into courtrooms, regulator briefings and boardrooms — and the practical answer being argued by lawyers, technologists and regulators is emphatically not a single moment of...

The past two weeks have crystallised a decisive shift: sustainability disclosure regimes are being simplified on paper but hardened in practice — fewer mandatory datapoints, stricter evidential requirements, supervisory tools that operationalise climate risk, and enforcement that treats green...

Focal’s announcement that it will host all Canadian advisor data in Microsoft Azure’s Canada Central region in Toronto crystallizes a growing pattern in financial‑services technology: vertical AI tools are aligning data residency, cloud security, and product functionality to win trust with...

The past two weeks delivered a concentrated wave of regulatory, supervisory and technology-driven changes that push ESG from narrative to audit‑grade disclosure — regulators are simplifying and sequencing mandatory reporting, supervisors are operationalising climate risk with new tooling...

Anita Kotwani’s departure from Dentsu, Marico’s Q2 advertising splurge, the ED’s multi-site action in the Lodha probe, and the formal terms set for India’s Data Protection Board together map a compact but revealing snapshot of Indian corporate governance, advertising economics, regulatory...

Microsoft and Google have unveiled continent‑shaping investments — Microsoft committing roughly $10 billion (about €8.6 billion) to build an AI and cloud hub at Start Campus in Sines, Portugal, while Google has pledged about €5.5 billion for German infrastructure, new data centres and office...

Circularo’s announcement that it has achieved ISO/IEC 27017 certification for its cloud-hosted eSigning platform is a meaningful signal to customers and procurement teams: the company says its cloud deployments on Microsoft Azure (EU and UAE regions) and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in...

Microsoft Teams is now the hub for large swathes of everyday work — chat, meetings, file collaboration, and increasingly AI — but that convenience brings serious governance and compliance risk if left unmanaged. The nine “easy wins” that UC Today outlines are a practical baseline: align Teams...

The past two weeks produced a concentrated wave of ESG developments that push corporate sustainability reporting from a compliance checklist toward audit‑grade governance: European standard‑setters advanced a major ESRS simplification effort, Asia‑Pacific supervisors accelerated practical tools...

Boeing has unveiled the Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer (VAPT), a cloud‑enabled pilot training platform built on Microsoft Azure and powered by Microsoft Flight Simulator, aimed at delivering high‑fidelity procedural rehearsal on laptops and iPad devices and initially targeted at the Boeing...

Microsoft’s decision to apologise and offer refunds after Australia’s consumer watchdog took the company to court marks a pivotal moment in how Big Tech must communicate AI-driven changes to subscription products—and it raises probing questions about transparency, UX design and regulatory...

Microsoft’s plan to let Microsoft 365 Copilot interaction data be processed inside national borders — with India, the United Kingdom, Japan and Australia slated for an in‑country option by the end of calendar year 2025 and a broader rollout to eleven additional countries in 2026 — is a major...

AI has quietly remade the data that matters most inside regulated businesses: everyday conversations with clients and partners have become structured, searchable, and actionable — and that transformation is forcing organisations to choose between innovation and oversight unless they adopt new...

Corporate email signatures are one of the few everyday artifacts that travel outside the firewall every time an employee hits Send — and because they travel so often, they quietly magnify both operational friction and strategic opportunity across Microsoft 365 estates. Petri’s recent piece...

The private-assets floor in Luxembourg has a clear message: AI is no longer an optional experiment — it’s a strategic imperative that fund managers, depositaries and service providers are beginning to operationalise, albeit with caution. At last week’s ALFI private assets conference, front-line...