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Every major technological wave inside government starts with the same tension: relief for the overworked, anxiety for the cautious, and a scramble by institutions to catch up with what their people are already doing. The latest DVIDS opinion piece on Microsoft Copilot Chat lands squarely in that...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot move is a classic example of how quickly the company is still rewriting its AI playbook. After expanding Copilot Chat into Microsoft 365 apps for commercial users at no extra cost in 2025, Microsoft is now preparing to pull that convenience back for a subset of large...

Microsoft’s Copilot is moving from helpful assistant to active digital coworker, and Wave 3 of Microsoft 365 Copilot lays out a clear roadmap: long‑running, agent‑style AI that plans, executes, and reports on work across Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and third‑party business apps...

Microsoft has confirmed that a configuration error in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat allowed the assistant to read and summarise emails stored in users’ Drafts and Sent Items — including messages labelled confidential — for several weeks, exposing a blind spot in enterprise controls and reigniting...

Microsoft’s Copilot Chat quietly summarized emails labeled “Confidential,” bypassing the data‑loss protections administrators relied on and forcing a hard assessment of how AI features must be governed inside Microsoft 365...

Microsoft has confirmed that a logic bug in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat allowed the assistant to read and summarize emails labeled “Confidential” from users’ Sent Items and Drafts folders for several weeks, bypassing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) protections that organizations set up to stop...

Microsoft’s flagship productivity AI for Microsoft 365 has a glaring privacy problem: for weeks a code error allowed Copilot Chat to read and summarize emails that organizations had explicitly labelled as confidential, bypassing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) controls and undermining a core tenant...

Corrections has quietly moved from piloting generative tools to policing them: after a small number of staff were found to have used Microsoft Copilot Chat to help draft formal casework — including Extended Supervision Order reports — the department has labelled that behaviour “unacceptable,”...

Microsoft’s December 4, 2025 announcement that it will update Microsoft 365 packaging and list prices starting July 1, 2026 marks a clear pivot: Microsoft is bundling more security, management, and AI-driven capabilities into its core suites — and asking customers to pay for that expansion...

Corrections in New Zealand has moved quickly to reprimand staff after an internal breach of its AI rules, saying use of generative tools to draft formal, personal-information‑bearing reports is “unacceptable” — a development that spotlights how public-sector organisations are wrestling with the...

Microsoft’s programme to train government school teachers in Hyderabad in foundational digital skills and AI, including hands‑on use of Microsoft Copilot, marks a notable push to place classroom educators at the center of India’s fast‑moving AI adoption in education. Reported locally on 25...

Redgrave LLP’s two-part webinar series for in‑house legal and information governance teams — kicking off with “Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat | Key eDiscovery and Information Governance Considerations for In‑House Legal Teams” on December 8 — is a timely, practical briefing that should be treated as...

Microsoft is expanding the reach of its Copilot AI across Microsoft 365 by bringing a no‑additional‑cost Copilot Chat experience directly into Office apps and by launching a lower‑priced Copilot Business tier aimed at small and mid‑sized companies — moves that shift more generative AI capability...

Microsoft has assigned CVE‑2025‑62449 to a path‑traversal / security‑feature bypass in the Visual Studio Code GitHub Copilot Chat extension — a locally exploitable weakness rated CVSS 3.1 = 6.8 (Medium) that Microsoft published on November 11, 2025 and which the vendor marked as addressed in the...

Microsoft and third‑party trackers have published a high‑severity advisory for CVE‑2025‑62222: a command‑injection (remote code execution) flaw in the Visual Studio Code Copilot Chat / agentic AI extension that can be triggered by attacker‑controlled prompt or repository content and, under...

Microsoft’s move to open-source the inline, “ghost text” completions that power GitHub Copilot’s in-editor suggestions marks a major — and potentially game-changing — step toward making Visual Studio Code a fully open-source AI editor, but some important details remain unconfirmed and merit...

Microsoft’s Copilot Chat has moved from a promising sidebar experiment into a full-featured productivity assistant that lives inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote — and, when used correctly, it can shave hours off repetitive tasks while keeping work anchored to your existing...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer an experiment tucked behind a corporate curtain — it has arrived in the mainstream of productivity software, and a wave of vendor-led training is racing to teach organizations how to use it safely and effectively. ONLC Training’s free 90‑minute session...

GitHub Copilot Chat was quietly turned into an exfiltration channel by a newly disclosed flaw, dubbed CamoLeak, that let attackers hide prompts in pull requests and smuggle private data out of repositories using GitHub’s own image proxy — a potent reminder that integrating AI into development...

West Virginia University's Teaching and Learning Center will begin hands‑on workshops the week of Oct. 16 that introduce instructors to Microsoft Copilot Chat as a tool for coauthoring course materials, with sessions designed to show how generative AI can speed the creation of grading rubrics...