data governance

Ontario’s public service has quietly become one of Canada’s most active testbeds for Microsoft’s Copilot, with internal presentations reporting more than 15,000 weekly users and an internal “Copilot Chat InsideOPS” page recording 120,000+ pageviews—figures that the government materials describe...

The Shapiro administration has moved from pilot to partnership: the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania announced a newly expanded Cooperative Agreement with Carnegie Mellon University to provide ongoing AI advising, and at the same time the state is scaling enterprise-grade generative AI tools —...

Cloudforce’s claim of being named Microsoft’s 2025 Education Partner of the Year lands as a watershed moment for campus AI — but it also raises the exact questions university IT teams should be asking before they hand a single-vendor orchestration layer control over student, research, and health...

Generative assistants like Microsoft Copilot have become indispensable productivity tools — and that very usefulness is what makes them one of the most consequential insider‑risk vectors modern organizations must face. Overview Copilot and similar GenAI assistants are designed to fetch...

AvePoint’s third quarter fiscal 2025 results landed as a clear operational milestone: total revenue topped $109.7 million, SaaS revenue accelerated to $84.0 million (up 38% year‑over‑year), ARR reached $390.0 million, and non‑GAAP operating income expanded to $24.1 million (a 22.0% non‑GAAP...

Generative AI has stopped being a boardroom curiosity and quietly become a day‑to‑day tool for large organizations — nearly half of surveyed business leaders now use Gen AI daily, roughly four out of five use it weekly, and about three in four firms tracking outcomes report a positive return on...

AI is already listening, watching, measuring and learning from the devices we carry, wear and keep in our homes — and that steady stream of telemetry is reshaping privacy in ways most consumers don’t fully grasp today. Background Everyday objects — from smart speakers and fitness trackers to...

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong used the APEC leaders’ stage in Gyeongju to deliver a clear policy imperative: governments must take the lead in preparing workers for the AI transition rather than leaving reskilling and social protection to the market alone. This message — delivered at the...

AI chatbots have quietly become the spreadsheet power tools I actually use every day — not to replace Excel or Google Sheets, but to make them far less tedious, far less error-prone, and a lot faster to learn. Background Spreadsheets are still the lingua franca of business, education, and...

October’s EdTech headlines read like a rapid-fire test of whether schools, colleges and training providers can move at the same speed as the companies shaping the tools they’ll use: Google rolled Gemini into Miami‑Dade at scale, Microsoft’s new Copilot Teach tools prompted a wave of educator...

MTN’s freshly cloud‑native Enterprise Value Analytics platform, EVA 3.0, is more than a systems refresh — it is an aggressive bet that telecom competition will increasingly be decided by data intelligence, not just radio coverage. The operator says EVA 3.0, rebuilt on Microsoft Azure and...

Microsoft has quietly but decisively given Copilot a voice: the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app now supports real‑time, conversational voice chat on iOS and Android, allowing users to speak naturally, interrupt the assistant mid‑reply, and receive spoken responses — with desktop voice expected...

Microsoft’s plan to let Teams automatically detect when an employee is “in the office” by watching network and peripheral signals has turned a routine product update into a flashpoint for debates about trust, privacy, and how far workplace monitoring should go in the hybrid era. The...

The Sydney Informatics Hub’s recent push to formalize support for generative AI in research marks a pivotal moment for Australian academia: a university core facility is not only teaching researchers how to use large language models and related tools, but is actively building services, tooling...

OpenAI’s new Company Knowledge for ChatGPT promises to turn the chat window into a single-pane, evidence-anchored internal search and synthesis tool that can pull from Slack, SharePoint, Google Drive, GitHub and a growing roster of enterprise systems—available now to ChatGPT Business, Enterprise...

The field of conversational AI has moved from a single-name conversation to a crowded, capability-driven marketplace where multimodality, ecosystem integration, data governance, and cost are the clearest differentiators — and a new generation of chatbots is actively competing with ChatGPT for...