data governance

Microsoft’s Copilot has moved from an experimental sidebar to a baked‑in productivity partner — but the reality of using it day‑to‑day is more complicated than the glossy demos suggest. The promise is simple: draft faster, analyze smarter, and get routine work off your plate. In practice...

Microsoft’s latest demonstrations and customer-facing updates bring a simple but powerful idea into sharp relief: you can ask an AI to research a subject, auto-create a branded PowerPoint deck, and then iterate conversationally until the slides are presentation-ready. That end‑to‑end workflow —...

S&P Global used its appearance at the Raymond James Institutional Investor Conference to deliver a clear message: artificial intelligence is not a sideline experiment but a central engine for growth, margin expansion, and product innovation across the company’s data, workflow and ratings...

AI is already reshaping factories from the shop floor to the executive suite—enabling personalized products at scale, automating recurring workflows, and shrinking the gap between design, procurement, and production. What used to require manual coordination across departments can now be...

The reality of enterprise AI in 2026 feels less like a clean transition and more like a long, messy handoff: vendors and stock markets are racing to crow about agentic breakthroughs and token consumption, while CIOs and CTOs on the ground are quietly admitting that adoption — not model size — is...

Architects are treating artificial intelligence less like a speculative toy and more like a practical studio colleague: from rapid visual ideation and on-the-fly code checking to internal chatbots that harvest firm memory, AI is changing how buildings are imagined, evaluated and delivered — and...

AT&T’s expansion of its Connected Spaces portfolio into enterprise and manufacturing scenarios signals a purposeful push to move IoT from simple sensor kits into a platformed, AI-enabled edge architecture — but the announcement also raises important questions about cloud choice, edge compute...

Artificial intelligence is no longer a theoretical talking point for marina operators — it showed up in force at the Association of Marina Industries Conference & Expo in Daytona Beach, drawing packed rooms and sparking practical conversations about how AI can cut paperwork, improve safety, and...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly added a toggle that allows the assistant to harvest “Microsoft usage data” from other Microsoft properties — and that toggle appears to be enabled by default for many users, meaning Copilot can seed its Memory and personalization features with signals from Edge...

Microsoft’s framing of a single, unified security platform as the antidote to AI’s expanding attack surface is no longer rhetoric — it’s rapidly becoming product strategy, roadmap, and go‑to‑market reality for enterprise defenders. At a recent Microsoft AI‑focused event, senior product leaders...

Microsoft's Copilot has quietly added a default-on privacy toggle that lets the assistant pull product usage signals from other Microsoft services — and anyone who values control over their data should treat that change as a wake‑up call and audit their Copilot settings right now. Background /...

The government’s plan to roll Microsoft’s Copilot and other AI tools deeper into England and Wales’s courts marks a decisive shift: routine tasks from transcribing hearings to summarising judgments and scheduling cases will increasingly be handed to algorithms as ministers promise faster justice...

Advocate General Athanasios Rantos told Europe’s top court on February 26, 2026 that the European Commission’s sweeping document demands in its probes of Facebook are lawful, proportionate and properly safeguarded—an opinion that, if adopted by the Court of Justice, will hand regulators a major...

Kagool today announced that SparQ (Version 2.3) is SAP‑certified for clean core with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, a development the vendor says will let organisations automate governed SAP→Azure data pipelines while preserving the integrity of the SAP digital core. This certification — presented by Kagool...

CData’s recent stretch into the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem marks a clear pivot: the company that spent years building universal connectors is now selling not just access to data, but the context that makes that data usable by agents and AI assistants in production. The launch of...

Microsoft’s February 2026 wave of Excel updates cements the spreadsheet as Microsoft’s primary battleground for embedding AI into everyday knowledge work, with a steady stream of Copilot improvements, new import and data functions, and developer-facing enhancements that push Excel from a...

Kagool’s SparQ has been formally recognised by SAP’s Integration and Certification Center as SAP‑certified for clean core with SAP S/4HANA Cloud — a milestone announced on February 24, 2026 that positions the platform as a governed bridge between SAP’s digital core and Microsoft Azure analytics...

Anthropic’s latest push into the workplace is not another flashy chatbot — it’s a practical redesign of how an AI assistant plugs into the systems people already use every day, and that shift changes the calculus for enterprise IT, legal, and productivity teams alike. Background Anthropic...

Microsoft’s Copilot Studio now offers xAI’s Grok 4.1 Fast in preview, opening a new lane in the multi‑model ecosystem for enterprise agent builders. The addition—available today in early access environments for United States‑based makers and off by default until an organization administrator...

Employers are waking up to a new kind of workplace hazard: AI notetakers that keep listening after people have left, create searchable transcripts of casual or sensitive remarks, and then disseminate those records automatically — sometimes to the entire team. Background AI notetakers — services...