The path from AI hype to steady, measurable value is rarely a straight line; New Era Technology’s conversation with UC Today — led by Kristian McCann and Steve Daly — lays out a pragmatic playbook for moving organizations beyond AI disillusionment and into sustained Copilot adoption. The central...
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New Era Technology’s pitch — that the gulf between opportunity and capability in the Middle East’s digital economy is closing — is no longer just marketing copy; it’s a blueprint for how regional enterprises can modernize ERP, accelerate user adoption, and begin to harness generative AI across...
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In a deliberately fictional exercise staged by IPAA ACT, a cabinet decision to replace frontline public servants with AI agents culminates in spectacle and sharp lessons: procurement defaults to a dominant vendor, automated casework produces unexpected harms for vulnerable communities, and an...
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Ukraine’s finance teams are now facing a hard truth: the next leap in working‑capital effectiveness and month‑end certainty will come from properly chosen, securely deployed AI — not from another spreadsheet macro or longer close calendar.
Background: why this shortlist matters now
Nucamp’s 2025...
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Every leader who’s rushed to “buy AI” and roll it out by fiat has learned the same lesson: technology without people is a cost, not an advantage.
Background: why the conversation matters now
Generative AI is no longer an experimental sidebar for labs and startups — it’s being embedded in...
Albania has publicly elevated an artificial intelligence program named Diella into a cabinet-level role — charging the virtual minister with overseeing public procurement in a bid to stamp out a problem long identified by Brussels as one of the main obstacles to Tirana’s EU accession ambitions...
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When a government website begins to expose machine-readable metadata in its HTML, it’s not a trivial cosmetic change — it is a deliberate technical decision with consequences for search, data reuse, transparency, and the way downstream services and mashups can consume official information. In...
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A joint Aston University–University of Leeds partnership has secured a £3.4 million Research England Development Fund award to build the Artificial Intelligence Researcher Development Network Plus (AI.RDN+), a four‑year programme that will map how publicly available AI tools (from ChatGPT to...
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This week’s AI headlines — from a fresh congressional bill that would reshape how high‑performance chips are sold, to the U.S. government’s rollback of an earlier export-control framework, and Microsoft’s quiet decision to split Office 365’s AI supply between OpenAI and Anthropic — have combined...
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Microsoft has quietly begun preparing the hardware and operational scaffolding to stop being a pure buyer of frontier AI models and instead build — and run — its own in‑house models at scale, telling employees it will invest heavily in dedicated chip clusters while keeping the OpenAI partnership...
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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 packaging of its agent-building tools — now split into Copilot Studio Lite and the Copilot Studio Full Experience — is less a rename and more a strategic reframe: the company is clarifying who these tools are for, where they run, and how enterprises should govern them. The...
Anthropic has rolled out an optional Memory capability for Claude that is now available to Team and Enterprise plan customers, enabling the assistant to retain and recall project- and work-related context across sessions while giving admins and users controls to view, edit, and disable what the...
Research Solutions’ launch of an AI Rights add‑on for its Article Galaxy platform promises to remove a major legal and operational barrier to enterprise use of generative AI against paywalled scientific literature, offering instant rights verification, one‑click acquisition, and retroactive...
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Monotch has made its TLEX® Interchange available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, opening a fast path for public authorities, integrators, and infrastructure owners to deploy a standards-aligned, cloud-native data exchange engine for connected mobility and C-ITS projects without building...
Microsoft’s enterprise AI push has reached a new milestone with Microsoft 365 Copilot for Business now positioned as a paid, tenant-grade add‑on that embeds generative AI across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and a growing set of agent-driven automation tools — and with that promise...
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When the first “employee” of a startup is an AI agent, everything that founders, investors, and HR teams thought they knew about building organizations is suddenly negotiable — from who gets hired and why, to how decisions are made, who owns accountability, and what leadership looks like in...
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Microsoft used the Goldman Sachs Communicopia + Technology Conference to lay down a clear, product‑level road map for how it expects AI to reshape the enterprise — centering that plan on Microsoft 365 Copilot, a multi‑model infrastructure called Azure AI Foundry, and a “front end as platform”...
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ISDI’s new partnership with Microsoft turns generative AI from classroom theory into a tangible career asset for Executive MBA students, embedding agent-building and Copilot-powered workflows directly into the school’s flagship MIB program so graduates leave with a trained, exportable AI agent...
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Microsoft’s enterprise Copilot strategy takes a clear step toward simplification and scale: starting in October, role‑based Copilots for Sales, Service, and Finance will be folded into the core Microsoft 365 Copilot experience and made broadly available through the new Copilot Agent Store — and...
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